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Title: Follow the money: Myanmar coup puts pressure on army businesses
Sub-title: Calls are growing for sanctions on the military’s vast business empire after the February 1 coup.
Description: "From SIM cards to beer, skydiving and jade mining, there are few areas of Myanmar’s economy that escape the long arm of its military, the Tatmadaw. But after Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a coup on February 1 that scuppered a 10-year experiment with democracy, campaigners have once again set their sights on the military’s sprawling, and highly lucrative, business interests. Protests in Myanmar amid flurry of Southeast Asian diplomacy Timeline of events in Myanmar since February 1 coup Malaysia deports 1,086 Myanmar nationals despite court order US sanctions two more Myanmar generals after protest crackdown “Min Aung Hlaing led a genocide against the Rohingya and the international response has been almost nothing really,” said Anna Roberts, executive director of the Burma Campaign UK. “He’s probably calculated that there will be a small response, but that it will be a price worth paying.” Aung San Suu Kyi, and other senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which won reelection in a landslide in November’s election, have been detained for more than three weeks with the military making unsubstantiated claims of fraud to justify its power grab. The United States has already announced financial sanctions to prevent the military from tapping into billions of dollars deposited in the US, as well as targeted moves against individual generals including Min Aung Hlaing, adding to the measures imposed after the 2017 crackdown that prompted an exodus of more than 740,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh. On Tuesday, after security forces used force to crack down on peaceful protesters killing two people, Washington added two more generals to its sanctions list..."
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Source/publisher: "Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of publication: 2021-02-26
Date of entry/update: 2021-02-26
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Title: ETHNIC NATIONALITIES ALLIANCE WELCOME ICJ LAWSUIT, AS SUU KYI PREPARES TO DEFEND THE GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY OF GENOCIDE AGAINST ROHINGYA
Description: "Overseas based Burma ethnic alliance and coalition groups issued statements welcoming Gambia’s lawsuit to the International Court of Justice for genocide against the Rohingya by the Burmese government..."
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Source/publisher: KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication: 2019-11-29
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-02
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Title: Young Men’s Buddhist Association Bestows Title on Myanmar Military Chief
Description: "Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received the title “Mingala Dhamma Jotikadaja” from the Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA) in Yangon on Monday. “The title is Mingala Dhamma Jotikadaja. What’s more important is he has also been given the honor of serving as the standing patron of the YMBA,” said military spokesperson Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun. The military chief has a lot of experience in administration and military service and will be even better able to serve the country in his capacity as the YMBA’s permanent patron, he told The Irrawaddy. According to the letter sent by the YMBA to the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw), the title was conferred on the military chief because of his efforts to protect and promote Buddhism, and what it said was his constant engagement in the national peace process..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
Date of publication: 2019-10-07
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-08
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