At military camps in the Myanmar jungle, doctors and students learn how to fire guns

CNN

Kocha Olarn and Paula Hancocks, 
May 5, 2021

(CNN)A dozen armed recruits crawl along a dusty pathway, the cicadas masking any sound of their approach towards their target, a small village in the jungles of Myanmar.

The ambush scenario is fabricated but the threat they are training for is real: a military junta that seized power in a coup on February 1, and embarked on a brutal crackdown on any perceived opposition to its rule.

The Unfolding Crisis in Burma

May 4, 2021 1:00 PM

Location: Hearing will be held virtually via Cisco WebEx


Witnesses

His Excellency Kyaw Moe Tun
Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations
Ms. Khin Ohmar
Founder and Chairperson of the Advisory Board
Progressive VoiceThe Honorable Kelley E. Currie
Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

Documents

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ကန်အောက်လွှတ်တော်ကြားနာပွဲ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီး တင်ပြချက် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးလှုပ်ရှားသူတွေ ကြိုဆို

VOA

05 မေ၊ 2021
အင်ကြင်းနိုင်

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ တရားဝင်အစိုးရအဖြစ် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရ NUG ကို အသိအမှတ်ပြုဖို့နဲ့ မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဆီ ငွေကြေးစီးဆင်းမှုတွေကို ချက်ခြင်းရပ်ဖို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းက အမေရိကန်အောက်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်တွေကိုတိုက်တွန်း လိုက်ပါတယ်။ မအင်ကြင်းနိုင်က ဆက်လက်တင်ပြမှာပါ။

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ျမန္မာ့အေရး အေမရိကန္ဦးေဆာင္လႈပ္ရွားဖို႔ ျမန္မာသံအ မတ္တိုက္တြန္

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ရဲခေါင်မြင့်မောင်(ဝါရှင်တန်ဒီစီ)

2021-05-04

 အေမရိကန္ဟာ ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို ကူညီေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ေနရာကိုယူၿပီး ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား လုပ္ေဆာင္ ဖို႔ လိုတယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းက တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာေကာ္မတီမွာ မေန႔ညေနက က်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ၾကား နာ စစ္ေဆးပြဲအတြင္း သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း၊ တက္ႂကြလႈပ္ရွားသူ ေဒၚခင္ဥမၼာနဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ရဲ့ ကမၻာ လုံးဆိုင္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာ သံအမတ္ မစၥ ကယ္လီကာရီတို႔က တက္ေရာက္ၿပီး ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ေကာ္ မတီဝင္ေတြရဲ့ ေမးခြန္းေတြကို ေျဖၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေနမွာ သုံးစြဲနိုင္တဲ့ ESS နဲ႔ ျမန္မာ

2021-05-02

ကမၻာမွာ အၾကပ္အတည္းဆိုက္ေနရတဲ့ နိုင္ငံေတြအတြက္ “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ အျပစ္မဲ့ျပည္သူေတြကို အကာအကြယ္ေပးေရးအစီအစဥ္ ရွိသလို၊ ESS ေခၚ အထူးအေရးေပၚ အေျခအေန အတြက္ သုံးစြဲနိုင္တဲ့ အခြင့္အလမ္းတရပ္လည္း ရွိေန ပါတယ္။

ဒီအေၾကာင္း RFA ဝိုင္းေတာ္သား ဦးသစ္ဆင္းက စုစည္းတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Link : Here

Fighting erupts in Myanmar; junta to ‘consider’ ASEAN plan

Reuters

April 27, 2021

 

Ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked a Myanmar army outpost near the Thai border on Tuesday in some of the most intense clashes since a military coup nearly three months ago threw the country into crisis.

The Karen National Union (KNU), Myanmar's oldest rebel force, said it had captured the army camp on the west bank of the Salween river, which forms the border with Thailand.

The Myanmar military later hit back against the insurgents with air strikes, the KNU and Thai authorities said.

First Person: Rohingya refugees traumatized again, after devastating camp fire

UN News
Human Rights

25 April 2021

IOM/Mashrif Abdullah Al ,Some shelters have been rebuilt in Camp 9 of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh following a fire in March.

A Rohingya refugee and volunteer for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has been telling UN News how his community has been “once again traumatized” as a result of a massive fire which swept through the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh in March, killing at least 11 people and making more than 45,000 homeless.

Mohammad Alam is one of 800,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled unrest in neighbouring Myanmar over the past several years and who are now sheltering in Cox’s Bazar. He told UN News about losing all his possessions in the fire and how he and others are trying to rebuild for the future.

Food aid operation begins to reach two million affected by Myanmar crisis

UN News
22 April 2021
Peace and Security

UNICEF/Kaung Htet According to WFP, food prices have risen sharply since the start of the political crisis in Myanmar. Pictured here, a grandmother washes vegetables to prepare a meal at her home in the country’s Shan state. (file photo)

Two million people facing growing food insecurity linked to the ongoing political crisis in Myanmar are to receive nutrition assistance, amid rising “hunger and desperation”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.

The operation will focus on poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities “and other areas where population displacement has recently taken place” since the 1 February coup, WFP said in a statement.

ASEAN urged to consider Myanmar’s expulsion over coup abuses

Aljazeera
23 Apr 2021

Analysts and former diplomats say Saturday’s summit in Jakarta could be the most consequential in the regional bloc’s 54-year history.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), an activist group, says 739 people have been killed by Myanmar's security forces since the coup and 3,300 people are in detention as of Thursday [Stringer/Reuters]

Rights groups and activists are urging the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deny legitimacy to Myanmar’s coup leader and even consider the country’s expulsion from the regional bloc over rights abuses by security forces, as leaders of the member states prepare to attend a summit in Jakarta.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the February 1 coup that deposed Myanmar’s democratically-elected government, is expected to participate in Saturday’s summit of the 10-member ASEAN alongside seven head of states.

စစ္ေကာင္စီရဲ့ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ ပိုၿပီးနီးကပ္ လာ

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
ဂ်ဴလိုင္မ်ိဳး(ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ)
2021-04-20

 

Episode 190 -- Update on the Russia and Burma Sanctions Programs

JDSUPRA

April 18, 2021

Last week, the Biden Administration announced new and significant trade sanctions against Russia. The action was long expected given the Biden Administration’s criticism of Russia, and was a comprehensive response to Russia’s interference in the 2020 US election, its SolarWinds cyberattack and its ongoing occupation of Crimea and threatening addition of troops along the Ukraine border.

Over the last few months, OFAC has ratcheted up sanctions against Burma in response to the military coup and continuing crackdown against protesters.

In this Episode, Michael Volkov provides an overview on the Russia and Burma sanctions programs.

Link : Here

Opponents of Myanmar coup announce unity government

Aljazeera

16 Apr 2021

Win Myint designated as president, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi named as state counsellor.

Announcement comes as protests against military coup and violence continue across the country [Handout photo/Facebook via AFP]

The committee representing Myanmar’s dismissed parliament has announced the formation of a new “unity government” which includes removed lawmakers, members of ethnic groups and figures in the anti-coup protest, saying their aim was to root out military rule.

The announcement was made on Friday by Dr Sasa, who has been designated by the dismissed parliament as representative to the United Nations.

Witnesses to Bago killings describe relentless military onslaught against Myanmar civilian population

CNN

Paula Hancocks and Salai TZ, 
April 16, 2021

Eyewitnesses recount bloody crackdown in Bago, Myanmar 03:39

(CNN)The shooting started in the city of Bago, Myanmar at 5 a.m. on April 9.

By the early hours of the next morning, at least 82 people were dead, according to advocacy group AAPP.

One pro-democracy protester, an 18-year-old member of the so-called Defense Team tasked with protecting the neighborhood from the military, says he believes the death toll is closer to 100.

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)

ASIANEWS.It
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.

link: Here

ကုလအစည္းအေဝးမွာ CRPH ရဲ့ တင္ျပခ်က္၊ ျမန္မာဘာ သာျပန္

ကုလသမဂၢလံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ
ဧၿပီလ ( ၉ )ရက္ ၂၀၂၁

 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.