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The forgotten war in Myanmar where children are slaughtered from helicopters

Stubborn regions and protesters are feeling the regime’s wrath ahead of sham elections in August

The Sunday Times

“We will again stage the silent strike on February 1 to remind the world that our people continue to fight in every way despite the cruel oppression of the terrorist regime…and make it clear that we won’t accept the planned illegal election”

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarCrisis

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-prepares-silent-strike-to-mark-coup-anniversary.html

Myanmar Prepares Silent Strike to Mark Coup Anniversary

The public is being asked to spend Wednesday indoors in a silent strike against military rule.

The Irrawaddy

"By nearly every feasible measurement, and in every area of human rights economic, social and cultural, as much as civil and political #Myanmar has profoundly regressed" - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarCrisis

https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/two-years-after-coup-myanmar-faces-unimaginable-regression-says-un-human-rights-chief

Two years after coup, Myanmar faces unimaginable regression, says UN Human Rights Chief - Myanmar

News and Press Release in English on Myanmar about Protection and Human Rights; published on 27 Jan 2023 by OHCHR

ReliefWeb
Myanmar Coup Anniversary: Crisis Has Been Forgotten

Two years after the coup, the world has moved on, but many Burmese can’t.

Foreign Policy

'The Myanmar military regime has revoked its pardon for recently released Australian economist Sean Turnell for criticizing it in his media interviews and social media posts, according to a leaked internal junta announcement.'

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-revokes-pardon-for-freed-australian-economist-sean-turnell.html

#ASEAN needs to look beyond Five Point consensus: Jakarta Post Sr. Editor - Endy Bayuni

The junta fails to end its violence and implement 5-PC. #ASEAN must start engaging with #NUGMyanmar and other stakeholders asap.

#Myanmar
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Via: @NUGPressSPOX@twitter

https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2023/01/08/asean-needs-to-look-beyond-myanmars-five-point-consensus.html#Echobox=1673208504

ASEAN needs to look beyond Myanmar’s Five-Point Consensus

ASEAN should be prepared to suspend Myanmar’s membership if the mechanism for expelling members is not provided for in the association’s bylaws. 

The Jakarta Post

#WhatshappeninginMyanmar

All international and domestic actors must join together to eradicate the region's worst regime since the Khmer Rouge terrorised Cambodia. Practical global action is needed for democracy, justice, freedom and liberty in #Myanmar.

Via: @NUGPressSPOX@twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/08/global-action-is-needed-to-topple-myanmars-criminal-junta-boss

Global action is needed to topple Myanmar’s criminal junta boss

From brutal murders and military parades to jailed opponents, Min Aung Hlaing is true to the tyrant’s playbook. The worldwide fight for democracy has to be fought here

The Guardian

#Myanmar junta prison guards shot and killed a #politicalprisoner and wounded more than 60 people in Pathein Prison after inmates protested the beating of the political prisoner a day earlier ⬇️

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/crackdown-01062023175048.html

Inmate killed, 8 in critical condition following crackdown at Myanmar Prison

Political prisoners had protested after guards beat an inmate found with a mobile phone.

Radio Free Asia

'NLD party won the 2020 #Myanmar general elections by a landslide. Since the military coup in February 2021, many of its members have been imprisoned and/or murdered.'

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/MMElectionWatch/status/1610631261470572545?s=20&t=kVQdE31l1vaKInEkU6t5rA

Myanmar Election Watch on Twitter

“NLD party won the 2020 #Myanmar general elections by a landslide. Since the military coup in February 2021, many of its members have been imprisoned and/or murdered. This🧵depicts the fate of the Central Executive Committee, NLD’s ‘most important organ’ for decision-making. (1/8)”

Twitter

The Myanmar Military’s Use of Human Rights Abuses to Win the Elections

https://myanmarelectionwatch.org/en/news/5042

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The Myanmar Military’s Use of Human Rights Abuses to Win the Elections

This brief examines human rights abuses as an election tactic

Myanmar Election Watch