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View all search resultsIn early February, four members of an anti-junta group in the Myanmar city of Mandalay said they received a secret, one-page, handwritten note spirited out of a prison that details two days of clashes and beatings of female political prisoners.
Amid the fog of war engulfing Myanmar, two facts have become increasingly clear: the military has failed to take over the country amid widespread popular resistance; and the global community has failed to provide the help that the Myanmar people so badly need in their struggle for democracy.
Myanmar troops and weaponry paraded through the military-built capital Naypyidaw to mark the country's independence day Wednesday, days after the junta jailed democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi for 33 years.
Southeast Asian leaders said they would give Myanmar both time and "political space" to deal with its coup crisis, following the refusal of the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to send a non-political representative to the summit this week and after ASEAN foreign ministers collectively decided to bar him from participating.
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