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13 Apr 2025

SPECIAL BRIEFER APRIL 2025: 
SAGAING EARTHQUAKE: JUNTA BLOCKS AID. CONTINUES ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS

  • 7.7 Junta launches 152 air & artillery attacks after quake, incl. 90 after “ceasefire”.
  • Junta blocks international media access, covers up destruction in Naypyidaw.
  • Civilians forced to dig out loved ones by hand, junta withholds assistance.
  • Decades of anti-Muslim policies kills over 700 worshippers at Friday prayers.
  • Already crippled healthcare services placed under massive strain.
  • Junta establishes aid corridor only to one town under its control, ignores others.
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13 Apr 2025

COUP WATCH BRIEFER MARCH 2025: 
JUNTA INKS NUCLEAR DEAL WITH RUSSIA WHILE THINGS FALL APART AT HOME

  • 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes central Burma, kills at least 4,335.
  • Junta bans 800 graduating CDM doctors.
  • NUG investigates Thayarwaddy PDF Bn. 3801 leader for murdering civilians.
  • MAL and cronies go to Moscow to sell Dawei SEZ, ignite their nuclear fantasies.
  • US funding cuts to RFA & VOA a “reward to dictators”.
  • WFP to cut food aid to 1 million people.
  • CSOs call on UN to probe Julie Bishop’s business links.
  • 2025 matriculation exam registrants at 23% of pre-coup levels.
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19 Mar 2025

COUP WATCH BRIEFER FEBRUARY 2025: 
JUNTA SETS STAGE FOR FOREIGN OWNED PRIVATE MILITARIES

  • Border scam centers: Thai power cuts hits civilians, China mounts pressure, Karen BGF rushes raids.
  • Trump cuts threaten food for 100,000 refugees, kills two more, closes five Cox’s Bazar hospitals.
  • Argentine court issues warrants for Min Aung Hlaing, Aung San Suu Kyi, 23 others for Rohingya genocide.
  • Junta authorizes establishment of foreign-owned private armies, but closes several private hospitals in Yangon and Mandalay.
  • ASEAN Special Envoy avoids MAH, meets resistance instead.
  • Rohingya inmates moved from Insein to Sittwe, conscripted to fight AA.

  • Junta increases use of Chinese and Russian thermobaric weapons.

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21 Feb 2025

COUP WATCH BRIEFER JANUARY 2025: 
JUNTA STEPS UP FORCED CONSCRIPTION OF WOMEN

  • Malaysia detains 196 Rohingya refugees, pushes back over 300 others in boats.
  • Trump aid freeze forces Thai-Burma border refugee camp hospitals to discharge patients, kills one.
  • MNDAA caves to Chinese pressure, agrees to ceasefire and Lashio withdrawal in stages.
  • New report shows 3.4 million children missing from ed. system and 91% drop in university enrollment.
  • ASEAN claims peace as priority, not junta sham election.
  • China mounts regional pressure over scam operations after Chinese actor trafficked.

  • Singaporean-Chinese firm pumps USD 150 million of crude oil into junta aviation fuel production.

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28 Jan 2025

COUP WATCH BRIEFER DECEMBER 2024: 
JUNTA CENSUS EXPOSES ITS OWN LACK OF CONTROL

  • Census results show junta only able to access around 44% of townships.
  • Thailand claims “no evidence” found after probe into junta weapons transactions.
  • Junta bombs villages, kills 68 for BRI-linked Kyaukphyu-Muse railway.
  • MNDAA summarily executes six after public trial.
  • Junta enacts “Cybersecurity Law”.
  • Junta chemical weapon use reported near Karenni-Shan border.

  • Thai-hosted regional meeting platforms junta’s sham election.

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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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