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A Thai immigration center accused of aiding the Myanmar junta’s conscription drive deported another 200 Myanmar nationals to regime authorities in Kawthaung town, Tanintharyi Region, in late February, sparking international protests. All but four of the deportees were reportedly conscripted by the regime.

A recent investigation by The Irrawaddy exposed how the junta is using Ranong Immigration Center as a recruitment hub, forcibly conscripting hundreds of its detainees amid recruitment struggles at home.

Myanmar’s junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, is set to travel to Russia in the coming days at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reported by the junta-controlled Myanmar Television on 28 February.

A humanitarian organization that has been feeding more than 100,000 refugees from Myanmar in western Thailand says it only has enough funds left to provide food for one month as the U.S. government’s international aid freeze bites.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26035571

Myanmar’s air force bombed a wedding party for two pro-democracy fighters on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, members of the anti-junta force in the Magway region told Radio Free Asia.

It was not immediately clear if the bride and groom, both members of an insurgent People’s Defense Force, or PDF, in Myaing township were among the casualties, they said.

A Russian delegation led by Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov arrived in Naypyitaw on Saturday for talks with junta boss Min Aung Hlaing on comprehensive economic cooperation and Russian assistance for the country’s electricity crisis, and to sign nine agreements including one that will see Russia invest in the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

Bertil Lintner is a journalist who covered Burma and Asia for decades, and author of several books on Burma and Asia.

The Arakan Army (AA) has initiated an assault on the Dhanyawadi naval facility located in Thit Pote Taung, Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State.

[Kyaukphyu is where the Chinese deep-sea port, the key component of its belt and road initiative is located].

Indian perspective on the geo-political forces at play in Myanmar.

The Arakan Army (AA) initiated simultaneous attacks on at least five military camps in Sittwe Township, Arakan State.

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1620360

A pro-junta Myanmar militia hosting extensive online fraud operations in its zone on the Thai border has said it will deport 8,000 scam center workers, most of them Chinese, from its area as it seeks to close down illegal activities.