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Situation Report
Source :ISCG
3 May 2021

China's UN envoy: Myanmar violence could lead to civil war

abc News
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
4 May 2021, 


China’s U.N. ambassador is urging stronger diplomatic efforts to resolve the confrontation in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 military coup

UNITED NATIONS -- China’s U.N. ambassador on Monday urged stronger diplomatic efforts to resolve the confrontation in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 military coup, warning that further violence could lead to a chaotic situation “and even a civil war.”

Zhang Jun also warned that “any wrong handling” might lead to further tension in Myanmar.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly backed calls by Southeast Asian nations for an immediate cessation of violence and talks as a first step toward a solution following the military coup in Myanmar that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party and reversed years of slow progress toward democracy.

The council again demanded the restoration of democracy and the release of all detainees including Suu Kyi and condemned the use of violence against peaceful protesters and the deaths of hundreds of civilians.

Calling Out China

SCOOP

Keith Rankin

Tuesday, 4 May 2021,

We humans seem to have a need to coalesce into tribes, and we do this by identifying – and sometimes demonising, or holding in condescension – others who are not us. We also like to anthropomorphise, treating both animals and nations as if they were humans. Thus, 'Peter Rabbit does this'; and 'India does that'.

Of late one of our favourite activities has become 'calling out' others; we like to 'tell off' – even 'cancel' – individual people (or people stereotypes), and we like to tell off countries (or country stereotypes). In doing this we are usually 'letting off steam', and our actions tell us more about ourselves than the targets of our volleys.

Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: Don’t Ignore the Religious Dimensions

JUST SECURITY

Susan Hayward

May 3, 2021

(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series on the Feb. 1, 2021 coup in Myanmar. The series brings together expert local and international voices on the coup and its broader context. The series is a collaboration between Just Security and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School).

The 2007 democratic uprising in Myanmar looked a lot different from the current anti-coup resistance. Sparked by a rise in fuel prices that created further economic burden on an already struggling population, thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns across the country took to the streets in defiance of the military. In a country in which religious actors, institutions, practices, and ideas are deeply influential, the so-called Saffron Revolution, the most recent mass mobilization prior to the current one, had seismic consequences – contributing to the military’s decision to shift to quasi-democratic rule the following year.

Adani Ports could abandon Myanmar project if found to violate U.S. sanctions

REUTERS

Anuron MitraSudarshan Varadhan

May 4, 2021

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSE.NS) said on Tuesday it could abandon a Myanmar container terminal project and write down the investment if it is found to be in violation of sanctions imposed by the United States.

"In a scenario wherein Myanmar is classified as a sanctioned country under the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), or if OFAC opines that the project violates the current sanctions, (Adani Ports) plans to abandon the project and write down the investments," the company said in a filing to exchanges on Tuesday.

OFAC, part of the U.S. Treasury Department, administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on the country's foreign policy.

The assault on Myanmar’s press freedom

LATINA MEDIA

Online News Editor
By Eric San Juan
May 3, 2021

(Update 1: Adds byline, re-ledes, alters headline, adds information throughout)

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, May 3 (EFE).- The military coup in Myanmar has reversed a decade of progress in press freedom in the Southeast Asian nation, where at least 43 reporters are held in jail, dozens of others are working clandestinely and local outlets are struggling to stay operational.

They are hunted and in hiding but Myanmar's journalists continue to report the truth

ABC (KTEN)

By Helen Regan, Rebecca Wright and Paula Hancocks, CNN Business

Monday, May 3rd 2021, 

Journalist Ye Wint Thu was already on the run when his name and photo appeared on a wanted list broadcast by Myanmar's military junta.

For weeks, he had been documenting protests in Yangon against the military coup. But in early March, after a colleague was violently arrested in the south of the country, and the junta revoked the licenses of five prominent media organizations, his included, he got word that he should go into hiding.

"I got a call from my source saying I should run right now because they are going to arrest you tonight," said Ye Wint Thu, who is in his late 30s.

UN urges Dhaka to relocate Rohingya to island in ‘phased manner’

ARAB News

SHEHAB SUMON
April 17, 2021

Image shows a housing complex where Rohingya refugees are being relocated in the Bhashan Char island of Noakhali District. (File/AFP)

Report follows a three-day study of remote Bhasan Char by UN experts

DHAKA: The UN has followed up a review of a remote island facility set up by Bangladesh for Rohingya refugees by calling on Dhaka to carry out the relocation process in a “phased manner.”

The recommendation comes despite warnings by rights groups that the site is vulnerable to severe weather and flooding.

A UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson in Dhaka, Charlie Goodlake, told Arab News on Saturday that the UN team is recommending that any future relocations “are undertaken in a gradual and phased manner.”

ဖက္ဒရယ္တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့အစိတ္အပိုင္း ျပည္သူ႔ကာကြယ္ ေရးတပ္ကို NUG ဖြဲ႕စည္း

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
2021-05-05

အာဏာသိမ္းစစ္ေကာင္စီရဲ့ လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ေတြဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ့ အသက္အိုးအိမ္စည္းစိမ္ကို ဖ်က္ဆီး ေနတဲ့အတြက္ ဖက္ဒရယ္တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့ ေရွ႕ေျပးအျမဳေတအျဖစ္ “ျပည္သူ႔ကာကြယ္ေရးတပ္” People Defence Force ကို စတင္ဖြဲ႕စည္းလိုက္ေၾကာင္း အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ NUG က ဒီကေန႔ ေမလ ၅ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ (NUG)ရဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ ကိုယ္ စားလွယ္ ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းကို အေမရိကန္ ကြန္ဂရက္အမတ္ ဘရတ္ရွာမန္းေမးျမန္းခဏ္း

အမ်ိဳးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ (NUG)ရဲ႕ ကုလသမဂၢကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းကို အေမရိကန္ ကြန္ဂရက္အမတ္ ဘရတ္ရွာမန္းေမးျမန္းခဏ္း
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ေမး - အခုဖြဲ႕စည္းထားတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ ၂၈ေယာက္မွာ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာတစ္ေယာက္မွ မပါဘူး။
(၁) ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အမ်ိဳးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးအစိုးရမွာ ထည့္ေပးဖို႔ အစီအစဥ္ရွိလား။
(၂) ျမန္မာျပည္နဲ႔ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ေမြးတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ႏိုင္ငံသားအျဖစ္ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳပါမယ္လို႔ NUGအစိုးရက ေၾကညာမလား။ (ဘရက္အဒမ္ အမတ္)

ေျဖ - အခုလို ေျဖဆိုခြင့္ရလို႔ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္အထက္မွာ ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့အတိုင္း စစ္အစိုးရကို အဓိက တိုက္ခိုက္ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဟာ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ႕ အခြင့္အေရးေတြကို ပိုမိုကာကြယ္ေပးႏိုင္တဲ့ အေန အထားမွာ ရွိေနမွာျဖစ္တယ္။ (NUGအစိုးရ၏ ကုလသံ ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း)

ျမန္မာ့အေရး အေမရိကန္ဦးေဆာင္လႈပ္ရွားဖို႔ ျမန္မာသံအ မတ္တိုက္တြန္

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ရဲခေါင်မြင့်မောင်(ဝါရှင်တန်ဒီစီ)

2021-05-04

 အေမရိကန္ဟာ ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို ကူညီေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ေနရာကိုယူၿပီး ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား လုပ္ေဆာင္ ဖို႔ လိုတယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းက တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာေကာ္မတီမွာ မေန႔ညေနက က်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ၾကား နာ စစ္ေဆးပြဲအတြင္း သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း၊ တက္ႂကြလႈပ္ရွားသူ ေဒၚခင္ဥမၼာနဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ရဲ့ ကမၻာ လုံးဆိုင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာ သံအမတ္ မစၥ ကယ္လီကာရီတို႔က တက္ေရာက္ၿပီး ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ေကာ္ မတီဝင္ေတြရဲ့ ေမးခြန္းေတြကို ေျဖၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

စစ္ေကာင္စီကို ဒဏ္ခတ္ၿပီး ျပည္သူေတြကို စာနာမႈအ ေထာက္ အပံ့ပိုေပးဖို႔ G-7 ကို ၿဗိတိန္ တိုက္တြန္းဖြယ္ရွိ

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
05 ေမ၊ 2021

ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံ လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္မွာ အဂၤါေန႔က စတင္လိုက္တဲ့ ၂ ရက္ၾကာ (G7) စက္မႈထိပ္သီး ၇ ႏိုင္ငံ အစည္း အေ၀းအတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ အာဏာသိမ္းထားတဲ့ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္ႏြယ္ေနသူေတြနဲ႔လုပ္ငန္းေတြ ကို ဒဏ္ခတ္အေရးယူဖို႔ အိမ္ရွင္ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံက တိုက္တြန္းလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ခန္႔မွန္းေနၾကပါတယ္။

စစ္လက္နက္ ေရာင္းခ်မႈေတြ တားျမစ္ဖို႔နဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြအတြက္ စာနာမႈ အကူအညီေတြ တိုးျမႇင့္ေပးအပ္ နိုင္ေရး အတြက္လည္း ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး Dominic Raab က တိုက္တြန္းမယ့္ အလားအလာရွိေနပါတယ္။

စစ္ေကာင္စီထံ ေငြေၾကးစီးဆင္းမႈ ခ်က္ခ်င္းျဖတ္ေတာက္ဖို႔ ကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း တိုက္တြန္း

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

05 ေမ၊ 2021

ကုလသမဂၢ ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းး။ (ဓာတ္ပံု - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Myanmar - စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၃၊ ၂၀၂၀)

စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းထားတဲ႔ ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္ အေပၚမွာ အေမရိကန္ဘက္က ပစ္မွတ္ထား ဒဏ္ခတ္ အေရးယူဖို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းက အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ရာ ေကာ္မတီ ၾကားနာပြဲမွာ တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္။

“ျမ၀တီဘဏ္၊ အင္း၀ဘဏ္၊ ျမန္မာ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခား ကုန္သြယ္မႈဘဏ္ MFTB နဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့ ေရနံနဲ႔ သဘာ၀ ဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ကုမၸဏီ MOGE တို႔ကို ပစ္မွတ္ထား ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ စာရင္းမွာ အျမန္ဆံုး ထည့္သြင္းသင့္ပါတယ္။ စစ္တပ္နဲ႔ စစ္တပ္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ႔ ဘဏ္စာရင္းေတြကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ၿပီး စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး အဖြဲ႔၊ ေနာက္ ပတ္သက္ သူေတြထံ ေငြေၾကး စီးဆင္းမႈေတြကို ခ်က္ခ်င္းဘဲ ျဖတ္ေတာက္ သင့္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံျခား တိုက္ရိုက္ ရင္းႏွီး ၿမွဳပ္ႏွံ မႈေတြကိုလည္း ဆိုင္းငံ႔ထားသင့္ပါေၾကာင္း” ကုလသမဂၢ ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း က အဂၤါေန႔ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ရာ ေကာ္မတီ ၾကားနာပြဲမွာ ေျပာဆိုခဲ႔တာပါ။

Myanmar Swimmer Ditches Olympic Dream In Protest Against Military's 'murderous Regime'

R. REPUBLIC WORLD
Bhavyata Kagrana
2nd May, 2021

The swimmer, Win Htet Oo said that the military government will use him going to the game as propaganda and he doesn't want to stand against his people.

Credit: Win Htet Oo/Twitter

One of Myanmar's top swimmers, Win Htet Oo has left his Olympic dream behind because he does not want to be a part of the "propaganda" regime. According to the swimmer, his participation in the game would mean standing against his people who are currently suffering under the military government. 26-year-old Win abandoned his dream and said that he is no longer going to Tokyo, reported Frontier Myanmar.

"Military government in Myanmar 'murderous'"

He called the current government 'a murderous regime' and added that he will not accept the MOC (Myanmar Olympic Committee). In a Facebook post of April, Ko Win Htet Oo wrote that he won't "march in the [opening ceremony’s] Parade of Nations under a flag steeped in my people’s blood.”

Myanmar rebel group, Kachin Independence Army, says it shot down military helicopter

THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Reuters
May 03, 2021

The KIA's information department head, Naw Bu, said the helicopter was shot down around 10:20 a.m. at a village near the town of Moemauk in Kachin province.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar's most powerful rebel groups, said on Monday it had shot down a helicopter after returning fire following air strikes by the military, an official at the group said. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes as a result of the fighting between the military and ethnic minority insurgents in remote northern and eastern frontier regions. The conflict intensified after Myanmar's generals seized power on Feb.1, ousting the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

A Myanmar military border outpost in territory contested by the Karen National Liberation Army, near Mae Hong Son, Thailand, March 25, 2021

Eight killed as security forces open fire on protesters in Myanmar

The Guardian
Reuters
Sun 2 May 2021

Protests against military rule were some of the biggest in days after a spell of dwindling crowds

Protesters in Kyaukme, in Shan state, Myanmar. Photograph: Shwe Phee Myay news agency/AFP/Getty Images

Security forces in Myanmar have opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, killing eight people, media reported.

The protests, after a spell of dwindling crowds and what appeared to be more restraint by the security forces, were coordinated with demonstrations in Burmese communities around the world to mark what organisers called “the global Myanmar spring revolution”.

“Shake the world with the voice of Myanmar people’s unity,” the organisers said in a statement.

At least five killed as Myanmar protests aim to 'shake the world'

THE STRAITS TIMES

MAY 3, 2021 Several protesters were killed on Sunday, media reported, after Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, which organisers said would "shake the world with the voice of Myanmar people's unity."

YANGON • Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, killing at least five people, the media reported, three months after a coup plunged the country into crisis.

The protests yesterday, after a spell of dwindling crowds and what appeared to be more restraint by the security forces, were coordinated with demonstrations in Myanmar communities around the world to mark what organisers called "the global Myanmar spring revolution".

"Shake the world with the voice of Myanmar people's unity," the organisers said in a statement.

17 embassies call for Myanmar journalists’ release, press freedom

LATINA MEDIA

Online News Editor

May 3, 2021

Bangkok, May 3 (EFE).- The embassies of the United States, the European Union and 15 other countries in Myanmar demanded Monday the restitution of press freedom in the country and the immediate release of journalists arrested since the military coup in early February.

“We call for the immediate release of all media workers, the establishment of freedom of information and communication and for the end of Internet restrictions in Myanmar,” the diplomatic missions said a statement, which was also signed by the embassies of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

Myanmar Fighting, Political Strife Swell Refugee Ranks, Affect Neighboring States

Radio Free Asia
2021-04-30

Ethnic Karen protesters flash a three-finger salute of defiance and display signs calling for the abolishment of the military dictatorship during a demonstration in Dooplaya district, southeastern Myanmar's Kayin state, April 22, 2021.

AFP/KNU Dooplaya district

More than 30,000 Myanmar civilians have fled their villages in the eastern state of Kayin and are hiding in nearby jungles following air strikes in populated areas in response to the seizure of a government military post by a rebel ethnic army, an official from an NGO said Friday.

Fighting that flared up in March in Kayin has driven thousands of ethnic Karen into Thailand, while others cluster near the border. To Myanmar’s west, Bangladesh has beefed up border patrols to stop an influx of Rohingya trying to join fellow members of their ethnic minority in refugee settlements.

Myanmar: ‘The Coup Has Robbed Us of Our Rights’

IWPR
Paul
Saturday, 1 May, 2021

Anyone associated with the protests risks arrest, and no one knows where they are taken.

I am a freelance journalist and analyst in Yangon, and I live at home with my mother and father.

Yangon is my hometown but now the atmosphere here is like a ghost city. On the streets we face a lot of danger from the military. We can go out during the day, taking care, but nobody wants to go out in the evening.

We have a lot of stress because every day we hear news about many people dying. The military and the police have cracked down brutally on anyone against the coup, and everyone is angry about the situation. We feel the coup has robbed us of our rights.