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Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) · MandalayThe two women died at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday as people jostled for position outside of a passports issuing office in Mandalay. The deaths illustrate the anxiety widely felt ahead of the military junta's upcoming enforcement of a mandatory conscription law. Thousands of people have been arriving at around midnight each night to line up near a barbed wire fenced area.See the Story
2 women suffocate in crammed queue outside Myanmar passport office
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Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) · MandalayChaos outside passport office claims lives in Myanmar. Two women aged 52 and 39 succumbed to the overwhelming surge of hundreds clamouring to secure their passage out of the country. Military conscription, coupled with the junta's bid to bolster its ranks through pro-military militias, has plunged Myanmar into a state of uncertainty and fear.See the Story
Chaos outside passport office claims lives in Myanmar
Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) · MandalayPeople in Myanmar staged a nationwide silent strike on Thursday, forgoing work and staying inside their homes. The protest was held from 10 am to 4 pm in several major cities, including the commercial capital Yangon. Anti-junta groups detonated at least six bombs in three townships of Yangon on Wednesday and Thursday in a bid to undermine military rule.See the Story
Three arrested over anti-junta ‘silent strike’ in Mandalay
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