What Myanmar's Coup Means For The Rohingya

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh are condemning the military coup in their homeland and saying it makes them more fearful to return. A brutal counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar's military in 2017 drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh.

This month's military coup in Myanmar has made an already dire situation for Rohingya refugees even worse, say human rights activists. Now, prospects are even more unlikely for hundreds of thousands to return to Myanmar from sprawling camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

"The coup is obviously good for no one," says Matthew Smith, cofounder of the human rights advocacy group Fortify Rights. "But for the Rohingya, the risk is heightened. This is the military regime responsible for the atrocities over many, many years."

White House names generals targeted by Myanmar sanctions

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By AAMER MADHANI 

Associated Press
FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Biden administration announced Thursday that new sanctions against Myanmar will target the country's top military officials who ordered this month's coup in the Southeast Asian country.

The sanctions name top military commander Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy Soe Win, as well as four members of the State Administration Council. The executive order signed by President Joe Biden also allows the Treasury Department to target the spouses and adult children of those being sanctioned.

The move will prevent the generals from accessing more than $1 billion in Myanmar government funds held in the United States. The sanctions also will affect the Myanmar Ruby Enterprise and Myanmar Imperial Jade Co., businesses controlled by the regime.

Will Israel Break Up With Burma?

THE NATIONAL INTEREST

by Daniel J. Samet
February 10, 2021

The Israel-Burma defense relationship has not been without controversy.

In his first foreign policy-related speech as president, given February 4 at the State Department, President Joe Biden spoke about the “close cooperation with our allies and partners” as he addressed the recent coup in Burma. The United States, he said, will “work with our partners to support restoration of democracy and the rule of law and impose consequences on those responsible.”

That’ll be a cinch, right? A look at Israel, which was not among the allies and partners Biden went on to name, suggests the reverse. Israeli ties to the Burmese military may make the country well-positioned to impose consequences but getting Jerusalem to do so is another story.

Will U.S. Sanctions Convince Myanmar’s Junta to Change Course?

FOREIGN POLICY 

BY COLM QUINN

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Myanmar’s generals have proven they can survive sanctions. But sustained public pressure may be harder to endure.

US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Myanmar in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021. SAUL LOEB/AFP

Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: U.S. President Joe Biden announces sanctions on Myanmar’s military, Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold their first phone call since Biden took office, and women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is released from prison in Saudi Arabia.

World paying a heavy price for ignoring Rohingyas’ plight

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DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
February 11, 2021

Myanmar Army armored vehicles drive along a street after the military seized power in a coup, Mandalay, Myanmar, February 3, 2021. (Reuters)

For more than three decades, the hopes for democracy in Myanmar have been inextricably tied to just one person: Aung San Suu Kyi. This was entirely appropriate for most of that time. She was, after all, the chosen democratic icon of the people of Myanmar.

But only half a year after she was finally allowed to lead the civilian government of Myanmar by the military in 2016, she became complicit in the latter’s “clearing operations” against the Rohingya people in the west of the country, which ultimately amounted to genocide. She not only defended their actions as necessary, but she wholly adopted the genocidal rhetoric of even denying the existence of the Rohingya as a separate ethnic group, indigenous to Myanmar.

ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္နဲ႔ စာေရးဆရာ ေဝဟင္ေအာင္ ျပန္ လြတ္

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ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္နဲ႔ စာေရးဆရာ ေဝဟင္ေအာင္ တို႔ကို ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ 

 

နိုင္ငံေတာ္ပုန္ကန္မႈ၊ နိုင္ငံေတာ္အၾကည္ညိဳပ်က္ေစမႈေတြနဲ႔ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ခ်မွတ္ခံထားရတဲ့ ရခိုင္ နိုင္ငံ ေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္နဲ႔ စာေရးဆရာ ေဝဟင္ေအာင္ အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွာ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္နီး ပါးၾကာ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရၿပီးေနာက္ အာဏာသိမ္းစစ္အစိုးရက ဒီေန႔ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္မွာ ထည့္သြင္းေပး လိုက္ ပါတယ္။

သူတို႔ႏွစ္ဦး ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔ ဒီေန႔ေန႔လယ္ ၁၁ နာရီဝန္းက်င္မွာ အင္းစိန္းအက်ဥ္းေထာင္က ေနလြတ္ ေၿမာက္လာလို႔ သူတို႔ႏွစ္ဦးနဲ႔အတူရွိေနတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာေအာင္နိုင္လင္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။

သူတို႔ႏွစ္ဦးကို ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၁၉ မတ္လ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔က ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ အထိ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့တာျဖစ္လို႔ အက်ဥ္း ေထာင္အတြင္းမွာ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္နီးပါးၾကာေနခဲ့ရတာပါ။

ကန်အကူအညီ အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့ မရစေဖို့ ကဏ္ဍပြောင်း ရွှေ့ကူညီနေ

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အမေရိကန်အစိုးရက နိုင်ငံတကာ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေအတွက် အကူအညီပေးနေတဲ့ USAID အဖွဲ့က မြန် မာ နိုင်ငံအတွက် ပေးနေတဲ့ အကူအညီတွေကို အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်အုပ်စုအတွက် အထောက်အပံ့မဖြစ်အောင် ပြန် လည်သုံးသပ်ပြီး ကူညီငွေ ဒေါ်လာ ၄၂ သန်းကျော်ကို ချက်ချင်း နေရာပြောင်း ကူညီတာတွေ လုပ်ဆောင် လိုက် တယ်လို့ ပြောပါတယ်။

အာဏာသိမ်း မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်တွေပေါ် နည်းလမ်းစုံ သုံးအရေးယူဖို့ အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ်တောင်းဆို

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ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရှိ ဟိန္ဒူဘုရားကျောင်းကနေ ထွက်ခွာလာတဲ့ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင် (လယ်)။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၀)
 

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုအပေါ် နည်းလမ်းမျိုးစုံသုံးပြီး အရေးယူဖို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအခြေ အေ နဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထူးစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးမှူး Tom Andrews က တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

နိုင္ငံေတာ္စီမံအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးေကာင္စီ ဥကၠ႒၊ တပ္မေတာ္ ကာ ကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္လွိုင္ နိုင္ငံ ေတာ္ ၏ အေျခအေနအရပ္ရပ္အား ျပည္သူလူထုသို႔ မိန႔္ ခြန္း

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Myanmar faces European push at U.N. to condemn coup

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Stephanie Nebehay
APAC
FEBRUARY 10, 2021

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations’ top human rights body is to consider a resolution on Friday drafted by Britain and the European Union that would condemn Myanmar’s military coup and demand urgent access for monitors, a text seen by Reuters shows.

Myanmar citizens hold placards as they take part in a protest against the military coup in Myanmar at Bangkok's shopping district, Thailand, February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

However, diplomats said Human Rights Council members China and Russia - who both have ties to Myanmar’s armed forces - are expected to raise objections or try to weaken the text.

Procedural wrangling began on Monday, with Beijing and Moscow raising objections over virtual voting as officials met to plan both the council’s four-week session from Feb. 22 and Friday’s special session on Myanmar.

The U.N. Security Council last week called for the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military but stopped short of condemning the coup.

Myanmar’s Generals Reshape Regional Political Dynamics

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By Luke Hunt
February 10, 2021

Min Aung Hlaing’s seizure of power in Myanmar has shaken up the region’s diplomatic balance.

The third coup d’etat in Myanmar since the country’s independence in 1948 has installed a leader who is already named for an alleged genocide and a long list of atrocities linked to the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya four years ago.

Sen. Gen. Aung Min Hlaing is the type of leader ASEAN can do without. Hearings into the atrocities at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are continuing and this is just one factor regional leaders are struggling with since his rise to power through the barrel of gun.

Promises that this junta will be “different” from its predecessors and that multiparty elections will be held in a year just don’t cut it. New Zealand has already suspended high-level contacts and imposed a travel ban on its military leaders.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is demanding the coup be reversed.

Only ‘following orders’, no defence for any Myanmar atrocities: UN expert

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10 February 2021

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UN News/Nyi Teza,A scene of Yangon, the commercial hub of Myanmar.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday said that security forces in the country must “stand down before there are more casualties” among protesters, amid reports of use of lethal force against those demonstrating against last week’s military takeover. 

There are unconfirmed media reports that at least one individual, a woman, was shot in the head during protests on Tuesday. She is said to be in critical condition at a hospital in Yangon.

PH backs 'complete restoration' of democracy in Myanmar

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CNN Philippines Staff
Published Feb 9, 2021

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 9) — The Philippines called for the "complete restoration" of Southeast Asian neighbor Myanmar's democracy following a military power grab that sparked a series of demonstrations.

"The realization of this democratic process can only be achieved through the complete restoration of the status quo ante," Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin Jr. said in a statement.

Locsin said the Philippines has been supportive of Myanmar's progress towards a fuller democracy, recognizing the military's role in preserving its territorial integrity and national security, as well as the "unifying role" of detained State Counsellor and democracy icon Aung Sang Suu Kyi.

Remarks by President Biden on the Administration’s Response to the Coup in Burma

THE WHITE HOUSE
SPEECHES AND REMARKS

FEBRUARY 10, 2021 

South Court Auditorium

Eisenhower Executive Office Building

BRIEFING ROOM

1:22 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for being here on short notice. I’m going to be very brief, but I — because the Vice President and I are heading over the Pentagon for an extensive briefing and to make some comments, as we did at the State Department. So I’m going to be going from here to there, and you’ll get me there as well.

I want to say good afternoon, everyone. I wanted to give you an update on the latest regarding our response to the military coup in Burma.

As you know, the assault on Burma’s transition to democracy remains an issue of deep bipartisan concern. We’ve consulted at length, for example, with Senator McConnell, who’s had a very keen interest in this, and his team. And we welcomed their helpful insights.

U.S. Can Impose Substantial Costs on Those Responsible for Coup in Myanmar: State Dept.

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Feb. 10, 2021,

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States can impose substantial costs on those responsible for the coup in Myanmar, the State Department said on Wednesday after President Joe Biden said he approved an executive order that will pave the way for sanctions.

State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that the continued demonstrations in Myanmar after the military detained elected leaders and seized power on Feb. 1. indicates the aspirations of the people of Myanmar for democracy.

(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Doina Chiacu and Daphne Psaledakis, Editing by Franklin Paul)


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'You messed with the wrong generation': the young people resisting Myanmar’s military

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Judith Beyer

11 February 2021

Since the coup, social media has become an essential tool for exchanging knowledge and experience between generations

A family displays the three-fingered salute used by protesters in Myanmar against the military's recent seizure of power | Anonymous

When Myanmar’s military announced on 1 February that they had taken control of the country, civilians of all ages began to coordinate their resistance. Within a remarkably short amount of time, a new social movement was born, and people were soon pooling resources online under hashtags such as #civildisobediencemovement, #hearthevoicesofMyanmar and #rejectmilitarycoup.

This would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. Myanmar has had one of the fastest-growing telecom markets worldwide, which went from virtually nothing in the 2000s to a penetration rate of about 125% in 2020. While there was only one local operator in the beginning, with pricey SIM cards sold through a lottery system, several domestic and international companies now offer products. Within only five years, mobile phone signals have come to reach 90% of the country’s territory.

ၿမန္မာ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြအေပၚ အေမရိကန္ ဒဏ္ခတ္ ပိတ္ဆို႔

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10 Feb 2021

အေမရိကန္သမၼတ ဂ်ဳိးဘိုင္ဒန္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ သူ႔အစိုးရရဲ႕ သေဘာထား ကို ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔၊ ဝါရွင္တန္ ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ မြန္းလြဲ တနာရီေက်ာ္မွာ ေျပာၾကားသြားသည့္ မိန္႔ခြန္း အျပည့္အစုံ

"ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ေနာက္ဆုံးျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့တဲ့ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ တုံ႔ျပန္ခ်က္ ေနာက္ ဆုံးအေျခအေနနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ေျပာၾကားလိုပါတယ္။ အားလုံး သိၾကတဲ့အတိုင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အ သြင္ကူးေျပာင္းမႈအေပၚ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္းဟာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ပါတီႏွစ္ရပ္စလုံးက အေလးအနက္ထားတဲ့ကိစၥ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအုပ်စုပေါ် ကန်အ ရေးယူတဲ့သက်ရောက်မှု ကြီးမားနိုင်ကြောင်း ခန့်မှန်းချက်တွေထွက်ပေါ်

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ အရပ်သားအစိုးရကို ဖယ်ရှားပြီး အာဏာသိမ်းလိုက်တဲ့ စစ်တပ်အပေါ် အမေရိကန် ပြည်ထောင် စုက အရေးယူ ဒဏ်ခတ်ဖို့ ကြေညာလိုက်တာကြောင့် ကြီးမားတဲ့ သက်ရောက်မှုတွေ ရှိလာနိုင်တယ်လို့ တက် ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူတွေနဲ့ အကဲခတ်တွေ ခန့်မှန်းနေကြပါတယ်။ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကြောင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ ဖိအားတွေ နောက်ထပ် တိုးလာနိုင်တဲ့အပေါ် အမြင်တွေကိုတော့ ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်း သတင်းထောက် မမေခက စုစည်း တင်ပြထားပါတယ်။

ၿမန္မာစစ္တပ္ကို ဒဏ္ခတ္မယ့္အစီအစဥ္ သမၼတ ဘိုင္ဒင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုအေၾကာင္းၾကား

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2021-02-11

■ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈအေပၚ အေမရိကန္အေရးယူဖို႔ သမၼတအမိန႔္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၂ ရပ္က တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြကို သမၼတ ဂ်ိဳး ဘိုင္ဒင္ (Joe Biden) က အေၾကာင္းၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ရဲ႕ အမ်ိဳးသားလုံၿခဳံေရးနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးမူဝါဒအေပၚ ႀကီးမားတဲ့ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈအျဖစ္ သမၼတက အ မိန႔္ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး အာဏာသိမ္းမႈမွာ တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြကို အေရးယူသြားမယ္လို႔ သမၼတ ဘိုင္ဒင္ က အထက္နဲ႔ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ေတြဆီ ဒီေန႔ပဲ စာေပးပို႔ အေၾကာင္းၾကားလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္မွာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈ ကို ရႈတ္ခ်မည့္စကားလုံးအစား ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့သုံးႏႈန္း

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား

2021-02-11

■ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မွာ အလြန္အမင္း စိတ္မေကာင္း ျဖစ္ရေၾကာင္း စကားလံုးကို ေျပာင္းသံုးလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီမွာ မနက္ျဖန္ အေရးေပၚ အစည္းအေဝး လုပ္ ဖို႔ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီအစည္းအေဝးကေန ထုတ္ျပန္မယ့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းလုပ္ရပ္ကို ျပစ္တင္ရႈတ္ ခ်မယ့္ စကားလုံးအစား အလြန္အမင္း စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္ရေၾကာင္း စကားကို ေျပာင္းသံုးလိုက္တာပါ။အေစာ ပိုင္းတုန္းက စစ္တပ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈကို ျပစ္တင္ရႈတ္ခ်ဖို႔ ထည့္သြင္းထားေပမဲ့ ဒီကေန႔ တရားဝင္ တင္သြင္းလိုက္ တဲ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္မူၾကမ္းမွာေတာ့ စကားလုံးကို ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ ျပင္ဆင္လိုက္တာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ႐ိုက္တာသတင္းက ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တာပါ။