Many Sanctions, Few Friends: Junta Grapples with its Grip on Power • Stimson Center
With sanctions on the rise, Myanmar’s military is increasingly under pressure and is turning to its few partners for additional support
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With sanctions on the rise, Myanmar’s military is increasingly under pressure and is turning to its few partners for additional support
Returning villagers found their dismembered bodies.
The extension is an admission that the military has failed to quell the broad-based armed resistance to its rule.
Myanmar's junta-controlled government extended its years-long state of emergency another six months on Monday, according to state-run media, seemingly in violation of the country's constitution.
In May, Major General Yang Yang, acting director-general of the Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department of Chinas Central Military Commission, met the No 2 in Myanmars power structure for talks on “cooperation between the two armies.” During the meeting, Soe Win reportedly proposed a resumption of the Myitsone Dam project in Kachin State.