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Burma’s Military Junta Grants Partial Pardon to Aung San Suu Kyi, Delays Elections

HeadlineAug 02, 2023

Burma’s military rulers granted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi a pardon in five of the 19 cases against her. Suu Kyi, who was ousted and detained in the February 2021 military coup, will remain under house arrest. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who once fought against the Burmese military, but later defended its genocide of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

On Monday, the military junta again extended a state of emergency and delayed elections that had been promised to take place this month. A local rights group says over 3,800 people have been killed in the military’s crackdown on post-coup protests, and over 24,000 people arrested.

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