DW interviews Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese academic and Human Rights Activist
Dr. Maung Zarni explained Myanmar's Orwellian coup - and how Aung San Suu Kyi herself was responsible for the Big Lie of "democratization" while the military commits genocide against Rohingya.
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Late on the evening of March 1, 1962, General Ne Win was among the honored guests at a Chinese ballet performance in Yangon. The general enjoyed a drink as he took in the show. Guests recalled seeing the general and his bodyguards return home soon after the performance ended.
But this relaxed scene was a façade. In the early hours of March 2, troops dispatched by the general arrived at the residences of government leaders and detained them. At 8:50 a.m. he went on the air to announced a military takeover of the government. Not even Ne Win’s close subordinates—including Brigadier General Aung Gyi, who would become the No. 2 in the Revolutionary Council formed shortly after the coup—had prior knowledge of the power grab.
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.”
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy Party (NLD) on Saturday said it accepted a military statement on the situation in the country as a suitable explanation, after the armed forces said it would protect and follow the constitution.
Myo Nyunt, spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, which won a November election in a landslide, told Reuters the party wanted the military to be an organisation "that accepts people's desire regarding the election".
(Reporting by Shoon Naing; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by William Mallard)
Supreme Court postpones decision on military-linked party's claim of electoral fraud
Myanmar is just a decade out of nearly 50 years of military rule. (AFP Photo)
YANGON: More than a dozen embassies, including the US and EU delegations, on Friday urged Myanmar to “adhere to democratic norms”, joining the United Nations in a chorus of international concern about a possible military coup.
Political tensions eased slightly on Friday when the Supreme Court postponed considering allegations of electoral misconduct by President Win Myint and election commission chairman Hla Thein.
The submissions filed by the military-linked Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) would be “reserved for judgement", the court said.
Chinese attendees, some wearing tags which reads “Expert
Team,” walk to a restaurant after leaving a conference area where World
Health Organization team of researchers are meeting their Chinese
counterparts in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Friday, Jan.
29, 2021. (AP)
Their first in-person meetings should be followed by the first field visits in and around the industrial and transport hub
WUHAN, China: World Health Organization experts in Wuhan, China, to look into the origins of the new coronavirus met with their Chinese counterparts Friday and plan later to visit sites in the central city that will be key to their long-awaited fact-finding mission.
“First face to face meeting with our colleagues. Correction: facemask to facemask given the medical restrictions,” Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans tweeted around 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT).
“Discussing our visiting program. China teamleader prof Wannian joking about some technical glitches. Nice to see our colleagues after lengthy Zoom meetings,” Koopman tweeted, referring apparently to top Chinese epidemiologist Liang Wannian, who has been a leader of China’s response team.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh moved another group of Rohingya Muslims on Friday to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, despite concerns over the risk of storms and floods lashing the site, even as some refugees despaired of finding solutions to their plight.
FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on wooden benches of a navy vessel on
their way to the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali district, Bangladesh,
December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo
The densely-populated south Asian country wants to transfer to the island a tenth of the 1 million refugees living in ramshackle border camps after they fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar.
“What options do we have? How long can we live in the crowded camps under tarpaulins?” asked Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, as he sailed to the island of Bhasan Char, to which some of his relatives have also been moved.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually hands over certificates among
participants of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC)
2020-21 Course at Sheikh Hasina Complex in Mirpur Cantonment in Dhaka on
Thursday, January 28, 2021 ISPR
Bangladesh is continuing discussions with Myanmar so that they take back their citizens, says the prime minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh continues its discussions with Myanmar with a friendly attitude for the repatriation of Rohingyas without engaging in any conflict for the sake of regional security and development.
Diplomacy could be difficult with a state officially designated as genocidal.
Now it’s an issue for Biden. Photographer: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP
In the final weeks and months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the State Department took some steps that are likely to be reversed. President Joe Biden’s administration is now reviewing these last-minute actions, such as designating the Houthi movement in Yemen a terrorist organization and imposing new sanctions on Iranian leaders and organizations, with a red marker in hand.
One 11th-hour policy change, however, may be here to stay: the designation of China’s repression of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang province as genocide. At his confirmation hearing last week, and in his first press briefing this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed that what China’s government has done to the Uighurs was genocide.
A daylong event titled "Rohingya: City on the Hill" was held at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Global Studies and Governance Program of the School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at IUB organised the programme that highlighted humanitarian and repatriation challenges in Bangladesh since Rohingyas influx, said a press release.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson was the chief guest at the inaugural session. He said the UK remains beside Bangladesh in addressing Rohingya-related challenges.
လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂမဟာမင်းကြီး Michelle Bachelet။ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၁၄၊ ၂၀၂၀) 
Myanmar is just a decade out of nearly 50 years of military rule. (AFP Photo) 
