Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control

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02 February 2021

Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders.

Troops are patrolling the streets and a night-time curfew is in force, with a one-year state of emergency declared.

US President Joe Biden raised the threat of new sanctions, with the UN and UK also condemning the coup.

The army alleges the recent landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi's party was marred by fraud. She urged supporters to "protest against the coup".

‘People Will Face More Violence’: Rohingya Refugees React to Myanmar Coup

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Verena Hölzl
02.02.2021

 

They feared for their relatives still in Myanmar and worried about the prospect of ever returning home. 

Rohingya refugee children play football in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on Oct. 11, 2020. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP

Rohingya refugee Mozuna Khatu was initially happy when she heard that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained.
“Praise god, maybe we can go home now,” she told VICE World News from a sprawling camp in Bangladesh, where more than one million Rohingya live after being driven from their homes in Myanmar in waves of state-backed violence.

Rohingya refugees condemn Myanmar coup - community leader

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Monday, 1 February 2021 

DHAKA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees condemned the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Myanmar by the military on Monday, a community leader said in Bangladesh, where a number of them live after fleeing violence in the neighbouring country.

"We Rohingya community strongly condemn this heinous attempt to kill democracy," Rohingya leader Dil Mohammed told Reuters by phone. "We urge the global community to come forward and restore democracy at any cost." (Reporting by Ruma Paul; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

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Rohingya leaders: Army coup will adversely impact repatriation bid

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Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
February 1st, 2021

 

Ships of Bangladesh Navy carry Rohingya people to Bhashan Char in Noakhali on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

‘Whenever there is any development regarding our repatriation process, the Myanmar authorities create a problem’

As tensions grew in Myanmar after the country’s military staged a coup d’etat in the early hours of Monday, Rohingyas living in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh feared they might not be repatriated to their country.

Though the situation along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has been normal despite the military takeover in the neighbouring country, Rohingya leaders in the refugee camps said the military takeover would badly affect the repatriation process.

Schumer said administration has briefed Congress on Burmese coup

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Laura Kelly
02/01/21 

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The Biden administration has briefed Congress on the military coup in Myanmar, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday, amid an international outcry condemning Burmese forces over their arrest of democratically elected leaders.

Speaking from the Senate floor, Schumer said Congress stands ready to work with the administration on efforts to support restoring democracy in the Southeast Asian country, also referred to as Burma.

“We are monitoring this situation with great concern, and the Biden administration is already providing briefings to the Hill on the state of affairs,” he said. “Congress stands ready to work collaboratively with the administration to resolve the situation.”

Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the Situation in Burma

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February 01, 2021  

The military’s seizure of power in Burma, the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials, and the declaration of a national state of emergency are a direct assault on the country’s transition to democracy and the rule of law. In a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or attempt to erase the outcome of a credible election. For almost a decade, the people of Burma have been steadily working to establish elections, civilian governance, and the peaceful transfer of power. That progress should be respected.

Timeline of Recent Events in Myanmar

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01 February 2021

A vehicle with Myanmar and military flags and supporters of the Myanmar military and the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party passes by a row of police trucks with police security onboard parked near the Kyauktada police station in…

Here is a timeline of some key events in Myanmar's recent turbulent history:

November 2015: The National League for Democracy (NLD) wins a general election by a landslide and Aung San Suu Kyi assumes power in a specially created role of state counselor.

The Significance Of Aung San Suu Kyi's Detainment By Myanmar Military

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February 1, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, about Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and her detainment by the Myanmar military.

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Myanmar's military staged a coup today and detained the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It is the latest turbulent turn in that country and a return to detention for Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She was put under house arrest after the military refused to accept the results of the previous year's election that saw her party win an outright majority. She later became the country's de facto leader after the military decided to loosen its grip on power in 2011. And while she remains popular within the country, internationally, her reputation has suffered. Joining us now for more is Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program for the International Crisis Group.

U.N. fears for Myanmar Rohingya after coup, Security Council due to meet Tuesday

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Michelle Nichols
APAC
February 1, 2021

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations fears the coup in Myanmar will worsen the plight of some 600,000 Rohingya Muslims still in the country, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday as the Security Council planned to meet on the latest developments on Tuesday.

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Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other political leaders of in early morning raids.

A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they are still stranded in refugee camps. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western states accused the Myanmar military of ethnic cleansing, which it denied.

U.N. fears situation will worsen for Rohingya in Myanmar

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff 

February 1, 2021 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations fears the coup in Myanmar on Monday will worsen the situation for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims still in the country’s Rakhine state, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

“There are about 600,000 Rohingya those that remain in Rakhine State, including 120,000 people who are effectively confined to camps, they cannot move freely and have extremely limited access to basic health and education services,” he said.

Why is the military taking control in Burma?

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Associated Press
02.02.2021

The coup follows days of tensions between the civilian government and military

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Burma's military has taken control of the country under a one-year state of emergency and reports say State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other government leaders have been detained. Here are some possible reasons why the military has taken over now: 

FILE - In this May 24, 2017, file photo, Myanmar's Vice President Myint Swe, right, smiles while sitting with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and then President Htin Kyaw during a photo session after the second session of the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File) 

 

မြန်မာ့အပြောင်းအလဲ ကို “စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းခြင်း” အဖြစ် အမေရိကန် သတ်မှတ်လိုက်ပြီ

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 မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်တပ်က အာဏာရယူမှုကို စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု အဖြစ် အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးဌာန က တရားဝင် ကြေညာလိုက်ပါပြီ။

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ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌအဖြစ် ဦးစီးမယ့် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီကို ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၂ ရက်နေ့ ရက်စွဲနဲ့ ဖွဲ့စည်းတယ်လို့ တပ်မတော်သတင်းမှန်ပြန်ကြားရေးကော်မတီက ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။ ကောင်စီ အတွင်းရေးမှူးအဖြစ် ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး အောင်လင်းဒွေးက ဆောင်ရွက်ပြီး ထူးခြားတာကတော့ အရပ်သား အဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေထဲ KNU ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး ဗဟိုကော်မတီဝင်တဦးဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဖဒိုမန်းငြိမ်းမောင် ပါဝင်သ လို ဦးသိန်းညွန့်၊ ဦးခင်မောင်ဆွေတို့ အမည်တွေ ပါဝင်ပါတယ်။

အာဏာသိမ္းမႈ နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို့ ေဒသတြင္းႏိုင္ငံမ်ားရဲ့ တု႔ံျပန္မႈ

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ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးတကၠသိုလ္မွ နည္းျပအရာရွိႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ သင္တန္းသားအရာရွိႀကီးမ်ားအား Video Conferencing ျဖင့္ မိန႔္ခြန္းေျပာၾကားေနတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လႈိင္ (Facebook -တပ္မေတာ္သတင္းမွန္ ျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႕၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ၂၇၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီးမင္းေအာင္လွိဳင္ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံ ေတာ္ ကာကြယ္ေရး တကၠသိုလ္က နည္းျပ အရာရွိေတြနဲ႔ သင္တန္းသား အရာရွိၾကီးေတြကို Video Conferencing နဲ႔ အမွာစကားေျပာခဲ့ျပီး အဲဒီ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ဗီဒီယိုဖိုင္ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ကို အမ်ားျပည္သူ သိႏုိင္ေအာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ ဗီဒီယိုဖိုင္မွာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး မင္းေအာင္လွိဳင္က ဘယ္သူဘယ္၀ါ ဘယ္အဖြဲ႕ အ စည္းရယ္လို႔ ရည္ညႊန္းျခင္းမရွိပဲ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ဟာ ဥပေဒကို ကိုယ္လိုရာဆြဲျပီး လုပ္ေနၾကတဲ့ အတြက္ အက်ိဳး ထက္ အဆုိးကို ျဖစ္ေစေၾကာင္း၊ ဒီလို ဥပေဒကို မလိုက္နာဘူး ဆုိရင္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံု အေျခခံ ဥပေဒကို ဖ်က္ပစ္ ရ မယ္ ဆုိ ၿပီး ေျပာဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူ႔ရဲ႕ အဲလို ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ေတြေၾကာင့္ ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ရက္ပိုင္း တပ္မေတာ္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္း ပြဲမွာ ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေဇာ္မင္းထြန္းက သတင္းေထာက္ တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕ ေမးခြန္းကို ေျဖရင္း ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္ အေနနဲ႔ အာဏာမသိမ္းဘူးလို႔ မွတ္ယူလို႔ မရတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ကို အတည္ျပဳေပး လိုက္သ လိုလည္း ျဖစ္ေစခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီးမင္းေအာင္လွိဳင္ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ျပည္သူေတြအၾကား စစ္အာ ဏာ သိမ္း ပြဲ ျဖစ္ေတာ့မွာလား ဆိုျပီး စိုးရိမ္မွဳေတြ အၾကီးအက်ယ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး မင္း ေအာင္ လွိဳင္ရဲ႕ ေျပာစကားကို ဘယ္လို အဓိပၸါယ္ ေကာက္ယူလို႔ရပါသလဲ၊ သူ႔ရဲ႕ သေဘာထား ဆႏၵ အစစ္အမွန္ က ေရာ ဘာျဖစ္မလဲ ဆိုတာ ေလ့လာၾကည့္ၾကရေအာင္ပါ။

စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု အခြေခံဥပဒေ ရှုထောင့် နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ ဝင်စွက်နိုင်ခြေ

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 ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင် ဦးဆောင်တဲ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုဟာ ၂၀၀၈ခုနှစ်မှာ စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်တွေကိုယ် တိုင် ရေးဆွဲခဲ့တဲ့ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနဲ့ ကိုက်ညီမှုမရှိတဲ့အပြင် ပယ်ဖျက်လိုက်သလိုမျိုး ဖြစ်နေကြောင်း လူ့အခွင့်အရေးရှေ့နေ ဦးအောင်ထူးက ဗွီအိုအေကိုပြောပါတယ်။Link : Here

မြန်မာ့အပြောင်းအလဲ ကို “စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းခြင်း” အဖြစ် အမေရိကန် သတ်မှတ်လိုက်ပြီ

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်တပ်က အာဏာရယူမှုကို စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု အဖြစ် အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးဌာနက တရားဝင် ကြေညာလိုက်ပါပြီ။

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 ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ စစ္တပ္က အာဏာယူတာဟာ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု နဲ႔ အညီျဖစ္တယ္လို့ဆိုေပမဲ့ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံုနဲ႔ ကိုက္ညီဖြယ္ မရွိတဲ့ အခ်က္တခ်ိဳ႔ အျပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်င္းပမယ္လို့ စစ္တပ္က ထုတ္ျပန္တာဟာ စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္တဲ့ အ ေၾကာင္း ဦးသန္းလြင္ထြန္း ကို မခင္ျဖဴေထြးက ေမးျမန္းေဆြးေႏြးထားပါတယ္။

 

 

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Myanmar coup: Army takes control after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other key government figures

Aljazeera

1st Feburary2021

Myanmar’s military has seized power and declared a state of emergency for one year following days of escalating tension over the result of November’s parliamentary elections.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, President Win Myint and other senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party have been detained in the capital, Naypyidaw, on Monday.
Al Jazeera interviews Tun Khin, President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK.

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Who profit from Coup? Future of Rohingya Repatriation?

 01 Feb 2021

 

 

Welcome Back To the Journalist Chat

Hello World !

Welcome Today Journalist Chat Episode 49 Tonight

Today We have very amazing guests who will discuss about the military's Coup in Myanmar

We have

Debbie Stothard ,Chair of the Board ,International Campaign for Rohingya.

Professor Michael Charney, SOAS University of London

Ro Nay San lwin, Co -Founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition & Blogger

Rezaur Rahman Lenin,Independent Academic Activist

 Link : Here