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An anti-coup protester shows the three fingered salute of resistance during a strike walk with slogans to show their disaffection for military coup at neighborhood area of Hlaing township in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 9, 2021. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta attacks again as spokesman defends crackdown

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces his appointment of Gayle Smith as the new State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security as he speaks about U.S. leadership in fighting the coronavirus pandemic at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

US hits state-owned Myanmar gem firm with coup sanctions

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Kyaw Zwar Minn, the Myanmar ambassador, stands outside the Myanmar Embassy in London, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Newspaper reports say the embassy was taken over by members of the country's new military regime Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Myanmar ambassador to UK says he is locked out of embassy

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Anti-coup protesters walk through a market with images of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, April 8, 2021. They walked through the markets and streets of Kamayut township with slogans to show their disaffection for military coup. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta limits internet, seizes satellite TV dishes

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Anti-coup protesters flash the three-fingered symbol of resistance while holding slogans bearing pictures of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday April 7, 2021. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms

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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2011, file photo, Myanmar's comedian and activist Zarganar, who was serving a 35-year sentence in Myitkyina prison in northernmost Kachin State, arrives at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, after he was released early on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. The authorities in Myanmar on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, arrested Zarganar at his home in Yangon as they continue to crackdown on protests against February's military takeover and the people they accuse of inciting them. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

Myanmar forces arrest comedian, break up doctors’ protest

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Anti-coup protesters holding pictures of those who died during a protest against the military offer prayers for them, in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, April 5, 2021. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta charges celebrities with promoting protests

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FILE - In this April 4, 2021, file photo, young demonstrators participate in an anti-coup mask strike in Yangon, Myanmar. Many in Myanmar have found a safer, more substantive way to protest the country’s military coup. Instead of facing down heavily armed solders from behind flimsy barricades, they're holding online rummage sales using sites like Facebook. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar’s online pop-up markets raise funds for protest

By JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, Karenni villagers from Myanmar arrive on a boat with an injured person as they evacuate to Ban Mae Sam Laep Health Center in Mae Hong Son province, northern Thailand. Far away in Myanmar’s borderlands, millions of others who hail from Myanmar’s minority ethnic groups are facing increasing uncertainty and waning security as longstanding conflicts between the military and minority guerrilla armies flare anew. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Minorities in Myanmar borderlands face fresh fear since coup

By VICTORIA MILKO - Associated Press

Anti-coup protesters aim to defend themselves with homemade air rifles during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch ‘Easter egg strike’

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Friends and relatives mourn over the body of Ma Su Su Kyi, a 32 year old South Korean bank employee, who died from gunshot wounds Friday, April 2, 2021, Yangon, Myanmar. South Korean Shinhan Bank spokesman said it temporary closed its branch in Yangon and was considering bringing its South Korean employees back home after its Myanmar employee Ma Su Su Kyi was fatally shot by security forces. (AP Photo)

Myanmar death toll mounts amid protests, military crackdown

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Police patrol on a truck along Hledan road at Kamaryouk township in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Protesters in Myanmar on Thursday marked two months since the military seized power by again defying the threat of lethal violence and demonstrating against its toppling of the country's democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar cuts wireless internet service amid coup protests

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A worker from &quot;Hevra Kadisha,&quot; Israel's official Jewish burial society, dress in full protective gear rests at a special morgue for people who died from COVID-19, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in the central Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

UN condemns violence against Myanmar protesters and deaths

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Anti-coup demonstrators prepare to confront police during a protest in Tarmwe township, Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, April 1, 2021. (AP Photo)

Myanmar still mired in violence 2 months after military coup

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Anti-coup protesters run to avoid military forces during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday March 31, 2021. The Southeast Asian nation has been wracked by violence since the military ousted a civilian-led government on February 1 and began to forcibly put down protests. (AP Photo)

Junta’s foes woo ethnic allies with new Myanmar constitution

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China reports COVID-19 outbreak on border with Myanmar

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Anti-coup protesters run to avoid military forces during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday March 31, 2021. The Southeast Asian nation has been wracked by violence since the military ousted a civilian-led government on Feb. 1 and began to forcibly put down protests. (AP Photo)

UN envoy: Myanmar faces possibility of major civil war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Soldiers walk towards anti-coup protesters during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Tuesday March 30, 2021. Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha denied Tuesday that his country’s security forces have sent villagers back to Myanmar who fled from military airstrikes and said his government is ready to shelter anyone who is escaping fighting. (AP Photo)

Freed Polish journalist urges pressure put on Myanmar junta

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

An injured ethnic Karen villager from Myanmar rests as she is treated after crossing the Salawin river via boat at Ban Mae Sam Laep Health Center, Mae Hong Son province, Thailand on Tuesday March 30, 2021. The weekend strikes by the Myanmar military, which sent ethnic people to seek safety in Thailand, represented another escalation in the violent crackdown by Myanmar’s junta on protests of its Feb. 1 takeover. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand denies forcing fleeing villagers back to Myanmar

By Tassanee Vejpongsa - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Free Burma Rangers, Karen villagers gather in the forests as they hide from military airstrikes in the Deh Bu Noh area of the Papun district, north Karen state, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Thai authorities along its northwestern border braced themselves, Monday, for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing the fear of renewed air strikes from the Myanmar military. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar airstrikes

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