Today's D Brief: Bloody days in Myanmar; China-Iran pact; COVID cases edge up; Suez ship freed; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
March 29, 2021 10:29 AM ET
The D Brief
It’s getting ugly in Myanmar, where the military is conducting airstrikes along a portion of its border with Thailand as more than 2,000 villagers fled amid a crackdown on dissent in the troubled Southeast Asian nation, the Associated Press reports from Thailand. “The bombings may have been in retaliation for a reported attack by the Karen National Liberation Army in which they claimed to have captured a Myanmar government military outpost on Saturday morning,†AP writes, noting that KNLA group “is fighting for greater autonomy for the Karen people.â€
That’s not the only bad news: Myanmar’s soldiers and police killed more than 100 people across the country on Saturday — during the 76th Armed Forces Day, no less — as protests continue against the Feb. coup. At least seven children were among those shot dead, Hannah Beech of the New York Times reports in a feature that takes readers inside some of the military’s deserters particularly disturbed by what’s happened in the past two months.
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