Myanmar junta's civilian rivals promise justice for Rohingya

REUTERS
Reuters Staff

(Reuters) - One of the leaders of a group of civilian rivals to Myanmar’s military junta promised on Wednesday to deliver justice for the country’s Rohingya minority, saying they had also suffered at the hands of the military.

“We will not rest until we bring these military generals into justices for the war crimes, atrocities and the crimes against humanity they have committed against the great and brave people of Myanmar,” Dr Sasa said in a Facebook post.

Shelters being built in Bangladesh Rohingya camp after fire

AP

March 24, 2021

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities and volunteers from aid agencies in southern Bangladesh were rebuilding shelters on Wednesday for thousands of Rohingya refugees who lost their dwellings to a devastating fire that killed at least 15 people, including children, officials said

Thousands of refugees became homeless in Monday’s fire that raced through Balukhali camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district, home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said more than 10,000 families lost their homes. The fire also destroyed dozens of learning centers for children, clinics, markets and aid distribution centers.

Special Report: Pompeo rejected U.S. effort to declare 'genocide' in Myanmar on eve of coup, officials say

REUTERS

By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the last days of the Trump administration, some U.S. officials urged outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to formally declare that the Myanmar military’s campaign against the Rohingya minority was a genocide.

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Such a determination, a culmination of years of State Department investigation and legal analysis, would send a signal that the generals would not enjoy impunity for their persecution of the Muslim group since 2017, the officials hoped.

Pompeo never made that call. Less than two weeks after he left office on Jan. 20, Myanmar’s generals seized power in a coup.

UN body urges action over Myanmar military crackdown

Bangkok Post

PUBLISHED : 24 MAR 2021

Family members grieve over the body of teenage bystander Tun Tun Aung at a cemetery in Mandalay on Tuesday, a day after he was shot dead in front of his home by security forces during a crackdown on demonstrations against the military coup. (AFP photo)

 

The UN Human Rights Council voiced alarm Wednesday at the "disproportionate use of force" in Myanmar since last month's coup and pushed for a UN rights office in the country.

The Council's 47 members adopted a resolution reiterating the call for Myanmar's military to restore civilian rule following its Feb 1 coup and immediately release deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

UN releases US$14 million for Rohingya refugees left homeless by camp fire

CERF

Central Emergency Response Fund

News and Press Release
Source :OCHA

25 Mar 2021

(New York, 24 March 2021): UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock today released US$14 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide urgent shelter and other assistance to tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees after a devastating fire tore through the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — the world’s largest refugee camp — on 22 March.

Estimates indicate that the fire displaced more than 45,000 mostly Rohingya refugees, originally from neighbouring Myanmar, with many more affected. A hospital and other critical health, nutrition and education structures were destroyed.

UNICEF Bangladesh Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 (Rohingya Camp Fire): 23 March 2021

 

U.S. and Britain blacklist Myanmar military-controlled companies

REUTERS
Reuters Staff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on conglomerates controlled by Myanmar’s military on Thursday, following the generals’ Feb. 1 coup and deadly crackdown, with Washington calling it a response to “abhorrent violence and abuses.”

FILE PHOTO: Firecrackers explode as protestors take cover behind a barricade during a demonstration against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar March 21, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

The U.S. Treasury department said its sanctions targeted Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Ltd (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation Ltd (MEC).

Britain imposed similar sanctions on MEHL, citing the Myanmar military’s serious human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.

မီးလောင်သွားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းအတွက် ဒေါ်လာ ၁၄ သန်း ကုလကူညီ

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
25 မတ်၊ 2021

ဘာလုခါလီ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ မီးဘေးသင့်ခဲ့သူတွေအတွက် ယာယီအိမ်များဆောက်ပေးဖို့လာကြတဲ့ လုပ်အားပေးဝန်ထမ်းများ။ (မတ် ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ Cox's Bazar မှာ ရှိတဲ့ ဘာလုခါလီ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ မီးဘေးသင့်ခဲ့တဲ့သူတွေကို အကူအညီပေးရေး ကုလသမဂ္ဂက အရေးပေါ် ရန်ပုံငွေ ၁၄ သန်း သုံးစွဲခွင့်ပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။ မီးဘေးကြောင့် လူပေါင်း ၄၅,၀၀၀ လောက် အိုးအိမ်မဲ့ဖြစ်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂရဲ့ ဒီနေ့ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာ ပြောထားပါတယ်။ တနင်္လာနေ့က အကြီးအကျယ်မီးဘေးသင့်ခဲ့သူတွေထဲက တချို့ကတော့ ယာယီအိမ်တွေ ပြန်ပြီးဆောက်နေကြရပါတယ်။

ကူညီကယ်ဆယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့တွေပေးတဲ့ တာပေါ်လင်စတွေ၊ ဝါးတွေသုံးပြီး ယာယီတဲအိမ်တွေ ဆောက်နေကြရတာပါ။ မီးလောင်မှုအတွင်း ၁၅ ယောက်သေဆုံးတယ်လို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ပြောထားပါတယ်။ ၃၄၀ လောက်လည်း ပျောက်ဆုံးနေဆဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ မီးအကြီးအကျယ် လောင်ခဲ့တာ ၄ ရက်ကြာခဲ့ပေမဲ့ နေစရာမဲ့ ဖြစ်နေကြတဲ့ ဒုက္ခ သည်တော်တော်များများ ရှိပါတယ်။

New light of Myanmar ( English Newspaper ) March 2021

 DAILY ENGLISH NEWSPAPER ( NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR )

24.03.2021

 

 

စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုတုံံံ့ပြန်ရေး ကန် ဆီးနိတ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးကော်မီတီ ကြားနာ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
မြသဇင်အောင်
26 မတ်၊ 2021

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ အမေရိကန် ပြည်ထောင်စုက ဘယ်လို တုံ့ပြန်သင့်သလဲဆို တာကို ကြာသပတေးနေ့က အမေရိကန်အထက်လွှတ်တော် နိုင်ငံခြားဆက်ဆံရေး ကော်မတီမှာ ကြားနာ ပွဲ တရပ်ကျင်းပခဲ့ပါတယ်။

မြန်မာ့အရေး လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် ကန့်ကွက်သူမရှိအတည်ပြု

VOA 

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန) 
နန်းလောင်ဝ်
24 မတ်၊ 2021 

မတ်လ ၃ ရက်နေ့က မန္တလေးမြို့ရှိ လမ်းမပေါ်တွင် တွေ့ရတဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (မတ် ၃၊ ၂၀၂၁) 

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့က စစ်တပ်ကနေ မြန်မာအရပ်သားအစိုးရကိုဖြုတ်ချတဲ့အပေါ် အပြင်း အထန်ရှုတ်ချထားတဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်မူကြမ်းကို ကန့်ကွက်သူမရှိ၊ မဲမခွဲဘဲ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီကနေ တညီတည်း ဆုံးဖြတ်အတည်ပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီ အစည်း အဝေး စောင့်ကြည့်သတင်းယူနေတဲ့ မနန်းလောဝ်ပြောပြမှာပါ။

Myanmar and the Oppressive Side of the Digital Revolution

the Globalist
By Andrés Ortega, March 23, 2021

Surveillance technology devices from the West and the East have become essential tools for seeing through a coup d’état in the digital age.

A new chapter is being added to the history of political revolutions. There was a time when anyone plotting a coup against a government had to capture the main telephone exchange and the radio transmitter stations. Later it became TV towers and television studios.

But, if you think that this is a story about the enabling, democratizing power of the Internet to organize protests against an oppressive military regime, you might want to think again.

Generals weaponizing the Internet

True, the street protests were, in part, organized in this fashion. But unfortunately, the side that is using the power of the Internet to greatest effect in the deadly political cat and mouse games that are playing out in Myanmar since the February 1, 2021 coup d’état are the country’s generals.

Myanmar coup: Seven-year-old shot 'as she ran into father's arms'

B B C
24 March 2021,

Khin Myo Chit was shot on Tuesday afternoon, said her family

A seven-year-old girl has been shot dead in Myanmar, becoming the youngest known victim in the crackdown following last month's military coup.

Khin Myo Chit's family told the BBC she was killed by police while she ran towards her father, during a raid on their home in the city of Mandalay.

Myanmar's military has been increasing its use of force as protests continue.

Rights group Save the Children says more than 20 children are among dozens of people who have been killed.

In total, the military says 164 people have been killed in protests, while the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) activist group puts the death toll at at least 261.

Myanmar military and its love for power

WION

Edited By: Gravitas desk WION
Naypyitaw Published: Mar 23, 2021,

Myanmar junta Photograph:( Reuters )

For 60 years, Myanmar has been ruled by the military. Six decades marked by crackdowns and suppression of dissent, the military has been responsible for Myanmar's woes in the past.

Take the Rohingya crisis, for instance, the United Nations has described them as the world's most persecuted minority. More Than 740,000 Rohingya have fled the country since 2017. Their persecutors were the military, the same military that has now grabbed power in Myanmar.

The allegations against them are serious. The Myanmar military burned down villages, massacred thousands and raped hundreds of Rohingya women.

Rakhine's Arakan Army joins other minorities in condemning junta

Dhaka Tribune
REUTERS
March 23rd, 2021

The group condemned the current actions by the Burmese Army and police calling it 'cruel' and 'unacceptable' 

The Arakan Army (AA), a major ethnic militia in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, on Tuesday joined other ethnic groups in condemning last month’s military coup and the ensuing violent crackdown on protesters.

While several other armed groups fighting long-running wars in Myanmar's borderlands have signalled their support for pro-democracy protests, the AA, which had agreed a ceasefire with the government ousted on February 1, had not commented publicly.

Rebel militia in Myanmar’s Rakhine state joins other minorities in condemning junta

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff
APAC

MARCH 23, 2021

(Reuters) - The Arakan Army (AA), a major ethnic militia in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, on Tuesday joined other ethnic groups in condemning last month’s military coup and the ensuing violent crackdown on protesters.

While several other armed groups fighting long-running wars in Myanmar’s borderlands have signalled their support for pro-democracy protests, the AA, which had agreed a ceasefire with the government ousted on Feb. 1, had not commented publicly.

“It is a great sadness that innocent people are being shot and killed all over Myanmar,” AA spokesman Khine Thu Kha said in a message, adding that the group was “together ... with the people”.

Turkey to give voice to Rohingyas with journalism education

DAILY SABAH
BY DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL EDUCATION
MAR 23, 2021 

“The voices of our brothers and sisters will be better heard in the world,” Abdullah Eren, head of a Turkish state-run agency said. Eren’s Presidency of Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) joined forces with Anadolu Agency (AA) to deliver journalism education to the Rohingya Muslims.

Members of the displaced community who fled persecution in Myanmar will have an opportunity to join the online Media Education Program starting on March 29.

United States Targets Burmese Military Forces for Repression of Pro-Democracy Protests

U.S. Embassy in Burma
March 22, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and two entities connected to the Burmese military and its violent repression of pro-democracy protests. Treasury took these actions in response to the Burmese military’s continued campaign of violence and intimidation against peaceful protesters and civil society.

“The Burmese security forces’ lethal violence against peaceful protesters must end,” said Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control Andrea M. Gacki. “Treasury will continue to use the full range of our authorities to promote accountability for the actions of the Burmese military and police. We continue to stand with the people of Burma.”

nited States: Biden Administration Imposes Sanctions On Burma Following Military Coup

JONES DAY

24 March 2021
by Sean T. Boyce , Michael Gurdak , Lindsey Nelson , Schuyler J. Schouten and D. Grayson Yeargin, Jones Day

As part of the U.S. government response, the Department of the Treasury imposes sanctions on certain Burmese persons, and the Department of Commerce heightens export restrictions relating to Burma.

In response to the military coup in Burma (Myanmar), President Biden issued Executive Order 14041, "Blocking Property with Respect to the Situation in Burma," authorizing sanctions against, among others, foreign persons determined to be a leader or official of the military or security forces of Burma, or a leader or official of the Government of Burma on or after February 2, 2021.

We’re part of China’s BRI but India our ‘most important partner’: Bangladesh foreign advisor

THE PRINT

PIA KRISHNANKUTTY 

24 March, 2021 

'We are very willing to be a part of Indo-Pacific relationship,' Gowher Rizvi, international affairs advisor to Bangladesh PM, said at a virtual event hosted by London-based IISS.

Gowher Rizvi | Commons

New Delhi: Bangladesh has said it is “not going to choose” between India and China as it expressed desire to join the “Indo-Pacific relationship”, though it is part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

“We are part of China’s BRI but we are very willing to be a part of the Indo-Pacific relationship… we are not going to choose [between India and China],” Gowher Rizvi, international affairs advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said during a virtual seminar hosted by London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies Tuesday.