“The working class in Myanmar stood before the military regime, and they showed us the way.”

Sagebrush Rider

Obadiah Silva 

October 3, 2021

Eight months after the bloody military coup, we interviewed Tincher Sunley, a Burmese grassroots activist who described the situation in his country today. Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, a former British colony with decades of political instability and strategic emphasis on China’s natural resources and its access to the Indian Ocean, which will give further economic impetus to its southern region. In the Biden era, the United States aimed at its strategic rival, the Asian Company, with the cynical discourse of “democracy” aimed at restoring the value of international institutions. President Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy is the party that won the November 2020 election, which was overthrown by a coup, but in previous years it ruled alongside the military and was previously complicit in crimes against ethnic minorities. He is now part of the military junta, the opposition front of the “National Unity Government” (NUG), and they rely on this controversy of central powers, which is being transformed into imperialism in the form of “diplomacy”: ONU. The real opposition to the coup arose as young people fighting in the streets against military tanks, their workers in factories and textile workshops went on strike.

U.S. Reimposes Economic Sanctions On Military Regime in Burma

JDSUPRA

June 7, 2021

Effective June 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published new Burmese Sanctions Regulations (“BSR”) that implement President Biden’s February 10, 2021, Executive Order 14014 (“E.O. 14014”), which was issued in response to a coup by the Burmese military to overthrow the country’s democratically elected civilian government. The coup leaders have arrested and detained many of Burma’s government and political leaders, human rights advocates, journalists, and religious leaders in an explicit repudiation of Burma’s national elections that took place in November 2020. Despite widespread domestic and international protests against the coup, the Burmese military has thus far continued its use of violent repression and deadly force, killing or wounding hundreds of people, including young children.

Myanmar Swimmer Ditches Olympic Dream In Protest Against Military's 'murderous Regime'

R. REPUBLIC WORLD
Bhavyata Kagrana
2nd May, 2021

The swimmer, Win Htet Oo said that the military government will use him going to the game as propaganda and he doesn't want to stand against his people.

Credit: Win Htet Oo/Twitter

One of Myanmar's top swimmers, Win Htet Oo has left his Olympic dream behind because he does not want to be a part of the "propaganda" regime. According to the swimmer, his participation in the game would mean standing against his people who are currently suffering under the military government. 26-year-old Win abandoned his dream and said that he is no longer going to Tokyo, reported Frontier Myanmar.

"Military government in Myanmar 'murderous'"

He called the current government 'a murderous regime' and added that he will not accept the MOC (Myanmar Olympic Committee). In a Facebook post of April, Ko Win Htet Oo wrote that he won't "march in the [opening ceremony’s] Parade of Nations under a flag steeped in my people’s blood.”