Will U.S. Sanctions Convince Myanmar’s Junta to Change Course?

FOREIGN POLICY 

BY COLM QUINN

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Myanmar’s generals have proven they can survive sanctions. But sustained public pressure may be harder to endure.

US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Myanmar in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021. SAUL LOEB/AFP

Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: U.S. President Joe Biden announces sanctions on Myanmar’s military, Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold their first phone call since Biden took office, and women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is released from prison in Saudi Arabia.

အေမရိကန္အစိုးရသစ္ ႏွင့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးရာ
ကိုေအာင္လြင္ဦး
18 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar carry their belongings as they flee violence, near Ukhia, near the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar on September 4, 2017. - A total of 87,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have arrived in Banglades

အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွာ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Joe Biden အစိုးရတက္လာတဲ့အခါ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ဦး  ေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ဒုကၡသည္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြ လိုလားေနပါတယ္။ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြကို ဟန႔္တားႏိုင္ေအာင္ အေမရိကန္ အစိုးရသစ္နဲ႔ မူဝါဒသစ္ေတြ က်င့္သုံးဖို႔လည္း ဒီတပတ္ထဲ မွာပဲ ဝါရွင္တန္အေျခစိုက္ Refugees International အဖြဲ႕ကလည္း “႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ႏိုင္ငံတကာအတိုင္းအတာ နဲ႔ ဦးေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Biden အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ မူဝါဒေရးရာ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္အျဖစ္” အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့တာပါ။ အစီရင္ခံစာကို ဦးေဆာင္ျပဳစုခဲ့တဲ့ Daniel Sullivan ကို Skype ကေန ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း တင္ဆက္ထားပါတယ္။

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္အေရး Joe Biden အစိုးရ ဦးေဆာင္ ေၿဖရွင္း ေပးဖို႔ RI အဖြဲ႔တိုက္တြန္း

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန) 

ကိုေအာင္လြင္ဦး
14 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021

၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကေန ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာ ဘဂၤလားနယ္စပ္အနီးမွာ ေတြ႔ရ။ (စင္တင္ဘာ ၀၄၊ ၂၀၁၇)

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွာ ေရြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Joe Biden အစုိးရ တက္လာတဲ့အခါ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ဦး ေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖုိ႔ ဒုကၡသည္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ ၀ါရွင္တန္အေျခစုိက္ Refugees International အဖဲြ႔က တုိက္ တြန္းလုိက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္းကို ကိုေအာင္လြင္ဦးက ေျပာျပပါမယ္။

“႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ႏုိင္ငံတကာအတုိင္းအတာနဲ႔ ဦးေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖုိ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Biden အတြက္ အ ေရး ႀကီးတဲ့ မူ၀ါဒေရးရာ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္” ဆုိတဲ့ အမည္နဲ႔ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ ဒီကေန႔ပဲ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ၿပီး Refugees International အဖဲြ႔က တုိက္တြန္းလုိက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ေျဖရွင္းရာမွာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအ၀န္းကုိ တြန္းအားေပးႏုိင္တာေၾကာင့္ အခုလုိ တုိက္တြန္းရတာလုိ႔လည္း အစီရင္ခံစာကုိ ဦးေဆာင္ျပဳ စုခဲ့တဲ့ Daniel Sullivan ကေျပာဆုိခဲ့တာပါ။

Why Joe Biden Should Help the Rohingya People of Myanmar

TIME

By Matthew Smith and Andrew Riley

January 6, 2021 

A large group of Rohingya people, fled from ongoing military operations in Myanmar's Rakhine state, try to cross the border at Palongkhalii, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 17, 2017.
Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

 

Matthew Smith is CEO and co-founder of Fortify Rights and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith.
Andrew Riley is a consultant to Fortify Rights and was the principal author of “The Torture in My Mind”: The Right to Mental Health for Rohingya Survivors of Genocide in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Follow him on Twitter @andrewkyleriley.

 

Then the Myanmar Army attacked and massacred ethnic Rohingya civilians in 2017, more than 700,000 men, women, and children fled to Bangladesh, some riddled with bullets, burns, and gaping wounds. Hundreds of villages were in ashes, razed by soldiers and their civilian proxies.

But long after the physical wounds scarred over, Rohingya continue to suffer mental harm on a massive scale. President-elect Biden can and should do something about it.

How will Joe Biden’s win affect Bangladesh-US ties?

Dhaka Tribune  

Ali Asif Shawon

Published : November 8th, 2020

 

File photo: US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks after being declared the winner of the US presidential election, in Wilmington, Delaware on November 7, 2020 AFP

Significant changes unlikely but there may be development on Rohingya issue, according to experts

Leaders of ruling Awami League believe Bangladesh-US bilateral ties will be strengthened during the tenure of Joe Biden, newly elected president of the US, but diplomats and international affairs experts think the relationship between the two countries will be the same.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated US president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris through separate messages on Sunday.

If elected, Biden likely to focus on human rights

The Daily Star

Porimol Palma
November 07, 2020

Experts believe he will give priority to Rohingya issue, strengthening democracy across the globe

Potential US President Joe Biden's foreign policy will emphasise on strengthening democracy and human rights globally -- a shift from that of incumbent President Donald Trump who focused on trade, said international relations analysts at Washington, DC.

As part of that, Biden will also put pressure on Myanmar, which has a bad human rights record, especially in its treatment of Rohingyas and some other ethnic groups, they said.