Situation Report
Source: BRAC
28 Mar 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Global condemnation of Myanmar military's 'reign of terror' after deadliest day since coup
FRANCH 24
Text by:NEWS WIRES28/03/2021
Defence chiefs from a dozen countries on Sunday jointly condemned the bloodbath in Myanmar a day earlier, when at least 107 people -- including seven children -- were killed as security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, triggering mass protests demanding a return to democracy.
The junta on Saturday staged a major show of might for its annual Armed Forces Day as the death toll from crackdowns since the coup climbed to at least 423, according to a local monitoring group.
Disgraceful generals are turning Myanmar into a pariah state
TELEGRAPH VIEW
29 March 2021
The sight of senior military officers in Myanmar celebrating the country’s Armed Forces Day at the weekend with a lavish party after troops had earlier shot dead more than 100 protesters was sickening. As the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said, it represented a new low in the country’s recent lurch back to despotism after a brief flirtation with democracy. Children were among those gunned down and the security forces even intervened in funerals to arrest those who had taken part in the demonstrations.
It is only six years since the first democratic elections in Myanmar seemed to presage its admission into the comity of nations after decades of military rule. They marked a personal triumph for Aung San Suu Kyi, for years held under house arrest before international pressure secured her release. Suu Kyi, while spurning formal office, was the power behind the new government and consequently blotted her reputation as a human rights champion when she failed to stand up for the persecuted Muslim Rohingyas.
Burning plastic, Dust, and Ash: The Rohingya Refugee Camp Fire
MEDAIR
Lucy Bamforth29 March 2021
On the afternoon of Monday, 22 March 2021, a massive fire tore through Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Flames ate through the plastic sheeting and bamboo-pole structures in seconds, filling the sky with plumes of black smoke. The fire spread rapidly. People grabbed what they could and ran, carrying elderly relatives, children, or the few possessions they had in their arms. Families were separated in the rush to outrun the flames; days later, children are still searching for parents, and spouses are trying to find their significant other.
Rohingya refugees to speak on their aspirations
Dhaka Tribune
Atikur RahmanMarch 28th, 2021
File photo of Rohingya refugees getting briefed about their stay at Bhashan Char after relocating there from the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, on Friday, December 4, 2020 Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan/Dhaka Tribune
The webinar will take place at 3pm on the Brac University Centre for Peace and Justice Facebook page
The Brac University Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ) is set to organize a webinar featuring speeches from five of CPJ's Rohingya research volunteers on Monday, March 29, 2021.
The webinar will focus on the strengths and aspirations of Rohingya refugees, who were forced to flee their homes due to violent persecution. The discussion will also feature refugees speaking on their thoughts for the foreseeable future, and includes direct information from Rohingya camp residents working closely on relief efforts.
Suu Kyi ally wants equal rights for persecuted Rohingya Muslims
THESTRAITSTIMES
MAR 29, 2021,
A Rohingya refugee family rests in a temporary shelter in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on March 25, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps in Bangladesh should be reintegrated into Myanmar society and afforded "full rights" including citizenship, according to a key ally of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Speaking in an interview last week, Dr Sasa, who uses just one name and describes himself as the envoy representing Myanmar's Parliament to the United Nations, said it was time for the country's 55 million people to set aside their differences and face down a military that seized power last month.
Troops Fire at Funeral as Myanmar Mourns Bloodiest Day Since Coup
U.S.News
By Reuters, Wire Service Content
March 27, 2021
Men run during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar March 28, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer REUTERS
(REUTERS) -MYANMAR security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since last month's military coup.
Mourners fled the shooting at a service for 20-year-old student Thae Maung Maung in Bago near the commercial capital Yangon and there were no immediate reports of casualties, three people in the town told Reuters.
UN rights chief, genocide aide warn Myanmar on killings
AA
Peter KennyGENEVA
28.03.2021
Top UN officials call killing of 141 by military in bloodiest day of Myanmar anti-coup protests 'shameful, cowardly, brutal'
28.03.2021
The UN human rights chief and the UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide on Sunday issued a clear warning of a heightened risk of atrocity crimes in Myanmar, following another day of widespread bloodshed by the Myanmar military.
Michelle Bachelet, the high commissioner for human rights, and Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, issued a joint statement as the death toll in Myanmar's bloodiest day on Saturday rose to 141, including at least seven children.
"The shameful, cowardly, brutal actions of the military and police – who have been filmed shooting at protesters as they flee, and who have not even spared young children – must be halted immediately," said Bachelet and Nderitu.
U.S. and Britain blacklist Myanmar military-controlled companies
Brinkwire
JONATHAN EDWARDS MARCH 29, 2021
WASHINGTON, March 25 – 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.”
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.
U.S. 'horrified' by Myanmar violence, Blinken says after bloodiest day since military coup
nbc News
By Yuliya Talmazan March 28, 2021,
The courageous people of Burma reject the military’s reign of terror,” Blinken said after the worst day of violence in Myanmar since last month's coup..
The United States is “horrified” by the bloodshed in Myanmar, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday, after the country’s bloodiest day of protests since last month’s military coup.
The violent crackdown on demonstrators by Myanmar’s security forces showed that the junta will “sacrifice the lives of the people to serve the few,” Blinken said in a tweet.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Centre assures SC that Rohingya Muslims will not be deported
The Telegraph
Our Legal Correspondent 27.03.21
Solicitor-general Mehta, however, said that all illegal migrants in the country could not be granted refugee status and India could not become the world capital for refugees
The Centre on Friday assured the Supreme Court that Rohingya Muslims would not be deported unless the Myanmar government identifies and agrees to take them back.
The assurance was given to a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde by solicitor-general Tushar Mehta during the course of a hearing. The court was dealing with the plea of Mohd Samiullah, a Rohingya Muslim, seeking a stay on the deportation of Rohingya refugees from Jammu and Kashmir.
'As I look at Myanmar today, I weep'
THE TABLET
Benedict Rogers
28 MARCH 2021,
Benedict Rogers
28 MARCH 2021,
Yesterday, the Myanmar military attacked protesters with rubber bullets, live ammunition, tear gas and sound bombs.Theint Mon Soe/Sopa
Eight years ago today, on Palm Sunday 2013, I was received into the Catholic Church in St Mary’s Cathedral, Yangon, Myanmar, by the city’s Archbishop – who two years later became his country’s first Cardinal – Charles Bo.
At the time, it was a scene of serenity. Surrounded by friends from Myanmar’s different ethnic and religious groups – Buddhists, Muslims, Protestants as well as Catholics – as well as several foreign friends of no particular practicing religion, including a couple of lapsed Catholics who had not set foot in a church for decades, I felt a deep peace as Cardinal Bo poured the waters of baptism over my head and the cathedral bells rang out in welcome at my spiritual homecoming.
Dozens Are Gunned Down in ‘Day of Shame’ for Myanmar
New York Times
By Richard C. Paddock
March 28, 2021
By Richard C. Paddock
March 28, 2021
A rights group said it had documented 90 killings by the security forces on Saturday. It appeared to be the bloodiest day since protests against the military coup began.
Children and bystanders were among the dozens shot and killed in Myanmar on Saturday as the security forces cracked down on protests against the February military coup. On the same day, a parade honored the army.CreditCredit...The New York Times
On the eve of a major military celebration, Myanmar’s army warned people not to come out to protest or they could be shot “in the back,” or in the head.
But turn out they did on Saturday, and they were met with brutal force. At least dozens were killed, and perhaps more than 100, in what appeared to be the worst day of violence in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 military coup.
Many of the victims were bystanders. Among those shot and killed were a 5-year-old boy, two 13-year-old boys and a 14-year-old girl. A baby girl in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, was struck in the eye with a rubber bullet. Her parents said she was expected to live.
Myanmar: Airstrikes force villagers into jungle as 3,000 flee to Thailand
Sky News
David MercerNews reporter @DavidMercerSky
Monday 29 March 2021
Man injured after Myanmar rickshaw grenade blast
Airstrikes that sent villagers fleeing into the jungle show the situation in Myanmar is "much worse", a humanitarian worker has told Sky News, as military leaders reportedly partied on the deadliest day of violence since last month's coup.
More gunfire has been reported today as people gathered for the funeral of one of at least 114 people said to have been killed by Myanmar security forces yesterday, including a five-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.
Myanmar security forces kill over 100 protesters in 'horrifying' day of bloodshed
REUTERS
Reuters Staff
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
MARCH 27, 2021
Reuters Staff
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
MARCH 27, 2021
(Reuters) -Myanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup, news reports and witnesses said.
The killings, which took place on Armed Forces Day, drew strong renewed criticism from Western countries. British Ambassador Dan Chugg said the security forces had “disgraced themselves” and the U.S. envoy called the violence horrifying.
Military jets also launched air strikes on a village in territory controlled by an armed group from the Karen ethnic minority and at least two people were killed, a civil society group said.
Myanmar: UN chief condemns killing of civilians during brutal crackdown on protestors
UN News
27 March 2021
Peace and Security
27 March 2021
Peace and Security
Unsplash/Zinko Hein.Young man lights a candle during a night vigil in Yangon, Myanmar.
The UN chief condemned in the strongest terms, the killing of dozens of civilians, including children and young people, by security forces in Myanmar on Saturday.
In a statement issued by Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “the continuing military crackdown…is unacceptable and demands a firm, unified and resolute international response”.
As Myanmar’s military celebrated Armed Forces Day with a parade in the country’s capital, Naypyitaw, soldiers and police suppressed protesters during what has resulted in the highest daily death toll since demonstrations began last month.
“The military celebrated Armed Forces Day by committing mass murder against the people it should be defending”, tweeted Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
He added that the Civil Disobedience Movement is responding with “powerful weapons of peace” and called for the world “to respond in kind with and for the people of Myanmar”.
Over 100 protestors shot dead by Myanmar armed forces on ‘day of shame’, UN ‘horrified’
NORTHEAST NOW
NE NOW NEWSMarch 27, 2021
Deaths have been reported from 40 cities in Myanmar.
This bloodshed by the Myanmar armed forces comes on the Country’s Armed Forces Day.
Deaths have been reported from 40 cities in Myanmar.
Myanmar’s military resorted to “shoot to kill” protestors on Saturday as thousands of anti-coup protestors took to the Country’s streets.
Rohingya: Dhaka asks Delhi to play strong role in UNSC
Dhaka Tribune
UNBMarch 28th, 2021
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina receiving her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at her office ahead of the Bangladesh-India bilateral talks on Saturday, March 27, 2021 PID
Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a repatriation deal on November 23, 2017
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested that India, as a member of the United Nations Security Council, play a “strong role” in the early repatriation of the displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar.
Prime Minister Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi recently reiterated the importance of the safe, speedy, and sustainable return of Rohingyas to their homeland for the greater security of the region.
SC reserves verdict on plea for immediate release of Rohingya refugees in Jammu
KASMIR IMAGES
March 27, 2021
March 27, 2021
Country can't be capital for illegal immigrants, Centre tells court
New Delhi: The country cannot be the “capital” for illegal immigrants, the Centre told the Supreme Court which on Friday reserved order on a fresh plea seeking directions for immediate release of detained Rohingya refugees in Jammu and restrain the government from implementing any order deporting them to Myanmar.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde refused to hear at this stage the intervention application filed by United Nations special rapporteur in the matter.
“We will not hear you today. There is serious objection to it,” the bench told the counsel appearing for the UN special rapporteur.
“We are closing it for order,” said the bench, which also comprised Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, after hearing submissions on the fresh plea.
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