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Attacks on Burmese Military Intensify Nationwide, Signaling a Possible Revolt

Barbara Crossette

• June 13, 2021

From small villages to city offices, an open rebellion is steadily spreading in Burma, drawing together citizens outraged by the Feb. 1 coup that overturned a national election and crushed a popular democracy. Pro-democracy advocates inside Burma and abroad describe how defectors from the disgraced army — the hated Tatmadaw — as well as …

Myanmar, Security Council

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Is Burma’s Army in Trouble? Yes, Says a Top Former UN Adviser on the Country

Barbara Crossette

• April 19, 2021

For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2017, Vijay Nambiar was a special adviser to United Nations secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, charged with following events in Burma, which the military generals renamed Myanmar in 1989. A former deputy national security adviser to the government of India and Indian ambassador to the …

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