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February 2022 - Myanmar Special Weapons News
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- Myanmar Supports Russian Actions in Ukraine Sputnik 28 Feb 2022 -- Myanmar supports Russian actions with respect to Ukraine, including Moscow's special military operation, and maintains that Russia has the right to defend its national interests, a spokesman for the Myanmar military Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, told Sputnik.
- Myanmar junta troops said to have held preschoolers as 'human shields' after raid Radio Free Asia 28 Feb 2022 -- Anti-junta paramilitaries on Monday freed some 100 preschool children and other residents they say Myanmar's military had detained as "human shields" against a counterattack in a village in embattled Sagaing region's Yinmabin township.
- Views of Russian invasion of Ukraine mirror divide in strife-torn Myanmar Radio Free Asia 26 Feb 2022 -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the sharp divide in Myanmar a year after a military coup sparked mass resistance and armed conflict, with the junta praising Moscow for trying to "ensure world peace" and the ousted civilian leadership decrying "alarming and frightening" bullying.
- Myanmar's Military Council Supports Russia's Invasion of Ukraine VOA 25 Feb 2022 -- Myanmar's military junta expressed Thursday its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, placing itself at odds with most of the world community which has condemned the military action and moved to introduce crushing sanctions on Moscow.
- Fighting ramps up in Myanmar's Shan, Kayah states, leaving scores dead Radio Free Asia 25 Feb 2022 -- Fighting between Myanmar junta troops and local militias has intensified along the border of Shan and Kayah states, leaving at least 10 civilians and 80 junta soldiers dead, sources in the region say.
- Pro-junta forces torch hundreds of more homes in Myanmar's volatile Sagaing region Radio Free Asia 25 Feb 2022 -- Military troops and pro-junta militia fighters shot at least three civilians and burned down more than 500 homes in an early morning raid on a village in Myanmar's embattled Sagaing region Friday, forcing thousands to flee in what sources said was an act of revenge.
- Myanmar Diaspora Bankrolling Armed Resistance to Junta Back Home VOA 25 Feb 2022 -- Ethnic minority communities from Myanmar in the United States and elsewhere are pouring hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of dollars into a growing guerrilla war against the country's year-old military regime.
- Rohingya refugees reject return to Myanmar without assurances Radio Free Asia 24 Feb 2022 -- Ethnic Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will not return to their home in neighboring Myanmar's Rakhine state unless they are granted equal rights and freedom of movement, they said Thursday, days after the junta announced that it is preparing for their immediate repatriation.
- Gambia urges UN top court to reject Myanmar's bid to end Rohingya genocide case Press TV 24 Feb 2022 -- Lawyers from Gambia have urged the United Nations' top court to reject Myanmar's legal attempt to end a case of genocide by the Southeast Asian country against Rohingya Muslims, after the Buddhist nation tried to get the case dismissed.
- Dozens arrested during strike as Myanmar military expands retribution campaign Radio Free Asia 23 Feb 2022 -- Authorities in Myanmar's Sagaing and Tanintharyi regions have arrested dozens of people for allegedly joining a nationwide strike to protest the junta, in what observers say is part of a widening campaign of retribution against opponents of military rule.
- Gambia Urges UN to Reject Myanmar's Legal Actions Regarding Rohingya VOA 23 Feb 2022 -- Gambia appealed to the United Nation's highest court Wednesday to reject Myanmar's legal effort to end a case alleging genocide by the Southeast Asian country against its Rohingya Muslim minority.
- UN expert raps China, Russia for arming Myanmar despite 'atrocity crimes' Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2022 -- UN Security Council members China and Russia have continued to provide Myanmar's military junta with weapons used to attack civilians a year after a coup deposed the elected government, a U.N. rights expert said Tuesday.
- Human Rights Expert: Myanmar Junta Using Weapons from Russia and China Against Civilians VOA 22 Feb 2022 -- An independent United Nations human rights expert says Russia and China have been supplying Myanmar's military junta with weapons that have been used against civilians.
- Stop weapons supply to Myanmar, rights expert urges UN News 22 Feb 2022 -- Weapons exports to the military rulers in Myanmar by UN Member States must stop, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country said on Tuesday.
- Large 'Six Twos' crowds protest Myanmar junta, marking resistance anniversary Radio Free Asia 22 Feb 2022 -- Protesters gathered in cities across Myanmar on Tuesday as part of the "Six Twos Revolution" nationwide strike in a show of resistance to the ruling military regime despite the junta's brutal crackdown on critics, protest leaders said.
- UN court hearings resume in Rohingya genocide case Press TV 21 Feb 2022 -- The United Nations' highest court is set to hear Myanmar's preliminary objections to a genocide case brought against it over a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military on the Rohingya Muslim minority.
- International Court of Justice set to resume hearings on Myanmar genocide case Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2022 -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week to determine whether it has jurisdiction to judge if atrocities committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims constituted a genocide.
- Myanmar junta adds arson to its arsenal with proxy forces that torch opposition areas Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2022 -- The torching of hundreds of homes in Myanmar's Sagaing region Friday highlights a brutal weapon in the junta's scorched-earth campaign in the parts of the country that have resisted the year-old military regime: the secretive Pyu Saw Htee militia.
- Myanmar traders worry COVID-19 outbreak in Muse will hinder China trade Radio Free Asia 17 Feb 2022 -- Traders at the Chinese border in Myanmar are concerned that a resurgence of COVID-19 in the country could once again shut down border trade.
- ASEAN envoy to attempt meeting with shadow government in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 17 Feb 2022 -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon said Thursday that he will travel to Myanmar next month and attempt to meet with the country's shadow government in a bid to resolve the spiraling political crisis there.
- Myanmar's Ethnic Armies, Resistance Forces Plan to Boost Operations VOA 17 Feb 2022 -- Ethnic armies in Myanmar opposed to the country's post-coup junta, and anti-junta resistance groups say they plan to increase military operations and guerrilla warfare in cities, despite difficulties in obtaining and weapons and ammunition, although some are coming in from neighboring Thailand.
- Cambodia's Hun Sen gives up on Myanmar Radio Free Asia 16 Feb 2022 -- Hun Sen officially threw in the towel on solving Myanmar's political crisis Wednesday, as top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare for a retreat at which the junta's failure to honor its commitments will likely loom large.
- More than 4,500 homes razed by military since Myanmar coup Radio Free Asia 16 Feb 2022 -- Junta troops have razed at least 4,571 civilian homes since Myanmar's military seized power in a coup just over a year ago, more than half of which were in the country's embattled Sagaing region, according to a group that monitors the effect of political and armed conflicts in the Southeast Asian nation.
- Myanmar Issue Hardens Divisions in ASEAN VOA 15 Feb 2022 -- Efforts by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to bring Myanmar back into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have cemented a split within the trade group between mainland authoritarian governments and democratic maritime powers, analysts said.
- Report documents 'war crimes' in Myanmar's Kayah state Radio Free Asia 15 Feb 2022 -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should back a U.N. Security Council-mandated arms embargo prohibiting the sale of weapons to Myanmar's junta, an international human rights group said Tuesday, citing reports of military abuses in Kayah state it warned could amount to war crimes.
- 'People's Administrations' supplant junta rule in Myanmar's remote border regions Radio Free Asia 15 Feb 2022 -- One year after Myanmar's coup, anti-junta "People's Administrations" are consolidating power in the country's Sagaing and Magwe regions and Chin and Kayah states amid increased resistance to military rule, sources said Monday.
- Surge in daily COVID-19 infections caps record week in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 14 Feb 2022 -- Nearly 1,800 people were confirmed positive with COVID-19 in a 24-hour period over the weekend in Myanmar, capping off a record week of infections that some observers say is another reflection of the country's disarray since the military seized power a year ago.
- U.N. Increases Aid in Myanmar as More Displaced by Coup's Consequences VOA 12 Feb 2022 -- U.N. and other aid agencies are increasing humanitarian operations in Myanmar in response to a growing displacement crisis there.
- Myanmar villagers protests arson attacks by junta forces Radio Free Asia 11 Feb 2022 -- Holding up charred remnants of destroyed homes, defiant villagers targeted in arson attacks by pro-junta forces in northwestern Myanmar staged a protest Friday against the "fascist army" that is leaving a widening trail of destruction in their rural township.
- New arrests bring total detained over Myanmar's 'Silent Strike' to more than 200 Radio Free Asia 11 Feb 2022 -- Authorities in Myanmar's Mandalay region on Wednesday detained nearly 20 people accused of participating in a "Silent Strike," bringing the number of those arrested in connection with the nationwide anti-junta protest to more than 200 in recent days, according to sources.
- Number of internally displaced in Myanmar doubles, to 800,000 UN News 11 Feb 2022 -- The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February of last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Friday.
- Nearly 40 civilians killed in 10 days by military in Myanmar's Sagaing Radio Free Asia 09 Feb 2022 -- Military troops killed more than three dozen civilians — including women and children — in four townships in Myanmar's Sagaing region in a span of 10 days beginning late last month, residents and members of the anti-junta People's Defense Force (PDF) militia said Wednesday.
- NGO: International community must start talks for 3rd-country Rohingya resettlement Radio Free Asia 08 Feb 2022 -- Bangladesh should boost security in Rohingya camps, allow refugees to work and pursue education, and begin cooperation with the international community to resettle the stateless minority from Myanmar in a third country, a U.K.-based NGO said in a report released Tuesday.
- Junta omits key stakeholders from Myanmar Union Day peace talks Radio Free Asia 08 Feb 2022 -- The Myanmar military junta invited ethnic armies to a ceremony celebrating a key date in the country's founding, but important stakeholders have been barred from attending and observers say the move will do little to further a long-stalled peace process.
- Hundreds of homes razed amid scorched earth campaign in Myanmar's Sagaing region Radio Free Asia 07 Feb 2022 -- Junta troops and pro-military militiamen in Myanmar's Sagaing region burned down more than 700 homes in Pale township over the weekend, according to sources, amid a scorched earth campaign that has left some 1,100 buildings destroyed in four neighboring villages over the span of five days.
- Military and Arakan Army ceasefire at risk after weekend clashes in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 07 Feb 2022 -- Fighting between junta troops and members of the Arakan Army (AA) has resumed in Myanmar's Rakhine state for the first time in more than a year after the military attacked two of the ethnic army's bases over the weekend, an AA official source said Monday.
- A Message to the Congress on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Burma The White House 07 Feb 2022
- Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Burma The White House 07 Feb 2022
- 'The village is a wasteland': Junta forces step up arson attacks Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2022 -- New satellite imagery obtained by RFA reveals the destruction caused by Myanmar junta forces who witnesses say set fire to two villages, two miles apart, driving thousands of people from homes now reduced to ashes.
- Political inmates stage hunger strike against junta rule in Myanmar's Insein Prison Radio Free Asia 04 Feb 2022 -- Dozens of political detainees in Myanmar's notorious Insein Prison have staged a hunger strike over the past four days to peacefully object to junta rule, sources said Friday, marking the third such protest since the military seized power just over a year ago.
- Joint anti-junta forces attack six security posts in Kachin state in three days Radio Free Asia 04 Feb 2022 -- Fighters with the ethnic Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and a branch of the anti-junta People's Defense Force (PDF) militia have targeted six security posts in Myanmar's Kachin state in half as many days, a KIA official said Thursday, marking a sharp increase in clashes in the region.
- Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Pro-Democracy Activists from Burma US Dept. of State 03 Feb 2022
- Experts: Sanctions Against Myanmar Not Enough to Bring About Change VOA 03 Feb 2022 -- Sanctions imposed on Myanmar officials aren't enough to force change within the conflict-torn country, experts say.
- Cambodia Says Myanmar Junta's Foreign Minister Not Invited to Upcoming ASEAN Meeting VOA 03 Feb 2022 -- Cambodia, the incumbent chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, says the Myanmar Junta's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin will not be invited to attend the 10-nation bloc's top diplomatic gathering in Phnom Penh this month.
- ASEAN top diplomat retreat to exclude Myanmar junta envoy-host Cambodia Radio Free Asia 03 Feb 2022 -- The foreign minister of Myanmar's military regime will not be invited to a mid-February Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial retreat, host Cambodia said Thursday, citing the lack of movement on an agreement the regional bloc struck with the junta leader last year.
- Myanmar shadow government says junta should not take stand in genocide trial Radio Free Asia 03 Feb 2022 -- A decision by Myanmar's shadow government to withdraw preliminary objections to charges of genocide against ethnic Rohingyas at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was made to ensure the case is not fought by a party that does not represent the will of the people, its foreign minister said Thursday.
- 'US not finished with sanctions on Myanmar military' Press TV 03 Feb 2022 -- Counselor of the US Department of State Chollet Derek says the country will continue to slap new sanctions on the Myanmar military and its affiliates.
- Junta troops raze hundreds of homes in Myanmar's Sagaing region Radio Free Asia 02 Feb 2022 -- Troops in Myanmar's embattled Sagaing region razed more than 400 homes in two villages they accuse of providing a haven for anti-junta forces, forcing an estimated 10,000 civilians to flee, residents said Wednesday.
- Myanmar shadow government drops objections in ICJ Rohingya case Radio Free Asia 02 Feb 2022 -- Former Myanmar lawmakers who operate as a shadow government since a military coup a year ago said they now accept the authority of the top international court to decide if a 2016-17 campaign against Rohingya Muslims in the country constituted a genocide.
- UN Calls on Myanmar Military to Permit Unimpeded Delivery of Humanitarian Aid VOA 02 Feb 2022 -- The United Nations is calling on Myanmar's military authority to allow unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of people suffering from conflict, poverty, acute hunger and ill health.
- Myanmar Cities Stage 'Silent Coup' to Mark 1st Anniversary of Military Coup VOA 01 Feb 2022 -- The streets of major cities across Myanmar are empty as residents heed a call to observe a "silent strike" Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the military's overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government.
- One year anniversary of Myanmar coup marked by 'silent strike' Press TV 01 Feb 2022 -- A nationwide strike has been staged in Myanmar to mark the first anniversary of army's seizure of power, in defiance of threats issued by military authorities.
- Myanmar's streets barren for 'Silent Strike' on coup anniversary Radio Free Asia 01 Feb 2022 -- Streets in Myanmar were largely empty today as people across the country took part in a mass "Silent Strike" to protest the one-year anniversary of the military coup on Tuesday, despite a week of junta threats and arrests of organizers.
- More than 3,000 Myanmar refugees deported from Thailand Radio Free Asia 01 Feb 2022 -- More than 3,000 Myanmar refugees are stranded on the Myanmar side of the Thaung Yin River after Thailand took down their makeshift tents at a cattle farm on the Thai side of the river and deported them, aid workers told RFA Monday.
- More than 1,500 people killed since coup in Myanmar: UN Press TV 01 Feb 2022 -- The United Nations says at least 1,500 people have been killed and thousands more detained in year-long protests against the military coup in Myanmar.
- Bangladesh challenges NGO report of intimidation against Rohingya Radio Free Asia 01 Feb 2022 -- Bangladeshi government officials on Tuesday dismissed an NGO's report alleging that authorities are using force and intimidation to compel Rohingya to move from crowded refugee camps in mainland Bangladesh to an isolated island.
- One year anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar: joint statement UK FCDO 01 Feb 2022 -- Foreign Ministers and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs gave a statement on the situation in Myanmar on the 1-year anniversary of the military coup.
- Myanmar: 'Meaningful action' needed to stop the slaughter UN News 01 Feb 2022 -- Marking the first anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the independent UN expert monitoring the country implored States on Tuesday to take more robust action, reiterating his call for an arms embargo to stop the killing of innocent people.
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