Blinken urges ASEAN to take ‘immediate action’ on Myanmar

Aljazeera

14 Jul 2021

In first meeting with ASEAN, US secretary of state calls for action on Myanmar and rejects China’s claims in South China Sea.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed US's commitment to ASEAN centrality during Wednesday's video conference [Jim Watson/Pool via Reuters]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed “deep concerns” about the military coup in Myanmar and called on Southeast Asian nations to take action to end violence and restore democracy in the country.

Inside the Myanmar mountain camp where rebels train to fight for freedom from the junta

CNN
Exclusive by Sam Kiley,
July 8, 2021

Camp Victoria, Myanmar (CNN)Full-throated they belt out songs of victory, their boots adding the drumbeat as ranks of new recruits jog in formation through their jungle training camp.

There's no doubting the shining eyes of these young people united by an ideal -- freedom from the junta that's smothered democracy in Myanmar.

Nor, perhaps, hiding from the dark tragedy that may await them.

Myanmar diplomats in US and Switzerland refuse to return home after criticising military junta

South China Morning Post

29 Jun, 2021

• Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN, said the 11 diplomats had joined the civil disobedience movement following the Feburary 1 coup
• ‘The military [has] already charged me high treason … So I definitely cannot go back [to Myanmar],’ he said

Anti-coup protesters march in Pabedan township near Yangon. Photo: AP

Eleven Myanmar diplomats in the United States and Switzerland are creating a united front as they seek to remain in their host countries in protest against the country’s military junta, refusing to return home, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday.

Myanmar ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun said the 11 are among around 20 diplomats in seven countries who have joined the civil disobedience movement amid the continued use of violence against protesters by Myanmar security forces since the February 1 military coup.

ျမန္မာ့အေရး ကုလပ်က္ကြက္မႈ ရာဇဝတ္မႈမွာ အလိုပါျဖစ္ ေန (Christopher Gunness)

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန) 

အိသန္႔စင္
29 ဇြန္၊ 2021 

 

ျမန္မာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ပ္အတည္း ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ေရးမွာ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႔ႀကီးရဲ႕ တာဝန္ပ်က္ကြက္မႈေတြက ရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ အလိုတူ အလိုပါ သေဘာမ်ဳိး ျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆိုၿပီး ၿဗိတိန္ အေျခစိုက္ NGO အဖြဲ႔တခုျဖစ္တဲ့ Myanmar Accountability Project အဖြဲ႕က Christopher Gunness က ေျပာပါတယ္။ မအိသန္႔စင္ ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း ထားပါတယ္။

Link: Here

One on One - Myanmar's UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun

TRT WORLD
Jun 26, 2021

The United Nations General Assembly has called for an arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the February coup by the military junta. In a rare act of defiance, Myanmar's UN ambassador also condemned the coup. TRT World's Frank Ucciardo sat down with Kyaw Moe Tun to talk about Myanmar's future and whether his county will ever return to democracy.

#Myanmar #UN #KyawMoeTun

Link : Here

Army clashes with anti-junta militia in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city

CNN

Story by Reuters
June 22, 2021

In Myanmar's jungles, protesters are training to fight the junta 02:30

Myanmar security forces backed by armored vehicles on Tuesday clashed with a newly formed militia group in Mandalay, the country's second-biggest city, according to social media posts from the group and media reports.

Since the army seized power on February 1 and removed the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the security forces have quashed protests opposing military rule. In response, groups of opponents of the coup known as people's defense forces have sprung up across Myanmar.

UN General Assembly calls for halt of weapons to Myanmar

France24

Text by:NEWS WIRES
Issued on: 18/06/2021

The United Nations logo is seen on a window in an empty hallway at United Nations headquarters during the 75th annual UN General Assembly high-level debate in New York on September 21, 2020. © Mike Segar, Reuters/File Photo

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

United Nations calls for halt of weapons to Myanmar

REUTERS

Michelle Nichols
June 19, 2021

NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

UN proposal seeks arms embargo and democracy in Myanmar

abc NEWS
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
18 June 2021

Diplomats say the U_N_ General Assembly is expected to approve a resolution calling on Myanmar’s military junta to restore the country’s democratic transition and calling on all countries “to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar.”

On Location: June 18, 2021
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly is expected to approve a resolution calling on Myanmar’s junta to restore the country’s democratic transition and for all countries “to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar,” diplomats said.

The draft resolution also condemns deadly violence by security forces and calls on the junta to unconditionally release the ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint “and all those who have been arbitrarily detained, charged or arrested."

A Discussion With Ro Nay San Lwin on current situation of Myanmar

The Arakan Times Rohingya News
18 June 2021
ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဘာသာျဖင့္၊

ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးစုရဲ့ အခက်ခဲပြဿနာများကို ရှင်းလင်း တင်ပြထား။

SBS မြန်မာ
15/06/2021

 

 မပန်းစန္ဒာက အိန္ဒိယ နယူးဒေလီ ရိုဟင်ဂျာစခန်းတစ်လျှောက်မီးလောင်တဲ့ကိစ္စ၊ အိန္ဒိယနဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးစုတွေကြုံတွေ့ရတဲ့ အခက်ခဲတွေကိုတင်ပြထားပါတယ်။

Link: Here

Fire at Rohingya Refugee Camp in Delhi: 230 People Left Homeless

THE QUINT
Updated: 14 Jun 2021,

Rohingya refugee Ali Johar says that in the year 2018 also there was a fire in the refugee camp

Video Producer: Mayank Chawla
Video Editors: Kanishk Dangi, Mohd. Irshad Alam

A massive fire broke out at the Rohingya refugee camp in the Madanpur Khadar area near Delhi's Kalindi Kunj, in which around 55 shanties were gutted. The fire started around 11:30 pm on Sunday, 13 June.

Myanmar’s pro-Rohingya social media campaign gathers mass support

Aljazeera
14 Jun 2021

Since the military coup, an anti-military movement demanding a return to democracy has grown to include fighting for ethnic minority rights.

In 2017, a bloody military campaign in Myanmar's west sent about 740,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh carrying accounts of rape, mass killings and arson [File: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]

Hundreds of thousands of Myanmar’s anti-military government protesters have flooded social media with pictures of themselves wearing black in a show of solidarity with the Rohingya, a minority group that is among the most persecuted in the country.

Since the military overthrew civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a February 1 coup, an anti-military movement demanding a return to democracy has grown to include fighting for ethnic minority rights.

World renews call for Spring Revolution, #Black4Rohingya solidarity

COCONUTS YANGON
By Nay Paing
Jun 14, 2021

Over the weekend, protestors around the world rallied in 48 cities across 25 countries including Myanmar demanding the international community take concrete action against the military junta. Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement also demonstrated their solidarity with the Rohingya with the viral #BlackforRohingya digital campaign.

‘A catastrophe’: UN warns of intensifying violence in Myanmar

Aljazeera
11 Jun 2021

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says military government is ‘singularly responsible’ for violence and ‘must be held to account’.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that multiple reports indicate that armed conflict is continuing, including in Kayah State, Chin State and Kachin State [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]

The United Nations human rights chief has warned that violence is intensifying across Myanmar, slamming the country’s military government for being “singularly responsible” for a “human rights catastrophe”.

Myanmar: The mysterious deaths of the NLD party officials

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By Jonathan Head
South East Asia correspondent
07th June 2021

Khin Maung Latt (L) and Zaw Myat Lynn (R) both died earlier in MarcI MAGE COPYRIGHT COLLAGE

The violence used by Myanmar's armed forces against unarmed opponents since the coup in February has shocked the world; more than 800 people have been killed, most by military gunfire. But the deaths in custody of two officials from the National League of Democracy - the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi - have cast an even grimmer light on the military's actions.

On Saturday, 6 March, cities across Myanmar were on edge.

ASEAN diplomacy in Myanmar intensifies as EU eyes more sanctions

Aljazeera

4 Jun 2021

Analyst says ASEAN diplomacy ‘dead on arrival’ while shadow opposition government seeks recognition of ethnic Rohingya as citizens.

Protesters make the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on Thursday [Stringer/AFP]

Diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are set for talks with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, as Myanmar enters its fifth month of crippling unrest since the military seized power on February 1 amid the increasing prospect of new sanctions from the European Union.

အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ(NUG) သတင်းစာရှင်း လင်းပွဲ ( ၀၁/၂၀၂၁ )

 

NUG ရဲ့ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႕ႀကိဳဆို

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ဘီဘီစီၿမန္မာပိုင္း
03 ဇြန္လ2021

 

 အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပည္သူမ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မူဝါဒ သေဘာထားကို ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ပါတယ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုေတြေနထိုင္ၾကသူေတြဟာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို အျပည့္အဝ ခံစားခြင့္ရွိေစရမယ္ ဆိုတာအပါ အ ဝင္ လူမ်ိဳးအလိုက္ခံစားခြင့္ နိုင္ငံသားအခြင့္အေရးခံစားခြင့္စတာေတြေပၚမွာ ဒီမူဝါဒကို အေျခခံထားတယ္လို႔ အန္ယူဂ်ီက ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ မူဝါဒ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထဲမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

၁၉၈၂ နိုင္ငံသားျဖစ္မႈဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္တာ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ အသစ္ျပန္လုပ္တာ ကို ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ ေရးဆြဲ ၿပီး တဲ့ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမယ္လို႔ ဆိုသလို ၂၀၁၇ ကိုဖီအာနန္အႀကံျပဳခ်က္ ၈၈ ခ်က္ကလည္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အေရးေျဖရွင္းရာမွာ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အခန္းက႑က ပါဝင္သြားမယ္လို႔ လည္း ဆိုပါတယ္

အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရရဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပည္သူေတြအေပၚ မူဝါဒနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လူမ်ိဳးစု အသိုင္း အဝိုင္းကေကာ ဘယ္လို သေဘာထားၾကပါလဲ။ ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အသင္း (UK)ရဲ့ ဥကၠဌ ဉီးထြန္းခင္ကို ကိုရင္ ေမာင္က ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။ 

Link : Here

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး - အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရရဲ့ မူဝါဒ အ ေပၚ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ဘယ္လိုျမင္လဲ

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ဘီဘီစီျမန္မာပိုင္း
03 June 2021

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ကူတူပေလာင္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္အခ်ိဳ႕

အမ်ိဳးသားညီညြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ NUG က ဇြန္လ ၃ ရက္ေန႔မွာ "ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပည္သူမ်ား ဆိုင္ရာ မူဝါဒ သေဘာ ထား"ကို ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ဒီမူဝါဒေတြထဲမွာ လိုလား အားတက္စရာ ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့အခ်က္ေတြ ပါ တဲ့အတြက္ ႀကိဳဆိုတယ္၊ တခ်ိဳ႕အပိုင္း ေတြမွာေတာ့ ျဖည့္စြက္စဥ္းစားေစလိုတယ္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း က ေျပာပါတယ္။

"ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအပါအဝင္ လူနည္းစုေတြနဲ႔ (NUG က) ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္မယ္ဆိုတာကို ေတြ႕ရတဲ့အတြက္ ဒါက အေတာ္ႀကိဳဆိုစရာ ျဖစ္တယ္၊ အၾကမ္းဖက္ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ကိုယ္ခ်င္းစာနာလာတာ၊ တရားမၽွ တမႈ အတြက္ က်ဴးလြန္သူေတြကို အျပစ္ေပးနိုင္ေအာင္လုပ္မယ္၊ ေနာက္ၿပီး ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေဘးကင္းစြာ ျပန္လာနိုင္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေဆာင္မယ္ စတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြဟာလည္း သိပ္ေကာင္းပါ တယ္"လို႔ ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အသင္း (ယူေက) ရဲ့ ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္က ဘီဘီစီကို ေျပာပါတယ္။