Protesters against military rule in Myanmar march through Manchester city centre

Manchester Evening

Ashlie Blakey

News reporter

1 MAY 2021

Banners read 'reject military coup, save Myanmar'

Protesters marching through Manchester city centre (Image: Manchester Evening News)

Protesters against military rule in Myanmar marched through Manchester city centre this afternoon.

Hundreds of demonstrators joined the peaceful protest which started in Piccadilly Gardens at lunchtime on Saturday (May 1).

UN warns of ‘standstill’ in Myanmar

TAIPEI TIMES

Sun, May 02, 2021

NOT BACKING DOWN: People took to the streets again, despite 759 protesters having been killed so far, while several small blasts were reported in places, including Yangon, Reuters

Protesters against military rule yesterday marched in Myanmar, three months after a coup ended a democratic transition, with several small blasts compounding a sense of crisis that a UN envoy warned could bring state administration to a halt.

The military has tried to end dissent and impose its authority on a people largely opposed to the return of rule by the generals after 10 years of democratic reforms that included a government led by deposed Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi.

အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေနမွာ သုံးစြဲနိုင္တဲ့ ESS နဲ႔ ျမန္မာ

2021-05-02

ကမၻာမွာ အၾကပ္အတည္းဆိုက္ေနရတဲ့ နိုင္ငံေတြအတြက္ “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ အျပစ္မဲ့ျပည္သူေတြကို အကာအကြယ္ေပးေရးအစီအစဥ္ ရွိသလို၊ ESS ေခၚ အထူးအေရးေပၚ အေျခအေန အတြက္ သုံးစြဲနိုင္တဲ့ အခြင့္အလမ္းတရပ္လည္း ရွိေန ပါတယ္။

ဒီအေၾကာင္း RFA ဝိုင္းေတာ္သား ဦးသစ္ဆင္းက စုစည္းတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

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Myanmar protesters march three months after coup; U.N. warns of ‘standstill’

KFGO

Thomson Reuters
May 1, 2021 

(Reuters) – Protesters against military rule marched in Myanmar on Saturday three months after a coup ended a democratic transition, with several small blasts compounding a sense of crisis that a U.N. envoy warned could bring state administration to a halt.

The military has tried to end dissent and impose its authority on a people largely opposed to the return of rule by the generals after 10 years of democratic reforms that included a government led by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi.

UN fails to agree on Myanmar statement, diplomats blame China, Russia

FRANCE 24
01/05/2021

UN Special Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener had a long meeting with Myanmar junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting STR AFP/File

United Nations (United States) (AFP)

The UN Security Council failed to agree Friday on a joint statement on the crisis in Myanmar after a closed-door meeting, with diplomats blaming Beijing -- the junta's main backer -- and Russia for raising objections and putting forward their own competing text.

The session was convened by Vietnam to present the conclusions of a recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Indonesia. ASEAN is to appoint an envoy to help resolve the crisis sparked by the February 1 coup by the Myanmar military.

During the meeting, the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, who is currently touring the region, gave a report on her long meeting with Myanmar junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing, held on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting.

UN calls for return to democracy in Myanmar, end to violence

AP

EDITH M. LEDERER

May 1'2021

Anti-coup protesters run after seeing police and soldiers arrive to disperse their demonstration in Y

angon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Demonstrations have continued in many parts of the country since Saturday's meeting of leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as have arrests and beatings by security forces despite an apparent agreement by junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to end the violence. (AP Photo)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Friday again demanded the restoration of democracy in Myanmar and the release of all detainees including Aung San Suu Kyi and strongly backed calls by Southeast Asian nations for an immediate cessation of violence and talks as a first step toward a solution following the Feb. 1 military coup.

The council’s press statement followed a briefing by the top U.N. envoy that the strong, united demand for democracy by the people of Myanmar who have been protesting since the coup has created “unexpected difficulties” for military leaders in consolidating power and risks bringing the administration of the nation to a standstill.

Myanmar ethnic divisions soften after coup

Bangkok Post

WRITER: BY HANNAH BEECH, NEW YORK TIMES
PUBLISHED : 1 MAY 2021 

University students take part in a march against the military coup in Yangon on April 11. (New York Times Photo)

The Myanmar military’s disinformation was crude but effective.

Army propagandists claimed an ethnic group called the Rohingya was burning down its own villages and wanted to swamp Buddhist-majority Myanmar with Islamic hordes. The Rohingya were spinning tall tales, the military said in 2017, about soldiers committing mass rape and murder.

The truth — that troops were waging genocidal operations against Myanmar’s ethnic minorities — was perhaps too shocking for some members of the country’s Bamar ethnic majority to contemplate.

Myanmar approaching point of economic collapse: UN report

UN News

30 April 2020

Peace and Security

The turmoil following the military coup in Myanmar, coupled with the impact of COVID-19 could result in up to 25 million people – nearly half of the country’s population, living in poverty by early next year, a United Nations report said on Friday.

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That level of impoverishment has not been seen in the country since 2005, and the economy is facing significant risks of a collapse, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in its report, COVID-19, Coup d’état and Poverty: Compounding Negative Shocks and their Impact on Human Development in Myanmar.

Inside the underground network smuggling ‘celebrities’ out of Myanmar

The Sydeny Morning Herald
By Chris Barrett
May 1, 2021 —

Singapore: It’s post-coup Myanmar’s version of the Underground Railroad, the network of people and routes that in the 19th century helped some African-Americans escape from slavery.

An ad hoc, multi-faceted support system stretching from the cities to the mountains and jungle of Myanmar’s borderlands that has assisted prominent and high-value “targets” of the south-east Asian nation’s military regime flee a reign of terror that has claimed more than 750 lives.

A police officer who fled Myanmar following the military coup is photographed by the AP at undisclosed location bordering Myanmar in March.CREDIT:AP

That is how it is described by David Eubank, a former US Special Forces soldier and an ordained minister who has run the humanitarian group Free Burma Rangers in Myanmar’s conflict regions for 25 years.

မွတ္ပုံတင္ ၄ သန္းနီးပါး ထုတ္ေပးမယ္လို႔ စစ္ေကာင္စီ ေၾကညာ

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ဘီဘီစီၿမန္မာပိုင္း

02.05.2021

မွတ္ပုံတင္ဟာ မရွိမျဖစ္နီးပါးအေရးပါတဲ့ ေနရာမွာရွိေပမဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒ မူေဘာင္ေတြအရေတာ့ မဲေပးခြင့္အတြက္ မွတ္ပုံတင္ျပစရာမလိုဘဲ မဲစာရင္းမွာပါဖို႔က အဓိက ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

နိုင္ငံတဝန္း မွတ္ပုံတင္ ၃ ဒသမ ၈ သန္းေက်ာ္ ထုတ္ေပးမယ့္ ပန္းခင္းစီမံခ်က္ ကို ေမလ ၃ ရက္မွာ စတင္မယ္လို႔ အလုပ္သမား၊လူဝင္မႈႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးနဲ႔ ျပည္သူ႔အင္အားဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ထုတ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။

တစ္ႏွစ္ခြဲ ၾကာမယ့္ ဒီစီမံခ်က္ဟာ ၂၀၂၂ နိုဝင္ဘာ ၃ ရက္အထိ ၾကာျမင့္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီစီမံခ်က္ဟာ စစ္ေကာင္စီကက်င္းပေပးမယ္ေျပာထားတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ ရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္။

၂၀၂၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ မွတ္ပုံတင္ မရွိဘဲ မဲေပးသူ ၄ ဒသမ ၆ သန္း ရွိတယ္လို႔စိစစ္ေတြ႕ရွိရၿပီး လာမယ့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ မွတ္ပုံတင္ေတြလုပ္ေပးဖို႔ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္လွိုင္ က စစ္ေကာင္စီအစည္းအေဝးမွာ ေျပာၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ဒီစီမံခ်က္ ျဖစ္လာတာပါ။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ၂၀၂၂ နိုဝင္ဘာ ၃ ရက္ မတိုင္ခင္ ျဖစ္လာဖြယ္မရွိဘူးလို႔ ယူဆနိုင္စရာရွိပါတယ္။

Myanmar airstrikes target ethnic forces on 2 fronts: reports

NEW YORK POST

Associated Press
April 29, 2021

In this image made from video by the Transborder News, smoke rises from a Myanmar Army camp near the border of Myanmar and Thailand Tuesday, April 27, 2021.Transborder News via AP

BANGKOK — Myanmar government forces launched airstrikes against ethnic minority guerrillas in two areas of the country on Wednesday, local reports said.

Fighting has been raging daily in northern Myanmar in territory controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization, representing the Kachin minority, and in the east by the Karen National Union, representing the Karen.

Rockets fired at two Myanmar air bases, says military

Bangkok Post

WRITER: REUTERS
29 APR 2021

Unidentified attackers fired rockets at two Myanmar air bases on Thursday but there were no casualties and only minor damage in another sign of deteriorating security since the military overthrew an elected government three months ago.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, which the military confirmed at a news briefing.


While the armed forces have been battling insurgents in remote frontier regions for decades, attacks on such high-profile military facilities in central areas have been rare.

Glaring glimpse into Myanmar military’s self-delusion

ASIA TIMES

By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON
APRIL 29, 2021

Junta report presented to ASEAN on Myanmar's political situation revealed a tortured relationship with the bloody truth

Myanmar's commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife Kyu Kyu Hla leaves after visiting a Muslim Free Hospital and Medical Relief Society in Yangon, September 17, 2019. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP

Myanmar’s junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrived at the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta with justifications for his February 1 coup compiled in a neat document entitled “The Current Political Situation in Myanmar.”

Written in a first-person account redolent of a court case defense summation, the 118-page paper outlines the alleged fraud and corruption at last November’s elections that motivated the coup and subsequent responses by the military, or Tatmadaw.

EU ready to help restore democracy to Myanmar - high representative

Reuters
April 30, 2021

People hold placards as they attend a protest against Myanmar's military coup in Launglon, Myanmar April 23, 2021 in this picture obtained by Reuters. DAWEI WATCH via REUTERS

The European Union is ready to offer its support to all parties to help restore democracy in Myanmar, the bloc's high representative told ASEAN states on Friday.

Southeast Asian leaders said after an emergency ASEAN summit last week that they had reached consensus with Myanmar's junta on ending violence there. read more

Double crises of coup and Covid could push half of Myanmar's population into poverty, UN warns

CNN
By Helen Regan, 

April 30, 2021

Myanmar's control of Covid-19 collapses after coup 03:24

(CNN)Almost half of Myanmar's population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup and the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report.

Rising food costs, significant losses of income and wages, the crumbling of basic services such as banking and health care, and an inadequate social safety net is likely to push millions of already vulnerable people below the poverty line of $1.10 a day -- with women and children among the hardest hit.

Bangladesh: Age and Disability Inclusion Needs Assessment - Rohingya Refugee Response (April 2021)

Assessment
Source :REACH
30 Apr 2021

Bangladesh, Indonesia for early signing of PTA

UNB NEWS

DHAKA
PUBLISH- APRIL 29, 2021,

Bangladesh and Indonesia on Thursday stressed early signing of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) within the ambit of which potential export items from both countries would be allowed to enter duty free.

The two countries agreed to complete the signing of pending MoUs and agreements on a fast-track basis, pursue sector specific agenda and do the needful to expand the volume of bilateral trade and investment.

30 years on, Myanmar crisis puts Asian-style democracy to test

NIKKEI ASIA

TORU TAKAHASHI, Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Headquarters for Asia
April 30, 2021 

Big ASEAN players modify noninterference policy as times change at home

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, center, and ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi, right, make their way to the ASEAN leaders meeting in the secretariat building in Jakarta on April 24. © Reuters

BANGKOK -- The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Jakarta on April 24 to grapple with the aftermath of the coup in Myanmar. After the meeting, Brunei issued a chairman's statement, saying the leaders had reached "consensus" on such matters as an immediate cessation of violence in Myanmar, the sending of the ASEAN chairman's special envoy and the start of constructive dialogue among all parties concerned to seek a peaceful solution in the interests of the people.

The leaders meeting was extraordinary in every way.

အာဆီယံသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ NUG နဲ႔ ထိစပ္အ ေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ဖို႔ SAC-M တိုက္တြန္း

VOA
ဗီြအိုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
30 ဧၿပီ၊ 2021

ျမန္မာ့အေရး အာဆီယယံအစည္းအေဝးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေျပာဆိုေနသည့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားသမၼတ Joko Widodo ။ ဧၿပီ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၁။

ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ (ASEAN) ရဲ႕ အခ်က္ငါးခ်က္ပါ သေဘာတူညီ ခ်က္အေပၚ အာဆီယံနဲ႔ ႏုိင္္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ ၾကားကာလ အမ်ဳိးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ (NUG) နဲ႔ ထိစပ္ၿပီး ခုိင္မာတဲ့လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈနဲ႔ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရမယ္လုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအၾကံေပးေကာင္စီ (SAC-M) ရဲ႕ ဒီကေန႔ရက္စြဲနဲ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္မွာ ေျပာထားပါတယ္။

After Deadly Clashes, Myanmar Junta Frees Detained Anti-Regime Protesters

THE IRRAWADDY
28 April 2021

The arrest of the seven sparked clashes between regime troops and resistance fighters in Chin State’s Mindat, where at least 20 Tatmadaw soldiers have been killed.

The Myanmar military regime on Tuesday night released seven anti-regime protesters who were arrested in Chin State’s Mindat on Saturday.

Their arrests provoked daily clashes between civilian resistance fighters and junta forces in the town, in which at least 20 junta troops had been killed as of Tuesday.

“The detainees were released at around 10 p.m. yesterday. There was more shooting last night on the outskirts of the town. No clashes took place this morning,” a member of Mindat’s civilian defense force said on Wednesday.