Two NGO workers have been found among the 35 charred bodies,including those of children,reportedly shot and burnt by government troops.
Chaos in Myanmar has allowed narcotics gangs to thrive,while crushing pandemic-induced poverty makes easy recruits out of young men up and down the border.
A so-called statement of pardon was later issued stating that the Nobel laureate’s term had been halved and that she would be detained at her current location and not in prison.
Security forces are distributing inflammatory leaflets,stoking anti-Muslim tension,more atrocities are committed in the strife-torn south-east Asian nation.
American businessman Bill Browder,who led the push for Magnitsky laws around the world,said Australia should “start with Magnitsky’s killers”.
Among the warrens of tents clinging to Bangladesh’s denuded hills,militants search for recruits,drug traffickers roam,kidnappers prey on women and children.
No journalists,diplomats or observers were allowed into the especially built court hearing the ousted leader’s testimony.
Suu Kyi faces charges of accepting bribes,conspiring to carry out corruption in real estate,plus sedition,flouting COVID-19 restrictions and importing walkie-talkies.
Mohib Ullah’s high profile made him a target of hardliners. “If I die,I’m fine. I will give my life,” he said in 2019.
Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in the US and charged with conspiring with a Thai arms dealer to oust the opponent to the junta by tampering with his car.
The former adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi has developed cold and flu symptoms inside a Myanmar prison where COVID-19 is spreading.