Can Myanmar return to democracy? | Inside Story

 Aljazeera 

Feb 1, 2021

Soldiers detained Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of her National League for Democracy party that won a landslide election victory in November. 

World leaders have condemned the power grab as an assault on democracy. 

The army says it will organise new elections in a year. 

But can it be trusted? And is this the end of Myanmar's 10-year journey to democracy?  

Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom 

 

Guests: 

Maung Zarni - Myanmar human rights activist 

Phil Robertson - Deputy Asia Director, Human Rights Watch. 

Ronan Lee - Visiting Scholar, Queen Mary University of London -

 

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Myanmar's Orwellian coup - and how Aung San Suu Kyi herself was responsible for the Big Lie of "democratization"

DW
Feb 01, 2021 

DW interviews Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese academic and Human Rights Activist

Dr. Maung Zarni explained Myanmar's Orwellian coup - and how Aung San Suu Kyi herself was responsible for the Big Lie of "democratization" while the military commits genocide against Rohingya.
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OPINION - Leading UN member-states fail to end Rohingya abuse

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Maung Zarni
LONDON
20.01.2021

China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees

With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya.

In sharp contrast, today's [Wednesday's] Global New Light of Myanmar, Naypyidaw's official mouthpiece, completely downplayed the significance of this resumed virtual meeting by sticking the news of the "Tripartite Informal Vice Ministerial Meeting" on page 6, under "National" news and allocating less a quarter of a page, at the bottom.

ANALYSIS - Anti-Rohingya monk promotes Myanmar ‘Buddhist’ nationalism

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Maung Zarni

LONDON 

14.12.2020 

Monk’s description of ‘Buddhists truths’ superior to Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far from ground realities.

The writer is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

Exuding a palpable sense of spiritual and cultural superiority, a genocide-denying Myanmar Buddhist monk declared Myanmar’s “true nationalism” which is anchored in the “universal declaration of Buddhist truths” to be even superior to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

OPINION - Myanmar's colonial policies and crimes trigger renewed liberation struggles

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Maung Zarni 

LONDON 

09.10.2020 

Lack of action from UN and world community encourages Myanmar to commit atrocities against ethnic communities

Maung Zarni, Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow at the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia

The writer is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow at the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

Almost three decades ago the UN had established the mandate of Special Rapporteur to monitor the human rights situation in Myanmar, under the Commission on Human Rights Resolution number 58 of 1992.

But the UN-mandated human rights missions have not deterred Myanmar’s successive governments from perpetrating human rights crimes against dissidents, government critics, and national minorities.

KIDNAP DR. ZARNI AND NAY SAN LWIN

Crd: Social Media
November 29'2019

! Myanmar is already in the dock for crimes of deportation at the ICC. Now the grandson of Burma's dictator is proposing violent crimes of abduction. When will they learn? See this interview broadcast 24 November.

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