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Myanmar Junta Troops Rape Chin Mother: Media

November 15, 2021/in News

Myanmar’s junta soldiers gang-raped the mother of a baby in front of her husband in Tedim Township, Chin State, on Thursday night, according to the Chin media. The alleged incident in Akllui village on the Kale-Tedim highway involved the 27-year-old mother and three soldiers while her husband, 34, was forced to crouch in the toilet, […]

Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

Myanmar’s junta released and deported the US journalist Danny Fenster on Monday, three days after sentencing him to 11 years for incitement, contacting an illegal organization and breaching visa regulations. The regime’s spokesman confirmed the 37-year-old’s deportation after his release from Yangon’s Insein Prison. The release followed the former US diplomat and ex-New Mexico governor […]

Myanmar Junta Troops Rape Chin Mother: Media

November 15, 2021/in News

Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

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Myanmar Junta Troops Rape Chin Mother: Media

November 15, 2021/in News

Myanmar’s junta soldiers gang-raped the mother of a baby in front of her husband in Tedim Township, Chin State, on Thursday night, according to the Chin media.

The alleged incident in Akllui village on the Kale-Tedim highway involved the 27-year-old mother and three soldiers while her husband, 34, was forced to crouch in the toilet, the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) for Kalay, Kabaw and Gangaw reported. The group said it received a victim’s report and was investigating the case.

The husband was injured in the head after being hit with rifle butts and plates.

Two of the soldiers returned to the house and raped the victim again later that night, the CDF said.

The three soldiers took a phone, power bank, 18,000 kyats (US$10) and golden earrings, according to the Zalen news outlet, quoting a relative. The couple and their three children have been evacuated to a safe location, according to the CDF.

On Thursday night, at least five houses were raided and looted by regime forces stationed in the village, according to the media. The junta forces left the village on Saturday.

The CDF condemned the attack on the ethnic Chin woman, saying it insulted the whole community.

The civilian resistance group has vowed to take revenge on the regime forces for its sexual abuse of women.

Sisters 2 Sisters, a group raising awareness on excessive force and sexual violence by regime forces, condemned the rape.

The group, which promotes solidarity in fighting systemic oppression, said all sexual violence during conflict is a war crime and a crime against humanity, breaching international humanitarian law.

It said the soldiers responsible must be punished.

On Nov. 7, a junta soldier raped a 62-year-old woman after asking the victim for vegetables at a village in Kutkai Township, Shan State. Myanmar’s junta confirmed the rape case on Nov. 11.

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Myanmar Junta Releases US Journalist After Ex-Diplomat’s Intervention

November 15, 2021/in News

The regime’s spokesman confirmed the 37-year-old’s deportation after his release from Yangon’s Insein Prison.

The release followed the former US diplomat and ex-New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s meeting with the regime’s leader Min Aung Hlaing.

On Monday, the Richardson Center tweeted that Fenster’s release was secured following a private humanitarian visit by Richardson and negotiations with Min Aung Hlaing.

The tweet said “We are so grateful that Danny will finally be able to reconnect with his loved ones, who have been advocating for him all this time, against immense odds.”

It was posted with a picture of Fenster and Richardson at the airport in Yangon.

Fenster, the managing editor of the online news site Frontier Myanmar, was arrested on May 24 at Yangon’s airport shortly while boarding a flight to Malaysia. He was held in Insein.

“We are relieved that Danny is finally out of prison – somewhere he never should have been in the first place,” said Frontier editor-in-chief Thomas Kean.

Before working for Frontier Myanmar, Fenster was with Myanmar Now after joining The Irrawaddy for a few months.

On Friday, the US State Department condemned the sentence as an unjust conviction of an innocent person.

Fenster is the third foreign journalist to be detained by the junta. Two freelancers, Robert Bociaga from Poland and Yuki Kitazumi from Japan, were detained before Fenster’s arrest. Both were later freed and deported.

Since the military takeover, the regime has targeted journalists with arrests, lawsuits, raids on newsrooms and violence in an attempt to suppress coverage of the junta’s lethal crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters.

Around 100 journalists have been detained by the regime since the coup. Around 50 of them remain in prison.

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