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Also this week, ex-generals scrambled to sell land after Min Aung Hlaing’s warning, and Thailand went ahead with meeting on Myanmar despite regional split.
U Wirathu and fellow monk notorious for hate speech receive Thiri Panchiya conferred by junta boss as regime seeks to weaponize religion.
Senior members of the junta were among those gathering ahead of the regime’s planned general election next year.
Successive dictators have appointed trusted confidants to lead their spy agencies, which act to entrench military rule through brutal repression of the population.
Lieutenant Generals Myo Zaw Thein and Aung Soe have been handed senior Union Solidarity and Development Party positions as the regime plans an election for next year.