‘2,000 dead’ fighting Myanmar junta
At least 2,000 pro-democracy fighters have been killed in Myanmar battling a military junta that seized power last year, the head of a parallel civilian government said in an interview aired yesterday, urging allies to provide military aid. Duwa Lashi La, acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG) was speaking to the Reuters NEXT conference from an undisclosed location in Myanmar. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military seized power in February last year, reversing a decade-long democratic experime. In addition to the 2,000 deaths in fighting, more than 2,500 civilians have been killed elsewhere, mostly in crackdowns on protests.
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