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Myanmar Update stands tall for a country on brink of collapse
20 July 2021
Myanmar’s isolation and functional failure following a military coup and the worsening impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted comparisons with a humanitarian crisis not unlike Syria during the 2021 Myanmar Update at The Australian National University (ANU) last week.
The three-day event, hosted by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, has been held every two years since 1999, and was extremely timely given the widespread reports of civil unrest as the pandemic worsens daily.