Junta

Riot police are deployed in Myanmar as thousands take to the streets against the military junta

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Riot police were deployed in Myanmar today as thousands of protesters flooded the streets to demand the end of the military junta which seized power this week. Heavily-armoured officers blocked off roads with water-cannon trucks and barbed-wire bamboo barricades as the crowds yelled: ‘Down with the military dictatorship’ in Yangon (Rangoon). In the largest display … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Can’t we put the Johnson Junta in a nice rest home?

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Months ago, I predicted that we would all come to hate the narrow, bossed-about new life the Government wants to force us to live. I was wrong.  Most people have far too readily accepted limits to their lives which the world’s tyrannies would once have hesitated to impose on their citizens. Well, have you had … Read more