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Ye Mon’s nightmare: ‘I reported on the military’s abuses, and then I became a victim’

  By Ye Mon, Frontier Myanmar IN A RARE first-hand account, Frontier Myanmar journalist Ye Mon recounts being beaten and sexually abused by regime soldiers in December 2021 after being detained at Yangon International Airport. I couldn’t see the soldiers through my blindfold, but their words were terrifying enough. “If they refused to answer our

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Wealthy protester’s wife files rape charges against former deputy party leader

THE wife of Mr. Thanat Thanakitamnuay, or Hiso Luknut, a wealthy protester, last evening filed rape charges against a former deputy leader of a political party, Sanook.com and TV Channel 7 said today (Apr. 15). Mrs. Hathairat Thanakitamnuay, or Anna,  who is Ruam Thai United Party’s councillor candidate in the Bangkok gubernatorial election, was accompanied

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