As the war gets closer to the capital, a significant number of medical staff have fled from Sittwe General Hospital, causing major shortages of personnel. A female staff member, who requested anonymity, revealed that Sittwe General Hospital once boasted over 300 doctors and nurses, but the current count has plummeted to a mere 40, posing significant hardships in providing
Myanmar’s embattled press faces a military coup
Yesterday after a decade of democratic transition, five years of elected government, and several days of threats, apparent walkbacks, and rumors Myanmar’s military executed a coup and returned to power. Myawaddy TV, a station owned by the military, announced that Min Aung Hlaing the army’s commander in chief, who faces war-crimes allegations linked to the persecution of the country’s Muslim Rohingya population would take power. (The announcement couched the coup as a constitutional “state of emergency,” justified by “terrible fraud” in November elections that returned the civilian National League for Democracy to power and handed a heavy defeat to the military’s proxy party, that will last for one year ahead of new elections.) Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s elected leader, has been detained and her whereabouts remain unclear; hundreds of elected lawmakers, meanwhile, have been placed under house arrest. The United Nati