Thursday, March 18, 2021
Myanmar Coup Is Xi Jinping’s Preliminary Skirmish:Detaining 75-Year-Old Aung San Suu Kyi Is a Human Rights Issue
Sunday, March 14, 2021
U.S. trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, detainees after civilian officials die in Myanmar military custody
FRI, MAR 12 2021
- The U.S. is still trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted from power as Myanmar’s de facto head of government in a Feb. 1 coup.
- Two members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy have died after Myanmar security forces detained them.
- “We’re working through appropriate channels to make contact with those detained,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
- The U.S. and China have a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18 to discuss a wide range of topics. Myanmar may be on the docket.
Saturday, March 6, 2021
The Myanmar 2021 Coup And Aung San Suu Kyi – OpEd
March 5, 2021
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo by Claude TRUONG-NGOC, Wikipedia Commons.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Aung San Suu Kyi Fast Facts
March 3, 2021
Birth date: June 19, 1945
Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar)
Birth name: Aung San Suu Kyi
Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army who helped negotiate Burma’s independence from Britain. He was assassinated on July 19, 1947.
Mother: Ma Khin Kyi, a diplomat and later an ambassador to India.
Marriage: Michael Aris (January 1, 1972-March 27, 1999, his death)
Children: Kim (Burmese name: Htein Lin), 1977; Alexander (Burmese name: Myint San Aung), 1973
Education: St. Hughes College, Oxford University, B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics, 1967
Thursday, March 4, 2021
A fight is brewing over Myanmar's seat at the United Nations
Richard Roth and Caitlin Hu, CNN
Monday, March 1, 2021
Down but not out
NEWSPAPER SECTION: NEWS
WRITER: ANUCHA CHAROENPO
PUBLISHED : 1 MAR 2021
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Bleak future ahead for Suu Kyi and Myanmar
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
February 19, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Trial for Aung San Suu Kyi Begins in Secret
The New York Times
Hannah BeechFeb. 16, 2021
Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader appeared in court via video conference without her lawyer’s
knowledge. She faces an additional charge that had not been previously made public.
Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday called for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted civilian leader. In Naypidaw, the capital, her trial began in secret.Credit...The New York Times
The trial of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader who was ousted in a military coup two weeks ago, and U Win Myint, the deposed president, began on Tuesday. They face obscure charges that could land them in prison for six years and three years respectively.
Thursday, February 4, 2021
US has been unable to contact Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar coup aftermath, it says
Robert Delaney
3 Feb, 2021
- State Department is working with Japan, India and ‘other countries [that] have better contact with Burmese military than we do’
- US humanitarian assistance for Rohingya Muslims, many of whom have fled Myanmar to escape violence, will continue
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control
02 February 2021
Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders.
Troops are patrolling the streets and a night-time curfew is in force, with a one-year state of emergency declared.
US President Joe Biden raised the threat of new sanctions, with the UN and UK also condemning the coup.
The army alleges the recent landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi's party was marred by fraud. She urged supporters to "protest against the coup".
Schumer said administration has briefed Congress on Burmese coup
Speaking from the Senate floor, Schumer said Congress stands ready to work with the administration on efforts to support restoring democracy in the Southeast Asian country, also referred to as Burma.
“We are monitoring this situation with great concern, and the Biden administration is already providing briefings to the Hill on the state of affairs,” he said. “Congress stands ready to work collaboratively with the administration to resolve the situation.”
The Significance Of Aung San Suu Kyi's Detainment By Myanmar Military
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, about Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and her detainment by the Myanmar military.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:Monday, February 1, 2021
Myanmar coup: Army takes control after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other key government figures
Aljazeera
1st Feburary2021
Myanmar’s military has seized power and declared a state of emergency for one year following days of escalating tension over the result of November’s parliamentary elections.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, President Win Myint and other senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party have been detained in the capital, Naypyidaw, on Monday.
Al Jazeera interviews Tun Khin, President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK.
Link : Here
Friday, January 1, 2021
Amid Fragile Ceasefire, Frustration Over Missed Election in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
After a violent 2020 in Myanmar’s westernmost state, Rakhine residents were largely left out of voting in Nov. 8 general elections, with only a quarter of the state’s registered voters able to go to polls after authorities scrapped the election, citing security concerns.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
AA နှင့်တပ်မတော်၊ တပ်မတော်နှင့် NLD ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့အရေး
24 December 2020
မြန်မာပြည်မှာ မျက်စိမှိတ်ပြီးတော့ အမှောင်ထဲမှာ ဗေဒင်ဟောရသလိုပဲ။ တပ်က AAနဲ့ တွေ့နေပြီ မူဆလင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဆိုတဲ့ စကားလုံးကို စကားလုံးကို စသုံးတယ်။ ဆိုတော့ တပ်ကဘယ်လိုသွားမလဲ။ NLD အစိုးရက ဘယ် လိုသွားမလဲ။ ဗန်းစကားနဲ့ပြောမယ်ဆိုရင် ရွှီးနေတာလား"
အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ တရားရုံးICJ က ၎င်းတို့ချမှတ်ထားသော ကြားဖြတ်အမိန့်များကို အကောင် အထည်ဖော် ခြင်းရှိ၊ မရှိစောင့်ကြည့်စိစစ်မည့် ကော်မတီတစ်ရပ် (ad Hoc committee) ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်ကြောင်း ICJ က ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့က သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်သည်။Tuesday, December 1, 2020
ဟီလာရီ ပြောသည့် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် (HARD CHOICE) (နိဂုံး)
ယောနသံ
Hla Soewai
Dec 01 2020
၂၀၁၂ နိုဝင်ဘာလထဲတွင် သမ္မတ အိုဘားမား သည် မြန်မာပြည်ရှိ ‘တိုးတက်မှု အလင်းတန်း” လေးအား ကိုယ် တိုင်ကိုယ်ကျ သွားရောက်ကြည့်ရှုရန် ဆုံးဖြတ်လိုက်သည်။ သမ္မတ အဖြစ် ပြန်လည် အရွေးချယ် ခံရ ပြီးနောက် သူ၏ပထမဆုံး ပြည်ပ ခရီးစဉ် ဖြစ်သည်။ခရီးအတူတူ သွားဖြစ်ခဲ့သည့် နောက်ဆုံးခရီးစဉ်လည်း ဖြစ်ပေလိမ့်မည်။
ထိုင်းဘုရင်နှင့် အတူ သူ၏ ဘန်ကောက် ဆေးရုံသို့ အတူတူ သွားရောက်ကြည့်ရှုခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ကမ္ဘောဒီယား တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် အရှေ့အာရှ ထိပ်သီး ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ မတိုင်မီ ခြောက်နာရီ ခရီးစဉ်အဖြစ် မြန်မာ သို့ ထွက်ခွာ လာခဲ့ကြ သည်။ သမ္မတသည် သိန်းစိန်နှင့်ကော အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်နှင့်ပါ တွေ့ဆုံရန် ရှိပြီးရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်တွင်ကျောင်း သားများကို မိန့်ခွန်းပြောရန်လည်း စီစဉ်ထားသည်။
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Suu Kyi's Myanmar election win fails to excite foreign investors
YUICHI NITTA,
Nikkei staff writer
November 24, 2020
YANGON -- Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide Myanmar election win this month triggered a frenzy of excitement among her supporters, but it was met with cool shrugs by many foreign governments and investors seeking economic and political reform.
On the polling day of Nov. 8, voters lined up from early morning to cast their ballots support for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. And for three nights, dozens of people stood outside the NLD's headquarters in Yangon chanting her name as incoming results pointed to a huge victory for the party.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Myanmar Still Loves Aung San Suu Kyi, but Not for the Reasons You Think
Mr. Min Zin is a political scientist.
Nov. 23, 2020
And the N.L.D. obtained this result despite the government’s weak performance on its key pledges during its first term in office — constitutional reform, national reconciliation and peace, socioeconomic improvement — and the rise of both ethnic minority parties and new challengers. In addition to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (U.S.D.P.), some 90 parties fielded candidates this year.
So what does the outcome say about what Myanmar’s voters really care about?
Suu Kyi's capabilities tested amid numerous issues plaguing Myanmar: Yomiuri Shimbun
THE STRAITS TIMES
Editorial NotesNov 23, 2020
The paper says there has been little progress on ending the civil war between the military and ethnic minorities, issues that Aung San Suu Kyi included in her campaign pledges.
TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Efforts to weaken the military's involvement in politics are essential if Myanmar is to promote democratisation and achieve domestic stability. Aung San Suu Kyi's ability to take action is being called into question.
In the Myanmar general election, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), led by State Counsellor Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the government, won more than 80 per cent of the seats up for grabs, maintaining its sole majority. Suu Kyi's popularity has been demonstrated, but the future will be difficult.
The NLD won a landslide in the previous election in 2015, marking a shift from the military-centred political rule that lasted more than half a century.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
UK PM raises Rohingya concerns in call with Myanmar leader
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised the UK's ongoing concerns over the Rohingya crisis and the conflict in Rakhine when he spoke by phone to Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, his office said in a statement.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout, writing by Sarah Young; editing by Stephen Addison)
Link : Here