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Telenor faces lawsuit over claims it exposed Myanmar customers to junta repression
BANGKOK, April 8 : A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Telenor on Tuesday on behalf of over 1,200 people whose phone data it says the Norwegian telecom’s Myanmar subsidiary shared with the country’s military junta following a 2021 coup. Telenor, which has since exited Myanmar, said it believed there was nothing in the lawsuit that the company had not already addressed and “in our view it is unlikely that such a claim will succeed”. The lawsuit, filed in Norway by the Justice and Accountability Initiative, alleges Telenor Myanmar shared the call logs and location data of suspected political opponents of the junta, exposing them to repression and leading to the execution of at least one prominent activist and the prosecution of another. The lawsuit claims Telenor is liable for 9,000 euros ($10,524) per customer whose data was shared. “If successful, this case would be the first ever to hold a telecoms company to account for not sufficiently protecting user data from access by an authoritarian regime,” said Beini Ye, legal counsel at the Open …
Myanmar junta chief elected vice-president, edging closer to becoming president
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected a vice-president by the lower house on Tuesday, parliament officials said, with the coup leader edging closer to becoming the country’s civilian leader. Myanmar’s former commander in chief Min Aung Hlaing has led Myanmar since 2021, when he ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered civil war. His election sets in motion a process for him to exchange his uniform for civilian clothes, as the country’s parliament selects three vice-presidents, one of whom is then chosen as president. On the lower house floor Tuesday morning, MPs queued up at a row of tables and dropped their ballots into one of three clear-sided boxes. “The lower house of elected MPs announces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as a vice-president,” lower house speaker Khin Yi said after the vote. The junta chief received 247 of the 260 votes, a parliament official said, according to a live broadcast. The upper house elected Nan Ni Ni Aye, a regional MP from Karen state with the military-aligned Union …
Ukraine Seeks Release of Citizens Arrested in India Over Alleged Myanmar Drone Activity
By Krishna N. Das and Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) – Ukraine has asked New Delhi to release six of its citizens arrested in India last week for allegedly entering a restricted border state without permits, and crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to train anti-junta ethnic groups in drone warfare. Indian authorities arrested the six Ukrainians as well as one U.S. citizen on the night of March 13 at three different airports. According to a court order from Monday remanding the seven in police custody until a hearing on March 27, they are accused of travelling illegally to India’s northeastern state of Mizoram, crossing into Myanmar, and training anti‑junta ethnic armed groups in drone warfare, as well as illegally importing large consignments of drones from Europe to Myanmar via India. Mizoram borders Myanmar’s Chin State and the country has been engulfed in civil war and a humanitarian crisis since its military overthrew the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup. The probe of the six Ukrainians and the …
China carries out further executions of Myanmar scam centre suspects | Crime News
The executions are part of broader crackdown by Beijing on centres across Southeast Asia, which are built on an industrial scale and hunt scam victims across the globe, as well as running kidnapping, prostitution and drugs rackets. Published On 2 Feb 20262 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share China has executed four people found guilty of causing six Chinese citizens’ deaths and running scam and gambling operations out of Myanmar worth more than $4bn. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in southern China announced the executions on Monday morning in a statement. However, the timing of the executions was not clear. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The executions of 11 other people convicted of running scam centres in Myanmar had been announced last week. The Shenzhen court sentenced five people accused of running a network of scam centres and casinos to death in November. One of the defendants, group leader Bai Suocheng, died of illness before the sentence was carried out. The group had established industrial parks in …
Myanmar coup 5 years on: ‘It has gone horrifically wrong for the military’
This Sunday will mark five years since the military re-took control in Myanmar in a coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The military celebrated the anniversary by declaring a sweeping win for their political party in a general election, widely denounced as a sham. But, according to Mark Farmaner, director of the NGO “Burma Campaign UK”, the five years since the coup have gone “horrifically wrong” for the military junta, which has lost control of vast swathes of the country to armed rebel groups. Source link
Myanmar Holds Its Last Election Round With the Army Already Certain to Keep Control Over Government
Critics say the polls were neither free nor fair, and were designed to legitimize the power of the military after it ousted the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. The army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, or USDP, had already won most of the seats contested in the first two rounds of voting. Twenty-five percent of the seats in the upper and lower houses of the national Parliament are reserved for the military, guaranteeing it and its allies control of the legislature. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who heads the current military government, is widely expected by both supporters and opponents to assume the presidency when the new Parliament meets. Voting limited by ongoing civil war The army’s 2021 takeover triggered widespread opposition that dragged Myanmar into a civil war. Security concerns engendered by the fighting meant voting was not held in more than one-fifth of the country’s 330 townships, another reason the process was described as neither free nor fair. Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan on Tuesday said the …
As war in Myanmar rages, military-run elections go on with China’s help
YANGON — The election set to assure the continued grip of Myanmar’s military generals over their country wasn’t engineered in their fortressed capital, but in Beijing, say diplomats, analysts and others monitoring developments in the isolated Southeast Asian nation. Source link
Trump administration’s stance on Myanmar elections sparks concern
The democracy movement in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar has for decades found powerful champions in the Republican Party. President George W. Bush introduced, then expanded, wide-ranging sanctions on the repressive military that has governed Myanmar on and off since independence in 1948. Former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) repeatedly led legislation that funneled funding to pro-democracy groups. The late Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) was among the first world leaders to meet Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011 after she was released from house arrest. Source link
Why The Gambia wants Myanmar punished for Rohingya genocide | Crimes Against Humanity News
The Gambia’s landmark case, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, began in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this week. The Gambia’s attorney general and justice minister, Dawda A Jallow, told ICJ judges on Monday that the Rohingya were “targeted for destruction” by Myanmar’s government, as the case’s final hearing opened nearly a decade after the country’s military launched an offensive that forced some 750,000 Rohingya from their homes, mostly into neighbouring Bangladesh. The refugees recounted mass killings, rape and arson attacks. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The case marks the first time allegations of mass violations and abuses against the Rohingya are being heard at an international court. It is also the first time the ICJ will decide on a genocide case brought by a third country in defence of another nation or group. In an unusual and moving gesture, Jallow asked Rohingya refugees present at the top court’s Peace Hall to stand and be acknowledged by the 15-man panel of judges. The refugees are expected to testify in closed …