Military and Government jointly decide to send delegation led by Suu Kyi in ICJ case

Mizzima
23 November 2019

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C). Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

A military spokesman said that Myanmar government and military will jointly handle the case against the country at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) by using a team led by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

“The State Counsellor, in her capacity as Union Minister of Foreign Affairs, will lead a team to The Hague, Netherlands, to defend the national interests of Myanmar at the ICJ,” the Myanmar government said in a press release.

Military, Government 'Cooperating' Over Suu Kyi Going To ICJ

International Bussines Times
By AFP News
11/21/19

Both Myanmar's military and its civilian government are behind the decision for Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to defend her country against allegations of genocide at the UN's top court, an army spokesman said Thursday.

In a shock move, State Counsellor Suu Kyi's office announced Wednesday the one-time democracy icon would travel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to lead the defence team.

UN expert: No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions

AP

EDITH M. LEDERER
24 August 2019


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There will be no long-term peace in Myanamar and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the “brutality” of the Asian country’s military forces, a member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said Friday.

Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who is one of the mission’s three international experts, told an informal Security Council meeting on accountability in Myanmar that the commission believes a domestic judicial process is not possible at this time.

Why Are Old Myanmar-Israel Military Links Under New Scrutiny?

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Prashanth Parameswaran

June 11, 2019

A closer look at another round of scrutiny on defense collaboration between the two sides.

Last week, media reports surfaced that Myanmar military officials had attended an Israeli military expo, in spite of human rights issues that had led Israel to restrict aspects of security collaboration between the two countries. While the specifics remain unclear, the reports have nonetheless contributed to yet another round of scrutiny on the defense aspect of Israel-Myanmar cooperation.

Meet Myanmar's Blue Shirts

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Lorcan Lovett

June 12, 2019

 

A new free speech movement clashes with Myanmar’s military.

 Activists shout slogans during a movement titled "Right to Information," in hopes to free two Reuters journalists jailed in connection with their reporting about massacres against Rohingya Muslims, Sept.16, 2018, in front of city hall in Yangon, Myanmar.

Image Credit: AP Photo/Thein Zaw

 

The moment Kay Khine Tun, 22, was arrested at her nursing job in Yangon Children’s Hospital, her father readied for an exhausting battle with his former employer, the Myanmar Army.

“The military has no shame at all,” said Sein Mya, a 53-year-old taxi driver, as he spooned half a dozen sugars into his coffee. “They are showing off their power and authority. They believe that frightening people may lead to success in ruling the country.”

Myanmar Authorizes Helicopter Use by Military in Rakhine

RFA
2019-06-07

Spokesperson for Myanmar's President's Office Zaw Htay speaks to reporters on June 7, 2019. RFA

The government of Myanmar on Friday authorized the use of helicopters in combat by the country’s military in war-torn Rakhine state, at the same time cautioning the army to conduct its operations “with great care” to avoid civilian deaths.

Myanmar troops kill six in Rakhine for suspected rebel links.

Aljazeera

3rd May 2019

Soldiers opened fire as a clash erupted with the detained villagers, according to member of parliament.

More recently, civilians have been caught up in clashes between the military and the Arakan Army [File:Min Kyi Thein/AP Photo]

Myanmar security forces have shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, a military spokesperson said.

Myanmar troops kill 6, detain scores in Rakhine over suspected rebel links-military spokesman

REUTERS
by Reuters
Thursday, 2 May 2019

Since November, the fighting has displaced nearly 33,000 people across a large part of central and northern Rakhine and part of neighbouring Chin state

(Adds comment from ICRC)

YANGON, May 2 (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine on Thursday, after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, a military spokesman said.

Military Extends Ceasefire in Kachin, Shan for 2 Months

The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy
1 May 2019

Peace Commission members (right side of the table) and representatives of the Northern Alliance comprising the KIA, TNLA, AA and MNDAA (left) hold talks in Muse, northern Shan State, on April 30, 2019. They agreed to hold further discussions on bilateral ceasefire agreements. / Hla Maung Shwe / Facebook

YANGON—The Myanmar military on Tuesday extended its unilateral ceasefire in five regional commands in Kachin and Shan states for two months on Tuesday, with restive Rakhine State remaining exempt from the truce.

A Call for a Coup.

The Irrawaddy  
By WEI YAN AUNG | 4 April 2019

A portrait of U Ba Bay, one of the politicians tried for attempting to instigate a military coup

YANGON—Sixty-five years ago today, the Yangon government tried a number of politicians for high treason for requesting that the military stage a coup.

Myanmar army chief denies systematic persecution of Rohingya

REUTERS
February 15, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) - Myanmar’s army chief, who is facing international calls that he be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, has denied any systematic army persecution and said such accusations were an insult to his country’s honor.

Rohingya refugees are seen near a shop in the evening at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 16, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Myanmar parliament approves panel to discuss constitution despite military protest.

 FEBRUARY 6, 2019 ,BY: Shoon Naing

FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks to take an oath at the lower house of parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, May 2, 2012. REUTETS/Soe Zeya Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday voted to set up a committee to discuss amending the country’s constitution, despite objections by military-aligned lawmakers against a move that is likely to challenge the army’s power.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) submitted an “emergency proposal” last week aimed at amending parts of the military-drafted 2008 constitution that the party deems undemocratic.

Suu Kyi’s party proposes committee to change army-drafted charter.

THE Star ONLINE 

Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling party has proposed steps towards changing the constitution, its biggest challenge in nearly three years to the military’s power over politics as enshrined in the charter.

( 01.09.2018 ) Myanmar Polities and the Tatmadaw Part (1 )

( 27.08.2018 ) Myanmar: Tatmadaw leaders must be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes – UN report

Myanmar: Tatmadaw leaders must be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes – UN report

GENEVA (27 August 2018) – Myanmar’s top military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State, as well as for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States, a report by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar* today urged.

( 13-04-2018 ) Myanmar military put on UN blacklist for sexual violence

By,EDITH M. LEDERER

The Associated Press

António Guterres, right, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks during a Security Council meeting, Friday, April 13, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a U.N. blacklist of government and rebel groups “credibly suspected” of carrying out rapes and other acts of sexual violence in conflict for the first time.

( 08.02.2018 ) Massacre in Myanmar A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT

 

EXECUTION: This photo was taken on the day the 10 Rohingya men were killed. Paramilitary police officer Aung Min, left, stands guard behind them. The picture was obtained from a Buddhist village elder, and authenticated by witnesses.

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police.

By WA LONE, KYAW SOE OO, SIMON LEWIS and ANTONI SLODKOWSKI

Filed Feb. 8, 2018, 10 p.m. GMT

( 12.12.2016 ) Burma Could Be Guilty of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ as Rohingya Crackdown Intensifies

TIMES
Nikhil Kumar @nkreports
Dec. 11, 2016

 

Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016

"Things are not as they are being portrayed by the government"

Reports from Burma’s northern Arakan state, where violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority has forced tens of thousands to flee for their lives, suggest the situation there is “getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity,” the U.N.’s top human-rights investigator for the country has said. “I am getting reports from inside the country and from neighboring places too that things are not as they are being portrayed by the government. We are seeing a lot of very graphic and very disturbing photos and video clips,” Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the country, tells TIME.