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The US is preventing the civil conflict in Myanmar from being resolved
June 20th, 2023 
Awake Goy Myanmar has always been a crossroads of migration routes and trade routes. Indochina as a whole is one of the most favorable places for the development of homo sapiens, therefore, since ancient times, many often not very close ethnic groups have lived on the territory of the country. It is not surprising that by present […]
Why the West is Whitewashing Terrorism in Vietnam and Myanmar
June 20th, 2023 Awake Goy As US-Chinese tensions grow and as it becomes increasingly clear the US is unable to compete with China head-to-head in terms of development, trade, and investment, especially in regions along China’s periphery, the US is resorting increasingly to asymmetrical measures including political coercion, subversion, and even violence. US military aggression and political subversion, particularly in […]
Five dead, hundreds injured as Myanmar bears the brunt of Cyclone Mocha
May 15th, 2023 Awake Goy At least five people have been killed and hundreds injured after Cyclone Mocha swept into Myanmar on Sunday. The tropical storm also hit Bangladesh, but spared the world’s largest refugee camp. Source
Targeted Airstrikes Kill More than 80 Civilians in Myanmar
October 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Junta Attacks Concert Goers During Anniversary Celebration in Kachin State 10/26/2022 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – Eighty people were killed and another 200 injured when the Tatmadaw (Burmese Army) attacked a music festival in Christian-majority Kachin State in Myanmar on Sunday evening. Three fighter jets of the Tatmadaw (Burmese… Source
‘Liking’ Opposition Content on Social Media Could Land You in Jail, Says Myanmar’s Junta
September 21st, 2022 Awake Goy This photo taken on February 7, 2021, shows Myanmar migrants sharing their activities on social media before going to a local protest against the military coup in their home country, at a house in the outskirts of Bangkok. Photo: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP Myanmar’s ruling military junta has been curtailing civil liberties more than a year […]
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No Comments »‘Liking’ Opposition Content on Social Media Could Land You in Jail, Says Myanmar’s Junta
September 21st, 2022 Awake Goy This photo taken on February 7, 2021, shows Myanmar migrants sharing their activities on social media before going to a local protest against the military coup in their home country, at a house in the outskirts of Bangkok. Photo: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP Myanmar’s ruling military junta has been curtailing civil liberties more than a year […]
Posted in Social Media Tags: content, could, liking, Media, Myanmar, opposition, social No Comments »Myanmar MiG-29 Crosses into Thai Airspace: The Rest of the Story
July 9th, 2022 Awake Goy A recent incident involving a MiG-29 fighter aircraft from Myanmar which flew into Thai airspace triggered political fallout particularly instructive in understanding the current dynamics in both countries as well as across wider Asia. It also gives a glimpse into the dynamics of the ongoing US-Chinese tensions that are the driving force behind much of […]
Military kill two in airstrikes targeting church, school in Chin State, Myanmar
July 7th, 2022 Awake Goy Photo Credit: Soe Min Htun7 (Barnabas Aid) — Myanmar’s military have carried out a series of airstrikes on two villages in Christian-majority Chin State, killing two civilians and injuring several others. During the bombing of Tsun Taung and Chat in Mindat township on July 2, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, deliberately targeted a church […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: airstrikes, church, military, Myanmar, school, state, targeting No Comments »More than 300 houses burned down in historic Christian village in Myanmar
May 28th, 2022 Awake Goy (Barnabas Aid) — The Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) burned down almost all residential buildings in the predominantly Christian village of Chaung Yoe in the Sagaing Region in a raid on May 20. Hundreds of villagers were forced to flee their homes as Tatmadaw troops began torching the village and two other neighboring communities. At least 320 of the […]
Myanmar Court Sentences Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi To 4 More Years In Prison
January 10th, 2022 Awake Goy BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said. Suu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges and given a four-year prison […]
‘We live in fear’: Myanmar’s military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say
December 30th, 2021 Awake Goy When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on December 7, he told the AP, with about 50 soldiers hunting people on foot, killing 10 […]
Report: Women, Children Among Dozens Killed By Myanmar Government Troops
December 25th, 2021 Awake Goy BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and set the bodies on fire, a witness and other reports said Saturday. The purported photos of the aftermath of the Christmas Eve massacre in eastern Mo So village, just outside Hpruso township in […]
China Rescues Myanmar From Dangerous Dollar-Dominated Waters
December 18th, 2021 Awake Goy For nearly a year now the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been racked by US-sponsored terrorism attempting to reinstall Washington’s client regime of choice headed by Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Compounding the daily violence carried out by the US-sponsored opposition, are growing sanctions leveled by the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: china, dangerous, dollar, dominated, Myanmar, rescues, waters No Comments »Myanmar Court Sentences Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi To 4 Years
December 6th, 2021 Awake Goy BANGKOK (AP) — A special court in Myanmar’s capital sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said. The sentencing was the first in a series of cases in which the 76-year-old Nobel laureate […]
American Released from Myanmar Was Part of US Regime-Change Machine
November 26th, 2021 Awake Goy The Western media announced that American citizen Danny Fenster was freed from prison in Myanmar and allowed to leave the Southeast Asian nation in mid November after negotiations between American politician Bill Richardson and Myanmar’s government. Reuters in its article, “US journalist freed in Myanmar, says he is healthy and happy,” would claim: Fenster was […]
U.S. Journalist Danny Fenster Freed From Myanmar Jail With Ex-Diplomat’s Aid
November 15th, 2021 Awake Goy BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, sentenced only days ago to 11 years hard labor in Myanmar, has been freed and is on his way home, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said Monday. Richardson said in a statement that Fenster had been handed over to him in Myanmar and would return […]
AUKUS and Myanmar Undermine ASEAN Unity
November 12th, 2021 Awake Goy In fact, and as has been repeatedly noted in the NEO, the situation is worsening in South-East Asia, a key region for the global political process today, all ten countries of which form ASEAN. This deterioration comes from the degrading relations between the two global powers, the USA and China. The field of tensions created by […]
Myanmar’s military systematically torture its detainees: AP
October 30th, 2021 Awake Goy An Associated Press investigation revealed that Myanmar’s military uses systematic torture on detainees across the country since it took over the government in February. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed by security forces, including around 131 tortured to death. The military has also abducted thousands, including young men and boys, has used the bodies […]
US Weaponizes UN for Regime Change in Myanmar
October 26th, 2021 Awake Goy When the United Nations through its online news portal claims one of its experts sees the situation in Myanmar “failing” and urging measures to save the country from its current, ongoing conflict, many might take it at face value. The article would claim: According to Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews, since its power grab and overthrow […]
Shadow Government in Myanmar Calls for Popular Revolt Against Military Rulers
September 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Junta Faces Renewed Opposition to Its Oppressive Rule 09/07/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), has called for a “people’s defensive war” to push back against the ruling military government. Duwa Lashi La issued the statement as part of a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: against, Calls, government, Myanmar, Popular, revolt, shadow No Comments »US Regime Change Creeps Forward in Myanmar
August 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Within a much wider, global campaign to impede the rise of China, the United States has paid particular attention to fuelling unrest in Southeast Asia, sabotaging ties between the region and China – the region’s largest and most important trade partner and investor, as well as a key partner in driving infrastructure and the modernization […]
How Myanmar fits into China’s New Silk Roads
August 11th, 2021 Awake Goy August 09, 2021 By Pepe Escobar and cross posted with insideover.com You don’t argue with the Tatmadaw – the Myanmar Armed Forces. It’s always their way, or the highway. Since the mid-20th century, the Chinese have come to understand it quite well. How Beijing approaches the Myanmar maze is conditioned by four variables: natural gas; water; the drug […]
FBI Busts International Plot To Take Out Myanmar’s UN Ambassador In New York
August 7th, 2021 Awake Goy US federal charges were filed after agents were tipped off to the plot. US Attorney Audrey Strauss detailed in the Friday statement: “As alleged, Phyo Hein Htut and Ye Hein Zaw plotted to seriously injure or kill Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in a planned attack on a foreign official that was to take place on American […]
If US Can’t Have Myanmar, No One Will
July 21st, 2021 Awake Goy A South China Morning Post (SCMP) article citing US corporate and government institution “associates” inadvertently gave away the entire game unfolding in Southeast Asia’s Myanmar. It is a conflict where US-backed armed opposition groups (previously depicted by the Western media as “peaceful” “pro-democracy” activists) are fighting Myanmar’s central government, police and military for control of […]
Myanmar’s Crisis Follows Predictable ‘Libya Model’ Pattern
July 6th, 2021 Awake Goy All too predictably, the crisis in Myanmar has rapidly spiralled out of control with what we were told were “peaceful” “pro-democracy” protesters transforming into heavily armed militants fighting Myanmar’s central government, its police force and its armed forces with war weapons. Of course, the protests were never peaceful. The Western media only claimed as much […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: crisis, follows, Libya, model, Myanmar, pattern, predictable No Comments »Myanmar’s Military Junta Puts Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi On Trial
June 14th, 2021 Awake Goy BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was set to go on trial Monday on charges that many observers have criticized as an attempt by the military junta that deposed her to delegitimize her democratic election and cripple her political future. Suu Kyi’s prosecution poses the greatest challenge for the 75-year-old and […]
ASEAN Trying to Resolve the Situation in Myanmar
May 10th, 2021 Awake Goy On April 24 this year, in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a special meeting of the presidents and heads of government of ASEAN member countries was held to discuss the latest developments in Myanmar, which itself is a member of this Association, uniting 10 countries in the Southeast Asian region. The occasion for these high […]
India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war
May 9th, 2021 Awake Goy The turmoil in Myanmar had all the hallmarks of a “colour revolution”… The chorus – BBC, Radio Free Asia, western NGOs promoting democracy and human rights… But the operative part hidden from view concentrated on the creation of a “government-in-exile” (a National Unity Government.) The parallels with Syria are striking — “Arab Spring” protests… India […]
Myanmar generals rule out envoy visit until ‘stability’ established
May 9th, 2021 Awake Goy More than three months after Myanmar’s military staged a coup on February 1, the protests to restore civilian rule continue across the country. In the southern city of Dawei, hundreds of engineers, teachers, and university students marched peacefully on Saturday. In other areas, mass peaceful protests are still being broken up by force, while in […]
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