An 81-year-old Tibetan man has died after a self-immolation protest over Chinese rule, setting himself on fire last week at a police station in front of a major monastery in the western Chinese province of Sichuan, a source from the monastery’s branch in India told RFA late Saturday. The burning death on March 27 of […]
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81-year-old Tibet man dies after self-immolation protest at Kirti Monastery — Radio Free Asia
An 81-year-old Tibetan man has died after a self-immolation protest over Chinese rule, setting himself on fire last week at a police station in front of a major monastery in the western Chinese province of Sichuan, a source from the monastery’s branch in India told RFA late Saturday. The burning death on March 27 of […]
Myanmar’s Magway region suffers under military’s March offensive — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. Sources in Magway’s Gangaw township told RFA’s Myanmar Service that […]
Myanmar’s Magway region suffers under military’s March offensive — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. Sources in Magway’s Gangaw township told RFA’s Myanmar Service that […]
Myanmar’s Magway region suffers under military’s March offensive — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. Sources in Magway’s Gangaw township told RFA’s Myanmar Service that […]
Myanmar’s Magway region suffers under military’s March offensive — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. Sources in Magway’s Gangaw township told RFA’s Myanmar Service that […]
Myanmar’s Magway region suffers under military’s March offensive — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. Sources in Magway’s Gangaw township told RFA’s Myanmar Service that […]
Surge in daily COVID-19 infections caps record week in Myanmar — Radio Free Asia
Nearly 1,800 people were confirmed positive with COVID-19 in a 24-hour period over the weekend in Myanmar, capping off a record week of infections that some observers say is another reflection of the country’s disarray since the military seized power a year ago. The junta’s Ministry of Health said that a total of 1,787 patients […]
If the shoe hits — Radio Free Asia
Cambodian activist Sam Sokha was released Feb. 9 after serving a four-year prison term for throwing her shoe at a poster of Prime Minister Hun Sen and sharing it on social media. But the court threatened to jail the former factory worker and opposition supporter for another six months unless she paid a fine of […]
If the shoe hits — Radio Free Asia
Cambodian activist Sam Sokha was released Feb. 9 after serving a four-year prison term for throwing her shoe at a poster of Prime Minister Hun Sen and sharing it on social media. But the court threatened to jail the former factory worker and opposition supporter for another six months unless she paid a fine of […]