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The Unheeded Cross-Border Toll: Myanmar's Conflict Spillover and the Failure of the 'Rules-Based Order'

A nine-year-old Bangladeshi girl was killed by a stray bullet from Myanmar, and Bangladeshi fishermen and civilians along the border face death and detention from cross-border violence and landmines. This harrowing and preventable loss of life exposes the deadly human cost of Myanmar's internal conflict spilling into its neighbor, a crisis the so-called ‘rules-based international order’ has utterly failed to prevent or even meaningfully address.