Ramblings on the stories we tell about food and climate action and Myanmar By Thin Lei Win for Thin Ink This week, you’re getting some musings from me instead of the usual analysis of reports/research findings or a Q&A with cool folks doing cool things. It was sparked by a number of things: recent discussions …
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Suu Kyi and Turnell sentenced, needed petrol arrives in Yangon
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Sean Turnell and Aung San Suu Kyi receive prison sentences Aung San Suu Kyi, along with her economic advisor Sean Turnell, and three former ministers were sentenced to three years in prison by a military court in Naypyidaw. The five NLD members were charged for violating the Official Secrets Act. Australia’s …
Thursday, June 23, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM PDFs control most of northwest’s transport routes: NUG. 90% of roads in Sagaing and Magway regions — where the junta continues to perpetuate widespread atrocities — are now controlled by PDF groups, Nay Hpone Latt, the NUG’s press secretary, told a press conference on June 21. The secretary also highlighted that the military …
Military opens fire on residents in Arakan state
The Burmese military have reportedly killed several people in Arakan state after opening fire on residents amid the ongoing sectarian clashes in the region, according to a local government official
Villagers protest army’s arrests
About a dozen Arakanese villagers in Arakan state’s Kyauktaw township were detained by security forces on Saturday, which prompted a protest from locals demanding their release
Dr Zarni: The death of intellectual sympathy
Dr Maung Zarni is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is also an activist, commentator and writer, having founded the Free Burma Coalition in the United States in 1995. He now lives and works in the United Kingdom. He talks to DVB about the west’s relationship to Burma, delusional international relations, the state of political …