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An official of the Union Election Commission counts ballots at a polling station in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Nov. 8, 2020. A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot on Saturday, April 22, 2023, in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Top election official in Myanmar assassinated by guerrillas

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Kyunhla Activists Group shows aftermath of an airstrike in Pazigyi village in Sagaing Region's Kanbalu Township, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Witnesses and independent media reports said dozens of villagers in central Myanmar have been killed in an air attack carried out Tuesday by the Southeast Asian country's military government. (Kyunhla Activists Group via AP)

Airstrikes on Myanmar village feared to have killed 100

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar army Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing calls for decisive action to crush foes

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this photo released from the The Military True News Information Team, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing talks during the National Defense and Security Council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar’s military government announced Wednesday that is extending a state of emergency originally imposed when it seized power two years ago, a move that appears to set back its plans for an election that had been expected in August. (The Military True News Information Team via AP)

Myanmar extends state of emergency, delaying expected polls

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters carry an injured man following clashes with security in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, March 14, 2021. The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, experts say. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar resistance steadfast against army rule 2 years later

By Grant Peck and Jerry Harmer - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Free Burma Rangers, a wounded woman rests in Lay Wah, one of the villages in Karen state’s Mutraw district, Myanmar, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. The Free Burma Rangers said their volunteers watched from a distance as Myanmar’s military made two bombing runs on Thursday. A report released Monday, Jan, 16, by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar details how international companies have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

Report: Myanmar arms industry growing after army takeover

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Homes are destroyed by suspected military air strikes in the district of Mutraw, also known as Papun, in eastern Myanmar's Karen State, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Air strikes this week by Myanmar's military on villages inhabited largely by the Karen ethnic minority killed a number of civilians, and destroyed two churches, two relief organizations said Friday. (Karen Human Rights Group via AP)

Relief groups say 5 die as Myanmar airstrikes hit churches

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Members of the Zo language-speaking community in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area view the "Jesus" film premiere in their own language, the 2,000th language into which this movie telling of the life of Christ has been translated. (Photo courtesy of Cru)

‘Jesus’ movie, outreach tool for decades, dubbed in 2,000th language

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Saturday, March 27, 2021. The army takeover in Myanmar a year ago that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi brought a shocking end to the effort to restore democratic rule in the Southeast Asian country after decades of military rule. But at least as surprising has been the level of popular resistance to the seizure of power, which has blossomed into an insurgency that raises the specter of a protracted civil war. (AP Photo)

Former British ambassador to Myanmar reportedly detained

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Protesters walk through a market with posters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 8, 2021. A Myanmar court convicted Suu Kyi in more corruption cases Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, adding six years to prison sentence. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar court convicts Suu Kyi on more corruption charges

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

A girl rides her bicycle to school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Myanmar violence, Ukraine war loom over ASEAN meetings

By David Rising - Associated Press

Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015. Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party also known as Maung Kyaw, was convicted in January by a closed military court of offenses involving explosives, bombings and financing terrorism. (AP Photo, File)

Widespread condemnation of Myanmar’s execution of prisoners

By David Rising and Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015. Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party also known as Maung Kyaw, was convicted in January by a closed military court of offenses involving explosives, bombings and financing terrorism. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar executes ex-lawmaker, 3 other political prisoners

By David Rising - Associated Press

Kyaw Min Yu, a pro-democracy activist talks to journalists as he arrives at Yangon airport welcomed by his wife Nilar Thein, background, also an activist and his daughter after being released from a prison on Jan. 13, 2012, in Yangon. Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years. Kyaw Min Yu, a 53-year-old democracy activist better known as Ko Jimmy, was executed for violating the counterterrorism law. (AP Photo/File)

U.S., U.N. condemn execution of democracy activists by Myanmar’s military

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video, a fighter jet flies overhead and visible from Tak province, Thailand on Thursday, June 30, 2022. A Myanmar fighter jet crossed the border into Thailand's airspace, prompting Thai air force jets to scramble and officials to order the evacuation of villages and classrooms, officials said. (AP Photo/Chiravut Rungjumrusrussamee)

Thailand says Myanmar apologized for airspace violation

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Displaced people from Myanmar carry donated lunchboxes to their tents along the Thai side of the Moei River in Mae Sot, Thailand on Feb. 5, 2022. Thailand has sent thousands of people fleeing escalating violence by Myanmar’s military back home despite the risk to their lives, and despite international refugee laws that forbid the return of people to countries where their lives may be in danger. They are now living in limbo, forced to ricochet between both sides of the river dividing the two countries as the fighting in their home villages rages and briefly recedes. (AP Photo)

Despite risk of death, Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back

By Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau - Associated Press

Members of the Myanmar military march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 27, 2022. The occasion commemorates resistance against Japanese occupiers during World War II, and is a show of strength as the military battles armed resistance to its takeover last year that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Gunmen shoot deputy governor of Myanmar Central Bank

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Russia woos Southeast Asia in search for allies, markets amid Ukraine blowback

By Richard S. Ehrlich — Special to The Washington Times

Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government-organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, June 29, 2018. An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations' highest court Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, amid questions over whether the country's military rulers should even be allowed to represent the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File)

U.S. to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government-organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, June 29, 2018. An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations' highest court Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, amid questions over whether the country's military rulers should even be allowed to represent the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File)

Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press