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The Myanmar Civil War (Burmese: မြန်မာ့ပြည်တွင်းစစ်), [n] also known as the Burmese Civil War, Burmese Spring Revolution or People's Defensive War, is an ongoing civil war since 2021.
A-Myin-thit - Ministry of Interior, special branch weekly newspaper (Burmese) [citation needed] BiWeekly Eleven [citation needed] Burma Today (Burmese) [19] The Commerce Journal [20] Education Digest Journal (Burmese) [21] First Eleven Sports Journal [11] [22] Flower News - private weekly newspaper (Burmese) [23] Frontier Myanmar (English) [24]
Most English-speaking international news media refer to the country by the name Myanmar, including the BBC, [48] CNN, [49] Al Jazeera, [50] Reuters, [51] and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation /Radio Australia. [52] Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek. [53]
"As he admitted in federal court today, Takeshi Ebisawa brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium, out of Burma (Myanmar)," said Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Kim for ...
I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on February 1, 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before, the ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China has mediated peace talks between Myanmar's ruling military and rebel groups, and the parties agreed on a temporary ceasefire and to maintain dialogue, Beijing said on ...
The US government banned all imports from Burma as part of the "Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act" of 2003. Sanctions have been criticised for their adverse effects on the civilian population. However, Burmese democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi has repeatedly credited sanctions for putting pressure on the ruling military regime. [12] [13]
Myanmar has been embroiled in armed conflict since 1948, when the country, then known as Burma, gained independence from the United Kingdom. [5] [6] The conflict has largely been ethnic-based, with ethnic armed organisations fighting Myanmar's armed forces, the Tatmadaw, for self-determination.