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    Andrei Soldatov “The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.” 17 hours ago
  • Dmitry Peskov
    Dmitry Peskov “All war crimes [committed] by the Kyiv regime are thoroughly documented. We were well aware of these crimes. And, of course, we will make sure that those behind these crimes are duly punished.” 17 hours ago
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    Timothy Snyder “The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.” 17 hours ago
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    Vladimir Putin “We have no aggressive intentions towards these states. The idea that we will attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States, and the Czechs are also being scared - is complete nonsense. It's just drivel. If they supply F-16s, and they are talking about this and are apparently training pilots, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy the aircraft just as we destroy today tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers. Of course, if they will be used from airfields in third countries, they become for us legitimate targets, wherever they might be located.” 17 hours ago
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Myanmar

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“Beyond the re-appointment of Kyaw Moe Tun in the UN, Russia is being difficult to work with [in terms of reaching a consensus in the international community to pressure the regime] and is publicly backing the junta. China seems to be consolidating its support for the regime as well. It's different from 2021. They provide tangible support for the junta, whereas those who support the resistance and the anti-coup movement are more rhetorical in their support.”

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Former US ambassador to Myanmar
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“The people of Myanmar have the right to democracy and self-determination free from fear and want, which will only be possible by the good will and efforts of all stakeholders in an inclusive process.”

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United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar
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“[Russia or Myanmar] won't pull out. This is something that will be through thick and thin. They need each other and they know that they're stronger together. They help each other - [Myanmar] can get military equipment, and Russia can get raw materials. When your friends are dwindling by the wayside, the ones that you've got left automatically become more important.”

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Defence industry analyst with Janes
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“While there have been individual responses from UN member states such as the US, UK, European Union, and Australia, they haven't been sufficient to cause enough of an impact on the Myanmar military for them to change their thinking or to try and pressure them into rethinking this coup and whether it is in their interests or not. The UK could put forward a resolution, but so far we've seen China and Russia specifically - the other permanent members of the security council - they would veto any resolution calling for a global arms embargo, which is essential to end the oppression of the Myanmar people by this quite heinous regime.”

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Regional Director of Fortify Rights
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“It is time for an urgent, renewed effort to restore human rights and democracy in Myanmar and ensure that perpetrators of systemic human rights violations and abuses are held to account.”

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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“The Myanmar junta's courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges is all about steadily piling up more convictions … so that she [Aung San Suu Kyi] will remain in prison indefinitely.”

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Deputy Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
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“I am horrified by reports of an attack against civilians... I condemn this grievous incident and all attacks against civilians throughout the country, which are prohibited under international humanitarian law.”

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U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
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“It is very difficult to gauge how effectively fundraising had translated into armed resistance, but the fact the military had imposed strict limits on ATM withdrawals indicated obvious concern. It is probably fair to say that it has had some positive impact on the NUG's [National Unity Government] ability to fund training, organisation and some arms purchases. In order to make fundraising sustainable in the longer term, the NUG would arguably need to demonstrate a greater capacity for coordinating resistance activities and exercising a degree of command-and-control over a plethora of 'People's Defence Forces'.”

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Security analyst and consultant specialising in insurgency, terrorism and military affairs in the Asia-Pacific region
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“The numbers provided by the NUG [National Unity Government] for the funds they have raised from the Spring Lottery, raffle, and now bond sales suggest that these have been pretty successful, each raising millions of dollars. It shows that there is a large number of people in the Myanmar diaspora willing to donate significant sums in support of the resistance movement.”

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Myanmar-based analyst with the International Crisis Group
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“The sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday on bogus charges are the latest example of the military's determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar. The court's farcical and corrupt decision is part of a devastating pattern of arbitrary punishment that has seen more than 1,300 people killed and thousands arrested since the military coup in February. The international community must step up to protect civilians and hold perpetrators of grave violations to account, and ensure humanitarian and health assistance is granted as a matter of utmost urgency.”

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Senior Amnesty official in Asia
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“Since the day of the coup, it's been clear that the charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, and the dozens of other detained MPs, have been nothing more than an excuse by the junta to justify their illegal power grab.”

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Chair of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights and a Malaysian MP
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“Myanmar is a textbook case of an aspiring democracy crushed underfoot by a tyrant. It symbolises the global struggle for political pluralism, progressive values, and supposedly universal rights that the democracy summit hopes to advance. It is also a litmus test. Will Biden's well-intentioned waffle-fest, as critics characterise it, make any real difference? If democracy's champions cannot resolve an open-and-shut case such as Myanmar, they may as well abandon their Zoom session and switch to PlayStation.”

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Columnist for The Guardian newspaper and an assistant editor of the publication
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“Action can be taken under terrorism charges with heavy sentences for those financing the terrorist groups. If you buy the money bonds, it falls under that (provision).”

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Spokesperson of the military’s True News agency
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“Whether poor or rich, we [Chin People] care about good houses. For Chin people, a house is the most valuable of all possessions. It does not make sense that we are destroying our houses that cost millions [of kyats] to build and the churches in which we worship … We are not that vulgar.”

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Independent politician from Thantlang and an anti-coup activist
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“It must convene an urgent meeting on the escalating attacks in Chin State and the overall deepening political, human rights and humanitarian crisis as a result of the Myanmar military leaders' search for power and greed that has caused immense suffering. The human security risk not only threatens the people of Myanmar but also regional and thus global security and peace. The Council must immediately build on previous statements with concrete action by adopting a resolution that consolidates international action to resolve the deepening crisis.”

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Statement by Human Rights Watch on behalf of 521 international and domestic organisations
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“At least 100 buildings are thought to have been destroyed so far by the fire … which reportedly broke out at around 11:00 am following the use of heavy weapons. The destruction caused by this violence is utterly senseless. The people who live here have already had to flee their homes to escape violent clashes in recent weeks. Many will now have lost what little they had left.”

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Statement by Save the Children
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“Myanmar is an integral part of the ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] family and their membership has not been questioned. ASEAN will always be there for Myanmar and we have continued to offer help through the implementation of the five-point consensus.”

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Sultan of Brunei
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“Today, ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] did not expel Myanmar from ASEAN's framework. Myanmar abandoned its right. Now we are in the situation of ASEAN minus one. It is not because of ASEAN, but because of Myanmar.”

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Prime Minister of Cambodia
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“ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is very perturbed because we cannot afford this to happen, especially during the COVID pandemic. ASEAN now has to grapple with the fact that Senior General Min Aung Hlaing's personal ambition and greed poses a greater threat to regional security, both for Myanmar and the region itself. And if ASEAN doesn't act now, the situation could get out of control and we will be dealing with a disaster for the next 10 years.”

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Founder and coordinator of Alternative Asean Network on Burma
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“People are now equipped with iPhones and the main source of information in Myanmar is Facebook and Twitter. They are very determined not to give up. And if they don't give up, and if they are so angry to also use violence, then that the violence will create more violence that would lead to a full-blown internal armed conflict.”

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United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar
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“We should all be prepared, as the people in this part of Myanmar are prepared, for even more mass atrocity crimes. I desperately hope that I am wrong. These tactics are ominously reminiscent of those employed by the military before its genocidal attacks against the Rohingya in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017.”

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UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
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“More violence happened due to provocations of terrorist groups [people who opposed the military's rule]. No one cares about their violence, and is only demanding we solve the issue. ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] should work on that.”

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Myanmar Senior General
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“We never thought of removing Myanmar from ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations], we believe Myanmar has the same rights (as us). But the junta has not cooperated, so ASEAN must be strong in defending its credibility and integrity.”

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“The exclusion is a political stopgap measure for ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] to assuage international criticism. It ensures its [ASEAN's] regional reputation as an organisation that can still play an active role in Southeast Asian affairs. The move sent a political signal to the military government that ASEAN is not one to be pushed around, and that Myanmar must show its seriousness and its commitment to roll out the five-point plan.”

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Global affairs analyst at consultancy Solaris Strategies Singapore
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“I fear that we will soon hear also that the NLD [National League for Democracy] party could be disbanded. This is an attempt to promote legitimacy against lack of international action taken. I have to make clear that the U.N. does not recognize governments, so it's up to the member states.”

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United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar
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“Children in Myanmar are under siege and facing catastrophic loss of life because of the military coup. Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day. They have guns pointed at them and see the same happen to their parents and siblings. If this crisis continues, an entire generation of children is at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic consequences, depriving them of a healthy and productive future.”

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Chair of UN child rights committee
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“All of us, people in townships, wards and then regions and states must work together to make a successful boycott [refusing to pay electricity bills and agricultural loans, children to stop going to school] against the military junta. We don't participate in their systems, we don't cooperate with them.”

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Activist in the central town of Monywa
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“ASEAN must now act swiftly and set a clear timeline for Min Aung Hlaing to deliver on ending the violence, or stand ready to hold him accountable.”

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Chair of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights and a Malaysian MP
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“Since the coup, there has been a lot of talk about armed groups operating together but we have not actually seen it before. Today it's claimed three acted together, joined forces, attacked this outpost manned by Myanmar police, killing a number of policemen.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Thailand
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“Your collective, strong action is needed immediately. I strongly believe that the international community, in particular the UN Security Council, will not let these atrocities keep going on in Myanmar.”

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Myanmar’s UN ambassador
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“I appeal to this Council to consider all available tools to take collective action and do what is right, what the people of Myanmar deserve and prevent a multi-dimensional catastrophe... If we wait only for when they are ready to talk, the ground situation will only worsen. A bloodbath is imminent.”

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United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar
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“Words of condemnation or concern are frankly ringing hollow to the people of Myanmar while the military junta commits mass murder against them.”

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UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
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“Today's killing of unarmed civilians, including children, marks a new low. We will work with our international partners to end this senseless violence, hold those responsible to account, and secure a path back to democracy.”

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UK foreign minister
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“This is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close. In order to form a federal democracy, which all ethnic brothers, who have been suffering various kinds of oppressions from the dictatorship for decades, really desired, this revolution is the chance for us to put our efforts together.”

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Acting vice-president by representatives of Myanmar’s ousted lawmakers, the Committee for Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
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