THE WEEK
February 06, 2021
The has sent shock waves across the country
In a first contact between the UN and Myanmar Army since generals seized power in a bloodless coup, the Secretary General's special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener on Myanmar spoke with the country's deputy military chief and expressed strong condemnation of its action and called for the immediate release of all detained leaders.
"Our special envoy today had a first contact in which she expressed clearly our position to the deputy military commander," Guterres told AFP.
The 15-nation Security Council, the most powerful organ of the UN, issued a press statement Thursday on the situation in Myanmar three days after the military seized power in the Southeast Asian nation.
"We will do everything we can to make the international community united in making sure that conditions are created for this coup to be reversed," Burgener said.
As the Security Council deliberated a statement on the situation in Myanmar, India played the role of an important bridge among various views and engaged very constructively to ensure a balanced outcome that strongly underlined the importance of the democratic process and transition while not being condemnatory, sources have said.
The coup, which took place on Monday has sent shock waves across the country and intensified fear of renewed violence among ethnic minorities. The military crackdown in 2017 against the Rohingya Muslims caused thousands from the community to flee Myanmar, most of them to the neighbouring nation of Bangladesh. More than 100,000 ethnic Kachin and Shan have fled conflict in Myanmar’s north in 2011. Since December 2020, around 4,000 people fro the Karen community fled to escape the conflict between Karen National Union, an organisation that supports the Karen community and the military.
Military authorities, after the coup, on Monday, broadened a ban on social media and shut Twitter and Instagram. The military also ordered operators and internet service providers to cut access to Facebook. The military has said that Aung San Suu Kyi's party won the November elections through fraud. The election commission has said there is no evidence to support these claims. Suu Kyi is currently under house arrest. — with PTI inputs
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