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Five killed, seven injured in road accident in Bago

PDF attack on junta vehicle in Taze kills seven soldiers

Guerrilla groups clash with police in Yangon
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- 01ASEAN envoy set for third trip to Myanmar
- 02Five killed, seven injured in road accident in Bago
- 03Three resistance fighters killed as battles rage in Sagaing
- 04Bangladesh seeks China’s help to repatriate Rohingya refugees
- 05PDF attack on junta vehicle in Taze kills seven soldiers
- 06Guerrilla groups clash with police in Yangon
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A regional envoy tasked with brokering peace in Myanmar admitted over the weekend that “even Superman cannot solve” the crisis in the conflict-wracked country, capping a week of foreign ministerial meetings that ultimately yielded little progress. The 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has spearheaded so far fruitless efforts to resolve the turmoil and acknowledged in a joint statement on August 6 the lack of progress around a five-point crisis resolution plan. ASEAN special envoy Prak Sokhonn, who has made two trips to Myanmar since the 2021 coup, played down expectations for significant progress for resolving the crisis in the short-term. “I am just a special envoy, I am not a superman,” he told reporters in Phnom Penh. “I think that even Superman cannot solve the Myanmar problem.” Anger is growing within ASEAN over the generals’ stonewalling of the peace plan, particularly after the execution last month of four political prisoners, including two prominent pro-democracy figures. The plan, agreed in April last year, calls for an immediate end to violence and dialogue between the military and the anti-coup movement. But experts say that the problems in Myanmar cannot be solved through a handful of meetings as any negotiations between
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