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Myanmar’s anti-coup protests: A humanitarian catastrophe in the making

By France24
28 March 2021   |   11:37 am
Today's Perspective is dedicated to the crisis in Myanmar - a crisis triggered by the army's take-over of power last month, and a crisis which has escalated because of the generals’ handling of the ongoing street protests. UN human rights experts have forcefully denounced the junta’s forced evictions, arbitrary detentions and killings of pro-democracy demonstrators. We speak to Phil Robertson, a researcher on Myanmar at Human Rights Watch.

 

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