Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a U.S. Co-Hosted UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Burma

U.S. Embassy in Burma

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

U.S. Representative to the United Nations

New York, New York

April 9, 2021

AS DELIVERED

Thank you, Barbara. And let me just start by expressing – adding our voices, as others have, to expressing condolences on the passing of Prince Philip. And we send our sympathies to the Royal Family and to the people of the United Kingdom. Let me thank you, also, for calling today’s meeting. And thank you to all of the briefers for your comments and your insights today. They were particularly poignant, given the situation there.

Yangon, protests and prayers in the Burmese New Year (VIDEO)

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Francis Khoo Thwe
04/13/2021,

Starting today Thingyan is celebrated for five days. Flowers and potted plants, typical of the festival, used for events. In Tamu, near the border with India, security forces threaten doctors and nurses with guns. For the New Year, the resistance organizes funeral wakes for the heroes killed. Last night a prayer vigil for the fallen in the “Spring Revolution” held close to Pathein cathedral.

Yangon (AsiaNews) - From today until April 18, Myanmar is celebrating the Thingyan, the Burmese New Year, which is the most important annual holiday. The groups resisting the recent military coup have promised to continue protests instead of celebrations even in this period.

Clarissa Ward takes you behind the scenes in Myanmar

CNN
Reliable Sources

CNN's Clarissa Ward discusses her experience reporting from inside Myanmar.

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ကုလအစည္းအေဝးမွာ CRPH ရဲ့ တင္ျပခ်က္၊ ျမန္မာဘာ သာျပန္

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 ကုလအစည္းအေဝးမွာ CRPH ရဲ့ တင္ျပခ်က္၊

မေန႔ညက ကုလသမဂၢ လုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီရဲ့ Arria  Formula အလြတ္သေဘာေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ခု ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါ တယ္။ အဂၤလန္၊ အေမရိကန္၊ ေနာ္ေဝ၊ ျပင္သစ္၊ အက္စ္တိုးနီးယား၊ အိုင္ယာလန္ နိုင္ငံတို႔ရဲ့ ကမကထျပဳ လုပ္မႈေၾကာင့္ စည္းေဝးခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့အာဏာသိမ္းျဖစ္ရပ္အေၾကာင္း ဦးတည္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တာပါ။ျမန္ မာကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအေနနဲ႔ CRPH မွခန႔္အပ္ထားေသာ ေခတၱနိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး ေဒၚဇင္မာေအာင္ႏွင့္ အရပ္ဘက္လူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ Sai Sam Khem တို႔တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ 

လုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီအဖြဲ႕ဝင္နိုင္ငံ အသီးသီးမွ ကုလသံတမန္မ်ားလည္း ဝင္ေရာက္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၿပီး ျမန္မာအသံ အမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းလည္း ပါဝင္ပါတယ္။

‘Come and see for yourselves’

THE Star

IMRAN HILMY

Sunday, 11 Apr 2021

LANGKAWI: Their 30ha settlement is a somewhat secluded neighbourhood hidden away from the iconic eagle in Kuah town and unknown to many Malaysians visiting this “touristy” island.

19 people sentenced to death by Myanmar military

CNN
Story by Reuters
April 10, 2021

Myanmar special envoy: It is time for the world to stop another genocide 05:27

Nineteen people have been sentenced to death in Myanmar for killing an associate of an army captain, the military-owned Myawaddy TV station said on Friday -- the first such sentences announced in public since a February 1 coup and crackdown on protesters.

The report said the killing took place on March 27 in the North Okkalapa district of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. Martial law has been declared in the district, allowing courts martial to pronounce sentences.

The military rulers who overthrew an elected government said Friday the protest campaign against its rule was dwindling because people wanted peace, and that it would hold elections within two years -- the first timeframe it has given for a return to democracy.

Security Council Arria formula meeting on Myanmar

UN Web TV
9 Apr 2021 -

On 1 February, Myanmar’s military launched a coup that halted abruptly the country’s democratic transition. The military prevented the convening of the democratically elected parliament and arbitrarily detained the country’s civilian leaders, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. The reaction of the people of Myanmar has been resolute – hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters have taken to the streets to demand that the outcome of November’s election is respected and to call for the reversal of the coup. 

Burmese opposition figure Dr Sasa: 'The world has to stop another genocide'

FRANCH 24   

Marc Perelman
08/04/2021

THE INTERVIEW © FRANCE 24

Exiled Burmese opposition figure Dr Sasa is the UN envoy for Myanmar's CRPH, a committee representing the parliament that was elected in November but which has not been able to take office because of the military coup. Dr Sasa called on the international community – Russia and China included – to stop the junta's military crackdown on Myanmar's people. He called on world leaders to act now to prevent the civil unrest from turning into a "genocide" that might soon send refugees into neighbouring countries.

Link : Here

Video: SC on Rohingya, SC on Anil Deshmukh’s plea

INDIA

LEGAL

April 8, 2021

Supreme Court refuses to release Rohingyas detained in Jammu, says they should be deported to Myanmar

Supreme Court dismisses Maharashtra govt, Anil Deshmukh challenge against CBI probe Make masks mandatory during poll campaigns, plea asks; Delhi HC seeks response from Centre and EC Kashi Vishwanath Mandir-Gyanvapi Masjid dispute: Varanasi court clears ASI survey of mosque

Myanmar coup: Asean leadership offers best chance to avert a refugee crisis

South China Morning Post

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

Opinion

7 Apr, 2021

• Many international actors are vying to play the role of peacemaker in Myanmar, but Asean – flaws and all – remains the most suited to broker talks

• The efforts of Indonesia, along with other key members, show genuine interest to stop growing instability in the country from spilling across the region

Myanmar refugees line up to receive rescue materials in a camp in Manghai, a small border town between China and Myanmar in Yunnan province, in November 2016. Continuing violence in Myanmar has neighbours China, India and Thailand worried about a fresh exodus of refugees fleeing across their border. Photo: Simon Song

A breakthrough could be in the offing as China lends support to an Asean-led initiative to de-escalate the situation in Myanmar and bring warring parties to a dialogue. Last week, foreign ministers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines flew to Nanping in southeastern Fujian province to meetForeign Minister Wang Yi.

Fire becomes new fear for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

DW
Author Arafatul Islam
07.04.2021

Several deadly fire incidents in overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh over the past several weeks point to a "very worrying trend," say experts.

A Rohingya refugee stands among the remains of burnt materials after a fire broke out recently at a camp in Cox's Bazar

Three Rohingya men died after a fire gutted shops at a makeshift market near the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district on Friday.

Their bodies were found in one of 20 shops burned after the fire broke out before dawn at the market near the Kutupalong refugee camp.

Thousands of Rohingya Refugees in Northwest India Live in Fear of Deportation

VOA

VOA News

06 April 2021

 Thousands of Rohingya refugees live in temporary camps in India’s northwestern Jammu and Kashmir region, where they fear deportation back to Myanmar. VOA Urdu Service’s Zubair Dar visited a camp of people in Bathindi Narval who said they fled abuses and do not want to go back. Roshan Noorzai narrates the story. VOA Khmer's Leakhena Sreng narrates the story in Khmer. 

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Global condemnation of Myanmar military's 'reign of terror' after deadliest day since coup

FRANCH 24

Text by:NEWS WIRES
28/03/2021

Defence chiefs from a dozen countries on Sunday jointly condemned the bloodbath in Myanmar a day earlier, when at least 107 people -- including seven children -- were killed as security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, triggering mass protests demanding a return to democracy.

The junta on Saturday staged a major show of might for its annual Armed Forces Day as the death toll from crackdowns since the coup climbed to at least 423, according to a local monitoring group.

U.S. 'horrified' by Myanmar violence, Blinken says after bloodiest day since military coup

nbc News

By Yuliya Talmazan
March 28, 2021, 

The courageous people of Burma reject the military’s reign of terror,” Blinken said after the worst day of violence in Myanmar since last month's coup..

 

The United States is “horrified” by the bloodshed in Myanmar, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday, after the country’s bloodiest day of protests since last month’s military coup.

The violent crackdown on demonstrators by Myanmar’s security forces showed that the junta will “sacrifice the lives of the people to serve the few,” Blinken said in a tweet.

Myanmar: Airstrikes force villagers into jungle as 3,000 flee to Thailand

Sky News

David Mercer
News reporter @DavidMercerSky
Monday 29 March 2021

A luxury military party was reportedly held in Myanmar's capital on the deadliest day since last month's coup.

 
Man injured after Myanmar rickshaw grenade blast

Airstrikes that sent villagers fleeing into the jungle show the situation in Myanmar is "much worse", a humanitarian worker has told Sky News, as military leaders reportedly partied on the deadliest day of violence since last month's coup.

More gunfire has been reported today as people gathered for the funeral of one of at least 114 people said to have been killed by Myanmar security forces yesterday, including a five-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

Myanmar security forces kill over 100 protesters in 'horrifying' day of bloodshed

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
MARCH 27, 2021

(Reuters) -Myanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup, news reports and witnesses said.

 

The killings, which took place on Armed Forces Day, drew strong renewed criticism from Western countries. British Ambassador Dan Chugg said the security forces had “disgraced themselves” and the U.S. envoy called the violence horrifying.

Military jets also launched air strikes on a village in territory controlled by an armed group from the Karen ethnic minority and at least two people were killed, a civil society group said.

‘We have nothing’: Refugee camp fire devastates Rohingya, again

Aljazeera
Faisal Mahmud
27 Mar 2021

Refugees recount ordeal after deadly blaze leaves tens of thousands without a shelter, reawakens trauma of Myanmar army’s 2017 crackdown.

At least 15 people were killed in Monday's fire and hundreds injured [Faisal Mahmud/Al Jazeera]

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – The last time Farida Begum saw her home turned into a smouldering ruin was some three and a half years ago.

On that night, soldiers had arrived in the swampy Maungdaw district of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, killed her husband and torched their house.

CRPH ကို ထိခိုက္ေအာင္ စစ္ေကာင္စီလုပ္ႏိုင္မည္ မဟုတ္ (ဦးထင္လင္းေအာင္)

VOA
24 မတ္၊ 2021
အင္ၾကင္းႏုုိင္

CRPH နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ စစ္ေကာင္စီဘက္က ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္တဲ့ လုပ္ရပ္မွန္သမွ် သူတို႔ကို ထိခိုက္မႈရွိမွာမဟုတ္ ဘူးလို႔ CRPH ႏိုင္ငံတကာဆက္ဆံေရးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးထင္လင္းေအာင္ က ေျပာပါတယ္။ 

 

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Ro Nay San Lwin recently interview with FRANCE 24

FRANCH 24 

25 March 2021

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမီးေလာင္

VOA
22 မတ္၊ 2021  

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္ဒုကၡသည္ သိန္းခ်ီခိုလံႈေနထိုင္ရာ ဘာလုခါလီဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ မီးအႀကီးအက်ယ္ေလာင္ကၽြမ္းေနပါတယ္။မီးေဘးလြတ္ရာကို ေျပးခဲ့ရတဲ့ မူဆလင္ဒုကၡသည္မိသားစုေတြ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ လူစုကြဲေနၾကသလို အိုးအိမ္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းနဲ႔ ေဆးဝါးရိကၡာထားတဲ့အေဆာက္အဦးေတြအပါအဝင္ ပစၥည္းပ်က္စီးဆံုးရႈံးမ်ားပါတယ္။ 

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