Story by Reuters
April 10, 2021
TIMES
BY ASSOCIATED PRESSFRANCH 24
Text by:NEWS WIRESBangkok Post
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.