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Showing posts with label Myanmar Military. Show all posts
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Friday, March 26, 2021

UN body urges action over Myanmar military crackdown

Bangkok Post

PUBLISHED : 24 MAR 2021


Family members grieve over the body of teenage bystander Tun Tun Aung at a cemetery in Mandalay on Tuesday, a day after he was shot dead in front of his home by security forces during a crackdown on demonstrations against the military coup. (AFP photo)
 

The UN Human Rights Council voiced alarm Wednesday at the "disproportionate use of force" in Myanmar since last month's coup and pushed for a UN rights office in the country.

The Council's 47 members adopted a resolution reiterating the call for Myanmar's military to restore civilian rule following its Feb 1 coup and immediately release deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Myanmar military and its love for power

WION
Edited By: Gravitas desk WION
Naypyitaw Published: Mar 23, 2021,
Myanmar junta Photograph:( Reuters )


For 60 years, Myanmar has been ruled by the military. Six decades marked by crackdowns and suppression of dissent, the military has been responsible for Myanmar's woes in the past.

Take the Rohingya crisis, for instance, the United Nations has described them as the world's most persecuted minority. More Than 740,000 Rohingya have fled the country since 2017. Their persecutors were the military, the same military that has now grabbed power in Myanmar.

The allegations against them are serious. The Myanmar military burned down villages, massacred thousands and raped hundreds of Rohingya women.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Military tightens grip in Myanmar as more international sanctions loom

THE Star
ASEANPLUS NEWS
Friday, 19 Mar 2021

YANGON (Reuters):Thousands of opponents of military rule in Myanmar marched in the town of Natmauk, the birthplace of revered national hero Aung San, on Thursday (March 18) in defiance of a crackdown by security forces, local media reported.

Demonstrations also took place in other towns and cities, with security forces killing three people, an activist group said. The authorities placed further restrictions on internet services, hampering protesters' ability to organise.

Chinese factory management rebukes rumors alleging its collusion with Myanmar's military to kill local workers

Global Times
By Li Sikun
Published: Mar 19, 2021
Cars are burned down at a China-invested factory in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Interviewee

Ever since Chinese factories in Myanmar were looted and set on fire over the weekend, more and more outrageous rumors have been infested on Myanmar's social media.

A rumor that the Chinese-owned Xing Jia Shoe Factory, located in Hlaing Thar Yar, Yangon, cooperated with Myanmar's military to trap and kill local workers, resulting in at least five deaths and many arrests, has been widely circulating on Twitter and Facebook since Wednesday.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

US Slams Myanmar Military For Brutal Crackdown On Protesters And Responding With Bullets

REPUBLIC WORLD
Written By Vishal Tiwari
16th March, 2021

US State Department criticised Myanmar’s military for “brutally” attacking their own people and killing dozens throughout the country last weekend.

The United States on Monday slammed Myanmar’s junta over a surge in violence against pro-democracy protesters, saying “they have responded to calls for the restoration of democracy with bullets”. US State Department deputy spokesperson Jalina Porter criticised Myanmar’s military for “brutally” attacking their own people and killing dozens throughout the country last weekend. Porter said the crackdown of civilians in Myanmar proves that the military orchestrated the coup for their own benefits.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Military tightens grip, death toll among anti-coup protesters rises as Myanmar seethes

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
MARCH 15, 2021

(Reuters) - Myanmar security forces shot dead at least 20 pro-democracy protesters on Monday, an activist group said, and the military junta imposed martial law in parts of the main city Yangon, giving commanders wide powers to stamp out dissent.

 

Supporters of detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi took to the streets again despite the killing of dozens of protesters on Sunday in the bloodiest day since a military coup on Feb. 1 ignited mass demonstrations nationwide.

Marches took place on Monday in the second city Mandalay and in the central towns of Myingyan and Aunglan, where police opened fire, witnesses and media reported.

“One girl got shot in the head and a boy got shot in the face,” an 18-year-old protester in Myingyan told Reuters by telephone. “I’m now hiding.”

Sunday, March 14, 2021

U.S. trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, detainees after civilian officials die in Myanmar military custody

CNBC
Christian Nunley@CNUNLEY7
FRI, MAR 12 2021

KEY POINTS

  • The U.S. is still trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted from power as Myanmar’s de facto head of government in a Feb. 1 coup.
  • Two members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy have died after Myanmar security forces detained them.
  • “We’re working through appropriate channels to make contact with those detained,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
  • The U.S. and China have a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18 to discuss a wide range of topics. Myanmar may be on the docket.
Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi looks on before the UN’s International Court of Justice on December 11, 2019 in the Peace Palace of The Hague, on the second day of her hearing on the Rohingya genocide case.
Koen Van Weel | AFP | Getty Images


The U.S. is still working to contact Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian detainees in Myanmar, the State Department said Friday, after two officials with her National League for Democracy party died in military custody over the past week.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Exclusive: EU preparing sanctions on Myanmar military businesses, documents show

REUTERS
Gabriela Baczynska, Robin Emmott
MARCH 8, 2021


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is preparing to widen its sanctions on Myanmar’s armed forces to target businesses they run, in protest at the Feb. 1 military coup, according to diplomats and two internal documents seen by Reuters.
A woman shows a three-finger salute during a protest against the military coup in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

The measures, which diplomats said could be agreed by EU foreign ministers on March 22, would target companies “generating revenue for, or providing financial support to, the Myanmar Armed Forces”, said one of the documents dated March 5.

While the bloc has an arms embargo on Myanmar, and has targeted some senior military officials since 2018, the measures would be its most significant response so far since the coup.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Australia cuts Myanmar military ties amid ‘rising death toll’

Aljazeera
8 Mar 2021

Australia was among 13 countries campaigners say have been providing assistance to military that seized control of Myanmar in a coup.
Protesters are using improvised shields and construction helmets to protect themselves against the security forces [AFP]

Australia has suspended its defence cooperation programme with Myanmar amid concern about the “escalating violence and rising death toll,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said as the country’s military steps up its crackdown on enormous protests against its coup last month.

Myanmar was plunged into turmoil after the army detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and officials from her National League for Democracy party on February 1 and seized control of the country. The coup has triggered a national Civil Disobedience Movement and mass protests in which dozens have been killed.

Saturday, March 6, 2021

For Rohingya Refugees, Myanmar Military Crackdown on Protesters is All Too Familiar

RADIO FREE ASIA
2021-03-05
Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in a temporary settlement in Myanmar's Rakhine state, April 25, 2018.

Seeing the violence against civilians in Myanmar in the wake of that country’s coup, Rohingya refugees sheltering in southeastern Bangladesh say their own experience has been validated now that the general Burmese population is experiencing the brutality of its military.

Refugee leaders who spoke to BenarNews expressed solidarity with Myanmar protesters, as well as bitterness that they did not receive the same in 2017, when a brutal military crackdown on their community caused 740,000 of the stateless Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh.

“At that time, if everyone had joined the movement to stop the atrocities against the Rohingya, then they would not have had to join this protest movement,” Muhib Ullah, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service, from the Kutupalong refugee camp this week.

Friday, March 5, 2021

Death Toll Mounts as Myanmar’s Military Seeks to Crush Protests

Police open fire on demonstrators, killing at least 38 people in deadliest day since coup


Myanmar’s military declared it was taking over the country for a year as it detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her party. Here's how the coup played out on the ground, and what it means for the nation’s democratic transition. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA/Shutterstock (Originally published Feb. 1, 2021)

SINGAPORE—At least 38 people were killed as Myanmar’s new military rulers, who overthrew its democratically elected government Feb. 1, continued to unleash a lethal campaign to suppress protests that have swept the country for nearly a month.

The death toll, announced by the United Nations, makes Wednesday the deadliest day since the takeover.

Security forces opened fire at protesters in numerous cities, according to demonstrators and medics responding to the violence. A 19-year-old woman, wearing a T-shirt that read, “Everything will be ok,” was fatally shot in the head. Men were struck by bullets in their eyes and chests as they ran, and police assaulted medics.

Protesters had been more cautious since a crackdown on Sunday, when police killed at least 18 people. Security forces who had only occasionally shot live rounds before that day have since used gunfire frequently, according to civil-society groups, protesters and medics.

Protesters have poured into the streets for 26 straight days demanding that the coup, which ended a decadelong transition to democracy, be reversed. Demonstrations at times drawing tens of thousands have taken place, with crowds mobilizing in towns and cities across the country. The large-scale participation has underscored the broad rejection of the military, which governed Myanmar for half a century before the democratic shift began.

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

ASEAN to tell Myanmar military it is ‘appalled’ by violence, says Singapore minister

CNBC
REUTERS
MAR 1 2021

  • Southeast Asian nations will be frank in telling Myanmar’s ruling junta they are appalled by violence in the country, and the region needs to bring together ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military to find a way out, Singapore’s foreign minister said.
  • Foreign ministers from Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbors were due to hold talks with its ruling military on Tuesday in an effort to quell deadly violence and open a channel to resolve its escalating political crisis.
  • The talks will come two days after the bloodiest day of unrest since the military removed Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government a month ago.

Protesters defend themselves with makeshift shields during clashes with riot police on February 28, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar.Hkun Lat | Getty Images News | Getty Images



Foreign ministers from Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbors were due to hold talks with its ruling military on Tuesday in an effort to quell deadly violence and open a channel to resolve its escalating political crisis.

The talks will come two days after the bloodiest day of unrest since the military removed Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government a month ago, unleashing anger and mass street protests across Myanmar.

Protesters, many wearing hard hats, began marching in the biggest city Yangon for what they said would be another big demonstration. Several shopping malls have closed because of the unrest.

Monday, March 1, 2021

Myanmar Military Fires U.N. Envoy Who Spoke Against Its Coup

The New York Times
By Richard C. Paddock
Feb. 27, 2021


The regime fired the ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, who called for international help in restoring demo
cracy and gave the three-finger salute of the protest movement.



An image released by the United Nations shows U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the U.N., pleading for international action in overturning the military coup in the country.Credit...United Nations Tv, via Reuters

BANGKOK
Myanmar’s month-old military regime fired the country’s ambassador to the United Nations on Saturday, a day after he gave an impassioned speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, pleading for international help in restoring democracy to his homeland.

The ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, ended his speech with a three-finger salute, a gesture from the “Hunger Games” films that has become a symbol of pro-democratic defiance for protesters in Myanmar and, before that, in neighboring Thailand.

State television announced his firing, saying he had “betrayed the country and spoken for an unofficial organization which doesn’t represent the country and had abused the power and responsibilities of an ambassador.”

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

U.S.'s Blinken vows 'firm action' against Myanmar military

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks speaks during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to the State Department in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will keep up “firm action” against Myanmar authorities violently cracking down on opponents of a military coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, after two protesters were shot dead over the weekend.

Myanmar’s security forces have been unable to stop more than two weeks of daily protests and a civil disobedience movement demanding the reversal of the Feb. 1 coup and the release of detained elected leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Myanmar military implausibly plays the Rohingya card

ASIA TIME

BERTIL LINTNER

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Coup regime bids to deflect rising international condemnation by suggesting it may allow Rohingya refugees to return home
Rohingya refugees scuffle as they wait to receive aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh September 25, 2017. Image: Agencies



CHIANG MAI – After grabbing power in a February 1 coup that has been resisted by massive demonstrations and condemned by the US, EU and UN, Myanmar’s military regime would appear to have few cards to play to win acceptance.

But one the coup-makers amazingly think they can play is the plight of Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, who were driven across the border during brutal military campaigns in 2016-17, and those who have remained behind in Myanmar.

Shortly after overthrowing Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government, the new military regime sent a letter to Bangladesh’s government through its ambassador in Myanmar to explain their reasons for the coup, namely unsubstantiated allegations of fraud at the November 2020 election Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) resoundingly won.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Biden announces US will sanction Myanmar's military leaders following coup

CNN
By Jennifer Hansler,
February 10, 2021


Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that the United States will sanction Myanmar's military leaders after last week's coup in the country.

In brief remarks, the President said he had approved a new executive order allowing the United States to "immediately sanction the military leaders who directed the coup, their business interests as well as close family members." He said they would identify targets of those sanctions this week.

"The US government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly having access to the one billion dollars in Burmese government funds held in the United States," Biden noted.

Singaporean Withdraws From Myanmar Military-Linked Tobacco Venture

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
February 09, 2021

A week on, the military coup is exacting an increasingly steep economic cost.

The Singaporean businessman Lim Kaling has become the latest foreign investor to cut his ties to Myanmar’s military following the latter’s coup d’etat on February 1.

Lim, the co-founder of Hong Kong-listed gaming group Razer, was a minority shareholder in Virginia Tobacco Company through RMH Singapore Pte Ltd, which owns 49 percent of the Myanmar firm. The rest of Virginia Tobacco is owned by Myanmar Economic Holdings (MEHL), one of two tentacular conglomerates run by Myanmar’s military, or Tatmadaw.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Lim announced that he would divest himself of his holding in Virginia Tobacco because of “grave concern” over the political situation in the country. He added that he was “exploring options for the responsible disposal of this stake.”

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

The Significance Of Aung San Suu Kyi's Detainment By Myanmar Military

npr
February 1, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, about Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and her detainment by the Myanmar military.

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Myanmar's military staged a coup today and detained the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It is the latest turbulent turn in that country and a return to detention for Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She was put under house arrest after the military refused to accept the results of the previous year's election that saw her party win an outright majority. She later became the country's de facto leader after the military decided to loosen its grip on power in 2011. And while she remains popular within the country, internationally, her reputation has suffered. Joining us now for more is Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program for the International Crisis Group.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Myanmar military allays coup fears, says it will protect constitution

REUTERS
Shoon Naing
APAC
January 30, 202

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military said on Saturday it would protect and abide by the constitution and act according to law, a move that could allay concerns that the armed forces might attempt to seize power. 


The statement comes a day after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western embassies in Myanmar expressed serious concerns about the possibility of army intervention in Myanmar, a country ruled by the military for 49 years after a 1962 coup.

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, said recent remarks by its commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, about abolishing the constitution had been misinterpreted.

“The Tatmadaw is protecting the 2008 constitution and will act according to the law,” it said. “Some organisations and media assumed what they want and wrote as Tatmadaw will abolish the constitution.”

Saturday, January 30, 2021

U.N. voices alarm about Myanmar after military threats, coup fears

 REUTERS
Shoon Naing, Poppy McPherson
APAC
January 29, 202

FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing salutes during the Martyrs' Day ceremony in Yangon on July 19, 2020.Ye Aung Thu/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo 



YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations and Western governments voiced alarm on Friday over threats by Myanmar’s military that have stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was following with “great concern” developments in Myanmar, where the army has said it would take action if complaints about the election are not addressed. An army spokesman on Tuesday declined to rule out the possibility of seizing power.

Australia, Britain, Canada, the European Union and United States, and 12 other nations, in a separate statement urged the military to “adhere to democratic norms”.
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