YouвЂ™re going to have to scratch, claw and strike to slash your way to the top. Fresh faces are all Director X casts, and with your embarrassingly empty resume youвЂ™re as fresh as they come!Д«ut seven other hopefuls are also in the running, so youвЂ™re going to need to prove your worth if youвЂ™re to hit the leading credits. Famous faces and big names are not what this director is looking for.

His methods have produced some of the finest grindhouse films ever committed to celluloid. But veto-wielding Russia and China were likely to insure that no forceful condemnation is produced.Congratulations, youвЂ™ve just been cast in your first slasher movie! YouвЂ™ve been given your big break by the notorious Director X. Security Council is scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Friday to take up the Myanmar matter, according to the AP. By contrast, Thailand, which is governed by the instigators of a 2014 coup and has also sought to suppress its own anti-government protests recently, has tread cautiously. Predominately Muslim Malaysia and Indonesia are among those more willing to condemn MyanmarвЂ™s military, known as the Tatmadaw, which has been accused of atrocities against the countryвЂ™s Rohingya Muslim population. The situation in Myanmar has proved a delicate one for the 10-member regional bloc, which includes Myanmar, to navigate. Individually, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore have called for Suu KyiвЂ™s release. вЂњWe expressed ASEANвЂ™s readiness to assist Myanmar in a positive, peaceful and constructive manner,вЂќ Brunei said in a statement. Instead, they opted for a watered-down message from the groupвЂ™s current chair, Brunei. However, the ministers, who met by teleconference, stopped short of issuing a joint statement calling for the release of Suu Kyi. On Tuesday, foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, called an emergency meeting to address the Myanmar situation. A lawyer for the APвЂ™s Thein Zaw said Thein and several others have been charged under a law that criminalizes spreading вЂњfake news,вЂќ according to the Voice of America. NPR has not independently verified the report.ДЄt least eight journalists have also reportedly been arrested while covering the protests. Some on social media, including an account representing Suu KyiвЂ™s ousted government, were circulating graphic closed-circuit video of police beating a group of people who were said to be volunteer medical workers aiding injured protesters. Monywa has seen large anti-junta protests in recent days, according to the news agency said. About 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Mandalay, in Myingyan, a 14-year-old boy was also fatally shot.ДЄt least three people were fatally shot on Wednesday in the central city of Monywa, according to the Democratic Voice of Burma, an independent television and online news service, the AP said. On Wednesday, social media accounts monitoring the violence were again inundated with graphic footage and images of protesters killed and wounded in the violence.ДЄmong the reported deaths were of a 19-year-old female protesters in Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, also known as Burma. The numbers of protesters have remained high despite the crackdown by security forces, the AP reported. At least three others had died previously in the weeks of unrest, as daily protests have been met by police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds at unarmed demonstrators. On Sunday, the U.N.вЂ™s human rights office said it believed 18 people had been killed.

However, The Associated Press cited reports of as many as 33 people dead, and The Irrawaddy, a news website run by Myanmar exiles, said at least 28 were dead. 1, ousting the government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The latest death toll was gleaned from various sources, with Reuters reporting 18, bring the total number of killed in a police crackdown on protesters to nearly 40 since the military seized power on Feb. In a day of protests that was among the deadliest in Myanmar since last monthвЂ™s coup, at least 18 people were reportedly killed on Wednesday, a day after Southeast Asian foreign ministers issued a tepid call to end to the violence.

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