Min Aung Hlaing meets Nippon Foundation chair amid backchannel talks in Japan
Pro-democracy activists in Japan told DVB that they were “concerned” over a recent meeting between regime leader Min Aung Hlaing and Japan’s Special Envoy for National Reconciliation in Myanmar, Yohei Sasakawa, in Naypyi
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