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In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. 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/Peter Dejong, File)

No peace in Myanmar 1 year after military takeover

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this aerial photo released by the Chin Human Rights Organization, fires destroy numerous buildings in the town of Thantlang in Chin State in northwest Myanmar, on Dec. 4, 2021. More than 580 buildings have been burned since September, according to satellite image analysis by Maxar Technologies. (Chin Human Rights Organization via AP)

Myanmar military reverts to strategy of massacres, burnings

By Sam McNeil and David Rising and Rishabh R. Jain - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), vehicles smolder in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and set the bodies on fire, a witness and other reports said Saturday. (KNDF via AP)

Save the Children staff confirmed dead in Myanmar massacre

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In this photo provided by the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), smokes and flames billow from vehicles in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and set the bodies on fire, a witness and other reports said Saturday. (KNDF via AP)

Photos of aftermath of massacre in Myanmar fuel outrage

By Tassanee Vejpongsa - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), vehicles smolder in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and set the bodies on fire, a witness and other reports said Saturday. (KNDF via AP)

Save the Children says staff missing after Myanmar massacre

By Tassanee Vejpongsa - Associated Press

Facebook broadens ban on military-linked Myanmar companies

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Richardson Center, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, right, poses with journalist Danny Fenster in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Fenster, sentenced only days ago to 11 years of hard labor in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said. (The Richardson Center via AP)

Danny Fenster, U.S. journalist jailed in Myanmar for months, lands in New York

By Ted Shaffrey and Bobby Caina Calvan

U.S. journalist Danny Fenster works out of his van that he made into a home/office in Detroit in 2018. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, American journalist Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. (Fenster Family photo via AP, File)

American journalist Danny Fenster is freed in Myanmar, allowed to return to the U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. journalist Danny Fenster works out of his van that he made into a home/office in Detroit in 2018. His lawyer says a court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, has sentenced him to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. (Fenster Family photo via AP, File)

Myanmar court sentences U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in jail

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

This image made from video by National Unity Government (NUG) via Facebook, shows Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), posted on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021 in Myanmar. Myanmar’s NUG, an underground body coordinating resistance to the military regime, on Tuesday called for a nationwide uprising. The shadow government's acting president Duwa Lashi La called for revolt “in every village, town and city in the entire country at the same time” against the military-installed government and declared a so-called ”state of emergency.&quot; (National Unity Government via Facebook via AP)

Myanmar resistance movement calls for nationwide uprising

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this 2018 photo, Danny Fenster works out of his van that he made into a home/office in Detroit. The parents and brother of an American journalist who has been detained in Myanmar for 100 days are vowing to never stop working to secure his release (Fenster Family photo via AP)

Myanmar court extends pre-trial detention of U.S. journalist

In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court following a status conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Michael Flynn says coup ‘should happen’ in U.S., then denies claim in Parler post

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi makes first in-person court appearance

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Police in Thailand arrest 3 journalists who fled Myanmar

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In this photo provided by Karen National Liberation Army, a Karen National Liberation Army soldier holds a motor shell while standing next to a cache of mortar shells found at a Myanmar military outpost Friday, May 7, 2021, in Mutraw district, Karen State, Myanmar. Ethnic Karen guerrillas burned down a Myanmar military outpost Friday morning, capturing it without a fight after its garrison fled at their approach, a senior Karen officer said. (Karen National Liberation Army via AP)

Myanmar’s Karen insurgents burn another government outpost

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More than 200 NGOs call for UN arms embargo on Myanmar

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This image from an April 18, 2021 news report by Myawaddy TV shows people who security forces said they detained in a weapons raid a day earlier in the Yankin township of Yangon, Myanmar. At least 3,500 people have been detained since the military seized power in the country in February 2021, more than three-quarters of whom are male, according to an analysis of data collected by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which monitors deaths and arrests. Of the 419 men whose ages were recorded in the group’s database, nearly two-thirds are under age 30, and 78 are teenagers. (Myawaddy TV via AP)

Myanmar’s military disappearing young men to crush uprising

By VICTORIA MILKO and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013, file photo, soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) stand on guard in Laiza, a border town of China and Myanmar, Kachin State, Myanmar. The Kachin Independence Army claims to have shot down a helicopter belonging to the government’s military Monday, May 3, 2021, in the course of heavy fighting over a strategic position. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

Ethnic guerrillas in Myanmar say they shot down helicopter

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Anti-coup protesters burn tires and chant slogans with banner read ''The Kamayut strike will be fight for to the end when we get victory&quot; during the demonstration against the military coup in Kamayut township Yangon, Monday, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo)

China’s UN envoy: Myanmar violence could lead to civil war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute and chant slogan during the demonstration against the military coup in the rain at Pabedan township in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

UN says conflict in Myanmar impedes its humanitarian aid

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press