Mainstream, VOL 60 No 37 September 3, 2022
Myanmar, is a country of 54 million people and acts as a link between South and Southeast Asia. At the time of independence from Britain in 1948 a democratic government was in place. In 1962 a military coup brought rule of a military junta that lasted for decades. The military-junta rule faced opposition from pro-democracy activists which included Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD). The 8888 Uprising and 2007 Saffron Revolution forced the military junta to adopt the 2008 Constitution through a referendum. Eventually, the military junta allowed an election in 2010 and also released Aung San Suu Kyi who had been kept under house arrest intermittently. The democratisation process also intensified the issue of the Rohingya ethnic community in the Rakhine State. The Rohingyas were not included in 135 ethnic groups recognized by the 1982 Citizenship Law and thus denied citizenship. Rohingya issue took a central place with the rise of extremist monks, Ashin Wirathu, and Bamar Buddhist extremist groups like the 969 Movement and Ma Ba Tha. Amidst this, the Aung San Suu Kyi-led NLD party won an overwhelming majority in the 2015 election in Myanmar. Being in a position of power, Suu Kyi failed to acknowledge the plight of Rohingya who fled the country as a result of military violence and ethnic cleansing in 2017 in the northern Rakhine State. She not only refused to recognize the term Rohingya but defended the Myanmar military junta in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the case of Rohingya Genocide filed by the Republic of the Gambia. After winning the second election with a majority in 2020, the military junta carried out a coup in February 2021 against the Aung Sann Suu Kyi-led NLD government. Currently, Aung San Suu Kyi is jailed on the charges of election fraud and corruption. The citizens protested against the coup by the military, to which it retaliated with brute force. The deposed elected government responded by forming a Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw which created a government in exile known as National Unity Government (NUG). NUG also has an armed wing People’s Defense Forces to fight the military forces. Further, an all-inclusive platform known as, National Unity Consultative Council has been formed which includes the government in exile, civil society, activists and ethnic political parties of Myanmar to fight for restoring democracy in Myanmar.
ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင်း မီးလောင်နေတဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း (ဓာတ်ပုံ - U Aye Lwin - ဇန်နဝါရီ ၁၄၊ ၂၀၂၁)
ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကော့ဆက်ဘဇားတွင် ၂ဝ၂၂ ခုနှစ် သြဂုတ်လ ၂၅ ရက်နေ့က နေရပ်ပြန်ခွင့်ရရေးအတွက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ တောင်းဆိုဆန္ဒပြနေစဉ်။ Photo: AFP 
ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း ဝါးခယ်မမြို့နယ် တရားရုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလအတွင်းက တွေ့ရစဉ် Photo: RFA .png)
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ သံတွဲခရိုင် ငပလီမြို့ ဂေါ့ကမ်းခြေအနီးမှာ ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ အယောက် ၅ဝ ခန့်အား ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရစဉ်
ပဲခူးတိုင်းအနောက်ခြမ်း လက်ပံတန်းမြို့ကို Google Earth မှတွေ့ရစဉ် Photo: Google Earth 
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