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23 Dec 2024

COUP WATCH BRIEFER NOVEMBER 2024: 
ICC PROSECUTOR SEEKS ARREST WARRANT FOR MIN AUNG HLAING

  • ICC prosecutor applies for Min Aung Hlaing’s arrest warrant over Rohingya genocide.
  • ILO moves toward measures against the junta over labor rights violations.
  • Junta fires on Thai fishing vessel, detains 31 crew incl. four Thai nationals.
  • Updated data confirms suspicions of underreported conflict severity, civilian death toll nearly 13,000.
  • 1,003 victims in 2023 lands Burma at top of landmine casualties list.
  • China welcomes Min Aung Hlaing on first trip, makes CNY 1 billion pledge for census, surveillance and infrastructure.
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16 Dec 2024

IMPUNITY ACROSS BORDERS: JUNTA'S TNR STALKS BURMESE COMMUNITITES ABROAD

  • The junta cancels passports, attacks family members, and uses digital campaigns to target activists around the world.
  • Regional governments continue to cooperate with the junta, enabling arrests, deportation, and refoulement of refugees.
  •  Punitive approaches to refugees, migrants in neighboring countries provides opportunities for junta to disappear, forcibly return, and harass communities in exile.
  •  Junta’s implementation of forced conscription law significantly raises risk of TNR for young men and women fleeing Burma.
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18 Nov 2024

COUP WATCH BRIEFER OCTOBER 2024: 
THAILAND, CHINA AID DESPERATE & INCREASINGLY BRUTAL JUNTA

  • A year after Operation 1027: junta loses 85 towns, hundreds of bases, incl. N. Eastern HQ.
  • Junta beheads, disembowels, mutilates and burns alive victims of Budalin massacre.
  • Thai officers allow junta to select conscripts from immigration detention.
  • Children and IDPs fleeing junta raids in Tanintharyi killed after overcrowded boat capsizes. 
  • Smugglers in Thailand, Indonesia leave hundreds of Rohingya refugees for dead.
  • KIA seizes rare earth mining area along Chinese border from Kachin BGF.
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16 OCT 2024

COUP WATCH BRIEFER SEPTEMBER 2024:
JUNTA WEAPONIZES NATURAL DISASTER YET AGAIN

  • Typhoon Yagi worsens seasonal floods, kills 433, affects 1 million. Meanwhile, junta responds with airstrikes and aid blockage.
  • Junta sends fake invitation to resistance to join fake election.
  • Junta preparations to execute 5 sparks alarm on capital punishment.
  • MNDAA appeases Beijing: cuts ties with NUG and China’s adversaries.
  • Europe’s Airbus linked to junta via Chinese aviation firm AVIC.
  • Junta economic remedy dead on arrival, exacerbates medicine shortage.
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10 SEP 2024

COUP WATCH BRIEFER AUGUST 2024:
SUPPORTERS QUESTION COUP LEADER’S COMPETENCE AFTER LASHIO DEFEAT

  • Junta blocks draft-age youths from exiting through Yangon airport.
  • Joint TNLA-PDF, Operation 1027 phase 2, advances towards Mandalay.
  • Junta economic incompetence hits gas on fuel crisis.
  • French manufacturer found supplying junta air transport.
  • Kachin Independence Army advances into Sagaing.
  • S. Arakan State violence displaces 40,000 into Ayeyarwady Region.
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Documenting resistance to Burma's illegal military regime

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