The Irrawaddy
September 28, 2023
Fifteen SAC members, including three generals, have been removed over the past two years.
Min Aung Hlaing formed the 11-member SAC on February 2, 2021, a day after the coup.
The Irrawaddy
September 28, 2023
THE Star
By ALLISON LAI
Friday, 19 Mar 2021
The regime fired the ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, who called for international help in restoring demo
cracy and gave the three-finger salute of the protest movement.
An image released by the United Nations shows U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the U.N., pleading for international action in overturning the military coup in the country.Credit...United Nations Tv, via Reuters
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s
month-old military regime fired the country’s ambassador to the United
Nations on Saturday, a day after he gave an impassioned speech to the
U.N. General Assembly in New York, pleading for international help in
restoring democracy to his homeland.
The ambassador, U Kyaw Moe
Tun, ended his speech with a three-finger salute, a gesture from the
“Hunger Games” films that has become a symbol of pro-democratic defiance
for protesters in Myanmar and, before that, in neighboring Thailand.
REUTERS
Monday, 1 February 2021
DHAKA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees condemned the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Myanmar by the military on Monday, a community leader said in Bangladesh, where a number of them live after fleeing violence in the neighbouring country.
"We Rohingya community strongly condemn this heinous attempt to kill
democracy," Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed told Reuters by phone. "We urge
the global community to come forward and restore democracy at any
cost." (Reporting by Ruma Paul; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military said on Saturday it would protect and abide by the constitution and act according to law, a move that could allay concerns that the armed forces might attempt to seize power.
Supreme Court postpones decision on military-linked party's claim of electoral fraud
Myanmar is just a decade out of nearly 50 years of military rule. (AFP Photo)