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Here are some of this month’s highlights. ⇊ 🧵https://t.co/EA0c5ixL0z
— Crisis Group (@CrisisGroup) June 4, 2021
The coup has reignited conflicts between ethnic armed groups and the government, threatening to destabilize swaths of Myanmar’s borders with China, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. https://t.co/NO2FJG2c1k
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) June 8, 2021