Second Myanmar official dies after arrest, junta steps up media crackdown

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff
MARCH 8, 2021

(Reuters) - An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested early on Tuesday, the second party figure to die in detention in two days, as security forces broke up street protests against the military junta.

Police also cracked down on independent media, raiding the offices of two news outlets and detaining two journalists.

Myanmar has been in crisis since the army ousted Suu Kyi’s elected government in a coup on Feb. 1, detained her and other NLD officials, and set up a ruling junta of generals.

Widespread work stoppages in Myanmar against February 1 military coup

WSWS
Peter Symonds

09' March 2021

Large protests took place yesterday in Myanmar’s major cities, including Yangon and Mandalay, and towns across the country, demanding an end to military rule. Shops, businesses, factories and government offices remained shut following a call for an extended nationwide work stoppage. Thousands joined the demonstrations despite bloody repression by the army and police over the past week that has claimed at least 60 lives.

Protesters take positions behind a makeshift barricade as armed riot policemen gather in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo)

On Sunday night, security forces occupied at least 20 government universities, schools and hospitals, including in Yangon, Mandalay, Magway, Monywa and Ayeyarwady. According to the Irrawaddy, police and soldiers opened fire and used percussion grenades in a bid to intimidate people who had gathered outside a teaching hospital in the North Oakkalapa Township of Yangon to oppose its use by the military.

ၿဗိတိန္ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီးကို စစ္ေကာင္စီက ျပန္ ေခၚ

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

10 မတ္၊ 2021

ၿဗိတိန္ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံရံုး

ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အတိုင္ပင္ခံ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ သမၼတ ဦး၀င္းျမင့္တို႔ကို လႊတ္ေပးေရး တနလာၤေန႔က ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ၿဗိတိန္ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္စြာမင္းကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးထံ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕မိန္႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္ရဲ႕ ျမ၀တီ ရုပ္သံက အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ထုတ္လႊင့္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအရေး ထုတ်ပြန်ချက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေး ကောင်စီ၌ သဘောတူညီချက် မရ

မဇ္ဈိမ

Reuters
10 March 2021

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ရှုတ်ချသော၊ စစ်တပ်အနေဖြင့် လုပ်ကိုင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေမှုများကို ထိန်းချုပ်ရန် တောင်းဆိုထားသော၊ နောက်ထပ် ဒဏ်ခတ်ပိတ်ဆို့သည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များကို စဉ်းစားသုံးသပ်မည်ဟု ခြိမ်း ခြောက်ထားသော မူကြမ်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်တစ်ရပ်အပေါ် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ၌ အင်္ဂါနေ့က သဘောတူညီချက် မရရှိခဲ့ကြောင်း ရိုက်တာသတင်းတွင် ဖော်ပြပြီး သံတမန်များကမူ နောက်ထပ်ဆွေးနွေးမှုများ ဆက်ရှိနိုင်သေးသည်ဟု ပြောကြသည်။

Work sincerely instead of giving lip service to Rohingya repatriation talks: Foreign minister

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
March 08, 2021

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has made an appeal to the international community to work sincerely instead of giving "lip service" to repatriation talks for the Rohingyas.

"There are 1.1 million Rohingyas in the camps of Bangladesh and majority of them are girls and women. It is time for us, the world leaders…we must come forward to repatriate them and reintegrate them in Rakhine and give them a future," he said.

The minister was addressing an International Women's Day event titled "Women in Diplomacy: How are We Doing?" as chief guest. It was organised by the Diplomatic Correspondents' Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) with support of the Bangabandhu Research Centre for Foreign Policy and Diplomacy at the Foreign Service Academy today.

Rohingya Muslims fear deportation in India after dozens detained by police

THE PRESS TV
Sunday, 07 March 2021 

Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they leave a Rohingya refugee camp in India's northern region of Jammu on March 7, 2021. (Photo by AFP)

Dozens of Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar, have been detained and facing possible deportation.

Media reports said Sunday that Indian police arrested more than 150 persecuted Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process had begun to deport them back to Myanmar.

Dozens of Rohingya were now living in a makeshift "holding center" at Jammu's Hira Nagar jail after local authorities conducted biometric and other tests on hundreds of people to verify their identities.

Myanmar Crisis Heightens With Police Raids And Strike Call

Bloomberg

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
7 March 2021,

 

Protestors shelter during a demonstration against the military coup near the UNESCO world heritage site Bagan on March 7.

Photographer: STR/AFP/Getty Images

Yangon, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar careened deeper into crisis, as police occupied hospitals and universities and reportedly arrested hundreds of people involved in protesting last month’s military seizure of power, while a coalition of labor unions called a strike for Monday. 

Tension was high Sunday in the country’s biggest city, Yangon, where for a second night running gunshots from heavy weapons rang out randomly in the streets of several neighborhoods after the start of an 8 p.m. curfew. The sounds of what apparently were stun grenades could also be heard on videos posted on social media. 

Violence Continues In Myanmar As Police Enforce Curfew And Occupy Hospitals

NRP

MATTHEW S. SCHWARTZ
March 7, 2021

Protesters in Yangon run from police Sunday after they fire tear gas during a demonstration against the military coup.STR/AFP via Getty Images

More than a month after the military orchestrated a coup against the country's democratically elected leader, Myanmar police are continuing to use violence against peaceful protesters. The death toll is continuing to rise — and it now includes a local official from the deposed leader's political party.

The BBC reports that the body of U Khin Maung Latt, who campaigned for candidates from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party in recent elections, was released to his family on Sunday. Police reportedly took him by force from his home late Saturday. Witnesses reported seeing him being kicked and beaten. Police told the family he died after fainting. The pro-democracy activist was buried on Sunday.

Australia Halts Defence Ties With Myanmar, Redirects Aid

U.S News

By Reuters, 

Wire Service Content 

March 7, 2021,

FILE PHOTO: Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of State following the 30th AUSMIN in Washington, D.C. July 28, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERSREUTERS

SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australia has suspended its defence cooperation programme with Myanmar, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said, amid an intensified crackdown by the country's military on massive protests against last month's coup.

Australia will also redirect immediate humanitarian needs to Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities, Payne said in a statement late Sunday

Crisis in Myanmar: Willing to engage with all parties

The Daily Star
Reuters
March 08, 2021

Says China as anti-coup protesters defy ongoing crackdown; official from Suu Kyi’s party beaten to death.

China is willing to engage with "all parties" to ease the crisis in neighbouring Myanmar and is not taking sides, the Chinese government's top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi said, as thousands of anti-coup demonstrators defied an ongoing military crackdown yesterday.

Beijing has said the situation in Myanmar, where the military seized power last month, was "absolutely not what China wants to see" and has dismissed social media rumours of Chinese involvement in the coup as nonsense.

Australia cuts Myanmar military ties amid ‘rising death toll’

Aljazeera
8 Mar 2021

Australia was among 13 countries campaigners say have been providing assistance to military that seized control of Myanmar in a coup.

Protesters are using improvised shields and construction helmets to protect themselves against the security forces [AFP]

Australia has suspended its defence cooperation programme with Myanmar amid concern about the “escalating violence and rising death toll,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said as the country’s military steps up its crackdown on enormous protests against its coup last month.

Myanmar was plunged into turmoil after the army detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and officials from her National League for Democracy party on February 1 and seized control of the country. The coup has triggered a national Civil Disobedience Movement and mass protests in which dozens have been killed.

Panic grips displaced Rohingyas in Jammu

THE HINDU

Peerzada Ashiq
JAMMU, MARCH 07, 2021

SecSecurity personnel stand guard outside the central jail in Srinagar. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD

150 immigrants rounded up during “verification drive”

Panic gripped the displaced Rohingya population in Jammu on Sunday, a day after the J&K administration rounded up over 150 immigrants as part of “a verification process”.

“We will go one day. It’s just that the situation in Myanmar is not safe for us. The police are summoning our people [in Jammu]. Thirteen men who were asked to visit the police stations on Saturday have not returned,” Salamtullah, a Rohingya Muslim who escaped the genocide in Myanmar between 2016-17, said.

Myanmar's ethnic groups have long suffered from military brutality. The junta gave them a common foe

CNN
Helen Regan,
March 6, 2021

(CNN)For many of Myanmar's ethnic minorities, the bloodshed inflicted across the country's towns and cities this week is a continuation of the oppression they have suffered at the hands of the military for decades.

The Southeast Asian country is home to some of the world's longest civil wars, where myriad ethnic insurgencies have fought the military, central government and each other for greater rights and autonomy. Some of those bloody conflicts have ebbed and flowed in the borderlands for 70 years

Violations committed against the people of Myanmar.

ANews
08th March'2021

 

Co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition Ro Nay San Lwin gives an overview of the human rights violations committed against the people of Myanmar.

 

Jammu နဲ့ Kashmir မှာ ဖမ်းမိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ (၁၅၀)ကျော် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘက် ပြန်ပို့မည်

VOA
VOA (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
08 မတ်၊ 2021

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံတွင်းမှာ ဖမ်းမိသည့် တရားမဝင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ ( ပုံဟောင်း - ၂၀၁၉ )

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်း Jammu နဲ့ Kashmir ဒေသမှာ ဖမ်းမိခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် (၁၅၀)ကျော်ကို မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံဘက် ပြန်ပို့ဖို့ စီစဉ်နေတယ်လို့ တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့မှ ပြောပါတယ်။

168 Rohingya living illegally in Jammu sent to jail, say officials

The Tribune
Jammu, March 7

The Rohingyas are a Bengali-dialect speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar

Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingya to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday had began a drive to collect biometric and other details of Rohingyas staying here. The drive is part of an exercise to trace foreigners living in the city without valid documents.

“At least 168 illegal immigrant Rohingyas have been sent to Hiranagar jail,” a senior police officer told PTI.

သမိုင္းတစ္ေက်ာ့ျပန္လည္ျခင္း - ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး အကူး အေျပာင္းအတြက္ ေနာက္လမ္းဆံုးတစ္ခု

TNI

9 ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ 2021
Article

ယေန႔သည္ အနာဂတ္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအတြက္ တန္းတူညီမွ်ေရးႏွင့္ စည္းလံုးညီညြတ္ေရး အေျခခံမူမ်ား ေရးဆြဲျပင္ဆင္ရန္ ၁၉၄၇ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ၌ စုေဝးခဲ့ၾကသည့္ သမိုင္းတြင္မည့္ ပင္လံုသေဘာတူစာ ခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့သည့္ေန႔ကို အစြဲျပဳ၍ က်င္းပေလ့ရွိသည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုေန႔ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ ေသာ္လည္း ၂၀၂၁ ခုႏွစ္သည္ ေအာင္ပြဲခံရမည့္ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္တစ္ရက္ မဟုတ္ခဲ့ဘဲ မတရားသျဖင့္ တိုင္းျပည္အာဏာရယူထားသည့္ တပ္မေတာ္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးေကာင္စီကို ဆန္႔က်င္ဆႏၵျပ သည့္အေနျဖင့္ တစ္ႏိုင္လံုး အံုးအံုးက်က္က်က္ လွည္းေနေလွေအာင္း ျမင္းေဇာင္းပါမက်န္ လမ္းေပၚ ထြက္၍ ဆႏၵျပရသည့္ ေန႔ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့သည္။ ယခုသံုးသပ္ခ်က္အတြင္း၌ လက္ရွိအေရးအခင္း မည္မွ် ႀကီးက်ယ္အေရးပါမႈႏွင့္ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံက်ရံႈးမႈႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ပဋိ ပကၡမ်ား အလြန္အႏၱရာယ္ႀကီးမားလွသည့္ပံုစံျဖင့္ သံသရာတစ္ပတ္ ျပန္လည္လာခဲ့သည့္ အေၾကာင္း ရင္းမ်ားကို TNI မွ ဆန္းစစ္သံုးသပ္တင္ျပထားသည္။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ ေရးကို ေရရာေသခ်ာမႈမရွိသည့္ အနာဂတ္တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္၌ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ယေန႔ပင္ အေရးတႀကီးလိုအပ္ ေနၿပီျဖစ္သည္။

၂၀၂၁ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စုေန႔၌ေတြ႔ရွိရသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား

ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း၊ အာဏာသိမ္းပြဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ား(၂)

လက္ရွိျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို ပုံေဖာ္လိုက္ေသာ ရႈပ္ေထြးေပြလီမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနသည့္ သမိုင္းအက်ဥ္း(ဒုတိယပိုင္း)

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ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ၏ တခ်ိန္က ေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့ေသာ စီးပြားေရးအေျခအေနမွာ ေမွးမွိန္ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္လုနီးပါး အိပ္မက္တစ္ခုသာ ျဖစ္ေတာ့သည္။ တိုင္းျပည္မွာ စစ္ေအးတိုက္ပြဲမွ ေကာင္းစြာ ေရွာင္ရွားနိုင္သည့္တိုင္ စီးပြားေရးႏွင့္ နိုင္ငံေရးတြင္ ခၽြတ္ျခဳံက်သြားခဲ့ရသည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနဝင္းမွာလည္း တႏွစ္ထက္တႏွစ္ ယုံမွားသံသယ ျဖစ္စိတ္ႏွင့္ အဆင္အျခင္မဲ့ အေၾကာက္တရားတို႔ ႀကီးသထက္ႀကီးလာေတာ့သည္။ ၎၏ေနာက္လိုက္ လက္စြဲေတာ္မ်ားက တိုင္းျပည္၏ ပကတိအေနအထားကို အထူးတလည္ အေကာင္းျမင္ေအာင္ ဝိုင္းဝန္းဖန္တီးထားၾကသျဖင့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနဝင္းမွာ သူ၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈကို အႂကြင္းမဲ့ ယုံၾကည္စိတ္ခ်ထားမိေတာ့ေၾကာင္း ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းေဝဖန္ေစာေၾကာမႈမ်ား ရွိလာသည္။ အျခားသူမ်ားကမူ ၎သည္ အာဏာကို နည္းလမ္းေပါင္းစုံျဖင့္ ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဆိုသည္။ ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္၌မူ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသည္ အေျပာင္းအလဲတစ္ခုသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိသြားသည္။

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း၊ အာဏာသိမ္းပြဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ား (၁)

လက်ရှိမြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို ပုံဖော်လိုက်သော ရှုပ်ထွေးပွေလီမှုများနှင့် ပြည့်နှက်နေသည့် သမိုင်းအကျဉ်း(ပထမပိုင်း) 

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ လွတ်လပ်ရေး


မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် ဗြိတိသျှအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကို တရားဝင် ရပ်ဆိုင်းလိုက်သည်။ ဖက်ဆစ်ဆန့်ကျင်ရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူ့လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ချုပ် (ဖဆပလ-AFPFL) က အာဏာရပါတီအဖြစ် ပေါ်ထွက်လာသော်လည်း လွတ် လပ်ရေးကြိုးပမ်းသူ ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်းမှာ လုပ်ကြံခံရပြီး တိုင်းပြည်မှာ နိုင်ငံရေး အရှုပ်အထွေး၊ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်တို့ဖြင့် အကျပ်ဆိုက်နေခဲ့ရသည်။ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးကာစ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို ဦးဆောင်ကျင့်သုံးနေရသူ ဝန်ကြီး  ချုပ်သစ် ဦးနုမှာ သူ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်အချို့ကို အကောင်အထည်မဖော်နိုင်ခဲ့ချေ။

၁၉၆၂ အာဏာသိမ္းမႈႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္အလြန္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွ လက္နက္ကိုင္ပဋိပကၡ အခင္းအက်င္းမ်ားအေပၚ သမာသမတ္က်သည့္ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မႈ

IPS P 1eace Desk
By John Buchanan,
On September 12, 2018

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ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအေနျဖင့္ ကမၻာ့အရွည္ၾကာဆုံး ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ ၾကဳံေတြ႕ခဲ့ရသည့္အျပင္ မ်ားျပားလွေသာ သီးျခားပဋိပကၡမ်ားလည္း ရွိေပသည္။ ၃ သုေတသီမ်ားမွာ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ စာရြက္စာတမ္းေပါင္း ေျမာက္ျမားစြာ ေရးသားခဲ့ၾကေသာ္လည္း ၎တို႔၏ ေလ့လာသုေတသန ျပဳမႈမ်ားတြင္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအေၾကာင္းကို မ်ားစြာ လ်စ္လ်ဴရႈခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္အေၾကာင္းကို စာအုပ္ေရးသားရန္ လ်စ္လ်ဴရႈထားခဲ့ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ သက္ဆိုးရွည္လွသည့္ ပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္အေပၚ အျမင္အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးကို အကဲျဖတ္ ရွင္းလင္းျပနိုင္ရန္မွာ အေရးပါလွသည့္ ကိစၥရပ္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ပါသည္။