junta
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Set amid thickly forested mountains, it is the heart of the resistance against the junta in Chin state.
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They are in an area controlled by the DKBA, one of the militias allied to the military junta.
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In recent weeks the junta has arrested civilians accused of disrupting the vote, including one man who authorities said had sent out anti-election messages on Facebook.
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By the time the bloc had threatened intervention and begun to plan it, the chance had gone: the new junta had consolidated control over the Nigérien army and mobilised popular opinion in its support.
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The junta has also tightened restrictions in the country, banning all demonstrations and "all disturbing actions of peace and stability in the country".
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