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" 'I'm sure I will kill you - if I get to fire first,' warns the father." BBC. "He's on the phone to his son, who is in the Myanmar military." How has Myanmar come to a stage where a father threatens to kill his own son, if he can? In November 2020, Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party won the general election "with the party gaining 396 of the 498 contested seats in the bicameral parliament. That no only puts it well over the 322 it needs to govern alone but gives it nine more seats than it won in 2015, when it swept to power in Myanmar's democratic elections after decades of military rule." VOA. On 1 February 2021, the military staged a coup, declared a state of emergency and announced that "power had been transferred to Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing." wikipedia. Thousands of civilians, including children, have been killed, thousands more arrested and Suu Kyi sentenced to a lengthy prison term. "Before the civil war, a job in the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar's armed forces are known, would bring higher social and economic status for the family. But last year's coup changed everything." "More than 2,500 people have been confirmed killed by security forces since the coup, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners says. Total casualty figures for both sides are estimated to be 10 times higher, according to data from conflict monitoring group Acled." "For Pakistan's army and its ruling establishment, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was a chapter closed six years ago, in 2016." News18. "2022: Not anymore. And they may be a bigger threat this time." "The two-day hostage crisis in Bannu in northwestern Pakistan ended...with the army killing all 33 TTP terrorists who had taken over a counter-terrorism detention center in the garrison city." TOI. The terrorists "took police and army officials hostage...after one of the inmates hit a cop's head with a brick during interrogation, snatched his gun and freed other terrorists." "Pakistan is probably the only country in the world that is not the permanent home of its leaders. They are all anchored abroad with their capital assets in off-shore havens and refuges in stable locations. It is also the only country that flies in leaders, has them elected from pliant constituencies, and anoints them as prime ministers," lamented the Dawn. "Around 300 terrorists are present in Jammu and Kashmir, while 160 others are waiting on the launch pads to sneak into this side from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan, a top army commander said." ET. "China's National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily Covid-19 data...amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded." ET. At the same time, "China will scrap quarantine for travelers from 8 January, officials said," "to effectively reopen the country to those with work and study visas, or seeking to visit family." BBC. Thereby spread the virus to the whole world as it did in 2019. All these are direct neighbors of India. Keep your enemies closer, they say. But this is ridiculous.