Military places restive areas of Myanmar under martial law | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

BANGKOK--Martial law was declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar on Thursday, a day after authorities extended a state of emergency throughout the country wracked by violence that some U.N. experts have described as a civil war.

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