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Australia’s involvement with Myanmar’s military continued since Rohingya massacre, documents suggests
Documents released under freedom of information laws have revealed new details about Australia’s controversial program of defence cooperation with Myanmar’s military.
Key points:
- The federal government says its military cooperation with Myanmar is “modest” in scale
- The documents illuminate some of the challenges and pitfalls of dealing with a military, which has been accused of war crimes
- The documents also show no evidence of military cooperation slowing during the Rohingya massacre
Australia is one of a small number of nations that has maintained cooperation with Myanmar’s armed forces — known as the Tatmadaw — in the wake of a brutal 2017 campaign of ethnic cleansing waged against the Rohingya minority.
Human rights groups have long…
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