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There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

A man walks across a paddy field near the Myanmar border in the Ukhia area of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on September 10. (AFP)

Bangladesh’s interim government has lobbied successfully for an international conference on the Rohingya. But for repatriation to have any chance of moving forward, organisers need to consider the rise of the Arakan Army.

NLD supporters celebrate the party's electoral landslide in front of the party's Yangon headquarters November. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

Members of the former ruling party have followed different paths since the 2021 coup, with some lying low and others taking up arms, while the continued imprisonment and recent deaths of party leaders raise questions about its future.

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