Sunday, February 21, 2021
Myanmar Security Forces Open Fire on Protesters, Killing 2
The New York Times
Richard C. Paddock
Feb. 20, 2021
Feb. 20, 2021
Myanmar Security Forces Crack Down on Protesters
Security forces on Saturday opened fire on protesters in Mandalay, Myanmar, according to witnesses, killing two people and wounding dozens. Demonstrators have been rallying for weeks against the Feb. 1 military coup.
Security forces on Saturday opened fire on protesters in Mandalay, Myanmar, according to witnesses, killing two people and wounding dozens. Demonstrators have been rallying for weeks against the Feb. 1 military coup.CreditCredit...Aso/Associated Press
Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters in the city of Mandalay on Saturday, killing two people and wounding dozens, according to witnesses.
The shootings occurred as the authorities were trying to force workers back to their jobs at a local shipyard. They were among hundreds of thousands of workers across Myanmar who have walked off their jobs to protest the military’s Feb. 1 coup and its ouster of elected civilian leaders.
More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered at the shipyard to block the police, leading to a tense standoff that lasted much of Saturday afternoon. The authorities used water cannons, rubber bullets, tear gas, slingshots and ultimately live ammunition to break up the crowd, witnesses said.
The shootings occurred as the authorities were trying to force workers back to their jobs at a local shipyard. They were among hundreds of thousands of workers across Myanmar who have walked off their jobs to protest the military’s Feb. 1 coup and its ouster of elected civilian leaders.
More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered at the shipyard to block the police, leading to a tense standoff that lasted much of Saturday afternoon. The authorities used water cannons, rubber bullets, tear gas, slingshots and ultimately live ammunition to break up the crowd, witnesses said.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
China ready to ‘work with Asean’ to ease Myanmar coup turmoil
South China Morning Post
Laura Zhou in Beijing20 Feb, 2021
- Chinese foreign minister tells Indonesian counterpart that unrest not in interest of Myanmar or region
- Beijing hopes all parties will ‘continue the process of democratic transition’
A man takes part in a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
China has said it is willing to work closely with Asean to ease political tensions in Myanmar as pressure mounts on Beijing to condemn the military coup in its Southeast Asian neighbour.
In a call with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said a peaceful and stable Myanmar was important to both China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
British Muslim human rights lawyer elected new ICC chief prosecutor
ARAB NEWS
Updated 13 February 2021REUTERS
British human rights lawyer Karim Khan was elected Friday to be the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. (AFP/File Photo)
- Khan, 50, led a UN probe into atrocities by the Daesh group
- The lawyer won a secret ballot against three other candidates to replace lead prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
Khan won a secret ballot against three other candidates to replace lead prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The 123-member Hague-based court, which began work nearly 20 years ago, handles war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression.
Bleak future ahead for Suu Kyi and Myanmar
ARAB NEWS
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
February 19, 2021
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
February 19, 2021
Aung San Suu Kyi attends a special lunch on sustainable development on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 4, 2019. (Reuters)
Aung San Suu Kyi once again finds herself in a set of circumstances that defined her life in the past: Under arrest by the military government of her country. However, this time around, things are very different. She is no longer seen as the global democracy and human rights icon, and few outside of Myanmar will campaign for her release with the energy and zeal they did in the past. And, while she remains popular in Myanmar itself, that popularity remains unlikely to translate into a reversal of the military coup.
Asia-Focused California Nonprofit Mobilizes to Fight COVID-19 at Home
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Community Partners International
Feb 19, 2021,
Community Partners International
Feb 19, 2021,
Community Partners International brings two decades of health care experience in Myanmar (Burma) conflict zones and Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to help relieve pressure on LA's embattled hospitals.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Normally used to providing health services in Myanmar (Burma)'s conflict zones and Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, the California nonprofit Community Partners International (CPI) is now helping LA County hospitals cope with the latest wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
After Dark, Citizens and Myanmar’s Junta Face Off Across Shadowy Front Lines
The New Yorker
February 19, 2021
February 19, 2021
Innovative grassroots resistance grows despite mounting regime intimidation.
Editor’s note: The names of the journalists who worked on this article have been withheld for safety reasons.
Since a junta ousted Myanmar’s civilian government, on February 1st, the citizens of Yangon have roared back each day by staging massive and raucous pro-democracy rallies. The largest occurred on Wednesday, when hundreds of thousands marched to reject new criminal charges lodged against the country’s democratically elected leader, Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. In the daylight, civilians mock the generals for seizing power after an election in which their proxy party was crushed at the polls. After dark, the city’s power dynamic transforms. Under the cover of an 8 p.m. curfew imposed by the military, police “snatch teams” deploy in Yangon’s eerily empty streets, breaking into homes to haul away opposition politicians, activists, and civil servants who defy the generals with stay-at-home strikes. The spate of arrests has climbed into the hundreds in recent days. Last Friday, the coup’s diminutive leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, stoked nighttime unease by freeing more than twenty-three thousand inmates from the country’s prisons. It was, the general insisted, an act of mercy to honor Union Day, a holiday celebrating the country’s unification in 1947.
စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်တိုက်ဖျက်ရေး အထွေထွေသပိတ်ကော် မတီ
စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်တိုက်ဖျက်ရေး အထွေထွေသပိတ်ကော်မတီ
General Strike Committee (GSC)
ကြေငြာချက်အမှတ် ၁/၂၀၂၁
နေ့စွဲ။ ။၂၀ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၂၀၂၁၊
Myanmar protesters urge China to condemn coup. Will Beijing act?
Aljazeera
Zaheena Rasheed
18 Feb 2021
Protesters accuse China of backing Myanmar’s generals, but analysts say Beijing does not favour a return to military rule.
“Myanmar’s military dictatorship is made in China,” read one placard.
Zaheena Rasheed
18 Feb 2021
Protesters accuse China of backing Myanmar’s generals, but analysts say Beijing does not favour a return to military rule.
Demonstrators display placards accusing China for supporting Myanmar's military during a protest against the recent coup outside the Chinese Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, February 11, 2021 [AP]
Chanting “Shame on you, China” and holding up banners in English, Chinese and Burmese, dozens of pro-democracy protesters gathered on Monday at the Chinese embassy in Yangon to denounce what they called Beijing’s backing for Myanmar’s military coup on February 1.
Myanmar coup: What is happening and why?
BBC News
Alice Cuddy
19th Feb' 2021
Alice Cuddy
19th Feb' 2021
Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing had just turned 20
A 20-year-old woman shot in the head during anti-coup demonstrations in Myanmar has died of her injuries.
Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was taken to hospital last week, after police used water cannon, rubber bullets and live ammunition to try to disperse protesters.
The country has seen mass demonstrations after the armed forces arrested the country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party.
AFP photo of detained Thai protesters in 2004 recirculates in misleading posts about 'Myanmar Muslims'
AFP Fact Check
Wasi Anjum Mirza, AFP Pakistan Published on Friday 19 February 2021
Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved.
Some of the 300 demonstrators arrested by policemen and soldiers lie on a pavement at Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat outhern Thailand, 25 October 2004. (AFP / Str)
A photo of a group of people surrounded by men wearing military fatigues has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook since January 2020 in posts that call for readers to pray for the safety of Muslims in Myanmar. The photo has continued to circulate online alongside a similar claim following a military coup in Myanmar in February 2021. The photo, however, has been shared in a misleading context: it actually shows protesters arrested by police in southern Thailand in 2004.
Advocates will ask President Biden to help ‘end the coup’ in Myanmar during Friday visit to Michigan
Michigan
Kayla Miller | kmille17@mlive.comFeb 18, 2021
More than 100 people turned out Friday, Feb. 12 at the Calder Plaza in Grand Rapids to protest the military coup in Myanama
PORTAGE, MI -- A Burmese advocacy group is holding a protest for Myanmar during President Joe Biden’s visit to a major COVID-19 vaccine production facility in Portage Friday.
The “Protest for Myanmar” will be held beginning at noon Friday, Feb. 19, outside the Air Zoo, 6151 Portage Road, according to a Facebook event page.
Friday, February 19, 2021
In Myanmar’s uprising, some fight for more than just 'democracy'
The World
Patrick Winn
February 17, 2021
When Stella Naw was a schoolgirl in Myanmar’s hilly upcountry, her textbooks had plenty to say about the Burmese — the country’s predominant ethnicity.
Patrick Winn
February 17, 2021
The generals, most of whom are ethnically Burmese, have immense power but little public support. Their coup has enraged much of the population, from the mountains to the sea.
Demonstrators gather in an intersection close to Sule Pagoda to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 17, 2021. Demonstrators in Myanmar gathered Wednesday in their largest numbers so far to protest the military’s seizure of power, even after a UN human rights expert warned that troops being brought to Yangon and elsewhere could signal the prospect of major violence.Credit:AP
When Stella Naw was a schoolgirl in Myanmar’s hilly upcountry, her textbooks had plenty to say about the Burmese — the country’s predominant ethnicity.
For foreign investors in Myanmar, coup adds new uncertainties
Aljazeera
Megha Bahree
18 Feb 2021
The possibility of Western sanctions leaves foreign entrepreneurs in Myanmar worried about their future prospects. 
Ongoing street protests against the February 1 military coup in Myanmar have added to fears among foreign investors of a return to the instability of the country's pre-democracy era [Sai Aung Main/AFP]
On February 1, Vijay Dhayal, an Indian business consultant in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, received a call at 6am (23:30 GMT) from a member of his team telling him that a coup was under way, plunging what had been a routine Monday morning into turmoil
The military had begun detaining civilian leaders, overthrowing Myanmar’s democratically elected government and turning the clock back to the period between 1962 – when Myanmar’s military first took control, 14 years after independence – and 2011, when it ushered in parliamentary elections and democratic reforms.
Egyptian Ambassador assures Bangladesh PM of Cairo’s continued support over Rohingya crisis
THE POLICY TIMES
TPT Bureau
February 18, 2021
TPT Bureau
February 18, 2021
Egypt will continue its support to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.
DHAKA Bureau Policy Times:
Egyptian Ambassador in Dhaka Bangladesh Haytham Ghobashy Wednesday (17 February) assured Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, his country would continue to stand by Bangladesh over the Rohingya crisis as he paid a courtesy call on her at the premier’s official Ganobhaban residence.
“The newly appointed envoy said Egypt will continue its support to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar,” a premier’s office spokesman said after the call on.
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