If Bangkok’s goal is simply to appease the junta, there was no need for it to appoint a special envoy.

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Also this week, the junta sent mixed messages to PDF members and a US diplomat delivered a scathing assessment of the regime’s failed efforts to control the country.

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Pro-democracy activists Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw face the death sentence. The Irrawaddy joins the nation in demanding that they be allowed to live. 

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Like its predecessors, the regime fails to understand that it can take the lives of freedom fighters, but it cannot kill their spirit.

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Armed resistance groups claim to have successfully ambushed regime forces across Sagaing and Magwe regions.

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Tens of thousands of people in Sagaing and Magwe regions whose homes have been torched by junta forces remain defiant in their support for the revolution.

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The Indian border state of Mizoram is issuing nearly 30,000 identity cards to those fleeing military rule in Myanmar.

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Military tensions are rising in Rakhine and Chin States as the informal ceasefire between regime forces and the Arakan Army shows signs of breaking down.

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Venerated monks and the country’s highest Buddhist authority have been conspicuously quiet amid the global outcry over the junta’s plan to execute democracy activists.

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This time the exodus includes anyone who can afford to go, including not just politicians and activists but much of the middle class, who see no future under the junta.

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Self-serving accounts by insiders are short on accuracy but offer some insight into the military’s blinkered view of its role in politics and national security.

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The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force claims to be killing regime soldiers in large numbers across Kayah State.

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Regime troops who want to defect have been warned not to use SIM cards from Mytel, which is part-owned by the Myanmar military.

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Resistance groups in Magwe and Sagaing regions say they retaliated after regime soldiers burned down an entire village.

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The resistance says regime forces fire shells at civilian targets every day. 

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The regime’s spokesperson said that the executions of anti-coup activists Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy must go ahead “for the sake of rule of law”.

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Junta troops have escalated their terror campaign of arson attacks, raids and killings in restive Sagaing Region in recent weeks. 

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Also this week, striking teachers continued to reject the regime, and the coup maker hailed as hallowed ground the site where the pro-military 2008 charter was drafted.

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The Chin Defence Force in Kanpetlet claims it has successfully attacked regime troops from Magwe Region.

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Derek Chollet visited a refugee camp and the Mae Tao Clinic; he is discussing US efforts to help restore democracy in Myanmar and provide aid during his SE Asian tour.

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Lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw’s wife said: “I would like to urge the international community not to stand by and watch this happen.”

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Over 140 media workers have been arrested since the coup and around 60 remain in jail.

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Resistance forces claim to have successfully ambushed a regime outpost and convoy in Yesagyo Township.

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The military regime’s campaign of terror means more and more people are being driven from their homes.

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Soldiers were sent into Hpa-an prison after two prisoners managed to escape.

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The WHO said the man was shot dead in unclear circumstances while driving home in Mawlamyine, but a resistance group said it killed him because he was a regime informer.

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The regime continues to target medical workers who have joined the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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Resistance groups in Magwe Region claim to have successfully attacked regime forces sent to raid the resistance stronghold.

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With regime forces overstretched in Kayah State, Karenni resistance fighters will extend their attacks to urban areas in the upcoming rainy season. 

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The massacre by regime troops in Myinmu Township, Sagaing Region, sees 11 civilians killed. 

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Defying international calls for death sentences against Ko Jimmy, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and two others to be dropped, the junta vowed to proceed with their executions.

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The Economic Times said New Delhi will bow to ASEAN’s policy of only engaging nonpolitical representatives of Myanmar at multilateral forums.

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Also this week, the regime said civil servants would once again have to undergo military training, and revived its fantasy of launching an electric rail system.

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The junta spokesman said “there is no other step” as the court rejected the death sentence appeals by former NLD lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and prominent democracy activist Ko Jimmy. 

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As with past incidents, Tuesday’s bombing occurred ahead of a high-profile visit—this time by a UN envoy—raising suspicions of a junta bid to discredit the resistance.

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The 77-year-old is enjoying his retirement in the capital Naypyitaw, apparently unconcerned that the coup leader is brutalizing the Myanmar people.

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Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy face execution for leading armed resistance operations in Yangon. 

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Tensions are rising in western Myanmar as the regime reinforces its military presence in Rakhine and Chin states. 

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The Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand report accuses the regime of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government said the military regime has no mandate to negotiate or govern the country.

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The United Wa State Army is thought to be one of a number of ethnic armed organizations secretly supplying the resistance with weapons.

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Ongoing fighting between resistance forces and junta troops is being reported in Kale Township.

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Regime reinforcements, including drones, have started arriving in Chin State and neighboring Magwe Region.

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Camp residents said they did not know why the bullets and mortar shells were being fired.

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The shadow govt and three ethnic groups said the junta must not be allowed to ‘weaponize’ humanitarian aid and urged ASEAN to work with the ICRC and neighboring nations.

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The only witness in one of the corruption cases against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly said he only made a charitable donation.

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Resistance fighters on Tuesday ambushed regime soldiers in Sagaing Region escorting a jade shipment from Kachin State.

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The vessel was seen heading towards a port being built by the junta chief’s son; its arrival comes amid heightened tensions between the military and the Arakan Army.

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Even Min Aung Hlaing’s peers are reportedly taken aback by the greed he displayed in acquiring and building his less-spoken-about residence on Myat Khin Yeik Tha Lane.

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Faced with heavily-armed junta forces, resistance fighters have used their ingenuity to make their own highly effective weapons.

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