US orders evacuation of ‘non-emergency’ diplomats & families from Myanmar amid calls for intervention

Citing “civil unrest,”

Citing “civil unrest,” the US has ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to leave Myanmar, the State Department said as online activists ramped up calls for “humanitarian intervention” against Yangon.

The one-sentence State Department announcement came on Tuesday evening in Washington, on the day the opposition in Myanmar began a “garbage strike” against the government.

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