Myanmar junta threatens to ‘annihilate’ coup opponents on crackdown anniversary

Myanmar’s junta will “annihilate” opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said on Sunday as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since a coup in February 2021, with more than 1,700 people killed in crackdowns on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.Anti-coup “People’s Defence Force” fighters clash regularly with junta troops, while fighting has also flared in border…