FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Horrific phone evidence shows troops gloating over Ayardaw monastery massacre. Radio Free Asia on Saturday morning published a report graphically exhibiting a massacre carried out by troops from the Burma Army’s LIB 708 4th Company after files taken from a mobile phone belonging to one of the soldiers responsible were handed …
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM ILO outlines bleak picture for Burma’s workers. The International Labor Organization (ILO) announced that 1.6 million workers have lost their jobs, and child labor has increased across Burma since the military coup last year. “The unstable political landscape and deteriorating economic situation in Myanmar have forced more and more families into …
SAC renews threat to execute democracy figures after rumors of imminent hangings spread panic
As the international community vocally urges Burma’s military regime not to proceed with the promised executions of two of the country’s best known pro-democracy figures — an event that rumors last night suggested was imminent — DVB has confirmed from former inmates of Yangon’s Insein Prison that authorities have recently refurbished gallows within the prison compound. …
Hun Sen's death sentence appeal to junta falls on deaf ears
The SAC has roundly rejected an appeal from Cambodian PM Hun Sen asking that it reconsider the executions of two of Burma’s leading democracy figures. The PM wrote to junta leader Min Aung Hlaing this Friday requesting the military regime shelve its plans to execute the men on political grounds, according to Nikkei Asia which …
International outrage as junta says it will hang leading pro-democracy figures
The junta on June 3 told media outlets that appeals of death sentences handed down to two of Burma’s most prominent pro-democracy figures had been rejected by military courts, and that the pair are to be hanged. The military’s announcement has raised fierce international condemnation and is driving fears that the SAC will enact capital …
Detained COVID vaccine roll-out chiefs sentenced to three years
Dr Htar Htar Lin and Dr Soe Oo, the former heads of Burma’s COVID-19 vaccine program, have been found guilty of corruption by a military-controlled court. The military had accused Dr Htar Htar Lin of mismanaging international funds related to COVID-19 vaccines and embezzling K161.2 billion (US$87,000) of state funds. Dr Soe Oo was charged …