Myanmar's military government: China brokered peace talks to de-escalate fighting

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ByGRANT PECK Associated Press
December 11, 2023, 4:05 PM

Myanmar’s military government has confirmed it's been holding talks, brokered by China, with representatives of an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups against which it is engaged in fierce combat in the country’s northeast

FILE - In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, check weapons the group allegedly seized from My...The Associated Press

 

BANGKOK -- Myanmar’s military government confirmed Monday that it has been holding talks, brokered by China, with representatives of an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups against which it is engaged in fierce combat in the country’s northeast.

Senate motion urges more action from Liberal government in response to Rohingya crisis.

OTAWA
CITIZEN

May 1, 2019

By: MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH

Critics call Trudeau's government hypocritical for making regretful statements about events such as the Holocaust but failing to do more to stop an ongoing genocide

Rohingya refugees watch as firefighters douse flames after a fire broke out in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, April 24, 2019. AP

OTTAWA — A Senate motion will urge the Liberal government to meet Canada’s international treaty obligations by holding Myanmar accountable for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law.

AL JAZEERA

3rd April 2019
by Jacob Goldberg

The Myanmar government has tightened a law on so-called 'vacant, fallow and virgin' land, and farmers are at risk.

The law puts farmers at risk, mostly in territories that are home to ethnic minorities [File: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo]

Yangon, Myanmar - Han Win Naung is besieged on his own land.

Last September, local administrators in Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi region put up a sign at the edge of his 5.7-hectare farm that read "Under Management Ownership - Do Not Trespass".

Myanmar -- investors should be cautious but take the risk.

         NIKKEI

ASIAN REVIEW

MARCH 27, 2019

If government pursues humanitarian agenda, foreign partners can back projects, even in Rakhine State.

Simon Tay

Aung San Suu Kyi told investors that "much of Rakhine's economic potential still remains untapped." © Reuters

A humanitarian crisis that has been brewing at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh since 2016 is reaching a critical point. At Cox's Bazar, just inside Bangladesh, an estimated 740,000 displaced Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine State are encamped in temporary shelters, hoping that the international community will take them in as refugees or facilitate their safe return to the homes they claim in Myanmar.

Rakhine Villagers Hold Funeral for Slain Woman, Recall Shooting by Myanmar Forces.

RADIO FREE ASIA 
Feb. 22, 2019.

Relatives mourn Ye Ye Soe, who was killed by gunfire amid fighting between Myanmar soldiers and the Arakan Army in Rathedaung township, western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Feb. 22, 2019.

A funeral was held on Friday for a young woman shot dead by the Myanmar military in restive Rakhine state’s Rathedaung township state, where government forces are battling the rebel Arakan Army, as residents of the village where the woman was killed described indiscriminate firing upon them by national troops.

Myanmar president stresses union's independence, sovereignty.

CGTN
12-Feb-2019 

 

Myanmar President U Win Myint on Tuesday stressed the united strength and commitment of all ethnic people in helping preserve and perpetuate independence and sovereignty, and prevent the disintegration of the union.

State Counsellor: Election pledges being kept step by step.

The Myanmar Times 
CHAN THAR | 08 FEB 2019

State Caunsellor Daw San Suu Kyi speaks at an event in Nay Pyi Taw last month. Photo - AP

The government is implementing step by step the pledges that the National League for Democracy made in the 2015 general election, said State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Speaking at the 72nd Shan State Day ceremony at the Awayyar fire balloon field in Taunggyi, Shan State, on Thursday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, “There must be development and peace first. Then it is very important to draft a constitution that is accepted by all and is supportive of the federal union. We are trying to implement the promises to the people step-by-step,” she said.

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.

'Treated like cattle': Angelina Jolie takes aim at Myanmar over Rohingya plight.

Hollywood star meets refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district where 740,000 Rohingya have fled since August 2017

 

Angelina Jolie speaks at Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh before visiting a nearby Rohingya refugee camp. Photograph: Suman Paul/ZEPPELIN/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock

Agence France-Presse

Wed 6 Feb 2019 02.02 GMT

Angelina Jolie has shared the stories of rape survivors during a visit to Rohingya refugee camps and said the responsibility to let them return “lies squarely with the government and the authorities in Myanmar”.

Freedom of movement key for refugees: envoy

Nyan Lynn Aung | 31 JAN 2019

Freedom of movement is important to rebuild trust in Rakhine State, Christine Schraner Burgener, the United Nations’ special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement at the end of her 12-day visit to Myanmar yesterday.

“Freedom of movement is crucial for all people and their access to livelihoods. Without freedom of movement, children cannot go to local schools, and people still cannot access hospitals. It is important to rebuild trust,” Burgener said.

Deals on heavy wheels for Chinese New Year.

THE MYANMAR TIMES 

30 JAN 2019

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of German automotive giant Daimler AG, is set to expand its footprint in Myanmar with the opening a major showroom in Yangon that is expected to be open by the end of this year.

In order to support the continuing growth of Myanmar’s economy, the FUSO 4S Showroom will be opened at lot No. 25 and 26, No.3 High Way, Thit Seik Kone Ward, Mingalardon Township, Yangon. After the opening of the FUSO 4S Showroom, sales, spare parts, after-sales service and body painting will be available to customers at a single convenient location. 

Myanmar requests EU not to revoke trade preference.

21st January 2019,

Myanmar Government officials and businesses have requested the European Union (EU) to reconsider the potential move to withdraw its generalised scheme of preferences (GSP) benefit from the country fearing negative impacts on growth and population. Both feel the move will result in high levels of unemployment resulting from migration of foreign business houses. 

Fresh ARSA Attack Injured Six Police Officers: Govt

Police Brig-Gen Tin Ko Ko (far right) pays a visit to police private Myo Kyaw Lwin (centre), who was wounded during the ambush on Wednesday, at a government hospital in Yangon on January 17, 2019. / Ye Zarni / Facebook

By THE IRRAWADDY

20 January 2019

YANGON—Six policemen, including one police colonel, were wounded during an ambush by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on Wednesday in northern Rakhine State, according to an announcement on State media on Saturday.