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"11 January 2022: Myanmar’s would-be dictator Min Aung Hlaing has once again shown himself to be unrepentant and unaccountable to anyone after meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, says the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M). The meeting occurred while junta forces were launching airstrikes and intensifying offensives in ethnic areas and only two days before State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi received a further four-year prison sentence for bogus charges including possessing unlicensed walkie talkies and allegedly violating coronavirus protocols while campaigning.
Prime Minister Hun Sen undertook an ill-advised and contested visit to Naypyitaw to meet with Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on 7 and 8 January 2022. The visit was condemned by the Myanmar people, Myanmar and Cambodian civil society and ASEAN parliamentarians, on the grounds that it would be instrumentalised by Min Aung Hlaing to seek legitimacy for his illegal junta. That is what happened.
Prime Minister Hun Sen failed to consult or engage with democratic leaders President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, or other members of the National Unity Government. A joint statement issued after the visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Min Aung Hlaing did not once mention the cause of Myanmar’s current suffering – Min Aung Hlaing’s failed coup – and sought to deflect concern away from the nation-wide crisis to focus on the protracted civil wars between the military and Myanmar’s ethnic nationalities.
“The joint statement issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Min Aung Hlaing is manifestly duplicitous, having been drafted with clear intent to stymie ASEAN efforts and mislead the international community as to the reality of the conflict in Myanmar,” said Marzuki Darusman of SAC-M. “It is an affront to the people of Myanmar and to ASEAN, to which we take great exception.”
The joint statement implicitly praised the junta for declaring a year-long “ceasefire” between the military and Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs). Yet, junta forces were launching airstrikes and intensifying offensives in ethnic areas, displacing a reported 10,000 people from Loikaw, Kayah state, at the very same time that the meeting was taking place.
“Handing down the verdict and sentencing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi now, after having been delayed two or three times and barely two days after the Prime Minister’s visit, cannot be seen as anything but a deliberate, carefully timed attack on the Prime Minister designed to show him who’s in charge,” said Chris Sidoti of SAC-M. “If Hun Sen accepts this insult without response, he will be fatally wounded in his role as ASEAN Chair barely as he begins his term, and his influence and authority will be shredded for the full year ahead. The decision today is a direct challenge to Hun Sen: who calls the tune in ASEAN, the Chair or Min Aung Hlaing?”
Cambodia will hold the ASEAN chairmanship throughout 2022. The National Unity Government of Myanmar has publicly stated its commitment to working in partnership with ASEAN towards resolving the junta-made political, economic and humanitarian crises and its readiness to engage constructively with the new Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar.
“It seems the only person fooled by Min Aung Hlaing’s attempt to dress himself up as a rational civilian leader was Prime Minister Hun Sen,” said Yanghee Lee of SAC-M. “What was already clear to everyone else is that the only way forward for the ASEAN Chair in responding to the crisis is not through publicity seeking actions but proper engagement with all stakeholders– including the National Unity Government, EAOs and democracy groups, within the parameters already agreed by ASEAN — and in coordination with the newly appointed UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General.
Prime Minister Hun Sen undertook a foolish initiative but, having done so, the onus is now on him to get results. He cannot afford to let Min Aung Hlaing’s insult to his honour stand. As ASEAN Chair, he must lead an initiative to engage all parties in Myanmar without exception in developing a way forward that will ensure a democratic, peaceful, inclusive Myanmar. He must bring all ASEAN pressure to bear on the military junta, including through diplomatic, economic and security isolation if necessary, to secure an immediate end to the violence and the release of all political prisoners. So, what now, Hun Sen?..."
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"An estimated 2,380 Myanmar junta soldiers were killed and around 600 wounded during the last month, according to the parallel National Unity Government.
Between Dec. 7 and Jan. 6, 1,077 blasts and attacks targeting junta forces were reported across the country, except in Rakhine State.
The Irrawaddy could not independently verify the reports or the junta casualty numbers. The regime was unavailable for comment.
The shadow home affairs ministry, which charts reports from resistance groups, the media and residents, said there could have been more attacks which went unreported.
The preceding month, only 788 incidents were reported with 2,117 regime troops killed and 682 injured.
Sagaing Region, where people’s defense forces (PDF) are most active, reported the most attacks in December with 246 ambushes and explosions.
Sagaing resistance groups claim their hit-and-run tactics and landmine ambushes are inflicting heavy losses on the junta. The regime’s air force has responded with airstrikes and by dropping reinforcements.
Sagaing Region reported the most attacks on regime forces in November, with 209 incidents.
In December, Karen State reported 244 incidents between the regime and PDFs and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the Karen National Union.
Fierce clashes occurred in mid-December after junta troops raided Lay Kay Kaw in Myawaddy Township near the Thai border. The regime claimed democracy activists and PDF members were hiding in the KNLA-controlled new town.
Intense fighting and junta airstrikes have since been reported with large numbers of junta soldiers, including commanders, reportedly killed. Several thousand civilians have fled to Thailand to avoid the fighting.
The state only reported 22 clashes in November.
After reporting 45 attacks and 173 explosions targeting regime forces in Yangon, the city has become the third most violent area of the country.
Several resistance groups in the commercial capital have urged residents to avoid junta forces and regime-controlled government offices as they may be attacked.
Yangon’s resistance groups reported 32 attacks and 118 blasts targeting regime forces in November.
The junta continues to commit atrocities, including arrests, using hostages, arbitrary killings, burning alive, mass killing, using civilian detainees as human shields, shelling residential areas, looting and burning houses and sexual violence, especially in Sagaing and Magwe regions and Chin, Shan, Kayah and Karen states..."
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"A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials.
She was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules.
Ms Suu Kyi was first convicted in December, and given a reduced jail sentence of two years.
She has been detained since a military coup last February and faces about a dozen charges, all of which she denies.
Her trials have been widely condemned as unfair.
The charges in the latest case stem from when soldiers searched her house on the day of the coup by forces led by army chief General Min Aung Hlaing. The devices they say they discovered are presumed to have been used by her security guards, resulting in a conviction widely viewed as no more than a tactic to justify detaining her.
Monday's trial in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, was closed to the media and Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers have been barred from communicating with the media and public.
Last month the Nobel laureate was found guilty of incitement of dissent and breaking Covid-19 rules, in what was condemned as a "sham trial" by UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet.
BACKGROUND: The general who returned Myanmar to military rule
AS IT HAPPENED: Myanmar coup: What happened and why?
PROFILE: Democracy icon who fell from grace
In response to Monday's sentencing, Human Rights Watch called the legal proceedings a "courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges... so that (Aung San Suu Kyi) will remain in prison indefinitely".
The statement by the group's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson also accused the military of securing convictions "in a kangaroo court on the flimsiest, politically motivated charges", and said it was "running roughshod over the human rights of everyone, ranging from Suu Kyi... to the Civil Disobedience Movements activists on the street".
The military's seizure of power in Myanmar (also called Burma) last February came months after Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won November 2020 general elections by a landslide.
The military alleged voter fraud in the victory, however independent election observers have said the elections were largely free and fair.
The coup triggered widespread demonstrations and Myanmar's military has cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, activists and journalists.
Ms Suu Kyi is one of more than 10,600 people to have been arrested by the junta since February, with at least 1,303 others killed in the demonstrations, according to the monitoring group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
The latest sentence brings her total prison term so far to six years, but were she convicted of all the charges she faces, she could spend the rest of her life in detention.
The 76-year-old, who has not been seen in public since her house arrest, still faces several more serious charges - of corruption, election fraud and breaking the official secrets act.
Whether she actually spends any time in jail depends on what the military wants to do with its most famous prisoner, the BBC's Jonathan Head says.
The ruling junta still faces widespread opposition; parts of the country are now engulfed in armed conflict, and the economy is near collapse.
Neighbouring countries are seeking a negotiated end to the conflict. So far they have made little progress, but if they do, our correspondent says it is likely such talks would at some point have to involve Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains very popular.
An icon who fell from grace
Aung San Suu Kyi spent nearly 15 years in detention at the hands of the military between 1989 and 2010, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to bring democracy to Myanmar.
Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in 2015, but she was prevented from becoming president herself by rules excluding those with foreign national children from holding that office. She was widely regarded as the de facto ruler of the country.
However her reputation abroad was severely damaged by the way she handled the Rohingya crisis, which started in 2017.
EXPLAINED:What you need to know about the Rohingya crisis
In 2019 Ms Suu Kyi appeared at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide..."
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"A special court set up by the Myanmar junta in Naypyitaw sentenced detained State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional four years’ imprisonment on Monday in three cases against her, including alleged illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaching COVID-19 restrictions.
Sources close to the court told The Irrawaddy that the sentences comprised two years’ imprisonment for the illegal import of walkie-talkies under the Export Import Law; one year for the possession of these devices under the Telecommunications Law; and two years for the COVID-19 charge under the Natural Disaster Management Law.
The first two sentences are to be served concurrently.
The verdicts in the cases were announced after two hearing postponements last month.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, who has been detained since the day of the Feb. 1 coup, has now been given a total of six years in prison by the junta.
The court handed her a four-year sentence on Dec. 10 on charges of sedition and breaching COVID-19 restrictions. On the same day, the junta leader commuted the prison sentence to two years.
She is facing another seven charges including alleged corruption and breaching the Official Secrets Act. She faces a potential combined prison term of over 100 years on all of the charges, which are widely viewed as trumped-up, politically motivated and an attempt by the junta to exclude her from Myanmar politics.
Junta forces raided Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence in Naypyitaw in the early morning hours of Feb. 1 ahead of the coup, without a search warrant, and claimed to have found illegally imported walkie-talkies, which they said were used by her security forces.
Five police officers testified as prosecution witnesses in the two cases. But their testimony as to where and from whom they seized the walkie-talkies differed, sources close to the court said.
Today’s verdict on the breach of COVID-19 regulations is based on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s door-to-door visits to party members ahead of the 2020 elections.
Since last month’s verdicts, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has appeared in court wearing a prison uniform: a white top and brown longyi.
The junta has barred all five of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers from speaking to the media since October, so details of the court hearings as well as her whereabouts are unknown to the public..."
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"Myanmar’s military regime launched air strikes on Loikaw, the capital of Kayah State, on Saturday and Sunday, forcing thousands of local residents to flee their homes.
Fierce clashes broke out between resistance groups and junta troops in the town on Friday. Residents of at least three of 13 wards in Loikaw have fled since Saturday and more are fleeing, according to humanitarian groups helping the displaced people.
“Around 2,000 people were evacuated on Saturday and Sunday. We evacuated them together with the Red Cross Society. Nearly half of the town has fled the fighting. Though the fighting took place in Mong Lone, Pan Kan and Ywa Tan Shae, people from the other parts of the town have also fled out of fear,” a charity worker told The Irrawaddy on Sunday.
People who remain in the town are staying in their homes, and businesses have also closed, he said. While his group is helping to evacuate displaced people to churches, many others have also fled the town on their own, he said.
“People don’t go out because helicopters were hovering. The town is deserted. Those who were not able to flee in time remain in their homes. But we are evacuating people at their request. We pick them up at their homes when they phone us,” he added.
Six civilians were killed in Friday’s fighting as junta troops attacked civilian targets, said the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF). The following day, the regime shelled several wards in Loikaw as junta jets dropped bombs.
Some residents have fled to Shan State, Mandalay, Naypyitaw and other towns, but some are only taking shelter at local churches in Kayah.
Local administrators in Nyaungshwe in southern Shan State at the border of Kayah State have warned locals not to shelter displaced persons from Kayah, and displaced people were also not allowed to enter Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, according to the Shan State-based news agency Shan Herald.
Junta troops and local People’s Defense Force (PDF) members clashed in Loikaw, and junta helicopters were hovering over the town on Sunday morning.
“Many people remain in the town, though others are fleeing. We have not yet fled. We have packed things up, and got the car ready to flee. If the situation is OK, we will move tomorrow. But we heard gunfire today, and choppers were hovering,” a resident of Mong Lone ward told The Irrawaddy on Sunday.
More than half of Kayah State’s 300,000 population have already been displaced by fighting following the February coup, and the majority of Loikaw’s some 150,000 residents are fleeing the junta’s weekend aerial attacks, according to locals.
A Loikaw resident told The Irrawaddy on Monday that “the town is deserted and many more, including my family, are planning to leave today and tomorrow.”
Junta attacks from the air were also heard in Demoso, Shardaw and Moebye and Pekhon towns. Helicopters could be heard hovering above Hpasawng Township, said the Loikaw resident.
At least 30 junta soldiers including a lieutenant died and many more were injured in Saturday’s fighting, according to the KNDF. The group said it shot down a gunship and destroyed an armored vehicle in the fighting, and also seized weapons and ammunition from the regime.
Junta troops also clashed with resistance groups in Demoso on Sunday, and at least 10 junta soldiers died in the fighting despite air support.
“Some 20 junta soldiers are believed to have been injured, and at least 10 are thought to have died. The regime fired artillery and also carried out aerial attacks. One of our comrades died and three were injured. One of them had to have one of his kidneys removed. He is stable now,” a KPDF spokesman told The Irrawaddy.
Some civilian houses were damaged in the junta shelling and air strikes and junta troops also deliberately set some houses on fire to cremate their colleagues’ bodies, said the spokesman.
“Junta troops burnt the bodies of their fellows in civilian houses. We have found three charred bodies of junta soldiers,” he said.
The KPDF said it had also seized weapons and communications devices from the regime in the Demoso fighting. The military regime, according to Loikaw residents, has intensified its attacks in Loikaw, deploying helicopters to regain road access to other parts of Kayah State via Loikaw. Resistance groups have blocked road access since last month, preventing the regime from sending reinforcements and food supplies..."
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"The National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (NUG) expresses its extreme
disappointment at the decision of Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia to meet with Min Aung Hlaing in
Naypyidaw on 7 and 8 January 2022. Having inserted himself into the Myanmar crisis, Hun Sen must now
produce clear results for peace and democracy in Myanmar or he will be seen as having been manipulated by Min
Aung Hlaing.
While Hun Sen has since clarified that the bilateral visit in no way recognised the illegal military junta, his rogue
expedition, conducted without broad ASEAN support and outside the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus, rewarded
the junta for its atrocity crimes against the Myanmar people and severely undermined ASEAN’s unity and
authority.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has quickly found himself the target of junta manipulation. The Joint Statement of 7
January and the Cambodian Foreign Minister’s press conference remarks of 8 January 2022 claim that the
Cambodian visit sought to ease the conflict and to facilitate humanitarian support. Yet both the escalating conflict
and its associated humanitarian crisis are junta induced.
On humanitarian assistance, the visit took no account of the junta’s weaponisation of the COVID- 19 pandemic
through its deliberate targeted attacks against medical workers and its denial of access to medical treatment and
vaccines. Nor was there recognition of the junta’s isolation o f communities from food, water and medicine as part
of its 'Four Cuts Strategy', further propelling the humanitarian crisis.
The Joint Statement speaks of a unilateral junta ceasefire with Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) at a time
when continuing junta airstrikes have killed and injured dozens of civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands
more in Magway and Sagaing Regions and in Kayin and Kayah States. The junta is reflexively reaching for its
tired old divide-and-conquer strategy, attempting to drive a wedge between EAOs unified in their opposition to
the illegal junta. The proposed participation of Prime Minister Hun Sen as ASEAN Chair in “ceasefire talks"
would see him and ASEAN further instrumentalised unless all parties, include the EAOs and the NUG, agree to
his role and his participation. Without the agreement of all parties, Hun Sen will be the instrument of one, the
illegal junta.
The Joint Statement and press conference remarks are also striking for what they omit. They make no mention of
democracy, human rights, or the popular will of the Myanmar people. They make no reference to the newly
appointed Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Myanmar and her complementary role. They offer no
commitment to allow the new Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar, Deputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, to meet with all other “concerned parties” as required by the Five-Point
Consensus. Unless Hun Sen makes good on these omissions, he leaves himself open to criticism that he has been
duped.
ASEAN again finds itself at a crossroads. The Five-Point Consensus expressed a commitment to seeking a
peaceful solution in the interests o f the Myanmar people. Yet since its failed coup d ’etat of 1 February 2021, the
junta has murdered no fewer than 1447 persons, increasingly through acts of terror. The junta-induced political,
economic and humanitarian crises in Myanmar, combined with the junta’s conduct as a terrorist organisation,
constitute a grave threat to regional security and to the interests of ASEAN Members and their populations.
ASEAN's decision to exclude representatives of the junta from its 2021 Summits was a clear response to the
contempt with which the junta continues to treat ASEAN and the Five-Point Consensus. ASEAN must now take
the necessary step of inviting the NUG, as the legitimate representative of the Myanmar people, to attend the
ASEAN Summit Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Seam Reap on 18- 19 January 2022.
In meeting the Five-Point Consensus, the NUG is committed to working in partnership with ASEAN to restore
democracy, to end the junta’s atrocity crimes, and to ensure the urgent provision o f humanitarian assistance to all
persons in need in Myanmar.
The NUG also stands ready to engage with the new Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar. This must
involve in-person meetings with NUG leaders including President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi, whose continuing authority the UN Security Council, General Assembly, and Secretary-General
have each affirmed..."
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"ကမ္ဘောဒီယားနိုင်ငံဝန်ကြီးချုပ်နှင့် အာဆီယံ အလှည့်ကျဥက္ကဋ္ဌဖြစ်သည့် ဟွန်ဆန်သည် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၇ ရက်မှ ၈ ရက်အထိ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့လာရောက်၍ နေပြည်တော်၌ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့မှုအပေါ် မိမိတို့ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) အနေဖြင့် လွန်စွာ စိတ်ပျက်မိပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအရေးတွင် ထဲထဲဝင်ဝင် ပါဝင်လာခဲ့သည့် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့် မြန်မာ့ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီ အရေးတို့နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသား ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်ကို ထုတ်ပြန်သင့်ပါကြောင်း၊ သို့မဟုတ်လျှင် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟွန်ဆန်သည်လည်း မင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ လွှမ်းမိုးချယ်လှယ်မှုကို ခံနေရသူ တစ်ဦးအနေဖြင့်သာ ပြည်သူက သတ်မှတ်လိမ့်မည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ခရီးစဉ်လာရောက်ခြင်းသည် နှစ်နိုင်ငံဆက်ဆံရေး အရသာဖြစ်ပြီး အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုအား အသိအမှတ်ပြုလာရောက်ခြင်းမဟုတ်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြ ထားသော်လည်း အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံအများစု၏ ထောက်ခံမှုမပါဘဲ အာဆီယံဘုံသဘော တူညီချက် (၅) ချက်ကို သွေဖယ်၍ လူမျိုးရေးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကို ပြောင်ပြောင်တင်းတင်းချိုးဖောက် နေသည့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုအား လာရောက်တွေ့ဆုံညှိနှိုင်းခဲ့ပြီး အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့ကြီး၏ စည်းလုံးမှု၊ အခွင့်အာဏာကို အဟန့်အတားဖြစ်စေခဲ့ပါသည်။
ထို့အတူ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့်လည်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ခြယ်လှယ်ရန် ပစ်မှတ် တစ်ခု ဖြစ်လာခဲ့သည်။ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သော ဘုံသဘောတူညီချက် နှင့် ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး၏ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြောကြားချက်တို့အရ ကမ္ဘောဒီယားဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ခရီးစဉ်မှာ ပဋိပက္ခများ ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရန်နှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ ပေးအပ်ရန် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ ပဋိပက္ခများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်မှုနှင့် လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ လိုအပ်နေမှုတို့မှာ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များ ကြောင့်ပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
ခရီးစဉ်အတွင်း လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်မှုအကူအညီပေးရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ COVID-19 ကပ်ရောဂါကို လက်နက်သဖွယ်အသုံးချ၍ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများအပေါ် ကျူးလွန်မှုများ၊ ဆေးကုသခွင့်နှင့် ဆေးဝါးရရှိခွင့်များအား ပိတ်ပင်မှုတို့အပေါ် ပြောကြားချက် တစ်စုံတစ်ရာမျှ မတွေ့ရပါ။ ထို့အပြင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအပေါ် လူသားချင်းစာနာ ထောက်ထားမှုမရှိဘဲ “ဖြတ်လေးဖြတ် မဟာဗျူဟာ” ၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်းဖြစ်သည့် ရေနှင့် အစားအသောက်၊ ဆေးဝါးများ ဖြတ်တောက်ထားမှုအပေါ် အသိအမှတ်ပြု ထောက်ခံသကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်နေပါသည်။
မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်နှင့် ကယားပြည်နယ်တို့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လေကြောင်းဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကြောင့် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူပေါင်း များစွာ အသက် သေဆုံးမှုများနှင့် လူပေါင်းထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ အိုးအိမ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးတိမ်း ရှောင်ရမှုများဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့ရပြီး တစ်ချိန်တည်းမှာပင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ တစ်ဖက်သက် အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးထုတ်ပြန်မှုအား ဘုံသဘောတူထုတ်ပြန်ချက်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုအနေဖြင့် ၎င်း၏ သွေးခွဲ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုနည်းဗျူဟာဟောင်းကို အသုံးပြု၍ တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား သွေးခွဲလုပ်ဆောင်မှုများ ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိ ပါသည်။ အာဆီယံအလှည့်ကျဥက္ကဋ္ဌအနေဖြင့် အပစ်အခတ် ရပ်စဲရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲများတွင် ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးလိုမှုအပေါ် တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရ စသည့် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအားလုံး သဘောတူမှသာ အရေးပါနိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ပြီး သက်ဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအားလုံး၏ သဘောတူညီမှုမရခဲ့လျှင် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့် သာမက အာဆီယံအနေဖြင့်ပါ အရေးပါသည်ဟု သတ်မှတ်ခြင်း မခံရနိုင်ပါ။ ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့် တရားမဝင် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ကိုယ်စားပြုသဘောသာ ဆောင်နေပါလိမ့်မည်။
ဘုံသဘောတူထုတ်ပြန်ချက်နှင့် ရှင်းလင်းပွဲများတွင် ပြောကြားချက်များသည် မပြည့်စုံပါ။ ဒီမိုကရေစီအရေး၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူပြည်သားများ၏ ဖြစ်ချင်သည့် ဆန္ဒသဘောထားတို့ ဖော်ပြထားခြင်းမရှိသည်ကို တွေ့ရပါသည်။ အသစ်ခန့်အပ်လိုက်သော ကုလသမဂ္ဂအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ်နှင့် သူမ၏ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့် နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ အကြောင်းတစ်စုံတစ်ရာ ဖော်ပြထားခြင်းမရှိသည်ကို တွေ့ရပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဆိုင်ရာ အာဆီယံအထူးသံတမန် ခန့်အပ်ရေး၊ အာဆီယံ ဘုံသဘောတူညီချက် ၅ ချက်အရ နိုင်ငံခြား ရေးဝန်ကြီး Park Sokhonn နှင့် သက်ဆိုင်သည့် အဖွဲ့များတွေ့ဆုံရေး တို့နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍လည်း ဖော်ပြထားခြင်း မရှိသည်ကိုလည်းတွေ့ရပါသည်။ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဟွန်ဆန်အနေဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ချက် များအပေါ် ကောင်းမွန်စွာဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ခြင်း မရှိပါက စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လိမ်လည်လှည့်ဖျားခြင်းကို ခံလိုက်ရပြီဖြစ်ကြောင်း မုချဝေဖန်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
အာဆီယံအနေဖြင့် ယခုအချိန်တွင် မည်သည့်လမ်းကို ရွေးချယ်ရန်မှာ အရေးကြီးနေပြီဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဘုံ သဘောတူညီချက် (၅) ချက်သည် မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ အကျိုးစီးပွားအတွက် ငြိမ်းချမ်းသော အဖြေကို ရှာဖွေရန် ကတိကဝတ်ကို ဖော်ပြခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှ စတင်သည့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အာဏာသိမ်းမှုသည် မအောင်မြင်သည့်တိုင် ၎င်းတို့၏ အကြမ်းဖက် လုပ်ရပ်များဖြင့် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူပေါင်း ၁,၄၄၇ ဦးထက် မနည်းကို သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့သည်။ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လှုံ့ဆော်မှုများကြောင့် ပေါ်ပေါက်လာရသော နိုင်ငံရေး၊ စီးပွားရေးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာ ထောက်ထားမှု အကျပ်အတည်းများသည် ၎င်းတို့၏ အပြုအမူနှင့် ပေါင်းစပ်ကာ အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်း တစ်ရပ်အဖြစ် ဒေသတွင်း လုံခြုံရေးနှင့် အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများနှင့် ၎င်းတို့၏ ပြည်သူများ၏ အကျိုးစီးပွားတို့အပေါ် ကြီးမားသော ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုတစ်ရပ် ဖြစ်လာလျက်ရှိသည်။
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေးများမှ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များကို ဖယ်ထုတ်ရန် အာဆီယံ၏ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်သည် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အာဆီယံနှင့် ဘုံသဘောတူညီချက် (၅) ချက်တို့အား မထီမဲ့မြင်ပြုနေခြင်းအပေါ် ရှင်းလင်းပြတ်သားသည့် တုံ့ပြန်ချက်တစ်ရပ်လည်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် အာဆီယံအနေဖြင့် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁၈ ရက်နေ့မှ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့အထိ Seam Reap မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် အာဆီယံ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးများ အစည်းအဝေးသို့ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) အား မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ တရားဝင် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ် တက်ရောက်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် ဖိတ်ကြားနိုင်ရေးကိုလည်း အကောင် အထည်ဖော်ရမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) အနေဖြင့်လည်း ဘုံသဘောတူညီချက် (၅) ချက်နှင့်အညီ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရန်၊ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သော ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများကို အဆုံးသတ်ရန်နှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေသူအားလုံးကို လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ အကူအညီများ အရေးတကြီး ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်ရန်တို့အား အာဆီယံနှင့်အတူ ဆက်လက်ပူးပေါင်းလုပ်ဆောင် သွားမည်ဟု ကတိပြုပါသည်။
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) သည် အာဆီယံအလှည့်ကျဉက္ကဋ္ဌ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အထူးသံတမန်အသစ်နှင့်လည်း ထိတွေ့ဆက်ဆံရန် အသင့်ရှိနေပါသည်။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ၊ အထွေထွေညီလာခံနှင့် အထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်စသည်တို့က အသိအမှတ်ပြုထားသည့် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးဝင်းမြင့်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတော်၏အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်တို့အပါအဝင် NUG ခေါင်းဆောင်များနှင့် လူချင်းတွေ့ဆုံမှုများအား အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်သွားရမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။..."
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"In a New Year’s message, U Thein Nyunt, a member of the State Administration Council (SAC)— the governing body of the military regime—wished death and destruction upon the parallel National Unity Government (NUG) as well as its legislative body, the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), and its armed wing, the People’s Defense Force (PDF).
“Myanmar is going through a war for the cause of ‘nationalism’ between patriots and those under foreign influence. My wish is that the foreign invaders and traitors will be totally defeated in the New Year,” the turncoat wrote in his New Year’s greetings published in the junta-controlled newspapers.
U Thein Nyunt was previously a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s Central Executive Committee. When the NLD boycotted the 2010 general election, he left the party and co-founded a new one, the National Democratic Force. He later resigned from the party and ran as an independent in the 2010 poll, winning a seat in the Lower House. He later founded the New National Democracy Party (NNDP). He contested the 2015 poll as the NNDP chair, but lost the race to the NLD.
He has since allied himself with the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), and spent the years prior to the coup finding fault with the NLD government. In the run-up to the 2020 election, he made statements encouraging a military coup. He again suffered defeat in the 2020 vote, but became a member of the SAC following the takeover. He has always tried to curry favor with Min Aung Hlaing, seconding whatever he says at regime meetings.
On Karen New Year’s Day, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing wished the Karen people well. It was rank hypocrisy—the general ordered airstrikes on Karen villages last month, bringing devastation to the lives of thousands.
Since Dec. 15, Myanmar’s military has carried out ground and aerial attacks on Lay Kay Kaw and surrounding areas in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township near the Thai border, claiming that PDF fighters were taking shelter there. The attacks have forced more than 10,000 locals from their homes and across the border into Thailand.
Only the regime’s media acknowledged Karen New Year’s Day with any energy. The occasion went unmarked even in relatively peaceful Yangon and Ayeyarwady regions, which are home to large Karen populations.
Min Aung Hlaing eyes electoral ‘reform’ to maintain grip on power
In his message on Myanmar’s 74th annual Independence Day, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing articulated the merits of the proportional representation (PR) electoral system, which he said would allow all-inclusive and wide representation in Myanmar.
In the first-past-the-post system that has been practiced to date in Myanmar, candidates who win a majority of votes in their constituencies are elected lawmakers. Under the PR system, parties receive parliamentary seats proportional to the percentage of votes they win in an election. Calls by the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party and its allied parties to switch to PR have become louder since last March, one month after the coup.
Obviously, Min Aung Hlaing is preaching the advantages of PR not because of its benefits for Myanmar, but because it would benefit the military and himself personally.
With the military-drafted constitution guaranteeing 25 percent of seats in the legislature for Myanmar’s military, its proxy USDP and allied parties only need to secure an additional 26 percent of total seats to form the government. However, after they failed to do so in both the 2015 and 2020 elections, they knew they would never be able to take control of the parliament and the government unless PR is introduced.
The military regime, after annulling the results of the 2020 general election in July, said it would hold a new election in August 2023, but to Myanmar people, that is nothing more than a tall story.
Hun Sen: Myanmar’s Unwelcome Visitor
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen arrived in Naypyitaw on the morning of Jan. 7 on a visit opposed by Myanmar’s people, who fear it will lend legitimacy to coup leader Min Aung Hlaing, given that Cambodia currently holds the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is a member. The dictatorial Khmer ruler is the first foreign leader to visit the head of the Myanmar junta since the military seized power in February last year.
Junta leader honors his deputy and regime supporters
To mark Myanmar’s Independence Day on Jan. 4, Min Aung Hlaing conferred titles on military officials including his deputy, Vice Senior General Soe Win, and military supporters including well-known Buddhist monks.
The coup leader, who himself had the title Maha Thray Sithu bestowed on him by his military seniors earlier in his career, conferred the title Thray Sithu on his deputy, and other titles on various military officials who are in one way or another involved in the ongoing brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters and killings of civilians.
Among the other title recipients were Major Naing Bo Bo, who rammed a vehicle into anti-regime protesters in Yangon’s Kyimyindaing in December, and well-known Buddhist monks Ashin Chekinda and U Tilawkar Biwonsa. The latter is the chief monk of the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, an ultranationalist group known by its Burmese acronym Ma Ba Tha.
The honorary orders are traditionally awarded to individuals who have done great work for the country. This year, however, the awards went to supporters of Min Aung Hlaing.
Other recipients included Dr. Aung Kyaw Win, the husband of the regime’s Social Welfare Minister Daw Thet Thet Khaing, and U Aung Min Kyaw Thu, the vice chairman of pro-military nationalist group the Young Men’s Buddhist Association. Posthumous honors were conferred on ward administrators and regime employees who were killed for allegedly being military informants.
Junta admits it did not expect armed resistance from civilians
Regime spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun admitted in an interview with the BBC on Dec. 5 that the military had not expected armed resistance from civilians.
“Tatmadaw is facing challenges. The main challenge is mine attacks and sneak attacks by resistance fighters disguised as civilians,” Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun added.
Myanmar civilians initially responded to the coup with peaceful demands that democracy be restored in the country. However, after their protest columns were hit by live bullets and grenades and many of their comrades shot dead in late February and March, they came to realize that taking up arms was the only answer if they were to defeat the regime.
Since then, hundreds of resistance groups known collectively as the PDF have sprung up across the country, fighting the regime in both urban and rural areas of Myanmar.
In the cities, junta soldiers who had shown no mercy for unarmed protesters have tasted fear. Fatal guerrilla attacks by resistance fighters have forced junta soldiers to duck behind sandbags and barbed wire mesh fences.
Even as the regime has branded the resistance fighters as terrorists and launched a series of manhunts across the country, everyone can see that attacks on regime targets have only increased in Yangon and elsewhere..."
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"လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့်
ဆက်သွယ်ရေး၊ သတင်းအချက်အလက်နှင့် နည်းပညာဝန်ကြီးဌာန
မိုဘိုင်းအင်တာနက်စျေးနှုန်းများ တိုးမြှင့်ကောက်ခံမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် ပူးတွဲထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
(၉) ရက်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၀၂၂..."
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"1. The Burmese military junta has significantly intensified its military offensives that
include the use o f airstrikes, tanks, and artillery in Loikaw, Demoso, Pruso, and
Shadaw townships o f Karenni State this week. Attacks by the ju n ta ’s troops in
Loikaw on January 7 killed at least 6 innocent civilians and besieged hundreds o f
civilians for the whole day that required a deadly rescue operation where one rescue
worker was killed.
2. The ju n ta ’s indiscriminate airstrikes, artillery shelling, and firing that continued on
January 8 both during the day and at night have forced several thousands o f civilians
from Loikaw to flee for safety. Several hundred civilians remained besieged in Mine
Lone sub-township o f Loikaw. More nighttime airstrikes are taking place in Mine
Lone sub-township as o f the release o f this statement.
3. Additionally, the ju n ta ’s airstrikes in Thai-Karenni border areas on January 7 have
also forced over 1200 internally displaced persons to flee into Thailand while about
200 at a different border crossing point remained unable to cross the border.
4. Karenni National Progressive Party is especially concerned over Burmese military
ju n ta ’s activities, particularly its use o f airstrikes to target innocent civilians.
Therefore, we solemnly call on international governments and organizations to take
immediate action against the junta and provide timely humanitarian assistance and
protection for the civilians under attacks..."
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Karenni National Progressive Party
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2022-01-08
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"ကရင်နီပြည်အတွင်း "အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူလူထုများအား တိုက်လေယာဉ်၊ စစ်ရဟတ်ယာဉ်များဖြင့် ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်နေခြင်းအား နိုင်ငံတကာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အမြန်ဆုံးအရေးယူ ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများအား ပြုလုပ်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားနိုင်ရန်နှင့် ပြည်သူလူထု၏ အသက်အိုးအိမ်လုံခြုံရေးအတွက် အမြန်ဆုံး ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန် ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီအနေဖြင့် လေးလေးနက်နက်တောင်းဆိုလိုက် ရပါသည်။"..."
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"Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing on Friday amid criticism of the first visit by a head of government since the army seized power from an elected government last year.
Hun Sen was greeted by an honour guard and red carpet when he arrived on Friday, just as protests by coup opponents broke out in other parts of the country over fears his trip will provide more legitimacy to the ruling junta.
Myanmar state television later showed images of the two leaders bumping elbows and sitting down for talks in gilded chairs.
Hun Sen's two-day visit was the first by a head of government since the army overthrew the civilian administration of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1 last year, sparking months of protests and a bloody crackdown.
The Cambodian leader, who has been criticised over crackdowns on his political opponents at home, has said he was making the visit to press a Myanmar peace plan sponsored by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Cambodia is current chair of the 10-member ASEAN, which adopted a five-point "consensus" peace plan in April.
Some other ASEAN countries including Indonesia have expressed frustration at the junta's failure to implement the plan, including allowing an envoy to meet Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since the coup.
In Myanmar, opponents of military rule have said Hun Sen, who seized power in Phnom Penh in a 1997 coup, is backing the junta by making the trip.
In Depayin, about 300 km (186 miles) north of the capital, Naypyidaw, protesters burned a poster of the Cambodian prime minister and chanted "Hun Sen don't come to Myanmar. We don't want dictator Hun Sen", photographs on social media showed.
There were also reports of protests in the second city of Mandalay and the Tanintharyi and Monywa regions.
In a speech on Wednesday before his trip, Hun Sen called for restraint from all sides in Myanmar and for the peace plan to be followed.
"Brothers in Myanmar, do you want your country to fall into a real civil war or want it solved?" he said.
After a phone call this week with Hun Sen, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in messages on Twitter if there was no significant progress on the peace plan, then only non-political representatives from Myanmar should be allowed at ASEAN meetings.
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In October, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing was barred from attending an ASEAN summit for his failure to cease hostilities, allow humanitarian access and start dialogue, as agreed with ASEAN.
But in a further sign of divisions in the 10-member bloc, Hun Sen last month said junta officials should be allowed to attend ASEAN meetings.
Min Ko Naing, a leading activist in Myanmar, said in a social media post that Hun Sen would face massive protests over his visit, which would hurt ASEAN.
Hun Sen is one of the world's longest serving leaders and Western countries and human rights groups have long condemned him for crackdowns on opponents, civil rights groups and the media in Cambodia. His party now holds all seats in parliament after a court banned the main opposition party ahead of a 2018 election.
Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for Research Emerlynne Gil said the trip risked sending mixed messages to Mynamar's military leader and Hun Sen should instead lead ASEAN to strong action to address the country’s "dire human rights situation".
U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia cited a junta spokesman as saying Hun Sen would not meet Suu Kyi, who has been detained since the coup and is on trial, facing nearly a dozen cases that carry a combined maximum sentence of more than 100 years in prison..."
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"Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen turned out to be an unwelcome visitor to Myanmar as he began his two-day trip to the country on Friday, his arrival strenuously denounced by the people of the Southeast Asia nation for his engagement with the Myanmar regime, which has killed more than 1,300 people since seizing power last year.
Hun Sen landed in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on Friday morning for a two-day visit at the invitation of the country’s coup leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. He met with the general and ……………., becoming the first foreign leader to meet the junta leadership since the coup.
Many fear his visit will confer on Min Aung Hlaing and his junta the legitimacy they have so far failed to establish, as Cambodia currently holds the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which Myanmar belongs. They also questioned how someone with a record as a notorious violator of human rights could hold the junta to account for its abuses.
Since the moment it was announced last month, Hun Sen’s visit has been denounced by critics who warned his unilateral initiative could have far-reaching consequences for ASEAN, potentially undermining the regional bloc’s credibility to mediate a political solution.
Relations between ASEAN and Myanmar turned sour last year when the bloc excluded Min Aung Hlaing from its summit over his failure to implement a peace plan known as the Five Point Consensus, which he had agreed with the regional group. The agreed steps include an immediate cessation of violence in the country and allowing the bloc’s special envoy to visit, among others.
Hun Sen responded that he was just trying to bring Myanmar back into the ASEAN fold and urged his critics not to pre-judge his visit, adding that his goals were “not far from” the consensus.
His assurances failed to appease many in Myanmar, however. His visit has met with a level of denunciation unprecedented for a visiting foreign dignity.
A few days before his visit, a series of explosions occurred near the Cambodian Embassy in Yangon. Across the country, people have staged protests against his visit, holding placards reading, “We Don’t Need You Hun Sen,” and “You are Not Welcomed to Myanmar” while stepping on portraits of him. Hundreds of anti-junta groups issued a statement urging Hun Sen to call off the visit.
On the eve of his departure for Naypyitaw, Hun Sen experienced the condemnation up close and personal as Myanmar people flocked to his Facebook page to post angry comments about his visit under his 41st wedding anniversary post. Many left comments such as “Shame on You” or “We don’t need you Mr Hun Sen , you’re not welcome” accompanied by memes portraying Min Aung Hlaing and Hun Sen. Another said, “You dictator is ruling Cambodia against the will of Cambodians. Now trying to support Burmese military to be the same. Sorry your days are numbered.”
Hun Sen’s visit coincides with an escalation of the regime’s attacks on armed resistance forces, mainly made up of civilians who reject the regime’s rule in the country’s southeastern Kayah State.
Shortly before his visit, the Cambodian prime minister discussed developments in Myanmar via phone with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The president later said in a Twitter post that during the call he reiterated clearly Indonesia’s position on the importance of implementing the five-point consensus to bring democracy back to Myanmar through inclusive dialogue.
“Should there be no significant progress on the implementation of 5PCs [the five-point consensus], Myanmar should only be represented by non-political level at ASEAN meetings,” he posted on Wednesday.
On Friday, the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), the parliamentary wing of Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), said military leaders who commit human rights abuses and other violations should be isolated, adding that engaging with them could have no positive outcomes for Myanmar and its people.
“We reiterate our call for cooperation only with the legitimate institutions, including the CRPH comprising those elected by the people of Myanmar, and the NUG,” it said in its announcement.
Human Rights Watch said Hun Sen’s meeting as ASEAN chair with Myanmar’s military leadership is an affront to the people of Myanmar, who strongly oppose the visit.
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said Hun Sen’s decision to meet, without preconditions, the leaders of Myanmar’s military will only lend underserved international legitimacy to the junta.
“A unilateral visit by Hun Sen is doomed to not yield solutions, especially if he won’t meet and confer with the representatives of the people elected to parliament in the November 2020 election, such as the National Unity Government, which has the support of most elected MPs,” he said..."
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A significant proportion of healthcare in Myanmar is now being delivered outside state hospitals, by doctors and nurses who oppose the military and are loyal to the National Unity Government challenging the junta's legitimacy, medical workers in the country told the BBC.
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"Organised resistance to the 1 February coup in Myanmar started with healthcare workers announcing a boycott of state-run hospitals. They led the first street protests, calling it the "white coat revolution".
That put medics on a collision course with the junta, and has resulted in much of Myanmar's healthcare system going underground.
In many areas more than 70% of health workers are believed to have abandoned their jobs, their hospitals and their patients. It was a difficult ethical decision, one defended by senior doctors in a letter they sent to the medical journal The Lancet.
"Our duty as doctors is to prioritise care for our patients - but how can we do this under an unlawful, undemocratic, and oppressive military system?
"Fifty years of previous military rule failed to develop our health system and instead enshrined poverty, inequality, and inadequate medical care. We cannot return to this situation."
Grace, a teacher at the Yangon Nursing University, says they all "chose to join the CDM [civil disobedience movement]".
"Every evening at 8pm, we would bang on pots and sing the revolutionaries' songs in front of the school. We were enraged - how could they just arrest our leader after they had lost an election?"
Grace was one of thousands of medical personnel who not only left her job - losing her accommodation as a result - but also joined the protests to help the injured.
"We arranged ambulances in case someone was shot. Our biggest concern was how to move them to safe areas.
"For minor injuries we would take them to the ambulance and treat them there. For gunshot wounds, we had to find safe routes to the clinics we set up in temples and monastery compounds."
From these desperate, improvised beginnings they built a shadow health system, notionally under the authority of the National Unity Government (NUG) which was declared in April by ousted parliamentarians to challenge the junta's authority.
In reality though, the system is run by thousands of volunteers across the country, working in charity clinics or those private hospitals willing to risk having them, and using encrypted communication apps to avoid detection.
They are providing healthcare that is either no longer available in the thinly-staffed state hospitals, or not wanted by patients who oppose the coup.
Dr Zaw Wai Soe, an orthopaedic surgeon and a leading figure in the ousted government's fight against Covid-19, is the NUG's health minister.
After the coup he turned down an offer from the military to be their deputy health minister, and went into hiding. He has been charged by the military authorities with treason.
The NUG raises money from Burmese living overseas to support the volunteers, and has set up a Facebook page for patients to get online medical advice from doctors who are in hiding - so-called telemedicine.
"We don't have enough money," Zaw Wai Soe told me, speaking from an undisclosed location. "But we do have support from local people, and internationally from the diaspora. It isn't enough but we are trying as hard as we can to provide proper healthcare."
A dangerous job
But working underground, in defiance of the military, is dangerous.
The World Health Organisation noted that, by July, half of the 500 attacks on health workers it recorded around the world had occurred in Myanmar.
A similar project at Manchester University reported that in the same period 25 medical workers had been killed in Myanmar, 190 arrested, and 55 hospitals occupied by the military.
Luke was an ICU nurse in a private hospital in Mandalay. He says he left his job immediately after the coup, because the hospital's owner had close ties to the armed forces, and became a protest leader.
"They arrested me on 5 April and took me to Mandalay Palace (where the city's military command is based). They had promised not to harm us, but once we were in the palace they started beating and questioning us.
"Then they sent us to Obo prison. We were kept in one room, 50 of us. We all had to share a single toilet, and could wash only once a day. It was summer, the hottest time of year, and there was not enough drinking water."
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Luke was kept in prison for 87 days, before being released in an amnesty. These days he is working in a mobile operating theatre in Mandalay hidden inside a shipping container.
"The lighting is not very good. But we do what we can. In prison I saw some gunshot wounds that had not been treated properly in government hospitals. Some died from those wounds.
"Those hospitals do have better equipment, but not enough skilled specialists and nurses. They often don't accept patients in need of critical care. I think our medical care is better, because we have more specialists than them. Our main problem is that we cannot work openly."
Some nurses described to me working in hidden charity clinics in Yangon and Mandalay, which are disguised as Covid testing centres to avoid military raids. Most have moved home several times already fearing arrest.
When they leave to go to work, they wear ordinary clothes, not uniforms, and leave their mobile phones behind, in case they are detained. They must always take care to avoid traps set by the military - several medics have been arrested this way.
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"We have to be alert when we get called to a patient's house", says Nway Oo, a nurse who has gone back from Yangon to her home town in Shan State. "We check with our people in that area to confirm whether the patient is really sick. So, we always wait for a day to be sure the patient is genuine."
Another nurse I spoke to said she has not left her home in Yangon for five months, and lives in fear of the security forces doing house inspections in her street.
Coping with Covid
Relying heavily on telemedicine, the underground health system has also struggled to treat patients during a surge in Covid infections in July and August.
Myanmar had begun a promising vaccine programme before the coup, but that came to a halt after the military seized power. One of those they arrested was the doctor in charge of the vaccine rollout.
The junta has promised to speed up vaccination rates, but been held back by a lack of trained staff, a lack of vaccines, and a lack of public trust in the military-run health system. The NUG launched its own vaccine programme in July, but this has been largely limited to border areas under the control of sympathetic ethnic insurgent armies.
"It is heartbreaking," says Mi April, a nursing instructor who is helping her former students to treat patients in their hometowns through telemedicine.
"I used to work until 1 or 2am responding to all the messages I got from people with sick family members, saying my father will die, my mother will die, please respond.
"I was helpless because I could not give them oxygen or medicines. People were queuing at places supplying oxygen, but the military was blocking them from accessing it."
The Delta variant of Covid appears to have run unheeded through Myanmar in July and August. Real casualty numbers are hard to know. All the nurses and doctors we spoke to say seriously ill patients were turned away from government hospitals, and had to go home, either to recover, or die.
By September Covid numbers had fallen sharply, but Myanmar remains vulnerable to future outbreaks, with vaccination rates still far below neighbouring countries.
"During the worst Covid outbreak this year, we tried to obtain medicines, oxygen concentrators, cylinders, and other equipment. It is a very difficult situation, but we do have manpower, because I believe 70 to 80% of healthcare workers are working with us," Zaw Wai Soe told me.
'We lost our future'
I asked him why health workers in Myanmar were playing such a large role in opposition to the coup. He believes it is a moral response by a profession which was terribly neglected during the previous period of military rule, when Myanmar had one of the world's lowest levels of healthcare spending.
That only started to change under the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, with a huge recruitment drive to bring in new staff.
"If you compare with other countries, we don't get big salaries. Most of us could easily go and earn more working in other countries, like Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. But, especially after Covid arrived last year, we gave all of our efforts to the country. We all expected we would have a better future one day, with our elected government.
"Then suddenly this coup happened. That is why we could not accept this. We were working for the people, even with our poor salaries and living standards.
"We had hopes for the future, and suddenly we lost that future."..."
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"1. A high-level delegation led by the Cambodian Prime Minister
Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN is visiting
Myanmar at the invitation of the coup leader, Senior General Min
Aung Hlaing. We have learned that the visit is taking place from
January 7 to 8 to discuss bilateral cooperation issues and the
progress of the ASEAN.
2. Since 1st February 2021, the military junta has been perpetuating
their atrocities and crimes against humanity to secure their power.
Thus, the members of the CRPH urges the ASEAN Chair, the
Cambodian Prime Minister, who is meeting the coup leaders, to respect
the aspirations and efforts of the people of Myanmar for democracy.
3. The crisis in Myanmar today is the direct result of the power grab
by the selfish dictator Min Aung Hlaing and his military
collaborators. The junta’s security forces are arbitrarily arresting
and torturing the people of Myanmar. We are of the view that
dialogue with these military leaders committing human rights
abuses and other violations against our community will bring no
benefits to the Myanmar and its People.
4. As Prime Minister Hun Sen has also taken up ASEAN Chair
responsibilities for 2022, the people of Myanmar are outraged that
this visit will be construed by the military junta as leading towards
a change in ASEAN' position. This position was brought about
because the coup leader has refused to cooperate on the ASEAN’s five-point consensus agreed by the ASEAN leaders as an attempt to
find a peaceful solution for the interest of Myanmar. We urge
Cambodia, a neighbour of Myanmar, to maintain the existing good
relations and friendship between the two countries and their
people.
5. We reiterate our call for cooperation only with the legitimate
institutions including the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw comprising those elected by the people of Myanmar, and
the National Unity Government. The Committee Representing
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw will continue to stand for and represent the
will of the people of Myanmar, as the CRPH has the legitimate
electoral mandate from the people..."
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"၁။ မြန်မာ့အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ ဖိတ်ကြားချက်အရ ကမ္ဘောဒီးယားနိုင်ငံ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN ခေါင်းဆောင်သည့် အဆင့်မြင့်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖွဲ့သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၇ ရက်နေ့မှ ၈ ရက်နေ့အထိ လာရောက်လည်ပတ်မည် ဖြစ်ပြီး နှစ်နိုင်ငံ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေး ကိစ္စရပ်များနှင့် အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့၏ တိုးတက်မှုများအပေါ် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးသွားမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည်ကို သိရှိရပါသည်။
၂။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှ စ၍ မြန်မာပြည်သူများအပေါ်၌ လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ၎င်းတို့အာဏာ တည်မြဲရေးအတွက် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ လုပ်ဆောင်နေသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမည့် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်အတွက် အာဆီယံ၏ အလှည့်ကျဥက္ကဋ္ဌဖြစ်သူ ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အနေဖြင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ ဆန္ဒသဘောထားနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီအတွက် ကြိုးပမ်းအား ထုတ်မှုများကို လေးစားလိုက်နာရန် အထူးတိုက်တွန်းပါသည်။
၃။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော ပြဿနာများသည် အတ္တဆန်သော စစ်အာဏာရှင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နှင့် စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များကြောင့်သာ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ရခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ မြန်မာပြည်သူ များအပေါ်၌ ဥပဒေမဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်နေပြီး လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများနှင့် အကြမ်း ဖက်မှုများပြုလုပ်နေသည့် စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များအား လူ့အသိုက်အဝိုင်းမှ ဖယ်ကျဉ်ထားရမည် ဖြစ် ပြီး ၎င်းတို့နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနှင့် ပြည်သူလူထုအတွက် အကျိုးတစ်စုံတစ်ရာ မရှိနိုင်ပါ။
၄။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အကျိုးစီးပွားအတွက် ထိရောက်သည့် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုများဖြင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာအဖြေရှာနိုင်ရေး အာဆီယံခေါင်းဆောင်များက သဘောတူညီထားသည့် ဘုံသဘော တူညီချက် (၅) ချက်အပေါ် လုံးဝပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း မရှိသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုအပေါ် မြန်မာပြည်သူများက အလွန်ဒေါသထွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အိမ်နီးချင်းနိုင်ငံတစ်နိုင်ငံဖြစ်သည့် ကမ္ဘောဒီးယားနိုင်ငံအနေဖြင့် တည်ရှိပြီးသော ဆက်ဆံရေး ကောင်းများနှင့် တည်ဆောက်ထားခဲ့သည့် နှစ်နိုင်ငံ ပြည်သူများအကြား ချစ်ကြည်ရင်းနှီးမှုများကို ထိန်းသိမ်းသွားရန် တိုက်တွန်းပါသည်။
၅။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အရေးကိစ္စရပ်များနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထုက ဆန္ဒမဲပေးရွေးချယ်ထားသည့် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ တို့အပါအဝင် တရားဝင် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့်သာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရန် ထပ်မံတိုက်တွန်းပြီး မိမိတို့ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် ပြည်သူလူထုက အပ်နှင်းထားသည့် အခွင့်အာဏာကို ကျင့်သုံးနေသည့် တရားဝင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းဖြစ်ခြင်းကြောင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူ တို့၏ ဆန္ဒသဘောနှင့်အညီ ရပ်တည်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း အသိပေးထုတ်ပြန်အပ် ပါသည်။ ..."
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"Thirty-one opponents of Myanmar’s military junta received lengthy prison sentences in Dawei in the final week of last year, a prison source in the Tanintharyi Region capital has disclosed.
A list provided by the source shows that a special court inside Dawei Prison handed down the sentences, ranging from two years to 19 years, between December 28 and 30.
According to the list, 14 of the convicted defendants were student activists who had been charged with incitement under Section 505a of the Penal Code.
This group included Soe Pyae Aung, 22, a spokesperson for the Dawei University Student Union, who was arrested in late September, and two female students, Soe Mi Mi Kyaw, 22, and Shar Pyae Khin, 24, who were taken into custody at the same time.
Four of the 14 students—all of whom were given two-year sentences for their political activities—were women, the list showed.
The remaining defendants were given sentences of at least seven years in prison, based on offenses that included incitement and violations of Section 19f of the Weapons and Explosives Law, Section 51 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, and Section 52 of the Logistics Law.
The longest sentence was given to 38-year-old Tun Tun Oo, who was given an 18-year prison term after being found guilty on all four charges.
Nyan Win, 24, was sentenced to a total of 11 years in prison on all but the terrorism charge, while the others each received seven or eight years.
All 17 are also facing additional charges of homicide under Section 307 of the Penal Code, the source said, adding that this charge has been laid against a total of 77 Dawei Prison inmates.
According to the source, none of the defendants were represented by lawyers.
A lawyer living in Dawei and two local activists confirmed that prisoners detained for anti-regime activities were having difficulty getting legal representation.
“No lawyer in Dawei dares to take these cases. Some offered their services free of charge at first, but then they started to be targeted with arrest warrants,” said one activist.
A Yangon-based lawyer who frequently travels to Dawei said that colleagues in the city were coming under heavy pressure from the regime.
“A very close lawyer friend of mine said that they had been warned not to take political cases, and also not to speak of the threats against them,” he said.
Local media outlets reported recently that warrants were issued against several lawyers in Dawei and Launglon townships in November. Four of these lawyers have since been arrested, according to the reports.
Myanmar Now was unable to reach the families of the defendants or local authorities for confirmation of the sentences..."
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2022-01-06
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"Burma’s illegitimate military regime kept trying to grind down a nation that overwhelmingly rejects it. During 1 Feb–10 Dec 2021, there were at least 7,053 attacks on civilians or armed clashes that failed to protect them, a 664% increase from the same period in 2020. Increased attacks caused 5,000 Karen villagers to flee into Thailand, and pushed Thai villagers on the border to relocate for safety. As of 1 Dec, 432 NLD members remained in detention, while junta military tribunals had sentenced 92 people to death. UNDP warned that 46.3% of the population will be living in poverty in 2022. It is estimated that 14.4 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2022..."
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"As Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to visit Myanmar on 7-8 January, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research Emerlynne Gil called on him to prioritise human rights action over empty gestures:
“Hun Sen’s rogue diplomacy may do more harm than good by breaking ranks with ASEAN’s response to the Myanmar crisis and sending mixed messages to Myanmar’s coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing, who has been blocked from recent high-level ASEAN meetings in a rare rebuke.”
“If Hun Sen truly wants to help, he should cancel this trip and lead ASEAN to strong action to address the country’s dire human rights situation rather than indulge in empty gestures that will likely result in little more than a self-congratulatory photo op.”
“As the incoming chair of ASEAN, Cambodia should help revive the five-point consensus adopted in April last year that called for an immediate end to violence and work to expand it further to protect human rights and ensure accountability for abuses.”
If Hun Sen truly wants to help, he should cancel this trip and lead ASEAN to strong action to address the country’s dire human rights situation rather than indulge in empty gestures that will likely result in little more than a self-congratulatory photo op.
Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for Research
“The nightmare has continued for the 55 million people of Myanmar. Last month security forces were accused of killing and burning more than 30 civilians, including two staff members of the humanitarian aid organization, Save the Children, in eastern Karenni State.”
“The international community cannot rely on ASEAN alone when it has repeatedly demonstrated that it is unable to take meaningful action to prevent such atrocities from recurring. The UN Security Council must urgently refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court and impose targeted sanctions and a global arms embargo.”
Background
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to visit Myanmar on 7-8 January, the first head of state to make an official visit to the country since the military seized power in a coup on 1 February 2020.
The trip comes as Cambodia takes over as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which rotates each year to one of the bloc’s 10 members. Cambodia was last chair in 2012.
ASEAN’s five-point consensus, adopted in April 2021, calls for an immediate end to violence, dialogue among all parties, aid access, the appointment of a special envoy from the bloc, and a visit by an ASEAN delegation. However, it fails to mention the need to protect human rights or call for accountability for violations. There has been little progress on the consensus, which was limited in scope even then.
Since seizing power, Myanmar’s military has killed more than 1,400 people and arrested or detained more than 10,000, many of them peaceful protesters. It has also unfairly tried many of Myanmar’s top civilian leaders who were ousted in the coup and sentenced them to lengthy prison sentences. Former de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in December in one of many bogus cases against her..."
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"Within the 11 months, from the military coup on February 1 till December 31, 2021, the Myanmar junta troops killed 163 Chin people.
Among the deaths were 87 civilians (including 13 women) and 76 members from Chin resistance forces. Among them, three were killed by landmines planted by the Tatmadaw and the bodies of eight civilians were not recovered. Seven were either burned to death or killed in a fire caused by the troops.
Some victims were killed when the Myanmar junta troops violently attacked on peaceful protesters and others lost their lives when the Military Council deployed heavy artillery and airstrikes indiscriminately against innocent civilians. Some were arbitrarily arrested and tortured to death, some even burned to death. In addition to killing innocent civilians without any reason, the junta troops carried arson attacks, planted landmines, and fired heavy weapons into civilian neighbourhoods. The Tatmadaw clearly appears to target the Chin civilians intentionally to create fear among the population.
The Myanmar Military Council’s systematic attacks and killings of civilians are clearly crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Myanmar Military Council must be held accountable for its crimes.
The ICA urges the Tatmadaw to immediately cease targeting civilians, their houses, and belongings, and to cease killing innocent people, particularly women and children and to refrain from indiscriminate firing and using heavy artillery against the civilian population.
The ICA also calls on the international community to intervene and increase pressure on the Myanmar junta to cease its military operations and human rights violations against the Chin People.
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၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းသည့်အချိန်မှစ၍ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၃၁) ရက်နေ့အထိ (၁၁) လ တာ ကာလအတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသား (၁၆၃) ဦးအား သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
သေဆုံးသူများတွင် အမျိုးသမီး (၁၃) ဦး အပါအဝင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၈၇) ဦးနှင့် ချင်းတော်လှန်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များမှ (၇၆) ဦး အထိ ရှိပါသည်။ ထိုအထဲတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ (၇) ဦး၊ အလောင်းပြန် မရသည့် အရပ်သား (၈) ဦး နှင့် မိုင်းထိ၍ သေဆုံးသူ အရပ်သား (၃) ဦးထိ ပါဝင်ပါသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မှ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုအပေါ် ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ ဆန္ဒပြနေသည့်အရပ်သားများအပေါ် အကြမ်းဖက် တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း၊ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးမှုနှင့် စစ်ကြောရေးအတွင်း ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ လူနေအိမ် များနှင့် အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သားများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် လေကြောင်း တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကြောင့် အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးကြရခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအား အကြောင်းမဲ့ သတ်ဖြတ်သည့်အပြင် ကျေးရွာလူနေအိမ်များအတွင်း လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ရမ်းသန်းပစ်ခတ် မီးရှို့ခြင်းနှင့် လူနေရပ်ကွက်များ၊ အရပ်သားများကျင်လည်ကျက်စားရာနေရာများတွင် မိုင်းထောင်တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း တို့ကို ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူးလွန်လျက် ရှိသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ စနစ်တကျ တိုက်ခိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းတို့သည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့်ပြစ်မှုနှင့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ကျူးလွန်နေကြောင်း ထင်ရှားနေပေသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် ၎င်းကျူးလွန်သည့် ပြစ်မှုများအတွက် တာဝန်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း နှင့် အရပ်သား ပြည်သူ များ၏ အသက်အိုးအိမ်စည်းစိမ်အပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားခြင်း၊ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအား တိုက်ခိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း တို့အား ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်ရန် ချင်းရေးရာအဖွဲ့ချုပ်မှ အလေးအနက် တိုက်တွန်းသည်။
ချင်းရေးရာအဖွဲ့ချုပ်သည် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအား စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများနှင့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ စစ်ဆင်ရေးဆောင်ရွက်နေမှုနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ အား ရပ်တန့်စေမည့် ထိရောက်သော အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်မှုများ လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် ထပ်မံတောင်းဆိုသည်။
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"Around 20 civilians have been killed and nearly 40 homes destroyed in a Myanmar village, according to local media, the latest in a series of massacres allegedly committed by the military.
The victims of the attack in late December were found in the north-eastern Sagaing region, and included four men 60 or older, online news outlet Myanmar Now reported.
The military seized power in a coup in February last year, creating a political crisis that has developed into a civil war marked by extreme brutality by security forces.
Sagaing was one of the first areas where civilians rose up in armed rebellion after the military slaughtered hundreds of peaceful protesters. The region has seen armed clashes, multiple massacres and military airstrikes. According to Myanmar Now, the military occupied Natchaung village in late December, with resistance groups compiling a list of victims on 31 December.
The year ended with a number of other violent incidents. The military allegedly massacred more than 30 civilians in Kayah State on Christmas Eve, near the border with Thailand, including women, children and two members of international humanitarian organisation Save the Children. While the United Nations called for a “thorough and transparent investigation into the incident”, state media dismissed the reports as a “plot … drawn up based on their whims and fancies”.
A spokesperson for the Kayah state police, a revolutionary force formed by officers who defected after the coup, said during a press conference that they had received missing person reports of 42 people, but have confirmed 31 deaths. A doctor said many of the bodies bore signs of torture.
Fighting also broke out in Karen state in December after military forces entered territory controlled by an ethnic armed group sympathetic to the pro-democracy movement, arresting political dissidents in hiding. Thousands fled as fighting spread throughout the state, with many seeking refuge in Thailand, where an estimated 6,000 still remain with limited access to basic necessities..."
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Dozens of homes reported destroyed in junta attack in north-eastern Sagaing region, one of the first areas where civilians rose up
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"Over 160 Chins were killed
January 6, 2022
Within the 11 months, from the military coup on February 1 till December 31, 2021, the Myanmar junta troops killed 163 Chin people.
Among the deaths were 87 civilians (including 13 women) and 76 members from Chin resistance forces. Among them, three were killed by landmines planted by the Tatmadaw and the bodies of eight civilians were not recovered. Seven were either burned to death or killed in a fire caused by the troops.
Some victims were killed when the Myanmar junta troops violently attacked on peaceful protesters and others lost their lives when the Military Council deployed heavy artillery and airstrikes indiscriminately against innocent civilians. Some were arbitrarily arrested and tortured to death, some even burned to death. In addition to killing innocent civilians without any reason, the junta troops carried arson attacks, planted landmines, and fired heavy weapons into civilian neighbourhoods. The Tatmadaw clearly appears to target the Chin civilians intentionally to create fear among the population.
The Myanmar Military Council’s systematic attacks and killings of civilians are clearly crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Myanmar Military Council must be held accountable for its crimes.
The ICA urges the Tatmadaw to immediately cease targeting civilians, their houses, and belongings, and to cease killing innocent people, particularly women and children and to refrain from indiscriminate firing and using heavy artillery against the civilian population.
The ICA also calls on the international community to intervene and increase pressure on the Myanmar junta to cease its military operations and human rights violations against the Chin People.....၁၁ လအတွင်းချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသား (၁၆၀) ကျော် အသတ်ခံရ
၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ( ၆ ) ရက်
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းသည့်အချိန်မှစ၍ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၃၁) ရက်နေ့အထိ (၁၁) လ တာ ကာလအတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသား (၁၆၃) ဦးအား သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
သေဆုံးသူများတွင် အမျိုးသမီး (၁၃) ဦး အပါအဝင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၈၇) ဦးနှင့် ချင်းတော်လှန်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များမှ (၇၆) ဦး အထိ ရှိပါသည်။ ထိုအထဲတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ (၇) ဦး၊ အလောင်းပြန် မရသည့် အရပ်သား (၈) ဦး နှင့် မိုင်းထိ၍ သေဆုံးသူ အရပ်သား (၃) ဦးထိ ပါဝင်ပါသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မှ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုအပေါ် ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ ဆန္ဒပြနေသည့်အရပ်သားများအပေါ် အကြမ်းဖက် တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း၊ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးမှုနှင့် စစ်ကြောရေးအတွင်း ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ လူနေအိမ် များနှင့် အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သားများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် လေကြောင်း တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကြောင့် အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးကြရခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအား အကြောင်းမဲ့ သတ်ဖြတ်သည့်အပြင် ကျေးရွာလူနေအိမ်များအတွင်း လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ရမ်းသန်းပစ်ခတ် မီးရှို့ခြင်းနှင့် လူနေရပ်ကွက်များ၊ အရပ်သားများကျင်လည်ကျက်စားရာနေရာများတွင် မိုင်းထောင်တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း တို့ကို ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူးလွန်လျက် ရှိသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ စနစ်တကျ တိုက်ခိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းတို့သည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့်ပြစ်မှုနှင့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ကျူးလွန်နေကြောင်း ထင်ရှားနေပေသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သည် ၎င်းကျူးလွန်သည့် ပြစ်မှုများအတွက် တာဝန်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း နှင့် အရပ်သား ပြည်သူ များ၏ အသက်အိုးအိမ်စည်းစိမ်အပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားခြင်း၊ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအား တိုက်ခိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း တို့အား ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်ရန် ချင်းရေးရာအဖွဲ့ချုပ်မှ အလေးအနက် တိုက်တွန်းသည်။
ချင်းရေးရာအဖွဲ့ချုပ်သည် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအား စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများနှင့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထားကာ စစ်ဆင်ရေးဆောင်ရွက်နေမှုနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ အား ရပ်တန့်စေမည့် ထိရောက်သော အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်မှုများ လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် ထပ်မံတောင်းဆိုသည်။..."
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"Over eleven months since an illegitimate coup, the entire Burma struggles in the face of the military’s inhumanity. The armed wing of the junta is systematically stealing civilian properties, carrying out violent military operations, and committing widespread murder. This war of terror, perpetrated by the junta against civilians, is only getting worse.
On December 5, the armed wing of the Junta rammed a vehicle into a peaceful protest on Pan Pin Gyi Road in Kyeemyindaing Township, Yangon. Thereafter, opening fire and aggressively detaining demonstrators and bystanders, leading to several reported casualties. The military junta shamelessly claimed that they were simply dispersing unauthorized protests.
In Sagaing Region, there is strong opposition to the coup d’état. As a result, locals in the region are the victims of heinous junta crimes. In December, at least (18) locals were arrested and burnt to death. (2) of these victims were children, under 18 years old. Similarly, on December 25, in Moso village, Hpurso Township, Kayah State, over (30) bodies of innocent civilians, including children, were found dead in a vehicle. They had been burnt to death. Before the victims were killed, four members of the Karenni National People’s Liberation Front (Kalalata) met with junta troops to negotiate the release of these detained civilians. The four members were tied up and shot dead in the head. Moreover, several innocents are still missing in the incident of Moso village, Hpruso Township.
In December, the armed wing of the Junta deliberately committed arson attacks on civilians’ houses, buildings, and properties. There were at least (56) arson attacks and more than (650) houses were burnt down. This comes from data collection and monitoring by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the true number is likely higher.
In December, (127) civilians across the country, were killed in junta’s targeted attacks. According to data collected by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), this includes (61) victims were tortured to death, (5) women and (7) children, under 18 years old.
(309) civilians were detained by the junta between December 1 and 31. Of these, (68) were women, (15) children under the age of 18 and (18) hostages.
Across the country, the junta coup is targeting members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and ordinary civilians’ homes and properties are being sealed and unlawfully taken, if they are accused of being related to the National Unity Government or in connection with alleged PDF. In December, a total of (33) houses were seized.
Those who are unlawfully and arbitrarily detained, are also facing inhumane torture. On December 10, International Human Rights Day, civilians across the country staged a silent strike. Political prisoners held at Insein Prison partook. (89) prisoners who participated, were beaten with rubber batons and wire cables and kept in solitary confinement. Wai Yan Phyo Moe, one of those tortured following the silent strike, the Vice-Chairman of the All-Burma Federation of Student’ Unions, was sentenced on December 29 and also severely beaten again by criminal prisoners with support of prison authorities while he was being sent to prison cell. He is now in critical condition but is not receive proper medical care.
As with all our monthly chronology’s since the coup, it is but a summary of the numerous human rights violations committed by the armed wing of the Junta in its bid to induce a climate of fear across the country..."
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2022-01-05
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"အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ မတရားအာဏာသိမ်းမှု (၁၁) လ ကျော်လာသည့်အချိန်တွင် တနိုင်ငံလုံးအနှံ့ လူမဆန်စွာရက်စက်မှုများ၊ ဘေးဒုက္ခများ၊ စစ်ရေးအရှိန်မြင့်တက်လာမှုများနှင့်အတူ အရပ်သား ပြည်သူလူထု ၏ အသက်အိုးအိမ်စည်းစိမ် ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးရမှုများနှင့် နစ်နာခံစားရမှုများမှာ ဆထက်တိုး၍ ဆိုးရွားလာနေဆဲ ပင် ဖြစ်သည်။
ဒီဇင်ဘာ (၅) ရက်နေ့က ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ကြည့်မြင်တိုင်မြို့နယ်၊ ပန်းပင်ကြီးလမ်း၌ ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာဆန္ဒပြနေသည့် လူအုပ်ထဲသို့ စစ်အုပ်စုလက်ပါးစေများက ကားကိုအရှိန်ပြင်းပြင်းမောင်းနှင်၍ ဝင်တိုက်ကာ သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်၍ ဆန္ဒပြပွဲကို ဖြိုခွင်းခဲ့သည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် ဒဏ်ရာရရှိသူများ၊ အသက်အန္တရာယ်ထိခိုက်သူများနှင့် ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသူများရှိခဲ့သော်လည်း စစ်အုပ်စုကမူ ၎င်းတို့အနေဖြင့် တရားမဝင် ခွင့်ပြုချက်မဲ့ ဆူပူဆန္ဒပြမှုအား လူစုခွဲ ထိန်းသိမ်းခဲ့ခြင်းသာဖြစ်ကြောင်း တာဝန်ယူမှု၊ တာဝန်ခံမှုကင်းမဲ့စွာ ငြင်းဆိုခဲ့သည်။
အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန်ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ဒေသများထဲမှ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းမှာ အာဏာ သိမ်းအကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်၏ ပစ်မှတ်ထားတိုက်ခိုက်မှုကို ဆိုးဆိုးရွားရွားရင်ဆိုင်ရလျက်ရှိရာ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ အတွင်း၌ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းကျေးရွာများရှိ ဒေသခံ (၁၈) ဦးထက်မနည်းမှာ စစ်အုပ်စုလက်ပါးစေများ၏ ဖမ်းဆီး မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းကို ခံခဲ့ရပြီး ထိုအထဲတွင် အသက် (၁၈) နှစ်အောက် ကလေးနှစ်ဦး ပါဝင်သည်။ အလားတူ ပင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ (၂၅) ရက်နေ့က ကယားပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ မိုဆိုကျေးရွာအနီးတွင် မော်တော်ယာဉ်ပေါ်၌ ကလေးငယ်များပါ ပါဝင်သည်ဟု အတည်ပြုထားသည့် မီးရှို့ခံထားရသော အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ ရုပ်အလောင်း ၃၀ ကျော်ကို ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိခဲ့ကြသည်။ ထိုအပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများကို မီးရှို့မသတ်ဖြတ်ခင် ဖမ်းဆီးထားစဉ်အတွင်း ၎င်းတို့လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအတွက် သွားရောက်ညှိနှိုင်းခဲ့သော ကရင်နီပြည်နယ် လူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံလွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်ဦး (ကလလတ) ပြည်သူ့စစ်အသွင်ပြောင်း မှ တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၄ ဦးအား စစ်တပ်မှ လက်ပြန်ကြိုးများတုတ်၍ ဦးခေါင်းကို ပစ်ကာ ရက်ရက်စက်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ကလလတ မှ ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ မိုဆိုကျေးရွာဖြစ်စဉ်တွင် အချို့သော အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများ ပျောက်ဆုံးလျက်ရှိသည်။
အရပ်သားပြည်သူများ၏ နေအိမ်၊ အဆောက်အအုံနှင့် ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများကို စစ်အုပ်စုမှ မီးရှို့ ဖျက်ဆီးမှုခြင်းများ အား ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့်လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိရာ ဒီဇင်ဘာလအတွင်း၌ ကျေးရွာများ၊ လူနေ ရပ်ကွက်များ မီးရှို့ခံရမှုမှာ အနည်းဆုံး (၅၆) ကြိမ် ရှိခဲ့ပြီး အဆောက်အဦပေါင်း (၆၅၀) ထက်မနည်း ပျက်စီး ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ရသည်။ အဆိုပါ အချက်အလက်မှာ မိမိတို့နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများကူညီစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်းမှ စောင့်ကြည့်မှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားချက်များအရဖြစ်ပြီး လက်တွေ့မြေပြင်တွင် ယခုထက်ပိုမိုများပြားနိုင်ဖွယ်ရှိ သည်။
ဒီဇင်ဘာလအတွင်း စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူမဆန်စွာ ပစ်ခတ်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကြောင့် နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းရှိ ပြည်သူ (၁၂၇) ဦးကျဆုံးခဲ့ရပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများ ကူညီစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်း (AAPP) ၏ ကောက်ယူ စုဆောင်းရရှိသည့် မှတ်တမ်းများအရ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ၌ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုကြောင့် ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသူ (၆၁) ဦး၊ အမျိုးသမီး (၅) ဦးနှင့် အသက် ၁၈ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးသူငယ် (၇) ဦး ရှိခဲ့သည်။
AAPP မှ လက်လှမ်းမီသမျှ ကောက်ယူရရှိထားသည့် အချက်အလက်များအရ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁ မှ ၃၁ ရက်နေ့အထိ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ တရားလက်လွတ်ဖမ်းဆီးမှုကြောင့် ထိန်းသိမ်းခံခဲ့ရသူပေါင်း (၃၀၉) ဦး ရှိခဲ့သည်။ ထိုအထဲတွင် အမျိုးသမီးဦးရေ (၆၈) ဦး၊ အသက် ၁၈ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးသူငယ်ဦးရေ (၁၅) ဦး နှင့် ဓားစာခံအဖြစ် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသူ (၁၈) ဦး ပါဝင်သည်။
အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုသည် နိုင်ငံအဝှမ်း၌ အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ပါတီဝင်များ၊ အရပ်သားပြည်သူ လူထု၏ နေအိမ်များ၊ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများကို အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ PDF စသည်တို့နှင့်ဆက်သွယ်သည်ဟု ဆိုကာ မတရားချိပ်ပိတ်သိမ်းဆည်းမှုများကိုလည်း ပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိရာ ဒီဇင်ဘာလအတွင်း၌ ချိပ်ပိတ်သိမ်း ဆည်း ခံခဲ့ရသော နေအိမ်အဆောက်အအုံပေါင်း (၃၃) ခု ရှိခဲ့သည်။
တရားလက်လွတ်ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းမှုများကြောင့် အကျဉ်းထောင်များ၌ ချုပ်နှောင်ခံနေကြရသည့် မတရား ဖမ်းဆီးခံများ၏ အကျဉ်းထောင်တွင်းအခြေအနေမှာလည်း လူမဆန်သော နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းမှုများနှင့် ရင်ဆိုင် ကြုံတွေ့နေကြရသည်။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၁၀) ရက်နေ့၊ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနေ့၌ မြန်မာ တနိုင်ငံလုံး အသံတိတ်သပိတ် (Silent Strike) ကို ဆင်နွှဲခဲ့ကြချိန် အင်းစိန်အကျဉ်းထောင်၌ ချုပ်နှောင်ခံထားရသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများကလည်း သပိတ်တွင်ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ထို့အတွက်ကြောင့် ထောင်တွင်းဆန္ဒပြပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ခဲ့သူ (၈၉) ဦးမှာ နံပါတ်တုတ်၊ ရာဘာကြိုးတို့ဖြင့် ပြင်းထန်စွာ ရိုက်နှက်ခံရပြီး တိုက်ပိတ်ခံခဲ့ရသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ (၂၉) ရက်နေ့က ပြစ်ဒဏ်ချမှတ်ခြင်းခံခဲ့ရသည့် ဗမာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ကျောင်း သားသမဂ္ဂများ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် ဒုဥက္ကဋ္ဌဖြစ်သူ ကိုဝေယံဖြိုးမိုးကို အင်းစိန်ထောင် အတွင်းမှာ ထောင် အာဏာပိုင် များနှင့် အကျဉ်းသားတချို့က အကြမ်းဖက်ရိုက်နှက်ခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် အသက်အန္တရာယ် စိုးရိမ်ရသည့် အခြေအနေမှာရှိနေပြီး လုံလောက်သော ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုကိုလည်း မရရှိ ပေ။
အထက်ပါဖေါ်ပြချက်များသည် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်၏ ဒီဇင်ဘာလအတွင်း၌ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သော တရားမဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများအား အကျဉ်းချုပ်ဖေါ်ပြချက်မျှသာဖြစ်ပြီး အခြားသော တိုင်းနှင့်ပြည်နယ်များတွင်လည်း ထိုကဲ့သို့ လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်ကျူးလွန်မှုများ များစွာရှိခဲ့သည်။..."
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"The 74th Anniversary of Independence Day Speech by The Acting President of the National Unity Government, Duwa Lashi La
January 4, 2022
Respected citizens and people of Myanmar,
I am greatly honored to deliver a speech to you all, the citizens, ethnic nationalities, and the people, on this occasion of the 74th anniversary of Independence Day of the Union of Myanmar.
Although it has been 70 years since we were free from colonial rule, it is sad that we are still under the slavery of military dictatorships and harshly suffering their violence and suppression.
Although the state could retain its sovereignty, the freedom of the people, the owner of that sovereignty, has been lost under consecutive coups and we are still struggling for it.
The visions and values of the architects of Independence have truly been reflected in the Independence declaration.
Article 5 of the declaration clearly states, “The New Republic of Burma is also established upon the principle of Burmese unity, not by blood, tribe, or faith, but by a unity that speaks with one voice, representing many.”
However, the Myanmar military has outrightly violated the principles and values of the Independence Declaration, and they hold the country as their hostage as if it is their own and are taking advantage of it; thereby, enslaving the country.
As long as the owners of the sovereignty of the country lose their rights, we cannot say the country has achieved its independence.
In the last 60 years, the military has staged a coup four times and has revealed their true colors of fascism. The attempted coup on February 1, 2021, was the ugliest incident in history. All Myanmar people and the international community have seen that the military is using several inhumane ways to repress, torture, kill and commit crimes against the people. This terrorist military no longer deserves to be called the Army as they degraded themselves into the enemy of the people and terrorists.
For now, the people have only one choice. That is to launch a defensive war, a war that all people can take part in different ways, against the military to completely remove the military dictatorship. We can call it a struggle for the second independence.
On last new year's days, I saw a piece of news in which the terrorist military leader said, "This year, we are going start a new step of the peace process and we invite all stakeholders to dialogue for peace."
An attempted coup has trampled hopes of peace. They have destroyed peace and the future of the country. The reason they are releasing such news while they are facing defeats in all areas – in politics, military, and defeats – is no other reason except than to find their political exit, to dither, to deceive the international community, and to confuse the resistance forces. They are also deceiving people by saying that they are going to host an election in 2023. The election held by the military group will not reflect the will of the people, but it also will not be a free and fair election. Trusting this deceitful military will result in dithering the people's revolution processes.
In fact, the war criminals who are stained with the people's blood should not be sent to political dialogues. They should be sent to domestic and international criminal courts. The National Unity Government will always welcome the military personnel who detests the military's atrocities, who believe that their responsibility is to protect the country, not to be involved in politics, even though you may still be under the terrorist leadership at the moment.
In the National Unity Consultative Council, a platform where all the political forces who want genuine federal and democracy gather together, we have confirmed the Federal Democratic Charter that includes a political road map for the future of the Union of Myanmar. The National Unity Government will follow this charter and continually move forward and implement it as in the road map.
The most important thing at the moment is, based on the objectives of ending the military dictatorship and building a federal democratic union, all political forces including the EAOs, should build unity and get involved in people's revolution. The revolution that has sacrificed many lives in the last 11 months will see a new change in 2022 and, have no doubt, we will achieve the people's victory.
As in the Declaration of the Independence which states, “The Burmese people, have here made a solemn declaration of Burmese Independence and of the principles upon which the New Republic of Burma is founded and will be governed”, I would like to urge you to let us tenaciously work together until we free ourselves from military slavery and bring back freedom, equality, and justice for the people who are the original owner of the sovereignty.
Our cause shall triumph!..."
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"After being under British rule for 124 years, our people were able to regain our independence on the 4th of January, 1948. This was achieved due to great sacrifices in lives, blood and sweat of ethnic national leaders and all ethnic nationals, and led by General Aung San, all of whom showed unflagging determination and intense patriotism. Right from that time, the people of myanmar aspired to have a democratic federal union in the country. They worked hard to build a peaceful and prosperous Union of Myanmar.
The sovereign power of the nation belongs to the people of Myanmar, yet now we see that at this time our independence, that our ancestors fought so hard for, has been taken away by the corrupt, lawless and illegitimate military junta that has removed the legitimate elected representatives of Myanmar and destroyed the people’s freedom and democracy.
General Aung San once said that, “The armed forces are meant for this nation and this people, and it should be such a force having the honour and respect of the people. If instead the armed forces should come to be hated by the people, then the aims with which this army has been built up would have been in vain.“ General Aung San’s fears have been realised, and we are faced with a new battle for independence from the dictatorship of Min Aung Hlaing and his henchman.
In her speech in 1988 Daw Aung San Su Kyi also quoted her father, “We must make democracy the popular creed. We must try to build up a free Burma in accordance with such a creed. If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer. If democracy should fail the world cannot stand back and just look on, and therefore Burma would one day, like Japan and Germany, be despised. Democracy is the only ideology which is consistent with freedom. It is also an ideology that promotes and strengthens peace. It is therefore the only ideology we should aim for.”
She continued to say: “That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle for freedom and democracy in the footsteps and traditions of my father. To achieve democracy the people should be united. That is very clear. It is a very plain fact. If there is no unity of purpose we shall be unable to achieve anything at all. If the people are disunited, no ideology or form of government can bring much benefit to the country. This must be firmly fixed in the minds of the people. If there is no discipline, no system can succeed. Therefore our people should always be united and disciplined.”
So on this 74th Independence day I wish to reiterate that we all must work together in unity to regain our independence once again. We have achieved much so far in our struggle against the military junta. We are closer now to our original goals of independence, freedom and federal democracy. We will achieve these goals through unity, determination, and discipline. If we do this, and maintain our efforts, before long this revolution will succeed..."
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"၁။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို နယ်ချဲ့ဗြိတိသျှတို့က မတရားသိမ်းပိုက်၍ ဖိနှိပ်ခဲ့မှုအပေါ် တိုင်းရင်းသား ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက တော်လှန်ရေးဖြင့် တွန်းလှန်ကာ အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာပိုင် လွတ်လပ်သော နိုင်ငံအဖြစ် ကမ္ဗည်းတင်နိုင်ခဲ့သော မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ်ဖြစ်သည့် (၇၄) နှစ်မြောက် လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့အခါသမယတွင် တိုင်းရင်းသားညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမများ အားလုံး ကိုယ်စိတ်နှစ်ပါး ကျန်းမာအေးချမ်းကာ လွတ်မြောက်ခြင်း၏ အနှစ်သာရကို ပြည့်ပြည့်ဝဝ ခံစားရပါစေကြောင်း ဦးစွာ ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းအပ်ပါသည်။
၂။ တိုင်းတပါးသားတို့၏ အုပ်ချုပ်စိုးမိုးမှုအောက်တွင် နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ ကျရောက်ခဲ့ရာမှ တိုင်းရင်းသားအပေါင်း၏ သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်မှုဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာနှင့် လွတ်လပ်ရေးကို ၁၉၄၈ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြန်လည်ရယူနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး “နိုင်ငံတော်ကြီးသည် မည်သူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက် တစ်ဖွဲ့တစ်သင်း၏ အမွေအနှစ်မဟုတ်၊ မည်သူတစ်ဦး တစ်ယောက် တစ်ဖွဲ့တစ်သင်း၏ အပိုင်ပစ္စည်းမဟုတ်၊ မည်သူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက် တစ်ဖွဲ့တစ်သင်းက ချုပ်ကိုင် အနိုင်သိမ်းယူ အကျိုးခံစားအပ်သော နိုင်ငံမဟုတ်” ဟု တိတိပပ ကြေညာခဲ့ပါသည်။
၃။ သို့သော် တိုင်းပြည်အနာဂတ်နှင့် နိုင်ငံသူ၊ နိုင်ငံသားတို့၏ လူနေမှုဘဝ အဆင့်အတန်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးကို မငဲ့ဘဲ အာဏာလောဘနှင့် အတ္တကြီးသော စစ်အာဏာရှင်တို့က လက်နက် အားကိုးဖြင့် အာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် နိုင်ငံအတွင်း နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာကြာ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး မရရှိခဲ့ဘဲ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုနောက်ကျသော နိုင်ငံတစ်နိုင်ငံအဖြစ် ရောက်ရှိသွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ လွန်ခဲ့သော ၁၀ စုနှစ်များ အတွင်း တိုင်းပြည်၏ လူမှုစီးပွားဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာယာသော ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီ နိုင်ငံတော်သစ်တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရေး ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့ကြသော်လည်း တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူများက လွတ်လပ်၍ တရားမျှတသော ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှတဆင့် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ပြည်သူ့ အစိုးရထံမှ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အာဏာကို လက်နက်အားကိုး၍ မင်းအောင်လှိုင် ခေါင်းဆောင်သည့် အကြမ်းဖက် ဖက်ဆစ်စစ်တပ်မှ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် ခေတ်သစ်ကိုလိုနီပုံစံ အဓမ္မသိမ်းယူခဲ့ပါသည်။
၄။ အကြမ်းဖက် ဖက်ဆစ်စစ်တပ်သည် နိုင်ငံ၏ ဥပဒေများကို ဖောက်ဖျက်ကျူးလွန်ပြီး အာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့သည်သာမက ဥပဒေအား လိုသလို အဓိပ္ပါယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုကာ မမှန်မကန် စွပ်စွဲ၍ ဖမ်းဆီးထောင်ချခြင်း၊ ဥပဒေမဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်သူတို့၏ အိုးအိမ်နှင့် ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများကို သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်း၊ ခိုးယူခြင်း၊ ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ အမျိုးသမီးများအပေါ်၌ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်ခြင်း၊ နိုင်ငံသားတို့၏ အခြေခံအခွင့်အရေးတို့အား ပိတ်ပင်တားဆီးခြင်းစသည့် လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်း ဖက်မှုများကို ကျူးလွန်နေခြင်းကြောင့် ဆုံးရှုံးသွားသော လွတ်လပ်ခြင်း၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းခြင်းနှင့် အခွင့် အရေးတို့အတွက် တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက ကမ္ဘာတွင် မကြုံစဖူး ညီညွတ်သော ပြည်သူ့ တော်လှန်ရေးကြီး တစ်ရပ်ကို ဆင်နွှဲနေကြသည်မှာ လွန်စွာ ဂုဏ်ယူလေးစားဖွယ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၅။ လွတ်လပ်ရေးရရှိရန် ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့စဉ်က ကိုလိုနီနယ်ချဲ့တို့က နည်းအမျိုးမျိုးဖြင့် သွေးခွဲ ခဲ့သော်လည်း အခက်အခဲအမျိုးမျိုးကြားမှ တိုင်းရင်းသားခေါင်းဆောင်များ၏ မဆုတ်မနစ်သော ဇွဲလုံ့လနှင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမများ၏ ညီညွတ်မှုတို့ကြောင့် လွတ်လပ်ရေး ရယူနိုင်ခဲ့ ပါသည်။ ယနေ့အချိန်တွင် ဖက်ဆစ်တို့၏ နည်းလမ်းအတိုင်း အကြမ်းဖက် ဖက်ဆစ်စစ်တပ်က တော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုများအကြား သွေးခွဲခြင်းနှင့် တော်လှန်ရေးအရှိန်ကျသွားစေရန် လုပ်ကြံ သတင်းအချက်အလက် အမှားများဖြင့် ပုံဖျက်ခြင်းတို့ကို စနစ်တကျ လုပ်ဆောင်နေခြင်းကြောင့် တော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုများနှင့် ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက အမျှော်အမြင်ကြီးစွာဖြင့် အထူးသတိထား ရှောင်ရှားရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။
၆။ မိမိတို့ ရည်မှန်းထားသည့် တိုင်းပြည်နှင့် လူမျိုး အနာဂတ်အတွက် ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာယာပြီး တန်းတူအခွင့်အရေးများနှင့် အခြေခံနိုင်ငံသားအခွင့်အရေးများအတွက် အာမခံချက် အပြည့်အဝ ရှိသော ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်ကြီး တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရန် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ စစ်အာဏာရှင်များ ကွယ်ပျောက်သွားရန် အထူးအရေးကြီးပြီး တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေး အောင်မြင်သည်အထိ ယခုကဲ့သို့ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်စွာ ဆက်လက်ကြိုးပမ်းသွားရန် ထပ်မံ တိုက်တွန်းအပ်ပါသည်။
၇။ ခေတ်အဆက်ဆက် တည်ရှိနေသော စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ဆိုးကို မြန်မာ့မြေပေါ်မှ ကျူပင်ခုတ် ကျူငုတ်မကျန်အောင် အမြစ်ဖျက်ခြေမှုန်းကာ ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်ကြီး တည်ဆောက်ရေးတွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် ကိုယ်စွမ်းဉာဏ် စွမ်းရှိသရွေ့ မဆုတ်မနစ် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး ပြည်သူ့ထံမှ ဆင်းသက်လာသည့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာကို ပြည်သူတို့ထံသို့ ပြန်လည်အပ်နှင်းနိုင်ရေး ဆက်လက်ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင် ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း လေးနက်ခိုင်မာစွာ ကတိသစ္စာပြုရင်း ဤလွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ သဝဏ်လွှာ ကို ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။..."
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New evidence surfaces implicating the Myanmar military in the killing of nearly 50 people and the destruction of evidence in Hpruso Township
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"Families of the victims of a massacre in Karenni (Kayah) State’s Hpruso Township and a doctor who carried out post-mortem examinations of their remains have disclosed new details concerning the dozens of people slain and burned by the military on December 24.
The National Unity Government (NUG) and the Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC) shared photos, medical records and evidence gathered from the site of the crime in an online press conference on Monday.
Bo Bo, the deputy township police chief of the Karenni State Police Force—an anti-junta law enforcement network made up of police officers taking part in the CIvil Disobedience Movement (CDM)—speculated that up to 49 people could have been killed on the Moso-Kwaing Ngan road near Moso village, some two kilometres northwest of Hpruso town.
Myanmar Now initially reported that at least 35 charred bodies and multiple burned vehicles were found by members of the resistance group the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) at the roadside site early on Christmas morning. They accused Myanmar army troops present in the area of committing the massacre.
Bo Bo said on Monday that the group of doctors who carried out the post-mortem examinations had managed to carry out autopsies on 31 of the bodies, but that the others were completely destroyed in the fire, crumbling to ashes when touched, and collected in three body bags.
Twenty-six of the victims who could be examined were identified as male, including two boys estimated to be under 17 years old. Six were determined to be female, including a young girl under the age of 12, Bo Bo said.
A doctor who performed autopsies on the bodies and who spoke at the press conference on the condition of anonymity confirmed the Karenni police officer’s summary and added that the girl would have been between the ages of 10 and 15.
“I think everyone can imagine whether it would have been possible that a young child under the age of 18 tried to shoot them,” said the doctor, who is also taking part in the CDM, commenting on the unlikelihood that the victims could have instigated the attack by opening fire on the soldiers believed to have murdered them.
“They killed innocent civilians and burned the bodies to destroy the evidence of their crime,” he added.
The doctor also confirmed that several of the bodies he examined had their hands tied behind their backs, were gagged, or had perforations to their chests and lungs.
He added that they only managed to retrieve the bodies three days after the incident because the military continued to fire artillery shells at anyone who attempted to enter the area.
Laboratory analysis had not yet determined if the victims were burned alive.
Describing the experience of carrying out the post-mortem examinations, he said, “That was the day I saw dead bodies en masse who were murdered in the cruelest and most inhumane manner I have ever seen in my entire life.”
Along with the bodies, six trucks, two civilian cars, two tractors and six motorcycles were also burned, Karenni State police officer Bo Bo said, adding that the bodies they were unable to examine were found wedged between the three trucks, which were carrying barrels of oil.
He added that two of the bodies which were able to be identified were confirmed to be staff members of the international aid group Save the Children, which had reported their staff missing following the incident. Four other bodies were determined to be members of a Border Guard Force (BGF), a militia operating under the junta.
The BGF members had been seen in Moso village at 11am on December 24, and had reportedly attempted to negotiate the release of civilians being held by the military. It was later reported that they had been executed.
Family members of the victims also attended Monday’s online press conference.
The wife of Moso resident Bu Reh confirmed that a tractor found destroyed in the fire was the one that her husband had been driving when he left their home.
Crying, she explained that Bu Reh had left on the tractor at around 7am and never returned.
“There had been shooting that day and I had to run away like an animal,” she said, “Our family is going through a lot of pain. We haven’t been able to eat and we spend our days crying. It’s so upsetting because the children are still so young.”
She added that Bu Reh was only carrying a knife as he had been planning to gather bamboo, so it was not possible that he tried to shoot at the soldiers, which has been implied by the military.
The military council released a statement on the same day as the massacre that they fired shots at the seven “suspicious” vehicles because they refused to stop when they told them to do so. The junta alleged that people in the vehicles shot at the soldiers from the trucks and they were “captured dead” after a shootout. The statement did not address the reports of murder or the burning of evidence.
Junta information officer Gen Zaw Min Tun told BBC Burmese that 25 members of the anti-junta resistance group the People’s Defence Force died in the incident, and that among them was one woman.
The families of the victims, the NUG leadership, and the Karenni State police officer collectively rejected the military’s claims that the victims of the massacre were PDF fighters who refused to stop their vehicles for the junta troops. They maintain that they were civilians.
Aung Myo Min, the NUG’s human rights minister, pointed to the fact that all of the bodies and vehicles were burned in a single location, indicating that the military was likely attempting to destroy evidence of crimes that occurred there.
In response to a family member demanding justice for their slain loved ones, Aung Myo Min promised that the NUG would file a case against the junta in the International Criminal Court, as well as send details of the massacre to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar established by the UN’s Human Rights Council.
“I can sympathise with the victims and we are doing our best to take legal action against the military council and the leaders of the coup regime who are most responsible for these atrocious crimes,” he said..."
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"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
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2022-01-04
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"This is the US Campaign for Burma’s eleventh monthly On-The-Ground in Burma briefer! Since December 10th is Human Rights Day, this month’s briefer will focus on the human rights abuses in Burma
This month’s briefer includes:
December highlights
An in-depth analysis of human rights abuses in Burma
Four major policy recommendations
A unique feature story from IDPs displaced by airstrikes in Karen State
An overview of IDP issues and rights abuses in each ethnic state and central Burma
As the conflict escalates in Burma between the pro-junta militias, anti-coup forces, and the military, so has the violence and rights deprivations in ethnic regions and central Burma. Almost a year after the February 1st coup and the junta is unrelenting in its brutal campaign on the people of Burma..."
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US Campaign for Burma
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2022-01-04
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against several groups, Human Rights Defenders
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"Summary of Human Rights Violations by the Military Council in Karenni State..."
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Karenni Human Rights Group
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2022-01-04
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"Today, our Karen brothers and sisters around the world mark the lunar new year of 2761. In a different year this would be a time for celebration with songs and dances, sticky rice, displays of sports, and most importantly, gatherings of the communities in a spirit of brotherhood and love to hope for a prosperous future. This year, however, there has been no time to set up community events in many places. No time to rehearse songs or dances, nor time to prepare traditional foods and clear sporting grounds. Throughout Karen State, the vibrant sights and sounds of celebrations have been muffled while the Karen people stand by to defend themselves against the junta’s relentless attacks.
The Karen have faced persecution for years, for decades at the hands of a genocidal military. Their struggle for peace, freedom, and prosperity has in many ways borne the torch for the many different Myanmar groups and identities who have risen up against the brutal and abusive military either before the coup or since it. All people of Myanmar owe a great debt to the heroes and martyrs of the Karen, and their continued efforts to push back the junta, and deny the military their dream of a totalitarian dictatorship is an inspiration to all our brave brothers and sisters around the nation fighting for justice and victory.
We hope and pray that in this new year, our Karen brothers and sisters and indeed ALL the people of Myanmar will, for the first time in our history, truly know the peace, prosperity, and freedom of federal, self-determining democracy. May God bless you all!..."
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Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2022-01-02
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"ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ၏ ဗဟိုအလုပ်အမှုဆောင်ကော်မတီထံ ပေးပို့သည့် ဝမ်းမြောက်ကြောင်းသဝဏ်လွှာ
၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၂ ရက်
(၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ် ပြာသိုလဆန်း ၁ ရက်)
ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ၏ (၁၄) ကြိမ်မြောက်ပါတီကွန်ဂရက်ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၂၇) ရက်နေ့မှ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၃၀) ရက်နေ့အထိ အောင်မြင်စွာ ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ကြားသိရသဖြင့် များစွာဂုဏ်ယူဝမ်းမြောက်မိပါသည်။ ပါတီကွန်ဂရက်တွင်ပြုလုပ်သော ဗဟိုကော်မတီအစည်းအဝေးက ပါတီဥက္ကဋ္ဌအဖြစ် ခူဦးရယ်ကို ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ကာ ပါတီဗဟိုအလုပ်အမှုဆောင်ကော်မတီအား ဖွဲ့စည်းအတည်ပြု ခဲ့ကြောင်းကြားသိရသဖြင့် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌနှင့်တကွအလုပ်အမှုဆောင်အဖွဲ့ဝင်များအား ဝမ်းသာဂုဏ်ပြုပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြလိုပါသည်။
စစ်အာဏာရှင်နှင့်အာဏာရှင်မှန်သမျှ ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေးအတွက် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အပါအဝင် တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်တော်လှန်ရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ ကရင်နီပြည်နယ် ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များ၊ နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မည်ဟု ဆွေးနွေးဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရှိရသည့်အတွက် အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် များစွာဝမ်းသာမိပါသည်။
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအနေဖြင့်လည်း ပါတီဥက္ကဋ္ဌခူဦးရယ်ဦးဆောင်သော ကရင်နီ အမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ နှင့် အတူလက်တွဲလုပ်ဆောင်ရန် အဆင်သင့်ရှိပါကြောင်း သတင်းစကားပါးလိုပါသည်။ ကရင်နီပြည်အတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ကရင်နီလူမျိုးများ အပေါ်အစုလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ၊ ညှင်းပမ်းနှိပ်စက်မှုများ၊ နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့်လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများကိုချိုးဖေါက်မှုများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍လည်း များစွာ စိတ်မကောင်းဖြစ်ရပါကြောင်း ထပ်လောင်း ဖေါ်ပြလိုပါသည်။
၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ နှစ်သစ်အခါသမယ မှသည် ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ၏ရှေ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ အောင်မြင်ပါစေကြောင်း ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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National Unity Government of Myanmar
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2022-01-02
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"၁။ ယနေ့ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၂ ရက်နေ့သည် ၂၇၆၁ ခုနှစ် ကရင်အမျိုးသားနှစ်သစ်ကူး နေ့ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ယနေ့ကျရောက်သည့် ကရင်အမျိုးသားနှစ်သစ်ကူး အချိန်အခါသမယတွင် ကရင် တိုင်းရင်းသားများနှင့်တကွ နိုင်ငံသူ၊ နိုင်ငံသားအားလုံး ကျက်သရေ မင်္ဂလာအဖြာဖြာနှင့် ပြည့်စုံပါစေကြောင်းနှင့် ကပ်ကြီး (၃)ပါးမှ အမြန်ဆုံး ကင်းလွတ်ကြပါစေကြောင်း ဆုတောင်းမေတ္တာပို့သ အပ်ပါသည်။
ချစ်ခင်လေးစားအပ်ပါသော ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသား ညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမများ ခင်ဗျား-
၂။ ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများသည် ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဘာသာစကား၊ စာပေ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့် ဓလေ့ ထုံးတမ်းစသည့် အမျိုးသားလက္ခဏာများဖြင့် ကြီးမြတ်သော လူမျိုးများဖြစ်ပြီး မြန်မာ့နိုင်ငံရေး ဖြစ်စဥ်သမိုင်းများတွင် ကရင်ခေါင်းဆောင်များနှင့် ကရင်လူမျိုးများ၏ ရဲရင့်မှုနှင့် အခန်းကဏ္ဍသည် မည်မျှအရေးပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြလျက်ရှိပါသည်။
၃။ ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများသည် သမိုင်းအစဉ်အဆက် တန်းတူအခွင့်အရေးများအတွက် ဖိနှိပ်မှုများနှင့် မတရားမှုများကို တွန်းလှန်ဆန့်ကျင်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ ယခုအချိန်၌ မင်းအောင်လှိုင် ခေါင်းဆောင်သည့် စစ်တပ်က နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အာဏာကို လုယူခဲ့ပြီး နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်း၌ လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များဖြင့် ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်နေခြင်းကို ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်နေသည့် မြန်မာ့နွေဦး တော်လှန်ရေးတွင်လည်း ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသားတို့၏ ကူညီပံ့ပိုးမှုများနှင့် ပါဝင်ကြိုးပမ်းမှုများသည် တန်ဖိုးကြီးမားသော အင်အားတစ်ရပ် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၄။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ပြည်တွင်းငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးတို့အတွက် တိုင်းရင်းသား အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအပါအဝင် သက်ဆိုင်သူအားလုံးက ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သော်လည်း ၎င်းတို့ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေးအတွက် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုမှ တိုင်းပြည်နှင့် လူမျိုးတို့၏ အနာဂတ်များကို ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ပြီး ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများအပါအဝင် ပြည်သူလူထုသည် ဥပဒေမဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးခံရခြင်း၊ အကြမ်းဖက်ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ဖြတ်ခံရခြင်း၊ နေအိမ်များနှင့် ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများ မီးရှို့ဖျက် ဆီးခံရခြင်းနှင့် နေရပ်စွန့်၍ စစ်ဘေးလွတ်ရာများသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရခြင်းတို့ တွေ့ကြုံ ခံစားနေရသည့်အတွက် များစွာစိတ်မကောင်းဖြစ်ရပါသည်။
ချစ်ခင်လေးစားအပ်ပါသော ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသား ညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမများ ခင်ဗျား-
၅။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ထာဝရငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးရရှိပြီး ကမ္ဘာ့အလယ်၌ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်သော နိုင်ငံတစ် နိုင်ငံအဖြစ် ရပ်တည်နိုင်ရေး လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များ၊ တိုင်းရင်းသားအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများ က သဘောထားကြီးစွာ ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းပြီး နိုင်ငံရေးပြဿနာများကို နိုင်ငံရေးနည်းလမ်းဖြင့် ဝိုင်းဝန်း အဖြေရှာရန် ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ သို့သော် စစ်အာဏာရှင်များသည် ၎င်းတို့ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေး အတွက် ကြိုးပမ်းတည်ဆောက်ခဲ့သည့် ရလဒ်ကောင်းများကို လက်နက်အားကိုးဖြင့် အကြိမ်ကြိမ် ဖျက်ဆီးရန် ကြိုးပမ်းနေခြင်းကြောင့် မြန်မာ့မြေပေါ်မှ စစ်အာဏာရှင်များကို အပြီးတိုင် ပပျောက်ရေး တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက လက်တွဲညီညီ တွန်းလှန်တိုက်ထုတ်ရမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၆။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း၌ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အပြီးတိုင်ကျဆုံးပြီး ဖက်ဒရယ် ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်သစ် တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် ခိုင်မာသည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု စိတ်ဓာတ်၊ စစ်မှန်သည့် တိုင်းချစ်ပြည်ချစ်စိတ်ဓာတ်တို့ဖြင့် သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်စွာ လက်တွဲ၍ ဝိုင်းဝန်းကူညီ ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်ကြရန် တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်လျက် ဤကရင်အမျိုးသားလုံးဆိုင်ရာ နှစ်သစ်ကူး နေ့ သဝဏ်လွှာအား ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။..."
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Title: ကရင်နီပြည် အတိုင်ပင်ခံမှ ကရင်နီပြည်သူ ပြည်သားတို့ပေးပို့သော ၂၀၂၂ခုနှစ် နှစ်သစ်ဆုတောင်းလွှာ
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Karenni State Consultative Council
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2022-01-01
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"အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီကို အရေးယူတိုက်ခိုက် တုန့်ပြန်တဲ့ ပျံလွှားအောင် စစ်ဆင်ရေးကို ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၃၁ ရက်နေ့ တရက်ထဲမှာ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအတွင်းက ကြည့်မြင်တိုင် ပန်းပင်ကြီးလမ်းနဲ့ ထီးတန်း ၂ လမ်း လှိုင်သာယာ၊ မြောက်ဒဂုံ ၃၇ ရပ်ကွက်၊ တောင်ဒဂုံ ၅၃ ရပ်ကွက်၊ မဂ်လာဒုံ ကြံခင်းစု၊ အင်းစိန် အောင်ဇေယျတံတားအနီး ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်အရှေ့ပိုင်း ကျန်စစ်သားလမ်းနဲ့ ရာဇာဓိရာဇ်လမ်းထောင့်၊ မရမ်းကုန်းမြို့နယ် သမိုင်းလမ်းဆုံ အနီး ဗဟန်း တက္ကသိုလ်ရိပ်သာလမ်းနဲ့ ဆရာစံ လမ်းထောင့် တာမွေစျေးအနီး ရွှေပြည်သာ လှော်ကား တာဆုံ အနီးမှာ ပျံလွှားအောင် စစ်ဆင်ရေး တုန့်ပြန်တိုက်ခိုက်နိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းစစ်ဒေသကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့ က ဒီနေ့ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှာ ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။
ဒါ့အပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့မှာ စမ်းချောင်းမြို့နယ် ခေတ္တာလမ်းက အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးရုံးကို မိုင်းခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၈ ရက်နေ့မှာတော့ ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်အရှေ့ပိုင်းမြို့နယ် တိုးကြောင်လေးနဲ့ ရွာသာကြီးဘူတာကြား ရန်ကုန်-မန္တလေး ရထားလမ်းပေါ်မှာ ထောက်ပို့ရထားကို TNT မိုင်း ၃ လုံး ဖောက်ခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်နိုင်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။..."
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"၁။ ယနေ့အချိန်အခါသမယတွင် ကျရောက်သည့် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၏ နှစ်တစ်နှစ်တာ ကုန်ဆုံးပြီး ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် နှစ်သစ်သို့ ကူးပြောင်းသည့် နိုင်ငံတကာနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအပါအဝင် ကမ္ဘာ အရပ်ရပ်ရှိ ပြည်သူအားလုံးတို့အတွက် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်အပေါင်းမှ ကင်းဝေး၍ ပျော်ရွှင်ပြီး အဓိပ္ပါယ် ပြည့်ဝသော နှစ်သစ်ကူးအချိန်အခါသမယဖြစ်ပါစေကြောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြု ကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းအပ်ပါသည်။
၂။ နှစ်ဟောင်းမှ နှစ်သစ်သို့ ကူးပြောင်းသည့် အချိန်ကာလတွင် မိမိတို့ နိုင်ငံ၌ စစ်အာဏာရှင် စနစ် အပြီးတိုင်ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေးနှင့် အနာဂတ်ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်သစ် တည်ဆောက်ရေး ကြိုးပမ်းမှုများ၏ အားနည်းချက်၊ အားသာချက်များကို ပြန်လည်သုံးသပ်ပြီး နှစ်သစ်တွင် အတွေးသစ်၊ နည်းလမ်းသစ်များဖြင့် အရှိန်အဟုန်မြှင့် ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရေး ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးနှင့်အတူ မိမိတို့ တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုအားလုံးက လက်တွဲညီစွာ ပြင်ဆင်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားကြရမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၃။ လွန်ခဲ့သော နှစ်အနည်းငယ်၌ ဒီမိုကရေစီနည်းကျ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ထားသည့် ပြည်သူ့အစိုးရလက်ထက်တွင် မြန်မာ့ဒီမိုကရေစီခရီးလမ်း ပိုမိုဖြောင့်တန်းစွာ လျှောက်လှမ်းနိုင်ရေး ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက အစိုးရနှင့်အတူ ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ အတူတကွ ကြိုးပမ်း တည်ဆောက်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီအသီးအပွင့်များ မညှိုးနွမ်းသွားစေရန် COVID-19 ကမ္ဘာ့ကပ် ရောဂါကူးစက်မှုကို ကာကွယ်နိုင်ရေးနှင့် နိုင်ငံအတွင်း၌ လူမှုစီးပွားထိခိုက်မှုများ လျှော့ချနိုင်ရေး ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်ပေးခဲ့သည့်အပြင် အခက်အခဲ၊ စိန်ခေါ်မှုများကြားမှ အောင်မြင်စွာ ကျင်းပနိုင်ခဲ့သည့် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင်လည်း တစ်ခဲနက် ထောက်ခံဆန္ဒမဲပေးခဲ့ကြပါသည်။
၄။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အာဏာကို လုယူခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် ရရှိပြီးခဲ့သည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီအကျိုးကျေးဇူးများကို ကာကွယ်ရန် ပြည်သူ တစ်ရပ်လုံးက စစ်တပ်မှ အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို လက်မခံဘဲ ညီညီညွတ်ညွတ် ဆန့်ကျင်ကန့်ကွက်ခဲ့ သော်လည်း စစ်ကောင်စီက ၎င်းတို့ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေး နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်း၌ လူမဆန်သော ဖိနှိပ်မှုများ၊ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်ပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ စနစ်တကျ လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
၅။ သို့သော် အာဏာသိမ်းခြင်း ၁၁ လကျော်ကြာမြင့်သည့်တိုင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအား အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်မပေးဘဲ နည်းလမ်းမျိုးစုံဖြင့် ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်နေမှုများသည် စစ်ကောင်စီက နည်းလမ်း အမျိုးမျိုးဖြင့် သွေးခွဲနေသော်လည်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ စစ်အာဏာရှင်အပြီးတိုင် ကျရှုံးရေး ဘုံရည်မှန်းချက်ကို အခြေခံသော ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်ကာလအတွင်း မိမိတို့ ကြိုးပမ်းတည်ဆောက်ထားသည့် စည်းလုံး ညီညွတ်မှု၊ အပြန်အလှန် နားလည်ယုံကြည်မှုနှင့် မတူကွဲပြားမှုများမှတဆင့် အကျိုးရလဒ် ဖန်တီးနိုင်မှုတို့ကြောင့်ပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၆။ ၁၉၈၈ ခုနှစ်မှစ၍ အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ စတေးပြီး ရယူခဲ့ရသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီကို ကာကွယ်ရန် အခက်အခဲနှင့် လိုအပ်ချက်များစွာ ရှိသည့်တိုင် ရရာနည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်နေကြသည့် တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုများဖြစ်သော ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပရှိ လူငယ်၊ အမျိုးသမီး၊ တိုင်းရင်းသား အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ အရပ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုများနှင့် ကူညီပံ့ပိုးပေးကြသည့် နိုင်ငံ၊ အဖွဲ့အစည်း၊ လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် တန်ဖိုးထားပြီး ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြအပ်ပါသည်။
၇။ ယခုကဲ့သို့ နှစ်ဟောင်းမှ ကူးပြောင်းသည့် နှစ်သစ်တွင် ပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးက လိုလား တောင့်တနေသည့် အာဏာရှင်စစ်အုပ်စု အပြီးတိုင် ကျရှုံးပြီး အရောင်အသွေးစုံလင်သည့် လူမျိုးစု အားလုံးအတွက် အနာဂတ်ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်သစ် အမြန်တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရေး အတူ တကွ ဆက်လက်ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားကြပါစို့ဟု တိုက်တွန်းရင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် ဤနှစ်သစ်ကူးသဝဏ်လွှာအား ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။..."
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Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
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"The United States condemns the attacks committed on December 24 by the Burmese military in Kayah State, which killed at least 35, including women and children and two staff members of the international aid organization Save the Children. We are alarmed by the military regime’s brutality across much of Burma, including most recently in Kayah and Karen States. The targeting of innocent people and humanitarian actors is unacceptable, and the military’s widespread atrocities against the people of Burma underscore the urgency of holding its members accountable. The international community must do more to advance this goal and prevent the recurrence of atrocities in Burma, including by ending the sale of arms and dual-use technology to the military.
Since the February 1 coup, the United States has imposed targeted sanctions against the Burmese military, its leaders, and their financial interests, disrupting their access to the international financial system. We will continue to work with our partners and allies to promote accountability, including by supporting the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, while also continuing to press for a restoration of Burma’s path to peace and democracy. We call on the Burmese regime to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and to grant free and unhindered access to those providing humanitarian assistance for the people of Burma..."
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United States Department of State
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2021-12-29
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"ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းစစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့ က “ပျံလွှားအောင်" စစ်ဆင်ရေး ၈ ခုကို ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဒီနေ့ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့မှာထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်ပါတယ်။
ဒီနေ့ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၉ မနက် ၁၀ နာရီခွဲလောက်က ကျောက်တံတားမြို့နယ်၊ ပန်းဆိုးတန်းလမ်းမပေါ် အခွန်ရုံးရှေ့မှာရပ်ထားတဲ့ စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်လက်ပါးစေအသုံးပြုတဲ့ ကားတစ်စီးကို YRF အဖွဲ့က လက်လုပ်မိုင်းနဲ့ ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။
ဒါ့အပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့ မနက် ၆ နာရီ လောက်မှာ အင်းစိန်မြို့နယ်၊ ရွာမရဲစခန်းကို YFA နဲ့ CGF-HTY တို့ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ၄၀ မမ ဗုံးသီးနဲ့ ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး လှိုင်မြို့နယ်၊ ဘူတာရုံလမ်းနဲ့ အောက်ဗဟိုလမ်းကြား ရထားသံလမ်းအနီး ကင်း လှည့်နေတဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားတွေကိုလဲ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၈ ရက် ည ၁၀ နာရီခွဲလောက်မှာ ပဒေသာမိုင်း ၄ လုံးနဲ့ ဖောက်ခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဆိုပါတယ်။
တောင်ဒဂုံ ကွမ်းခြံကုန်း မင်္ဂလာဒုံ စမ်းချောင်းနဲ့ မှော်ဘီမြို့နယ်တွေမှာလဲ ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်တာတွေ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်က သေဆုံးသူ ၄ ယောက်နဲ့ ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရရှိတာ ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးတာတွေ ရှိခဲ့တယ်လို့ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။..."
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Ministry of Defence of NUG – Yangon Division Military Region Supervision Team
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2021-12-29
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"၁။ နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများ ကူညီစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်း (AAPP) ၏ မှတ်တမ်းပြုချက်များ အရ (၂၄-၁၂-၂၀၂၁) ရက်နေ့အထိ စစ်အာဏာရှင်တော်လှန်ရေးကာလအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်ချက်ကြောင့် ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသူ စုစုပေါင်း (၁,၃၇၅) ဦး ရှိပါသည်။ အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူစုစုပေါင်း (၈,၂၅၄) ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ခံထားရပြီး ယင်းအနက် (၁၈) နှစ်အောက် ကလေး (၂) ဦးအပါအဝင် (၃၉) ဦးမှာ သေဒဏ်ချမှတ်ခံထားရပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်ခံရသောကြောင့် တိမ်းရှောင်နေရသူ (၁,၉၆၄) ဦး ရှိပါသည်။ အမှန်တကယ်အရေအတွက်များမှာ ယခုထက် ပိုမိုများပြားနိုင်ပါသည်။
၂။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၂၄) ရက်နေ့၊ နံနက်ပိုင်းကလည်း ကယားပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်တွင် ကလေးငယ်များ၊ အမျိုးသမီးများအပါအဝင် စစ်ဘေးရှောင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၃၈) ဦး ထက်မနည်းကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီက ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပြီး မော်တော်ယာဉ်များနှင့်အတူ ရက်ရက်စက်စက် မီးရှို့ သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။ Save the Children in Myanmar ဝန်ထမ်းနှစ်ဦးသည်လည်း အနီးအနားရှိ ရပ်ရွာများတွင် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာလုပ်ငန်းများ ဆောင်ရွက်အပြီး တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ရာ ရုံးသို့ ပြန်နေစဉ် ယင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုအဖြစ်အပျက်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရပြီး ပျောက်ဆုံးလျက်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် ယင်းဝန်ထမ်းများ စီးနင်းလာသော မော်တော်ယာဉ်မှာလည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရကြောင်း အတည်ပြုချက်ရရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။
၃။ ထို့အပြင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၊ လေးကေကော်ဒေသအပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြားတွင် ပြည်သူကို ရန်သူသဖွယ်ဆက်ဆံပြီး မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ လုယက်ဓားပြတိုက်ခြင်း၊ ဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ လက်နက်ကြီးများ ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် လေကြောင်းဖြင့် ဗုံးကြဲပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းတို့ကြောင့် ထိခိုက်သေဆုံးမှုများစွာ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လျက်ရှိပြီး အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများစွာ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ၍ တိမ်းရှောင်နေရလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့ လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများသည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်စုများအပေါ် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုများနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၄။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနအနေဖြင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်တော်လှန်ရေးကာလအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လူမဆန်စွာ နှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကြောင့် ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသော ပြည်သူများ၏ မိသားစုများနှင့်ထပ်တူ ကြေကွဲဝမ်းနည်းရပါကြောင်း၊ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အဆိုပါအကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ပြစ်တင်ကန့်ကွက်ရှုတ်ချ ကြောင်းနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အပြီးတိုင် ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီရရှိရေးတို့အတွက် အစွမ်းကုန် ဆက်လက်ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း အလေးအနက်ထား၍ ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Health, National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-27
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"1. We, the KNPP. strongly condemn the SAC troops' burning alive of over 35
Karenni civilians; including women, children, and an INGO staff members;
who had managed to escape from nearby fighting. On December 24, 2021,
after arresting and beating the civilians, the SAC troops from LIB No. 108
under command of Division 66 splashed them with gasoline and burned
them alive on trucks near Mosoe Village, Pruhso Township. They also
burned the Chilians' vehicles.
2. Additionally, four men from the Border Guard Force of Karenni
Nationalities Peoples' Liberation Front, who jumped in to negotiate for
releasing the civilians, were tied with their hands behind their backs and
shot in their heads by the SAC's gunmen.
3. Both cases obviously prove that the SAC's army is both violating the
international norms in war and also intentionally committing crimes
against humanity.
4. Therefore, we urge the international governments and communities,
including the United Nations, to abruptly isolate the SAC by taking strong
actions against them without delay..."
Source/publisher:
Karenni National Progressive Party
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-26
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"The Karen Women's Organization [KWO] strongly condemns the attacks by the Burma
Army in Hrpuso township, Karenni State in which at least 30 refugees, including women
and children, were burned alive. Deeply disturbing images of scorched bodies and charred
remains on trucks that were set ablaze on Christmas Eve. Even during this holiday time of
Christmas and New Year's, the people of Burma are being denied peace and safety in their
homelands.
In the regime's attempts to squander People's Defense Forces, innocent civilians are
routinely and unjustly being taken as hostages and killed. KWO has witnessed similar
assaults in Karen State including ongoing ground and air strikes.
KWO extends our solidarity and support to the victims and their families in Karenni State.
Our ethnic brothers and sisters are all too familiar with the brutality that the Burma Army
is capable of. The people of Karen State continue to be forced to endure the oppression of
the junta. Thousands of our people are stranded, and in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
We have seen similar attacks being launched across the country which are routinely taking
place with deeply ingrained impunity.
Accountability for the atrocities being committed by the Burma Army are long overdue.
The violence they are perpetuating is in violation of international law and constitute war
crimes and crimes against humanity. Therefore, it is with utmost urgency that KWO calls
for a global arms embargo and diplomatic pressure to ensure a referral of the junta to the
International Criminal Court. International condemnation for the human rights violations is
not enough. There must be concrete action to protect the lives of thousands who still
remain in danger in Burma..."
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Karen Women's Organisation
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-26
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"1. The National Unity Government (NUG) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar received reports of a new civilian massacre by junta forces in Karenni State on 24 December 2021 (Christmas Eve). The NUG expresses its deepest condolences to families, people of the Karenni State and the people who suffered and suffering from inhumane violence of terrorist military group as the Karenni State home to majority Christian population witnessed such a heinous terrorist act in Christmas.
2. On the morning of 24 December 2021, the terrorist military group conducted Special Clearance Operation near Moso village in Hpruso Township. Light Infantry Battalion 108 under Light Infantry Division 66 blocked the road, subsequently detained an unconfirmed number of these villagers and travelers and destroyed their properties. Four members of Border Guard Force Battalion (1004) who attempted to negotiate the release of the civilians were also reportedly executed by junta forces with close-range headshots. According to source information, between 35-40 villagers were bound and burnt to death together with 11 vehicles.
3. The terrorist military junta have exercised extreme terror tactics against the Myanmar people by arresting, killing and burning people alive. A villager from Than Pho village in Kale Township in Sagaing Region was detained by junta troops on 4 December 2021 and his remains were found burnt on 7 December 2021. On On 7 December 2021, at least 11 villagers including five children were burnt alive by terrorist military group in Salingyi Township in Sagaing regio. On 12 December 2021, five villagers including one person with disabilities were killed and burnt in Gaaung Kwe village in Myaing Township in Sagaing Region.
4. As the world celebrates Christmas and its message of peace, the NUG repeats its demand on the international community to act immediately and decisively to end the military junta’s escalating war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Myanmar people..."
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National Unity Government of Myanmar
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2021-12-26
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကရင်နီပြည်နယ်၊ ဖရူဆိုမြို့နယ်၊ မိုဆိုကျေးရွာတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မ (၆၆)၊ ခမရ(၁၀၈)ဉီးဆောင်သောတပ်များက အင်အားအလွန်အကျွံသုံး၍ စစ်ဆင်ရေးပြုလုပ်ကာ အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သားတို့၏ နေအိမ်များနှင့် ပစ္စည်းများကို ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ပြီး ကလေးသူငယ်နှင့် အမျိုးသမီးများ အပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့အရပ်သား (၃၅) ဦးကျော်အား ကြိုးတုပ် ဖမ်းဆီးခေါ်ဆောင်သွားပြီး ဒန်ပါကား (၃)စီး၊ ကားငယ်(၄)စီး၊ ထော်လာဂျီနှင့် ဆိုင်ကယ်(၅)စီးတို့နှင့် အတူ လက်စဖျောက် မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့မှုအပေါ် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ အနေဖြင့် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုတ်ချလိုက်သည်။
၂။ ထိုသို့ ဖျက်ဆီးမှုများနှင့် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို တားဆီးရန်ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့သော နယ်ခြားစောင့် တပ်ရင်း(၁၀၀၄)မှ တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် (၄) ဦးကိုလည်း ဖမ်းဆီးကာ ဦးခေါင်းကို သေနတ်ဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်သတ် ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများသည် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်စုအပေါ် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူး လွန်သည့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုဖြစ်ပြီး ယခင်နှစ်ပေါင်း ၇၀ ကျော် အချိန်မှစ၍ ယခုအချိန်တိုင် ပြည်သူတို့အပေါ်၌ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များက ကျူးလွန်နေသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်နေမှုများ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၃။ ခရစ်ယာန်လူမျိုးတို့၏ နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ်ဖြစ်သည့် ခရစ္စမတ်ပွဲတော်ကျင်းပသည့် ကာလ၌ပင် ယခုကဲ့သို့ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့၀င်များက ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ် များသည် မတရားလုယူထားသည့် ၎င်းတို့၏ အာဏာတည်မြဲရေးနှင့် အကျိုးစီးပွား မထိခိုက်ရေး နိုင်ငံတ၀ှမ်းရှိ လူနည်းစုတိုင်းရင်းသားများအပါအ၀င် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူပြည်သားများအပေါ်၌ ပိုမို ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည့် လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကို ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်မည့် သဘောထားပင် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၄။ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီသည် ပြည်တွင်း ဥပဒေများ၊ နိုင်ငံတကာ ဥပဒေများနှင့် ကျင့်၀တ် များကိုသာမက အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကြေညာစာတမ်းပါအချက်များကိုပါ ပြောင်ပြောင် တင်းတင်း ချိုးဖောက်လျက်ရှိပြီး ပြည်သူတို့အပေါ်၌ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များ စနစ်တကျ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်နေခြင်းကြောင့် ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံများနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုက် အ၀န်းက မြန်မာပြည်သူတို့၏ အသက်ရှင်သန်ခွင့်နှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးတို့အတွက် ကာကွယ်ပေးရန် အမြန်ဆုံးနှင့် အရေးတကြီး လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။
၅။ ထိတ်လန့်ဖွယ် ဖမ်းဆီးသတ်ဖြတ်ခံခဲ့ရသည့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများနှင့် မိသားစုတို့အတွက် များစွာ ထိခိုက်ကြေကွဲရပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့များက ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများအတွက် ထိရောက်သော အရေးယူမှုများ ပြုလုပ်သွားနိုင်ရေး ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုက်အ၀န်းနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-26
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Progressive Karenni People Force - Information Center
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2021-12-26
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Karenni State Consultative Council
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၅ ရက်နေ့တွင်ကျရောက်သည့် ယေရှုခရစ်တော် ဖွားမြင်သောနေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် ကျင်းပသည့် ခရစ္စမတ်ပွဲတော် အခါသမယတွင် ခရစ်ယာန်ဘာသာဝင် တိုင်းရင်းသားများနှင့်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းရှိ တိုင်းရင်းသားအားလုံးတို့သည် ဘုရားသခင်၏ကောင်းချီး ပေးမှုနှင့်အတူ ချစ်ခြင်းမေတ္တာတရား၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းခြင်းတို့ အပြည့်အဝရရှိပြီး စစ်ဘေးအပါအဝင် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်အပေါင်းမှ ကင်းဝေးပါစေကြောင်း ဆုတောင်းမေတ္တာ ပို့သအပ်ပါသည်။
၂။ ယခင်နှစ်များက နိုင်ငံအတွင်းရှိဘာသာအသီးသီး၏ဘာသာရေးပွဲတော်များကို တိုင်းရင်းသား ပေါင်းစုံက အတူတကွ ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ ပါဝင်ဆင်နွှဲကြမြဲဖြစ်သော်လည်း အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စု၏ နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်း၌ လူမဆန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များဖြင့် ဖိနှိပ်နေမှုများကြောင့် ယခုနှစ် ခရစ္စမတ်ပွဲတော်၏အနှစ်သာရနှင့်ပျော်ရွှင်မှုတို့ ပျောက်ဆုံးခဲ့ရသည့်အတွက် များစွာစိတ်မကောင်း ဖြစ်ရပါသည်။ ကရင်၊ ကယား၊ ချင်းပြည်နယ်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းရှိ ခရစ်ယာန်တိုင်းရင်းသားများ သည်လည်း အခြားသော တိုင်းရင်းသားများကဲ့သို့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များ၏ ဥပဒေမဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်ခံရခြင်း၊ သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရခြင်း၊ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများဖျက်ဆီးခံရခြင်းနှင့်နေအိမ်များ မီးရှို့ ဖျက်ဆီးခံရ၍ ဘေးကင်းရာသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရခြင်းများ ကြုံတွေ့ခံစားရလျက်ရှိပါသည်။
၃။ မြန်မာ့နွေဉီးတော်လှန်ရေးတွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အာဏာသိမ်းဖိနှိပ်မှုကို လက်မခံဘဲ ရဲရဲဝံ့ဝံ့ စတင်ခုခံတော်လှန်ခဲ့ကြပြီး ယနေ့ထက်တိုင် ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံမှ ရရာနည်းလမ်း များဖြင့်ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်နေကြသော ခရစ်ယာန်တိုင်းရင်းသားတို့၏ပါဝင်မှုသည် တန်ဖိုးမဖြတ် နိုင်သည့် တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုဖြစ်သည်ကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ အနေဖြင့် လေးစားစွာ မှတ်တမ်းတင်ဂုဏ်ပြုအပ်ပါသည်။
၄။ လူမျိုးနှင့်ကိုးကွယ်ယုံကြည်မှု မတူညီကြသော်လည်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ဘုံရန်သူဖြစ်သော အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီကျဆုံးရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်သစ် တည်ဆောက်နိုင် ရေးတို့အား ဘုံရည်မှန်းချက်တစ်ခုအဖြစ် ရပ်တည်ကာ ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်ခဲ့ခြင်းကြောင့် အတိုင်း အတာတစ်ခုထိ မှတ်တိုင်ထူနိုင်ခဲ့ခြင်းသည် ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပရှိ မတူကွဲပြားသည့် တော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုအားလုံး၏ စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်မှုနှင့်အတူတကွ လက်တွဲကြိုးပမ်းမှုကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၅။ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အပြီးတိုင်ကျဆုံးပြီး အရောင်အသွေးစုံလင်သည့် ဘာသာဝင်အားလုံးအတွက် အနာဂတ်ဖက်ဒရယ် ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံတော်သစ် တည်ဆောက်နိုင်ရေး အင်အားစုအသီးသီးနှင့် လက်တွဲကြိုးပမ်း ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိရာ တိုင်းရင်းသားညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမအားလုံးကလည်း ဆက်လက်ဝိုင်းဝန်း ကြိုးပမ်းကြပါရန် တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်ရင်း ဤခရစ္စမတ်နေ့သဝဏ်လွှာအား ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။..."
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"In Myanmar, the terrorist military overthrew the civilian government and staged a coup d’e tat in February. The people’s mass protests have been viciously cracked down by the terrorist military, injuring and killing many people.
At present, the people of Burma, with the rights to defend ourselves, are revolting all throughout the country against the military which has been ruling with violence for more than 70 years by means of arms. Ethnic organizations which have been fighting against oppression for years are now facilitating the revolution as well.
Currently, the terrorist military is committing severe violations of human rights and crimes against humanity, such as arresting and torturing innocent civilians in villages and towns all over the country; using them as prisoners of war; making them into human shields; looting and destroying the properties of people; burning down entire villages and towns; torturing, carrying out mass killings and burying groups of innocent people; burning people to death; raping women and so on.
Moreover, across the country, the terrorist military is continuously conducting aerial bombing attacks on places resided by innocent civilians. On the day before yesterday, the terrorist military council attacked with aerial bombings on innocent civilians in Kale, Sagaing Division and in Lay Kay Kaw Myothit, Karen State.
Therefore, we, the Students’ Unions, support the following demands in order to stop the terrorist military from killing innocent people, committing crimes and violating human rights.
1. We, the Students' Unions, support the statement of the KNU (the Karen National Union) issued on December 20. We also call for the United Nations to quickly respond to the request numbered 5(b) in the KNU’s statement.
2. At present, because of the military’s excessive use of air strikes, lots of innocent people are losing their lives and are suffering the agony of war. In addition, many homes of the people are being destroyed. Accordingly, we urgently request for the nationwide designation of No-fly Zone in Myanmar..."
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2021-12-25
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"1. The clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the military junta’s troops in Myawaddy Township in Kayin State had continued to intensify for the sixth straight day since the junta’s troops raided Lay Kay Kaw new establishment of KNU controlled area at Dooplalya District of Karen State and arrested a number of civilians in Karen State on 14 December 2021. In the late evening of 23 December 2021, already bedtime for many people in rural area, the junta troops used war plane to bomb the area of Lay Kay Kaw. It is horrible act by the junta troops.
2. Due to the tension between the two groups and excessive use of force by the junta troops during the clashes including bombing by using war planes and heavy artilleries, the residents from Lay Kay Kaw and the neighbouring villages had to flee the conflicted area to safer zones. About half of the displaced villagers have reportedly crossed into the border of Thailand.
3. The National Unity Government issued a statement to appeal to the international community for urgent humanitarian assistance to the IDPs and refugees affected by the military junta’s operation on 17 December 2021.
4. Similarly, the junta deployed air strike attacks by using helicopters on Hnan Khar Village in Gangaw Township of Magway Region on 17 December 2021. The junta’s troops reportedly used heavy artilleries and torched the houses in the village as well. According to the local news media, there were casualties and more than a dozen of deaths. The local residents from Hnan Khar and other villages in the area were also forced to flee the villages. The junta’s troops have raided Hnan Khar Village six times and set fire several houses since June 2021.
5. The junta’s widespread and systematic attacks against the civilians in Lay Kay Kaw and Hnan Khar amounted to crimes against humanity. Since the first day of the military coup d’etat in February, the junta troops has been violating fundamental and peremptory norms of the international laws and committing serious human rights violations. The root cause of such continued violations and lack of respect for international laws and conventions is clearly due to the decades-long impunity enjoyed by the Myanmar military.
6. To end this military dictatorship and to be able to bring accountability to those perpetrators of such heinous crimes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government will expand its engagements with the international community through diplomatic efforts, including the United Nations and its subsidiary bodies, the ASEAN and other institutions.
ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ
နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန
အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် ကျူးလွန်မှုများသည် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုကင်းမဲ့သည့် တရားမဲ့ကျူးလွန်မှုမြောက်ကြောင်းနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄
၁။ တရားမဝင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်များသည် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ဒူးပလာယာခရိုင် အတွင်းရှိ လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်သို့ စီးနင်းဝင်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ အရပ်သား ပြည်သူများအား ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့သည့် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့မှ စတင်၍ ကရင်အမျိုးသား လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော်နှင့် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်များအကြား ထိတွေ့မှုများ (၆)ရက် တိုင်အောင် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂၃-၁၂-၂၀၂၁ ရက်နေ့ လူနေအိပ်ချိန် ညပိုင်းတွင် အဆိုပါ ဒေသအား စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်များ မှ တိုက်လေယာဉ်များ အသုံးပြု၍ အကျဉ်းတန်စွာ ဗုံးကျဲ ခဲ့ပါသည်။
၂။ နှစ်ဖက် ထိတွေ့မှုများအတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်များသည် တိုက် လေယာဉ် အသုံးပြု၍ ဗုံးကျဲမှု၊ လက်နက်ကြီးများအပါအဝင် အင်အား အလွန်အကျွန် အသုံးပြုမှု များကြောင့် လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်နှင့် အနီးတစ်ဝိုက် ရွာများမှ ပြည်သူများသည် ဘေးကင်းရာ ဒေသများသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။ နေအိမ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရသည့် ရွာသား တစ်ဝက် ခန့်သည် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ နယ်နိမိတ်အတွင်းသို့ ဖြတ်ကျော် တိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။
၃။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် တရားမဝင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အဆိုပါ အကြမ်းဖက် လုပ်ရပ်ကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပွားလာရသည့် လက်နက်ကိုင်တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်း ရှောင်ရသည့် စစ်ဘေးရှောင်ပြည်သူများအား အရေးပေါ် လူသားချင်းစာနာ ထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးရန် ကိစ္စနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်းသည့် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံချက်တစ်ရပ်ကို ၁၇-၁၂-၂၀၂၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
၄။ အလားတူ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ဂန့်ဂေါမြို့နယ်ရှိ နှမ်းခါးရွာကို အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုမှ လေကြောင်းဖြင့် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ရွာအတွင်းသို့ လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းနှင့် ရွာရှိနေအိမ်များကိုလည်း မီးရှို့ခြင်း များကို ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သဖြင့် ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရမှုများရှိခဲ့ပြီး၊ သေဆုံးသူ လူဦးရေသည် တစ်ဒါဒင်မက ရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အင်အားအလွန်အကျွံ့အသုံးပြု၍ ပစ်ခတ် နှိမ်နင်းမှုကြောင့် နှမ်းခါးရွာနှင့် အနီးတစ်ဝိုက် ရွာများရှိ ရွာသူရွာသားများသည် ၎င်းတို့၏ နေအိမ်များကို စွန့်ခွာ၍ ဘေးလွတ်ရာသို့ ထွက်ပြေး တိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လမှစတင်၍ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုသည် နှမ်းခါးရွာသို့ ဝင်ရောက် စီးနှင်းခဲ့သည်မှာ (၆) ကြိမ် တိုင်တိုင် ရှိခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၄။ လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်နှင့် နှမ်းခါးရွာရှိ ပြည်သူများအား အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်များမှ စနစ်တကျ အင်အားသုံး၍ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုသည် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုကင်းမဲ့သည့် တရားမဲ့ကျူးလွန်မှုမြောက်ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ မတရားအာဏာသိမ်းခဲ့သည့် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှ စတင်၍ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုသည် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများ၏ အခြေခံကျသည့် လိုက်နာရမည့် စံနှုန်းထားများကို ဆက်တိုက် ချိုးဖောက်လျက် ရှိသည်မှာ ငြင်းဖွယ်ရာမရှိပါ။ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ယင်းသို့ နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများကို လေးစားလိုက်နာခြင်းမရှိဘဲ ကိုယ်ကျိုးတစ်ခုတည်း ကိုရှေ့ရှုကာ ဆိုးဝါးသော လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများပြုနေခြင်း၏ ဇစ်မြစ်မှာ နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ ကတည်းက ၎င်းတို့၏ တရားမဲ့ အနိုင်ကျင့်နှိပ်စက်မှုများ၊ ဥပဒေမဲ့ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့မှုများကို ထိရောက် စွာအရေးယူခြင်းမပြုခဲ့ရာမှ အမြစ်တွယ်ခဲ့ခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၅။ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ မတရားအာဏာသိမ်းယူထားရှိမှုအား အဆုံးသတ်ရန်နှင့် ယခုကဲ့ သို့ ဥပဒေမဲ့ အနိုင်ကျင့်ဖိနှိပ်ကျူးလွန်မှုများကို ထိရောက်စွာ အရေးယူသွားနိုင်ရန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အနေဖြင့် သံတမန်နည်းလမ်းမှတဆင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့် ယင်း၏ လက်အောက်ခံအဖွဲ့ အစည်းများ၊ အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့ အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းနှင့် ယခင်ထက် ပိုမိုကျယ်ပြန့် သည့် ပူးပေါင်းမှုများ ပြုလုပ်၍ အားသွန်ခွန်စိုက် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည် ဖြစ်ပါကြောင်း အသိပေး ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်ပါသည်။..."
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"မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ၌ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်မှ ဒီမိုကရေစီအစိုးရကို ဖြုတ်ချအာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့ပါသည်။ ပြည်သူများတခဲနက်ဆန့်ကျင်ဆန္ဒပြမှုများကိုလည်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်မှ ရက်စက်စွာအကြမ်းဖက်ဖြိုခွင်းခဲ့၍ လူပေါင်းများစွာဒဏ်ရာရအသက်ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ပါသည်။
ယခုလက်ရှိတွင် မြန်မာပြည်သူများသည် နိုင်ငံအနှံအပြားတွင် နှစ်ပေါင်း(၇၀)ကျော်ကြာ လက်နက်အားကိုးဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်အုပ်ချုပ်ခဲ့သောစစ်တပ်အား မိမိကိုယ်ကိုခုခံကာကွယ်ခွင့်ဖြင့် တော်လှန်နေကြရပါသည်။ နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာဖိနှိပ်အနိုင်ကျင့်မှုကိုတွန်းလှန်နေသော တိုင်းရင်းသားအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှလည်း တော်လှန်ရေးတွင် ပူးပေါင်းကူညီပါဝင်နေကြပြီဖြစ်ပါသည်။
လက်ရှိတွင်လည်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်သည် နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ရှိရွာများ၊ မြို့များတွင် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများကို မတရားဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ စစ်သုံ့ပန်းအဖြစ်အသုံးချခြင်း၊ လူသားတံတိုင်းပြုလုပ်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်သူ့ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများ ခိုးယူဖျက်စီးခြင်း၊ ရွာလုံးကျွတ်မြို့လုံးကျွတ်မီးရှို့ခြင်း၊ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူအုပ်စုလိုက်အား နှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်မြေမြှုပ်ခြင်း၊ မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ အမျိုးသမီးများကိုအဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ခြင်း စသည့် ဆိုးဝါးပြင်းထန်သော လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများနှင့် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
ထို့ပြင် နိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြားတွင်လည်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်သည် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများနေထိုင်သည့်နေရာများကို ဝေဟင်မှ ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းများကိုလည်း ဆက်တိုက်ပြုလုပ်နေပါသည်။ယမန်နေ့၌ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ကလေးမြို့နှင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ် လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်တို့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီမှ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအပေါ် ဝေဟင်မှ ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းတို့ပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်သည် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအပေါ် သတ်ဖြတ်မှု၊ ရာဇဝတ်မှုများနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ မပြုလုပ်နိုင်စေရန်အတွက် အောက်ပါအချက်များအား ထောက်ခံတောင်းဆိုပါသည်။
၁။ ဒီဇင်ဘာ(၂၀)ရက်နေ့ ကေအဲန်ယူ-ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံးမှ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေငြာချက်အား ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂများမှ ထောက်ခံပါသည်။ တောင်းဆိုချက်(ခ)ပါအချက်အား လည်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့ချုပ်မှ အမြန်ဆုံးဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန် တောင်းဆိုပါသည်။
၂။ ယခုအချိန်တွင် မြန်မာတစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးနီးပါး စစ်တပ်၏ အကြမ်းဖက်ထိုးစစ်ဆင်မှုများတွင် လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုများအလွန်အသုံးပြုေသာကြောင့် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများစွာ အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးခြင်း၊ စစ်ဘေးဒုက္ခရောက်ခြင်းတို့ ခံစားနေရပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ပြည်သူ့အိုးအိမ်များစွာ အဖျက်ဆီးခံရပါသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ မြန်မာတစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးအတိုင်းအတာအနေဖြင့် စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာလေကြောင်းပျံသန်းမှုကင်းမဲ့ဇုန်အဖြစ်သတ်မှတ်ပေးရန် တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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227 Students' Unions in Myanmar
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2021-12-25
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"၁။ ယနေ့သည် သခင်ယေရှုခရစ်တော်ဖွားမြင်တော်မူခြင်းအထိမ်းအမှတ်တည်းဟူသောခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ဖြစ်သည်။ ဤမွန်မြတ်သော ခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ရက်အချိန်အခါသာမယတွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားများအားလုံး ကိုယ်စိတ်နှစ်ဖြာကျန်းမာချမ်းသာကြပါစေကြောင်း မေတ္တာပို့သလျက်နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက်သအပ်ပါသည်။
၂။ သခင်ယေရှုခရစ်တော်သည် လူ့ဇာတိကိုခံယူတော်မူလျက် ဤကမ္ဘာလောကထဲသို့ကြွလာတော်မူခြင်းမှာ “ဆင်းရဲသားတို့အား ဝမ်းမြောက်စရာသတင်းကိုကြားပြောစေခြင်းငှာလည်းကောင်း၊ နှလုံးကြေမွသော သူတို့၏ အနာကို ပျောက်စေခြင်းငှာလည်းကောင်း၊ ဖမ်းသွားချုပ်ထားလျက်ရှိသောသူတို့အား လွှတ်ခြင်းအကြောင်းနှင့် အကျဉ်းခံလျက်ရှိသောသူတို့အား ထောင်တံခါးဖွင့်ခြင်းအကြောင်းကို ပြစေခြင်းငှာ လည်းကောင်း၊ ညှင်းဆဲခံရ သောသူတို့ကိုကယ်မစေခြင်းငှာလည်းကောင်းနှင့် ထာဝရဘုရား၏မင်္ဂလာနှစ်နှင့် ဘုရားသခင် အပြစ်ပေးတော် မူရာနေ့ရက်ကာလကို ကြားပြောစေခြင်းငှာလည်းကောင်း” (ဟေရှာယ ၆:၁-၃၊ ရှင်လုကာ ၄: ၁၉) ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သမ္မာကျမ်းစာတော်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။
၃။ သမ္မာကျမ်းစာတော်တွင်ဖော်ပြချက်အရ ဤကမ္ဘာလောကနှင့် လူသားတို့အား ပျက်စီးရာထဲသို့ ရောက်စေ သူမှာ မာရ်နတ်ဖြစ်သည်။ သခင်ယေရှုခရစ်တော်က မာရ်နတ်နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ “မာရ်နတ်သည် ရှေ့ဦးစွာမှစ၍ လူအသက်ကို သတ်သောသူဖြစ်၏။ သူ၌သစ္စာတရားမရှိသောကြောင့် သစ္စာတရား၌ မတည်မနေ။ သူသည် မုသာစကားကိုပြောသောအခါ မိမိပကတိအတိုင်းပြော၏။ မုသာစကား၌ကျင်လည်သောသူဖြစ်၏။ မုသာ၏ အဘလည်းဖြစ်၏” (ရှင်ယောဟန် ၈:၄၄) ဟူ၍ အတိအလင်းဖော်ပြခဲ့သည်။
၄။ မာရ်နတ်၏တန်ခိုးကို ရိုက်ချိုး၍ လူတို့အားလွတ်မြောက်ခြင်းကို ပေးအပ်နိုင်ရန် သခင်ယေရှုခရစ်တော် သည် ဤလောကသို့ကြွဆင်းလာခဲ့သည်။ ထိုသခင်ယေရှုခရစ်တော်သည် မတရားမှုကို ကိုယ်တိုင် လက်မခံ ငြင်းဆန် သည်သာမက၊ မတရားပြုသူများနှင့် မတရားမှုကိုမြင်တွေ့သော်လည်း ရေငုံနုတ်ပိတ်နေကြ သူများအား ပြင်းထန်စွာထောက်ပြခဲ့သည်။ ထို့အတူ နတ်ဆိုးနှင့်အလားသဏ္ဍာန်တူသော ကျူးကျော်အုပ်စိုး သူများအား မောင်းထုတ်ဖယ်ရှားနိုင်မှသာ စစ်မှန်သည့်ငြိမ်းချမ်းမှုနှင့် လူပီသသည့် ဘဝရရှိနိုင်မည်ဟု လေဂေါင်နတ်ဆိုးစွဲသော ဂါဒရပြည်သား၏ဖြစ်ရပ် (ရှင်လုကာ ၈:၂၆-၃၉) ဖြင့် သွန်သင်တော်မူခဲ့သည်။
၅။ ဤခရစ္စမတ်နေ့ရက်အခါသာမယတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားအပေါင်း ဘေးရန်ခပ်သိမ်းမှ ကင်းလွတ်လုံခြုံ ၍ ငြိမ်သက်ချမ်းသာခြင်း၏ဝမ်းမြောက်စရာသတင်းကောင်းများဖြင့် ရွှင်လန်းချမ်းမြေ့နိုင်ကြ ပါစေကြောင်း ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းရင်း ဤနှုတ်ခွန်းဆက် သဝဏ်လွှာကို ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။
“မြေကြီးပေါ်၌ ငြိမ်သက်ခြင်းရှိစေသတည်း။ လူအပေါင်းတို့၌မေတ္တာကရုဏာရှိစေသတည်း” (ရှင်လုကာ ၂:၁၄)..."
Source/publisher:
National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-25
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Source/publisher:
Karenni State Consultative Council
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-25
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"We reiterate our condemnation of the serious human rights violations committed by the military regime across the country.
The recent attacks on civilians in Karen State, including the shelling of villages, are a violation of International Humanitarian Law and must stop. The attacks have resulted in thousands of people being displaced, who are now in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
We call on the regime to immediately cease its indiscriminate attacks in Karen State and throughout the country, and to ensure the safety of all civilians in line with international law.
We echo the UN Security Council’s Press Statement from 10 November, calling for full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all people in need, and for the full protection, safety and security of humanitarian and medical personnel....စစ်အာဏာရှင်၏ နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝန်း ကျူးလွန်ထားသော ပြင်းထန်ဆိုးရွားသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို မိမိတို့ ရှုတ်ချကြောင်း ထပ်မံအသိပေးပြောကြားလိုသည်။
မကြာသေးမီက ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းရှိ ကျေးရွာများကို လက်နက်ကြီးများဖြင့်ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်း အပါအဝင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများသည် နိုင်ငံတကာ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေကို ချိုးဖောက်နေခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး ယင်းလုပ်ရပ်ကို ရပ်တန့်ရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ အဆိုပါ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကြောင့် ထောင်နှင့်ချီသောပြည်သူများ အိုးအိမ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးနေကြရပြီး ယခုအခါ ၄င်းတို့အတွက် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုအကူအညီများ အရေးပေါ် လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသည်။
စစ်အာဏာရှင်အနေဖြင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတလွှားက အဆင်အခြင်မဲ့တိုက်ခိုက်ခံရမှုများ ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်ရန်နှင့် အရပ်သားပြည်သူအားလုံးကို နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံစွာထားရှိရန် မိမိတို့ တောင်းဆိုသည်။
ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ၏ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၁၀ ရက်နေ့ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်အရ အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေသည့် ပြည်သူအားလုံး လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု အထောက်အပံ့ အပြည့်အစုံကို ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံပြီး အတားအဆီးအဟန့်အတားမရှိဘဲ လက်လှမ်းမီရရှိစေရေးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုနှင့် ဆေးဘက်ဆိုင်ရာဝန်ထမ်းများကို အပြည့်အ၀ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ပေးပြီး ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံမှုရှိစေရေးအတွက် မိမိတို့ကလည်း ထပ်တူတောင်းဆိုလိုက်သည်။..."
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The Ambassadors, Chargés d’Affaires, and Heads of Mission from Australia, Canada, the Delegation of the EU and European Union Member States with presence in Myanmar: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden;
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-24
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Individual Documents
Category:
2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Human Rights and international relations, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, Armed conflict in Karen State - military activities and their impact on village life, including livelihood, health, education and land tenure security
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"Amid worsening hostilities in Karen State, the lives of innocent civilians are increasingly at
risk as thousands continue to flee in search of safety. The Karen Women Organization (KWO)
strongly condemns the ongoing, systematic human rights abuses being perpetrated against
villagers who have been indiscriminately targeted in a series of unrelenting attacks by the
military junta, including the murder of Naw Khee, a 56-year-old woman killed on 21
December.
Naw Khee was working on Robin Farm in Yar Khee Klo early in the morning with her
husband when fighting between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the Burma
Army broke out. The clashes were with Burma Army Battalion, LIB-101 along with five
Border Guard Force (BGF) soldiers, led by BGF Commander Bo Maung Soe. As the junta
troops approached Naw Khee, her husband fled. Terrified and alone, she was violently
interrogated. When she responded that she did not know where the KNLA soldiers were, the
soldiers broke her nose. A gun was then put in her mouth and she was shot to death. Her
body was found by local villagers on 22 December who dared not retrieve her until the junta
soldiers had left the area.
Burma has become a battlefield as the junta plunges the country further into armed conflict.
Women, children and the elderly are being subjected to frequent bombings, artillery strikes
and indiscriminate firing. With violence increasing, ongoing attacks against women and girls
are a reoccurring crime being perpetrated with impunity by the junta. Every day, there
continues to be more incidents of torture and killings.
The military's expanding offensives in ethnic areas and unrelenting air and ground strikes
has forced thousands to flee and seek safety. Dozens have been killed, arrested and
disappeared. As a result of the increasing offensives, the number of internally displaced
persons and refugees are steadily rising on Burma's borders of Thailand, China, India and
Bangladesh. Limited access to areas where the military has established bases has only
heightened the level of concern KWO has for the many who are displaced and living in fear
without protection.
Justice has been denied and dismissed for victims of the regime's attacks. Women across the
country are facing a multi- burden: a lack of human security, a loss of civil liberty rights due
to the military's attempted seizure of power. Accountability for the mass crimes committed
by the Burma Army, including genocide, are long overdue..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Women's Organisation
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-24
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Category:
Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Karen (Kayin) State, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"We, the Catholic population is trembled with rage, terribly upset and saddened upon the meeting of Charles Cardinal Bo with Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on 23 December 2021.
This meeting do not represent the Catholic Church and population in Myanmar as that against the stand of all the Catholics in Myanmar. ICJM seriously condemns Charles Cardinal Bo and that of those who has acknowledge the Myanmar junta by any reason of general interests.
This meeting itself exposed the disregard and insult to the people of Myanmar who have suffered murder, lawless seizures, tourtures, and devastation of the Churches since in the beginning of the coup d’état.
As ICJM is the network standing for justice and peace, we absolutely oppose those who collaborate with the perpetrators and firmly stand with those who fight for justice and righteous.
“Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. (Psalm 1, NRSV)..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Catholics for Justice in Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-24
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Type:
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Category:
2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Christianity, Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against several groups
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"(၂၃.၁၂.၂၁) နေ့တွင် ကာဒီနယ်ချားစ်ဘိုနှင့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နှင့်အဖွဲ့တွေ့ဆုံခြင်းအပေါ်ကက်သလစ်ဘာသာဝင်များအနေဖြင့် အင်မတန်ထိတ်လန့်တုန်လှုပ် ဝမ်းနည်းစိတ်ပျက် ရပါသည်။
၎င်းတွေ့ဆုံခြင်းသည် မြန်မာပြည် ကက်သလစ် ဘာသာဝင်များအားလုံးနီးပါး၏ ဆန္ဒနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်သည့်အတွက်ကြောင့်ဘာသာဝင်များကို ကိုယ်စားမပြုပါ။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအား မည်သို့သော အကြောင်းပြချက်များအားဖြင့်ဖြစ်စေ အသိအမှတ်ပြုနေသော ကာဒီနယ်ချားစ်ဘို နှင့်တကွ မည်သည့်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်/အဖွဲ့အစည်းကိုမဆို ICJM အနေဖြင့် ပြင်းထန်စွာ ရှုတ်ချပါသည်။
ယနေ့လုပ်ရပ်သည် အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းချိန်ကာလမှစ၍ ယခုအချိန်အထိ မတရားသတ်ဖြတ်ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသူများနှင့်ဘုရားကျောင်းများ ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရမှုအပေါ် မျက်နှာလွှဲကာ စော်ကားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု သတ်မှတ်ပါသည်။
ICJM သည် တရားမျှတမှုအတွက် ရပ်တည်သော အဖွဲ့အစည်းဖြစ်သည့်အလျှောက် မတရားမှုကိုကျူးလွန်နေသောသူများနှင့်ပူးပေါင်းနေသူများအား ချွင်းချက်မရှိ ဆန့်ကျင်ပြီး တရားမျှတမှုအတွက် တော်လှန်တိုက်ပွဲဝင်နေကြသောသူများနှင့်အတူအမြဲ ရပ်တည်သွားမည်။
"မတရားသောသူတို့၏ တိုက်တွန်းခြင်း သို့ မလိုက်။ လူဆိုးတို့၏ လမ်းတွင်မရပ်မနေ၊ မထီမဲ့မြင် ပြုသောသူတို့၏ အစည်းအဝေး၌မထိုင်၊ ထာဝရဘုရား၏ တရားတော်၌ မွေ့လျော်၍ တရားတော်ကို နေ့ညဉ့်မပြတ်ဆင်ခြင် အောက်မေ့သောသူသည် မင်္ဂလာရှိ၏။ မတရားသောသူတို့မူကား ထိုကဲ့သို့ မဟုတ်။ လေတိုက်၍ လွင့်သော ဖွဲနှင့်တူကြ၏။ ထို့ကြောင့် တရားဆုံး ဖြတ်တော်မူရာကာလ၌ မတရားသောသူတို့သည် မတည်မနေရကြ။ ဖြောင့်မတ်သောသူတို့၏ အပေါင်းအသင်းထဲသို့ လူဆိုးတို့သည် မဝင်ရကြ။ အကြောင်းမူကား ဖြောင့်မတ်သောသူတို့၏ လမ်းကို ထာဝရဘုရားသိကျွမ်းတော်မူ၏။ မတရားသော သူတို့၏လမ်းသည် ဆုံးရှုံးခြင်း သို့ ရောက်ရလိမ့်သတည်း။( ဆာလံ-၁)"..."
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Independent Catholics for Justice in Myanmar
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2021-12-24
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"ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ(၁)ရက်နေ့ အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးချိန်မှစ၍
စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာဆန့်ကျင်ခဲ့သော
ပြည်သူများအား စစ်တပ်က အကြမ်းဖက် ဖမ်းဆီး ဖိနှိပ် သတ်ဖြတ်လျက်ရှိသည်မှာ မြန်မာသိ ကမ္ဘာသိ ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
ယခုဆိုလျှင် ဂန့်ဂေါ ယော ကလေး အရာတော်
မုံရွာတစ်ဝိုက် တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုများရဲ့ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်များအရ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များက ဘုန်းကြီး အတုအယောင်များဖန်တီးကာ သင်္ကန်းဝတ်လျက် အဖိနှိပ်ခံပြည်သူများအား အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ ပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိသည်ကို ကြားသိရပါသည်။
အလားတူစွာပင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်အောက်ခံ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်တပ်ကလည်း
ဒေသတွင်းအသီးသီးရှိ သာသနိက အဆောက်အဦးများတွင် တပ်စွဲနေထိုင်ကြလျက် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကိုကျူးလွန်နေကြပါသည်။
အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လုပ်ရပ်များကို
သံဃသမဂ္ဂအနေဖြင့် ရှုတ်ချခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်သည့်အပြင်
ပြည်သူနှင့်အတူ ယခုအချိန်ထိ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
ယခုကာလသည် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု အနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း၌ အကြမ်းဖက်မှု မျိုးစုံကို ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ ကျူးလွန်နေသည့် အချိန်ကာလလည်း ဖြစ်နေပါသည်။
သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဘာသာရေး လှည့်ကွက်များ အတွင်း ကျရောက်ခြင်း မရှိစေရန် ပြည်ထောင်စုဖွားတိုင်းရင်းသား ညီအစ်ကိုများအားလုံး ဘာသာလူမျိုးမခွဲခြားဘဲ ပြည်ထောင်စုစိတ်ဓာတ်ဖြင့် အထူးသတိထား၍ နေထိုင်ပေးကြပါရန်နှင့် ဘုန်းကြီး အတုယောင်များက သင်္ကန်းဝတ်လျက် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို ပြုလုပ်လာနိုင်သည့် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကိုလည်း ရှောင်ရှားနိုင်ကြရန် အသိပေးလိုပါသည်။
ထို့ကြောင့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီရဲ့ ဘာသာရေးကို အသုံးချကာ သင်္ကန်းဝတ်အတုအယောင်များ
ဖန်းတီးလျက် အဖိနှိပ်ခံပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် အနိုင်ကျင့် နှိပ်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်နေမှုများကို ပြင်းပြင်း ထန်ထန် ကန့်ကွက်ရှုတ်ချသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Sangha Union (Mandalay)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-24
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"၁။ ယနေ့သည် ပြည်ထောင်စုဖွား တအာင်းလူမျိုးတို့၏ (၂၇၁၃) နှစ်မြောက်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ဖြစ်သည်။ ဤ မင်္ဂလာရှိသောနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ရက်အချိန်အခါသမယတွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းတွင်သာမက ကမ္ဘာ့ နိုင်ငံအသီးသီးတွင်ရောက်ရှိနေထိုင်နေကြသည့် တအာင်းအမျိုးသမီး၊ အမျိုးသားများအားလုံး ကိုယ်စိတ်နှစ်ဖြာ ကျန်းမာချမ်းသာကြပါစေကြောင်း မေတ္တာပို့သလျက်နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက်သအပ်ပါသည်။
၂။ တအာင်းလူမျိုးတို့သည် ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းရှိ အခြားသောလူနည်းစုတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများ ကဲ့သို့ပင် လူမျိုး မတူကွဲပြားမှုကိုအကြောင်းပြု၍ နိုင်ငံရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ လူမှုရေးအဘက်ဘက်တွင် မျိုးစုံသော ခွဲခြားဘေးဖယ် ခံရမှုများကြောင့် ပြည်ထောင်စုအတွင်း ကိုယ်ပိုင်ပြဌာန်းခွင့်ရရှိရေး၊ အမျိုးသားတန်းတူရေးနှင့် ကိုယ့်ကြမ္မာကိုယ် ဖန်တီးခွင့်ရရှိရေးအတွက် စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်စွာတိုက်ပွဲဝင်နေကြသည်ကို တွေ့ရှိရပါသည်။
၃။ ယခုအချိန်သည် တပ်မတော်က နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာကိုသိမ်းယူလိုက်ပြီး အာဏာသိမ်းယူမှုကိုလက်မခံ ငြင်းဆန်ကြသည့် နိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားများအပေါ် တရားမဲ့ပြုမှုဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များကြောင့် တအာင်းလူမျိုးများ အပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားအပေါင်း လုံခြုံငြိမ်းချမ်းမှု၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့်လူ့အခွင့်အရေး၊ လွတ်လပ်မှုနှင့် တရားမျှတမှုတို့ ပျောက်ဆုံးကင်းမဲ့ခဲ့ရကာ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏လူမဆန်သောရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှု များကြောင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများအားလုံးစိတ်ဆင်းရဲ၊ ကိုယ်ဆင်းရဲညိုးငယ်စွာနေထိုင်နေကြရသည့် အချိန်ကာလ ဖြစ်သည်။
၄။ ဤတအာင်းနှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့ရက်တွင် တအာင်းလူမျိုးများအပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားများ လက်လွတ် ပျောက်ဆုံးခဲ့ရသောလုံခြုံငြိမ်းချမ်းမှု၊ ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာမျှော်မှန်းချက်များ ဖြစ် ထွန်းရှင်သန်လာနိုင်ပါစေကြောင်းနှင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေး၊ ပြည်သူ့လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအတွက် ခုခံတွန်း လှန်စစ်ဆင်နွဲနေကြသည့် တအာင်းဒေသအပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတဝှမ်းမှ ပြည်သူများအားလုံး တစ်ခဲနက် အောင်မြင်မှု များရရှိနိုင်ပါစေကြောင်း ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းရင်း ဤဂုဏ်ပြုနုတ်ခွန်းဆက်သဝဏ်လွှာကို ပေးပို့အပ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
National Unity Government of Myanmar
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2021-12-24
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"Myanmar is under a coup attempt by the Myanmar Military since 1st February and
thousands of civilians resisting the attempted coup were slaughtered by the Myanmar
Military Soldiers and Police. Millions were displaced around the whole country due to
increased attacks & airst rikes over the lands of ethnic people and around the country.
Alone in India border, thousands from Myanmar along the border have been displaced
to India states. The entire population of the mountaintop town of Thantlang in Chin State
has fled after being bombarded by Myanmar Military Forces. Myanmar Military burnt
nearly 300 houses including 3 churches in Thantlang alone.
The coup attempt in 2021 February by the Military using arms power was one of the
latest direct attacks to democracy and condemnation of the civilian supremacy. India as
the world's largest democracy must strongly stand with democratic principles. By this
statement, India for Myanmar urges the followings:
1. India's Central Government must stop all interactions with Myanmar Military and
sanction Military and affiliated businesses.
2. India's Central Government must stop exporting of arms and dual use goods to
the Myanmar Military including a coastal surveillance system from Bharat
Electronics Ltd., transferred since the illegal attempted coup.
3. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla must officially dialogue with the
representatives of National Unity Government (NUG) immediately.
4. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla must consult with Civil Society
Leaders including organizations in Chin State sheltering in India to effectively
address the situations fo r displaced people of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
India For Myanmar
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-23
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"The Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) is calling urgently for humanitarian aid and protection for over 10,000 villagers who have fled Burmese military attacks in the Lay Kay Kaw area of Dooplaya District, Karen State, half of whom have now crossed the Moei River into Thailand.
The attacks began on December 15, 2021, a day after about 200 Burmese military troops raided the Karen National Union (KNU) controlled town of Lay Kay Kaw, south of Myawaddy, and arrested over 20 people, including a member of parliament and democracy activists who had taken refuge there since the February 1 military coup. When the Karen National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the KNU, tried to protect people from arrest and torture, the Burmese military fired more than 100 artillery shells indiscriminately into the town and surrounding villages, damaging buildings and causing local residents to flee in terror. Attacks are continuing to this day.
Lay Kay Kaw was established as a “New Town” in 2014 under the ceasefire agreement between the KNU and the Burmese military, with financial support from Japan’s Nippon Foundation. Tensions between the KNU and the Burmese military have been mounting in the area since September 2021, when the Burmese military troops began conducting raids in Lay Kay Kaw searching for democracy activists. This is the first major Burmese military offensive in this area of Karen State, which is under the KNU’s 6th Brigade, since the 2012 ceasefire.
So far, over 10,000 people from Lay Kay Kaw and eight nearby villages have fled their homes. After trying to seek shelter on the Karen side of the border, about 5,000 have been driven by escalating attacks to cross the Moei River to seek refuge in Thailand.
The Burmese military has been bringing in troop reinforcements and armoured personnel carriers from adjoining regional commands, and fighter aircraft have been flying over the area, instilling fear that aerial bombing will soon begin. It appears the Burmese military is planning to escalate attacks further, threatening the lives of local villagers.
KPSN therefore appeals urgently to the Thai government to give protection and shelter to these new refugees and allow humanitarian aid agencies to access and assist them. We also urge Thailand to allow aid to be delivered to internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering on the Karen side of the border.
KPSN strongly condemns this latest Burmese military aggression, in violation of their ceasefire pledges to the KNU and foreign peace donors. These donors should immediately cut funding for the failed ‘nationwide’ peace process and instead provide urgently needed humanitarian aid to displaced communities. Aid to IDPs should be provided cross-border through ethnic administrations and local community organisations, without informing or coordinating with the Burmese military which would jeopardize aid delivery.
We call urgently for stronger international pressure on the Burmese military, including:
1. Imposition of a global arms embargo and sanctions on the supply of aviation fuel.
2. Targeted economic sanctions, including on gas revenue.
3. Deny legitimacy to the Burmese military and do not sign agreements with them for humanitarian and development aid.
4. Hold the military to account for their crimes, referring the situation to the International Criminal Court.....ကရင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအထောက်အကူပြုကွန်ယက်မှ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်ရှိ လေးကေကော်မြို့အား တပ်မတော်မှတိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ကြောင့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရသော ဒေသခံ ပြည်သူ ၁၀၀၀၀ ကျော်အတွက် အရေးပေါ်လူသားခြင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီ နှင့် အကာအကွယ်များ ရရှိရန် တောင်းဆိုလိုက်သည်။ တိမ်းရှောင်နေရသော ရွာသားများ၏ ထက်ဝက်မှာ သောင်ရင်းမြစ်အား ဖြတ်ကူးပြီး ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံအတွင်းသို့ ရောက်ရှိနေပြီဖြစ်သည်။။
မြဝတီမြို့တောင်ဘက်တွင်ရှိသော ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး၏ အုပ်ချုပ်မှုအောက်ရှိ လေးကေကော်မြို့အား စစ်တပ်မှ အင်အား ၂၀၀ ခန့်ဖြင့်စီးနင်းဝင်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီမှ အာဏာသိမ်းသည့် ၂၀၂၁ ဖေဖဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့ နောက်ပိုင်းတွင် လာရောက်ခိုလှုံလျက်ရှိသော လွှတ်တော်အမတ်များနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီအရေးတက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများ အပါအဝင် လူပေါင်း ၂၀ကျော်အားဖမ်းဆီးပြီး နောက်တစ်ရက်ဖြစ်သော ၂၀၂၁ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက်နေ့တွင် တိုက်ပွဲစတင်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည်။ ပြည်သူများအပေါ် မတရားဖမ်းဆီးခြင်း နှင့် ညှင်းပမ်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်းမှ အကာအကွယ်ပေးရန် ကရင်အမျိုးအသား အစည်းအရုံး၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖြစ်သော ကရင်မျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော်မှ ကြိုးစားလျက်ရှိသော်လည်း စစ်တပ်မှ လက်နက်ကြီး ၁၀၀ ကျော်ခန့်အား မြို့ နှင့် ၎င်းပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ရှိ ကျေးရွာများ အတွင်းသို့ ရမ်းသမ်းပစ်ခတ်ခဲ့သောကြောင့် အဆောက်အဦးပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးမှုများနှင့် ဒေသခံများ စိုးရိမ်ထိတ်လန့်စွာ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရသည်။ တိုက်ပွဲများမှာလည်း ယနေ့တိုင် ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည်။
ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး နှင့် စစ်တပ်အကြား အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေး သဘောတူညီမှုစာချုပ်အောက်တွင် ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမှ နိပွန် ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း၏ ငွေကြေးအထောက်အပံ့ဖြင့် လေးကော် မြို့သစ်အား ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်တွင် စတင်တည်ထောင်ခဲ့သည်။ ဤဒေသအတွင်း စစ်တပ်မှာ လေးကေကော်မြို့အတွင်းသို့ ဝင်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီး ဒီမိုအရေစီအရေးတက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများအား စီးနင်းရှာဖွေခဲ့သော စက်တင်ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့ကတည်းကပင် ကေအဲန်ယူနှင့် စစ်တပ်အကြားတင်မာမှုများ မြင့်တက်နေခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်သည်။ ၂၀၁၂ အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးနောက်ပိုင်း ကရင်ပြည်နယ် ကေအဲန်ယူ တပ်မဟာ ၆ နယ်မြေ အတွင်း စစ်တပ်၏ ပထမဆုံး ထိုးစစ်ဆင်မှုကြီးလည်းဖြစ်သည်။
လက်ရှိအချိန်တွင် လေးကော် နှင့် အနီးပတ်ဝင်ကျင်ရှိ ရွာပေါင်း ၈ ရွာမှ ရွာသားပေါင်း ၁၀၀၀၀ ကျော်မှာ စစ်ဘေးရှောင် နေရပြီဖြစ်သည်။ ကရင်ပြည်၏ နယ်စပ်အတွင်းပိုင်းတွင် ရွာသားပေါင်း ၅၀၀၀ ကျော်မှာ ပုန်းခိုနေရလျက်ရှိပြီး နောက်ထပ် ၅၀၀၀ ခန့်မှာ ထိုးစစ်ဆင်မှုများကြောင့် သောင်ရင်းမြစ်အား ဖြတ်သန်းပြီး ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံအတွင်းသို့ ဖြတ်ကျော် ခိုလှုံနေရပြီ ဖြစ်သည်။
စစ်တပ်မှ စစ်လက်နက်ကြီးများ နှင့် စစ်သားများကို အခြားသေား နီးစပ်ရာ စစ်တိုင်းများဖြင့် အားဖြည့်လာလျက်ရှိပြီး တိုက်လေယဉ်များမှာ ဒေသအတွင်း ပျံသန်းလျက်ရှိရာ ဗုံးကြဲခံရမည်ကိုလည်း စိုးရိမ်မှုမြင့်တက်နေလျက်ရှိသည်။ စစ်တပ်မှ ထပ်မံထိုးစစ်ဆင်မည့် အစီအစဉ်များ မြင်တွေ့နေရပြီး ဒေသခံရွာသားများ၏ အသက်အန္တရယ်မှာလည်း ခြိမ်းချောက် ခံနေလျက်ရှိသည်။
ထို့ကြောင့် ကရင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအထောက်အကူပြုကွန်ယက်မှ ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံအစိုးရအား ဒုက္ခသည်သစ်များ နှင့် ဒေသခံ ဒုက္ခသည်များအပေါ် ခိုလှုံခွင့် နှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုအကူအညီပေးနေသော အဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အကူညီများကို လိုအပ်သည့်နေရာသို့ ပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် အထောက်ကူပြုပေးပါရန် အရေးပေါ် တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ရပါသည်။ ထို့အတူ နယ်စပ် အခြားတဘက်ရှိ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းကျန်ရှိနေသော စစ်ဘေးရှောင်များထံသို့ အကူအများပို့ဆောင်ရာတွင် ခွင့်ပြုပေးရန် ထပ်မံ တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ပါသည်။
ကရင်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးအထောက်အကူပြုကွန်ယက်မှ ကေအဲန်ယူ နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး အလှုရှင်များ၏ တောင်းဆိုမှုများအပေါ် လစ်လှူရှုကာ အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေးအားချိုးဖောက်ပြီး စစ်တပ်၏ ယခုအကြမ်းဖက် ထိုးစစ်ဆင်မှု အပေါ် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုံ့ချလိုက်သည်။ အဆိုပါ အလှုရှင်များမှ ကျိုးပျက်သွားပြီ ဖြစ်သော ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဖြစ်စဉ်အပေါ် ထောက်ပံ့မှုများအား ဖြတ်တောက်ပစ်ပြီး ၎င်းအစား စစ်ဘေးရှောင်နေရသောပြည်သူများအပေါ် လိုအပ်သည့် အရေးပေါ် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အထောက်အကူပေးရန်ဖြစ်သည်။ စစ်ဘေးရှောင်များအတွက် အကူအညီများအား နယ်စပ်ဖြတ် ကျော်ပြီး တိုင်းရင်းသားအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးတာဝန်ခံများ နှင့် ဒေသခံ အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ထံသို့ အကူအညီများ ပို့ဆောင်ရာတွင် အန္တာရယ်ပေးလာနိုင်သည့် စစ်တပ်အား အကြောင်းကြားခြင်း (သို့) ပူးပေါင်းလုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်း မပြုလုပ်ပဲ ဆောင်ရွက်သင့်ကြောင်း ကြံပြုအတိုက်တွန်း လိုက်ပါသည်။
စစ်တပ်အပေါ် နိုင်ငံတကာမှ ပိုမိုပြင်ထန်သော ဖိအားများပေးရန် အရေးပေါ် တောင်ဆိုပြီး ပိတ်ဆို့မှုများ အလျှင်အမြန်လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် တောင်းဆိုရာတွင်
၁။ ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ လက်နက်တင်ပို့ရောင်းချမှုပိတ်ပင်ရန် နှင့် လေယဉ်ဆီတင်ပို့မှုများအပေါ် ပိတ်ဆို့ရန်
၂။ သဘာဝဓတ်ငေ့ွမှရရှိသော ဝင်ငွေများအပါအဝင် စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာပိတ်ဆိုမှုများအပေါ် ဦးတည်လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်
၃။ စစ်တပ်၏ တရားဝင်မှုအား လက်မခံရန် နှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးအထောက်အကူပြု လုပ်ငန်းများအား ၎င်းတို့နှင့် သဘောတူ လက်မှတ်ထိုးခြင်းများ မပြုလုပ်ရန်။
၄။ စစ်တပ်မှ ၄င်တို့ကျူးလွန်သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုများအပေါ် တာဝန်ခံနိုင်ရန်တွက် နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ်မှုခုံရုံးတွင် အခြေအနေများ တင်သွင်း လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်။..."
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Karen Peace Support Network
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2021-12-23
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Armed conflict in Karen State - military activities and their impact on village life, including livelihood, health, education and land tenure security, Armed conflict in Karen State - the human rights situation, Internal displacement/forced migration of Karen villagers, International Court of Justice (ICJ) - General, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၂၂) ရက်
အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
၁။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်မထမ်းဆောင်ပဲ ဓမ္မဘက်မှရပ်တည်၍ ပြည်သူနှင့်တသားတည်းဖြစ်စေရန်နှင့် အမိန့်အာဏာဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) တွင်ပါဝင်ကြစေရန် အကြိမ် ကြိမ်ဖိတ်ခေါ် ကမ်းလှမ်းခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ် ပါသည်။
၂။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ရုံးအနေဖြင့်လည်း အောက်တိုဘာလမှစတင်၍ အမိန့်အာဏာ ဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) တွင်ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ဝန်ကြီးဌာနမဖွဲ့ရသေးသောဌာနအသီးသီးမှ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း သူရဲကောင်းများ၏ လူမှုဖူလုံရေး၊ လုံခြုံဘေးကင်းရေးနှင့် ဖိအားကင်းစင်ရေး တို့အတွက် အလေးထား ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
၃။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ၏လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေ ပြီး CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများအား ဖိအားပေးခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှထုတ် ပစ်ခြင်း၊ တရားစွဲဆိုခြင်းနှင့် ဥပေဒနှင့်အညီပြန်ဆပ်ရန်မလိုတော့သည့် လစာချေးငွေများအား အတင်းအဓမ္မ ပြန်လည်ပေးဆပ်ခိုင်းခြင်းများ စသည့် အမျိုးမျိုးသောဖိနှိပ်မှုများကိုကျူးလွန်နေသော သာသနာရေးနှင့်ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန(အနုပညာဦးစီးဌာန)မှအောက်ဖေါ်ပြပါ ဝန်ထမ်းများအားအမည်ပျက်စာရင်း သွင်းလိုက်ပြီး ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှထုတ်ပစ် (Dismiss) လိုက်သည်။..."
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အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များကို စစ်ဆင်ရေးအရ အရေးယူတုန့်ပြန်ခဲ့ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက် (၁၁/၂၀၂၁)
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"ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းစစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်တွေအပေါ် ပျံလွှားအောင် စစ်ဆင်ရေး ၄ ခု ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းစစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့ က ဒီနေ့ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၂ ရက်မှာ ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။
ဒီနေ့ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၂ ရက် နံနက် ၅ နာရီခွဲဝန်းကျင်လောက်မှာ ပဲခူးလမ်းမကြီးပေါ်က ဒဂုံဆိပ်ကမ်းမြို့နယ် ဒဂုံဆိပ်ကမ်းရဲစခန်းကို ရန်ကုန်ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ ၂ ခု ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရာ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သား ၃ ဦးသေဆုံးပြီး တချို့ ဒဏ်ရာရတယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။
ဒါအပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၁ ရက် ည ၇ နာရီလောက်မှာ ဒဂုံအရှေ့မြို့နယ် အနော်ရထာလမ်းမကြီးပေါ်မှာ စစ်ကောင်စီ ယာဉ်တန်းကို ရှေ့ထွက် မိုင်းတစ်လုံးနဲ့ နောက်ထပ်မိုင်း ၂ လုံး မိုက်ခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာ ပါရှိပါတယ်။
ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၀ ရက်နေ့မှာလဲ သုံးခွမြို့နယ်ကိုလာတဲ့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီယာဉ်တန်းကို အဝေးထိန်းမိုင်း ၅ လုံးနဲ့ တိုက်ခိုက်လိုက်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်သား ၂ ဦးသေဆုံးပြီး ၁၀ ဦး ဒဏ်ရာရခဲ့တယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။
တဆက်ထဲ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၀ ရက်မှာပဲ စမ်းချောင်းမြို့နယ်က အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်တွေ သွားလာလှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ မုန့်လက်ဆောင်ကုန်း ရပ်ကွက်ရုံးကို အဝေးထိန်းနဲ့ ဖောက်ခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဆိုပါတယ်။..."
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Ministry of Defence - National Unity Government of Myanmar
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2021-12-22
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University of Yangon Students’ Union
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-22
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Tatmadaw Cadets Receive Training at Japanese Defense Academy
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"(Tokyo) – The Japanese government should cut ties with the Myanmar military and immediately suspend a military study-abroad program involving Myanmar cadets, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, staged a coup and installed a junta that overturned democratic elections.
As of December 10, the National Defense Academy of Japan, a Defense Ministry facility, was still hosting eight cadets from Myanmar, according to a Defense Ministry official. Through the program, the trainees participate in an extensive curriculum of academic and military training, including combat and arms training.
“It’s mind boggling that Japan is providing military training to Myanmar cadets at the same time as its armed forces are committing crimes against humanity against Myanmar’s people,” said Teppei Kasai, Asia program officer at Human Rights Watch. “The Japanese government should immediately suspend the program and any other ties with Myanmar’s military.”
During a Foreign Affairs Committee session on April 14, a Defense Ministry official, Masahiro Kawasaki, said Japan had been accepting cadets from Myanmar since 2015 under article 100 of the Self-Defense Forces Act, which permits the training and education of foreign nationals in Defense Ministry facilities, including the academy, with the approval of the defense minister.
The program allows Japan to showcase how the Japan Self-Defense Forces operate under “strict civilian control” and cultivate “relationships” between self defense forces personnel and students, while increasing “mutual understanding” and “trust” between Japan and the students’ countries, Kawasaki said. He added that Japan would consider the concerns about the program while monitoring the situation in Myanmar closely.
The February coup resulted in the arrest of civilian leaders of the national and state governments, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and an announced one-year “state of emergency.” Since then, junta military and police forces have killed more than 1,300 people and detained over 10,000. Junta-controlled courts have sentenced hundreds to prison terms and sentenced 75 people, including 2 children, to death, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Widespread and systematic killings, torture, and sexual violence have amounted to crimes against humanity.
In August 2017, two years after Japan’s training program began, the Myanmar military under commander-in-chief Sen. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing carried out mass atrocities against the ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State, forcing more than 740,000 to flee. At least 600,000 Rohingya remaining in Myanmar are confined to camps and villages under guard of local authorities and security forces, under conditions that amount to the crime against humanity of apartheid. And in long-running armed conflicts with ethnic armed groups, the Myanmar military has for many years committed summary killings, rape, indiscriminate shelling, torture, and arson, among other war crimes.
Since the coup, Tokyo has called for an end to violence and the release of elected government officials, including Aung San Suu Kyi. On March 28 Japan’s Defense Ministry issued a joint statement with 11 other countries criticizing the Tatmadaw’s use of military force against “unarmed civilians.” The Japanese government halted new non-humanitarian Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects earlier in 2021 while allowing existing aid projects to continue. The Diet passed a resolution in June that condemned the coup and called for a “swift restoration of the democratic political system.”
In March, Australia, one of Japan’s major defense partners, suspended its military cooperation with Myanmar because of the military’s deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters. The Defense Cooperation Program was limited to non-combat areas such as English language training.
“Japan should follow suit with Australia and immediately cut ties with the Myanmar military,” Kasai said. “Japan should not be supporting and endorsing Myanmar’s extremely abusive armed forces by training Tatmadaw soldiers.”..."
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"The International Karen Organisation today called for the urgent implementation of new
targeted strategic sanctions on the Burmese military in response to escalating attacks
against civilians in Karen State.
Simultaneous attacks by the Burmese military are taking place in different parts of Karen
State, in Sagaing Region, Kachin State, Chin State and many other ethnic states, at the
same time as the military continue to make mass arrests of political leaders, peaceful
protesters and PDF members across the country. This demonstrates that the international
community is moving much too slowly to cut the flow of arms and revenue to the military,
and reduce their capacity to attack and oppress the people of Burma.
Sanctions need to be applied on the supply of aviation fuel, arms, and on gas revenue and
other sources of revenue for the Burmese military. Funding for cross border aid needs to
be increased without placing unnecessary reporting burdens on local civil society
organisations which are impossible to meet, and effectively act to block life-saving aid to
those in need.
The Burmese military appear to be targeting hundreds of Burmese democracy activists
who have taken shelter in Lay Kay Kaw, a town in Karen State under the control of the
Karen National Union (KNU). In the process, they are indiscriminately using heavy artillery
and gunfire against civilian areas, forcing thousands of Karen villagers to flee as well as
the democracy activists. This is a war crime. It is a violation of international law.
On 14th December the Burmese military raided the town of Lay Kay Kaw, in the KNU
controlled Dooplya District, in southern Karen State, bordering Thailand. They arrested
around 30 activists who had taken refuge in the town. Hundreds of Burmese democracy
activists were sheltering in Lay Kay Kaw.
On 15th December the Burmese military escalated attacks, using heavy artillery in
surrounding areas and forcing more than 1,000 local civilians to flee. In the following days
these attacks continued and expanded. On 19th December the Burmese military began
attacking Palu and other nearby villages where many people who had fled attacks against
Lay Kay Kaw had taken shelter.
As of the morning of 20th December, the number of people displaced by these attacks was
estimated at 4000. With numerous attacks taking place, numbers of displaced people are
constantly changing.
At the same time, the Burmese military has increased shelling against civilian villages in
Doo Tha Htu (Thaton) District in Karen State, as more Burmese military troops move into
KNU areas.
In both areas the Karen National Liberation Army is defending civilians against attacks and
encroachment by the Burmese military.
On 18th December around 30 Burmese military vehicles, including armoured personnel
carriers of the type supplied by China and Ukraine, and military transport vehicles, brought
reinforcements through Myawaddy travelling towards Dooplaya.
There are increased jets and drones flying over the areas, increasing fear of indiscriminate
aerial bombing of the kind that happened in March and April this year. Before the new
attacks this December there were already more than 80,000 people internally displaced,
mostly because of bombings and the threat of bombings. Jets and drones have continued
to fly over the area, preventing villagers from returning home and stopping them from
growing this year’s crops, creating a humanitarian crisis on top of the COVID pandemic.
Around 2,000 Karen villagers crossed into Thailand this week and around 600 have been
pushed back by the Thai authority.
We call on the government of Thailand not to keep pushing refugees back into a war zone
as they have done so many times in the past. We call on the USA, EU, UK, Canada,
Australia and sympathetic governments, and on the United Nations Secretary General, to
make representations to the Royal Thai Government not to force refugees to return
against their will.
The Burmese military are attacking our people with much more sophisticated weaponry
than they used before the so-called reform process began. They have used the past ten
years with sanctions lifted and more business opportunities to increase income and buy
more modern and deadly equipment. They have more heavy artillery, more jets and new
drones which they are using against civilians.
It is absolutely vital that more sanctions are rapidly imposed on the Burmese military in
order to reduce their military capacity.
The international community must:
Sanction aviation fuel
The majority of people in Karen State have been displaced by air strikes and are unable to
return because of the threat of airstrikes. These air strikes have killed and maimed
innocent civilians and have created a humanitarian crisis. The international community
must impose sanctions to stop aviation fuel reaching the military. Companies which supply
the military with aviation fuel should be sanctioned and evidence collected for future
prosecutions for complicity in violations of international law.
Expand the arms embargo
The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo. With Russia and
China blocking a potential resolution on an arms embargo, countries should impose
unilateral arms embargoes. Only around 40 of 193 UN members have imposed arms
embargoes against the Burmese military, despite recommendations from the United
Nations Fact-Finding Commission on Myanmar, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
human rights in Myanmar, and a UN General Assembly Resolution in June this year. We
call on all countries to impose unilateral arms embargoes.
More targeted economic sanctions, including gas revenue
Almost a year on from the military coup, the Burmese military is earning up to $1.4bn in
gas revenues. This money is being used to kill our people. Even countries which claim to
support human rights and democracy in Burma have not stopped gas revenue, with
hundreds of millions of dollars being given to the military from a gas project run by
American and European Union companies Chevron and Total. We call on American
President Biden and French President Macron to stop blocking sanctions on gas revenue
and impose gas revenue sanctions. The European Union cannot sanction gas revenue as
long as President Macron keeps blocking it.
It makes no sense to us that President Biden and President Macron have arms embargoes
against the Burmese military but are still allowing their companies to give money to the
military which they can then use to buy arms from Russia, China, India, Serbia, Ukraine
and other countries. They won’t sell arms, but they help fund the purchase of arms.
The international community has long failed to take action against the Burmese military for
violations of international law committed against the Karen people. This decades long
impunity has contributed to the crisis in Burma today. We hope that the international
community will now finally learn lessons from past mistakes and take effective action
immediately..."
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International Karen Organisation
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-21
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"1. Insein Prison’s guards violently tortured the political activists and civilians
due to their participation in the silent strike against the military dictatorship
on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2021, according to evidences we have
received.
2. Additionally, the ministry also received the evidence along with information
about the perpetrators of the hillings and violent tortures that happened
inside the prions in September, November, and December.
3. The unjustly detained civilians have been violently beaten and locked up in
the cell blocks for 20-40 days without access to medical treatment. And the
political detainees are forced to perform hard labor.
4. The Ministry of Human Rights of the National Unity Government is
documenting the human rights violations with the aim of holding
perpetrators accountable. The ministry continues to beep a close monitoring
on the violence directed at unjustly detained civilians inside prisons across
the country. The documents on human rights violations are being submitted
to the respective UN organizations and the international investigation
mechanisms as the ministry strives to bring about justice through
international mechanisms. The perpetrators, who have committed human
rights violations must be punished according to the law. The culture of
impunity for perpetrators who committed human rights violations must end.
5. The Ministry of Human Rights strongly urges the cessation of violence
against unjustly arrested civilians who have been detained for exercising
their political rights, including freedom of expression, and thus calls for the
exceptional release of all political detainees.
6. The ministry calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross-ICRC for
the utmost protection and assistance of unjustly arrested civilians inside the
prison and victims of human rights violations inside the prison. And the
ministry urges the international community to call for an independent
investigation into the human rights violations and other violence inside the
prisons, and to hold the perpetrators who committed the human rights
violations accountable. The Ministry of Human Rights continues to
document the human rights violations by close monitoring in order to hold
perpetrators accountable..."
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Ministry of Human Rights
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-21
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"The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), along with the wider Karen community and other ethnic and civil society organisations, welcomes and expresses support for the three ongoing proceedings against perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities against the Rohingya people: the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the forced deportation investigation before the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the more recent universal jurisdiction case in Argentina. The Karen people have long suffered the types of atrocities that Rohingya people have faced at the hands of the Burma/Myanmar military. We hope these cases will bring justice and accountability, and put an end to the Burma/Myanmar military’s long-standing impunity for systematic and widespread human rights abuses.
These three proceedings offer the possibility for perpetrators of crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar to finally be exposed and brought to justice. Bringing such cases to justice at the national level is nearly impossible. There have already been eight ineffective inquiries into the situation in Rakhine State alone since 2012. Investigators for the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar have previously stated that “any hope that Myanmar’s national justice system will provide justice and truth for human rights violations committed by the military would be unfounded. The provisions of Burma/Myanmar law, the structure of the legal system and the judiciary’s lack of independence and legal competence make that impossible. Far from uncovering the truth, Myanmar’s domestic justice system will, on the contrary, punish those who seek it.”[1] As such, ethnic minorities in Burma/Myanmar hold hope in international tribunals to take notice of their calls for human rights abuses to be investigated, and count on these international actions to help bring justice to victims and survivors, and an end to ongoing crimes.[2]
Ethnic minorities have however waited for decades for the recommendations of international bodies to be implemented effectively so that the Burma/Myanmar military’s gross human rights violations and atrocity crimes finally come to an end. Since 1992, successive UN Special Rapporteurs on Myanmar have reported consistent and systematic patterns of violations and abuses against minority communities throughout Burma/Myanmar. In some cases, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur have suggested that these violations amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, thus warranting investigation by the ICC. For decades, ethnic civil society, community-based and human rights organisations, like KHRG, have documented the atrocities committed by the Burma/Myanmar military, providing credible evidence of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, destruction of property, torture and inhumane treatment, rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, forced labour, recruitment of children into armed forces, and indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilians, including targeting of places of worship, hospitals, schools, and using civilians as human shields. And yet international justice and accountability mechanisms have yet to hold the Burma/Myanmar military accountable, or bring justice to the people who have endured these atrocities.
The proceedings currently under way provide hope, but further reveal the difficulty of seeking justice on the international level. After The Gambia filed a case against the Burma/Myanmar military before the ICJ in 2019 alleging that the atrocities committed against the Rohingya people in Rakhine State constituted a violation of the Genocide Convention, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi publicly denied these allegations. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar later submitted objections questioning the ICJ’s jurisdiction and The Gambia’s eligibility to file the case, which has resulted in further delays in the proceedings. Despite the legally-binding provisional measures issued by the ICJ to protect the Rohingya people from further acts of genocide until a final decision can be rendered, the Burma/Myanmar military has continued to perpetrate acts of genocide against the Rohingya, and to commit a multitude of atrocities against other ethnic and religious minorities in Burma/Myanmar, both before and since the 2021 coup.[3]
Later in 2019, the ICC authorised the opening of an investigation into alleged international crimes related to the 2016 and 2017 waves of violence against the Rohingya people in Rakhine State. The investigation is currently limited to crimes, including future crimes, committed at least in part in Bangladesh, or any other State Party to the Rome Statute, from the date such State Party ratified the Rome Statute (June 2010 in the case of Bangladesh). As such, the majority of crimes committed by the Burma/Myanmar military would be left out. If accepted by the ICC, the National Unity Government’s recent declaration (in July 2021) accepting ICC jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute all international crimes committed in Burma/Myanmar would, however, allow expansion of the investigation to include those committed within Burma/Myanmar, and to crimes dating back to July 2002, the earliest date permitted by the Rome Statute.[4]
In November 2021, an Argentine appeals court ruled that a case to investigate and hear testimony on alleged war crimes committed in Burma/Myanmar against the Rohingya under the principle of universal jurisdiction could proceed. As the first universal jurisdiction case on the situation of the Rohingya, this investigation is a landmark. The possibility of accountability and wider international impact is strong, not only because the case will cover the full range of crimes committed against the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar, but also because it will hear victim testimonials, thus honoring the rights of victims to be heard and tell their stories in a court of law.
Multiple opportunities therefore currently exist to deliver justice and end impunity. Because accountability proceedings to investigate the Burma/Myanmar military’s atrocities against other ethnic minorities have yet to be undertaken, the possibility for justice and ending ongoing violence for other ethnic minority groups in Burma/Myanmar hinges heavily on the outcome of the Rohingya proceedings. Since the February 2021 coup, the Burma/Myanmar military has intensified its perpetration of atrocities against ethnic minorities, making these proceedings even more urgent, essential and long overdue. Its attacks on the entire civilian population as people voice their opposition to the coup has further demonstrated the military’s disregard for human life and human rights. The failure of the international community to adequately respond to the atrocities committed against ethnic minorities since the 1990s has led to this point. The continued impunity and lack of international accountability has only emboldened the Burma/Myanmar military to continue perpetrating atrocity crimes. Now is the time for concrete action to address problems of accountability and impunity in Burma/Myanmar.
For justice to be delivered and ongoing violence to end, the international community must demonstrate widespread support for the proceedings of these courts, as well as a willingness to seek out all additional opportunities to hold the Burma/Myanmar military accountable for its vast array of crimes. KHRG, the Karen community and ethnic and civil society organisations thus make the following recommendations:
Additional states should join Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to intervene in the genocide case at the ICJ, and/or provide financial or legal support. Individual states, and particularly states sitting on the UN Security Council, should publicly declare support for an ICC referral, regardless of possible veto of a resolution by Russia or China. The Prosecutor should accept the declaration made on 17 July 2021 by the NUG under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute; and extend the territorial scope of his investigation to cover crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the ICC committed in Myanmar since 1 July 2002. More states should allow the use of universal jurisdiction laws to hold the Burma/Myanmar military to account for its crimes. States must provide more financial support to CSOs in and from Burma/Myanmar that are documenting human rights violations and providing information used by the United Nations, governments and other justice organisations. More focus should be given in future UN resolutions and reports on the situation in Burma/Myanmar on the failure to implement previous recommendations, rather than repeating the same recommendations year after year. Acknowledging the lengthy timeframe for investigations and proceedings, states should ensure adequate humanitarian assistance and protection for ethnic populations who are facing violence and atrocities at the hands of the Burma/Myanmar military. All states individually and collectively at the United Nations and other international and regional organisations should refuse to lend legitimacy to the military junta and impose targeted economic sanctions and a global arms embargo.
For more information, please contact:
Naw Htoo Htoo: +66 87 205 1856
Saw Nanda Hsue: + 66 81129 7564
Signed by:
Albany Karen community, Albany, NY
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners
Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
Athan - Freedom of Expression Activist Organization
Australia Karen Organisation
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
Burmese Women's Union
Calgary Karen Community Association
California Karen Youth Forum
Chin Human Rights Organization
Committee of the Internal Displaced Karen People
Democracy for Ethnic Minorities Organization
Edmonton Karen Community Youth Organization
European Karen Network
Future Light Center
Future Thanlwin
Gender Equality Network
Generation Wave
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
International Karen Organisation
Kachin Women's Association Thailand
Karen American Association of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Karen Association of Huron, SD
Karen Baptist Churches USA
Karen Community Association UK
Karen Community in Norway
Karen Community in the Netherlands
Karen Community of Akron, OH
Karen Community of Austin, TX
Karen Community of Canada
Karen Community of Czech Republic
Karen Community of Finland
Karen Community of Hamilton
Karen Community of Iowa, IA
Karen Community of Ireland
Karen Community of Israel
Karen Community of Kansas City, KS & MO
Karen Community of Kitchener & Waterloo
Karen Community of Leamington K
Karen Community of Lethbridge
Karen Community of London
Karen Community of Louisville
Karen Community of Minnesota, MN
Karen Community of North Carolina
Karen Community of Ottawa
Karen Community of Regina
Karen Community of Saskatoon
Karen community of Tennessee
Karen Community of Thunderbay
Karen Community of Toronto
Karen Community of Windsor
Karen Community of Winnipeg
Karen Community Society of British Columbia
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network
Karen Finland Culture Association
Karen Organization of America
Karen Organization of Illinois, IL
Karen Organization of San Diego
Karen Organization of San Diego - Signed
Karen Peace Support Network
Karen Society of Nebraska
Karen Student Association, University of Nebraska
Karen Swedish Community
Karen Thai Group
Karen Women's Organization
Karen Youth Education Pathways
Karen Youth Networks
Karen Youth of Norway
Karen Youth of Toronto
Karen Youth Organization
Karen Youth UK
Karen-Canadian Education Alliance
Karenni Civil Society Network
Karenni Human Rights Group
King N Queens Organization
Korea Karen Organization
Korea Karen Youth Organization
Let's Help Each Other
Metta Campaign Mandalay
Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
Oversea Karen Organization Japan
Pa-O Women’s Union
Progressive Voice
Save and Care Organization for Ethnic Women at Border Areas
Synergy - Social Harmony Organization
Ta'ang Legal Aid
Utica Karen Community, NY
Women Advocacy Coalition Myanmar
Women's League of Burma
Footnotes:
[1] Human Rights Council, “Statement by Mr. Marzuki DARUSMAN, Chairperson of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, at the 39th session of the Human Rights Council,” 18September 2018.
[2] Karen Grassroots Women’s Network, The Karen Grassroots Women’s Network Welcomes Cases Against Burma for Genocide, 8 December 2019.
[3] Fortify Rights, U.N. Security Council: Take Urgent Action Against Myanmar Military Junta, 7 December 2021.
[4] NUG Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Statement of the National Unity Government of Myanmar on the 4th Anniversary of the Atrocity Crimes Against the Rohingya People in 2017, 24 August 2021..."
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"အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
၁။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီက နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာကို သိမ်းယူခဲ့သည့်အချိန်မှစ၍ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများအား အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်တွင် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခြင်း မပြုကြရန် နှင့် အာဏာဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ကြရန် အကြိမ်ကြိမ် ဖိတ်ခေါ်ကမ်းလှမ်းခဲ့ပြီး ဖြစ်သည်။ ပညာရှိတရားသူကြီးများအနေဖြင့် ပြည်သူ့ဘက်မှရပ်တည်၍ အာဏာဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) အား အချိန်မီ လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်ပါရန် တရားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ယခုအချိန်ထိတိုင် ဆက်လက်ဖိတ်ခေါ်ကမ်းလှမ်းလျှက် ရှိပါသည်။
၂။ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့သည့် ဖြစ်ရပ်သည် ဥပဒေနှင့်ညီညွတ်ခြင်း (လုံးဝ) မရှိ ဆိုသည့်အချက်ကို ဥပဒေပညာရှင်များဖြစ်သည့် တရားသူကြီးများအနေဖြင့် အသိရှိနိုင်ဆုံးဖြစ်ပါလျှက် ယခုကဲ့သို့ တိုင်းပြည်နှင့်လူမျိုးအပေါ် သစ္စာမဲ့စွာဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်အောက် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေခြင်းသည် တရားသူကြီးများထားရှိရမည့် ကျင့်ဝတ်သိက္ခာများအား ဖောက်ဖျက်ကျူးလွန်သည့် အကျင့်ပျက်တရားသူကြီးများအဖြစ် သမိုင်းမှတ်တမ်းတင် ကျန်ရစ်နေမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၃။ ပြည်ထောင်စုတရားလွှတ်တော်ချုပ် နှင့် တရားရုံးအဆင့်ဆင့်တွင် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေကြသည့် တရားသူကြီးများ၊ တရားရေးအရာရှိများ အပါအဝင် အရာထမ်း၊ အမှုထမ်းများသည် အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီ၏လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေခြင်းသည် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုအား အားပေးကူညီသည့်ပြစ်မှု ကျူးလွန်နေခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။
၄။ ထို့ပြင် အာဏာဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) ဆောင်ရွက်နေကြသည့် ဝန်ထမ်းများအပေါ် ဖိနှိပ် အရေးယူခြင်းများ နှင့် အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူများအပေါ် ဥပဒေနှင့်ညီညွတ်ခြင်းမရှိသည့် အမိန့်များချမှတ်နေသည့် တရားသူကြီးများအား တရားစွဲဆိုဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း တစ်ပါတည်း သတိပေးလိုက်သည်။
၅။ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရသည့် ပြည်သူများ၏အမှုများအပေါ် တရားစီရင်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုများတွင် အဓိကတာဝန်အရှိဆုံးဖြစ်သည့် အောက်ဖော်ပြပါ အကျင့်ပျက်တရားရေးဝန်ထမ်းများအား နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းဥပဒေ ပုဒ်မ ၄၁ အရ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပစ် (Dismiss) လိုက်ပြီး ပြည်သူ့သစ္စာဖောက်ဝန်ထမ်းများအဖြစ် အမည်ပျက်စာရင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။..."
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"1. The KNU in Lay Kay Kaw, Dooplaya District has, on humanitarian grounds, offered
temporary shelter and protection to politicians, activists, and non-violent protesters, who
have fled from the military council's killing and torture of those holding different political
opinions.
2. Recent armed clashes that took place on 15th December are a result of self-defense
response by the KNU against Myanmar military council's arrest of individuals temporary
sheltering at Lay Kay Kaw, destructions of their homes, and deployment of military forces
against the KNU troops.
3. We thank the Thai government and Thai people for providing temporary shelter for 3,000
displaced people in accordance with humanitarian principles. We also would like to thank
the Thai government for allowing additional 2,000 displaced people who fled more armed
clashes that took place on December 19, 2021 to cross the borderline and hope that Thai
authorities will arrange proper accommodations for these people.
4. We urge all Karen living outside of Burma, citizens of Burma, domestic and international
organizations to provide food, medicine, and temporary shelter toward people fleeing the
war.
5. KNU further requests the international community to take the following immediate actions
a. We urge the Thai government to allow international organizations to meet and
assist war victims and displaced peoples.
b. There is a high possibility that Lay Kay Kaw will be attacked by the military council's
airstrike and will cause serious damages and destructions on unarmed civilians,
which is a severe violation of human rights. We urge the United Nations to identify
the 'No Fly Zone' by calling an emergency meeting with the UN Security Council,
and international community.
c. We ask the military council to withdraw its troops to save its already damaged
reputation.
d. We encourage the officers and commanders from the military council to join with
the people in order to save Burma from falling into a 'Failed State'.
e. KNU declares that the military's withdrawal from politics, and the building a
genuine federal democratic union are the only solutions to end over 70 years' long
civil war..."
Source/publisher:
Karen National Union
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-20
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"On December 10, 255 civil society organizations all over the world demanded United Nations
(UN) agencies, Funds, Programmes, and other Entities to cease all forms of cooperation that lend
legitimacy to the illegal murderous Myanmar military junta. This includes signing Memorandums of
Understanding (MoU) and inviting junta representatives to meetings as the junta continues to callously
inflict immense suffering on the people of Myanmar and deepen an already catastrophic human rights
and humanitarian crisis.
Their call is consistent with the position statement of our Ministry dated June 19, 2021 to
ensure that humanitarian work does not in practice serve the harmful interests of the junta.
Cooperating in any form with the junta not only contradicts UN agencies’ obligations to neutrality and
upholding human rights, but it is a misguided approach to assisting the people of Myanmar. Moreover,
Myanmar people are consistently oppressing any cooperative approaches of UN agencies and
International Organizations with murderous military regime.
The Myanmar military junta has already been designated as a terrorist organization under
Myanmar’s national law by the duly elected National Unity Government (NUG). Though the military
junta already waged war against unarmed innocent Myanmar civilians since February, no serious and
effective action has since been taken against by any international mechanism. As of 13 December
2021, at least 1329 protesters and bystanders, of which at least 44 were children, have been killed by
military or police forces and at least 7,988 people detained.
ASEAN efforts to implement the five-point consensus on Myanmar agreed in April at a special
emergency summit in Jakarta have not had significant positive impacts and in fact, resulting failure to
address escalating violence and human rights abuses by the military junta. As evidenced, the crisis in
Myanmar could further turn into a regional and global public health and security risk. The decision
taken by foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at an emergency
meeting on 16 October 2021 alarmed the world that “The situation in Myanmar has an impact on
regional security”.
On November 10, the UN Security Council issued a statement on Myanmar calling for “full,
safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all people in need, and for the full protection, safety and
security of humanitarian and medical personnel.” However, the junta’s interference in relief operations
has disregarded calls for unhindered aid delivery by the UN General Assembly, Human Rights
Council, and Security Council, the European Parliament, and donor governments. Human Rights
Watch announced that humanitarian aid blockages in Myanmar is now in critical condition.
The participation of military in peace building and national reconciliation processes under the
supervision of civilian government already came to an end by committing high treason and sedition
since 1 February. Military junta is no longer an eligible peace stakeholder, but the criminals. The
commitments and MoU made by military junta will be considered illegitimate by NUG, the one and
only truly representative government of people of Myanmar.
We, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, NUG, do hereby
reaffirm that all international cooperation and collaboration regarding humanitarian assistance
should be done through responsible NUG channels in which legitimacy and accountability are
guaranteed, compliance with international standards and universal humanitarian principles.
Any effort and contribution to restore peace, justice and democracy in Myanmar must be in
accordance with NUG's obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law..."
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"ကလေးတက္ကသိုလ်ရှိ CDM ပြည်သူ့ဝန်ထမ်းများထံ
တတိယအကြိမ်ထောက်ပံ့ချီးမြှင့်ကြောင်းကြေညာခြင်း
၁။ ကလေးတက္ကသိုလ်ရှိ CDM ပြည်သူ့ဝန်ထမ်းများကို၊၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လတွင် ပထမအကြိမ်ထောက်ပံ့နိုင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ဒုတိယအကြိမ်ကို ဩဂုတ်လတွင်ထောက်ပံ့ရန် လျာထားခဲ့သော်လည်း၊အကြောင်းအမျိုးမျိုးကြောင့်ဖျက်သိမ်းခဲ့ရပါသည်။ သိုသော် Kalay University CDM Support Team (KUCST)အနေဖြင့် CDM သူရဲကောင်းများကိုဆက်လက်ထောက်ပံ့နိုင်ရန် အရှိန်အဟုန်ကြိုးစားခဲ့ရပါသည်။ဘာသာရပ်အလိုက် CDM အထောက်အကူပြုအဖွဲ့များ၊ပြည်ပရောက်ကျောင်းသားဟောင်းများနှင့် ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပမှ အလှူရှင်မိဘပြည်သူများမှ ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်ပေးမှုကြောင့် တတိယအကြိမ်ထောက်ပံ့နိုင်ခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၂။ တတိယအကြိမ် CDM ထောက်ပံ့မှုစာရင်းမှာ အောက်ပါအတိုင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၃။ CDM ထောက်ပံ့မှုတွင် ပါဝင်လှူဒါန်းပေးကြသောကျောင်းသားပြည်သူများ၊သက်ဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့်အလှူရှင်တစ်ဦးချင်းစီအား Kalay University CDM Support Team (KUCST)အနေနှင့်ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါသည်။ စတုတ္ထအကြိမ် CDM ထောက်ပံ့မှုတွင်လည်း ဆက်လက်ပါဝင်ပေးကြပါရန် အလေးအနက်တိုက်တွန်းအပ််ပါသည်။
“ ပြည်သူသာလျှင်….ပဓာန”
“အရေးတော်ပုံ….မုချအောင်ရမည်”
ယာယီတက္ကသိုလ်အုပ်ချူပ်ရေးကောင်စီ
ကလေးတက္ကသိုလ်
ဖြန့်ဝေခြင်း-
(၁)CDM ပြည်သူ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ကလေးတက္ကသိုလ်
(၂)ကလေးတက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသားများသမဂ္ဂ(ကလ.တ.က.သ)
(၃)ဘာသာရပ်အလိုက် CDM အထောက်အကူပြုအဖွဲ့များ
မိတ်တူကို-
(၁)ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ
(၂)ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ(CRPH)
(၃)စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ
(၄)ရုံးလက်ခံ/မျှော ။..."
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"လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာအကူအညီနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ နိုင်ငံတကာပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုများ အားလုံးကို နိုင်ငံတကာစံချိန်စံညွှန်းများနှင့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံ စည်းမျဉ်းများ နှင့်အညီ လိုက်နာ ဆောင်ရွက်ပြီး တရားဝင်မှုနှင့် တာဝန်ခံမှုကိုအာမခံနိုင်သော တာဝန်ယူ တာဝန်ခံမှု ရှိသည့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ သတ်မှတ်လမ်းကြောင်းများမှ တဆင့်သာ ဆောင်ရွက်သင့်ကြောင်း လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားရေးနှင့် ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ဆိုင်ရာစီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထပ်လောင်းအတည်ပြုပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ တရားမျှတမှုနှင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီတို့ကို ပြန်လည်ထိန်းသိမ်းရန်အတွက် အားထုတ် ကြိုးပမ်းမှုနှင့် ပါဝင်မှုများ အားလုံးသည် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရက လိုက်နာဆောင်ရွက်ရန် ကတိပြုထားသော နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေများ နှင့်အညီ ဖြစ်ရပါမည်။"
“လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်သူ၊ အကြမ်းဖက်အုပ်စုသည် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာအကူအညီအတွက် ယုံကြည်စိတ်ချရသော၊ အားကိုးရသော၊ တာဝန်ခံသော မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်း မဟုတ်ပါ။"
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Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management - NUG
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2021-12-19
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"The illegitimate military junta’s troops raided Lay Kay Kaw in Karen State on December 14 and
arrested between 30 to 60 people, including two members of Parliament, Mr. Wai Lin Aung and Dr.
Pyae Phyo. Armed fighting between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the junta’s troops
erupted on Wednesday morning, December 15, 2021, at Lay Kay Kaw after the troops refused to leave
the area. Fighting continued and erupted at Mae Toe Ta Lay, near Laykaykaw, on December 16. Due
to the ongoing armed confrontation between the junta’s troops and alliance of KNLA troops, nearly
3000 civilians fled Lay Kay Kaw prompting refugee outflow to Thailand's border. As of today, reports
indicate at least 2,503 people (804 men, 910 women, 348 boys, 441 girls) have crossed the border
while many are still trapped inside the country. NUG’s contacts on the ground also confirmed mortars
landed at Thailand’s side almost hit the locations of the refugees. Influx of refugees expected to
increase as the escalation of violence continues. Lay Kay Kaw is a civilian area under the control of
KNU/KNLA Brigade 6 near Myawaddy at the border of Myanmar and Thailand. It has been a safe zone
for civilians fleeing the junta’s ongoing crimes and atrocities against the civilian population of
Myanmar.
The incident in Karen State in the last two days is another example of the junta’s continued disregard
for Myanmar people's welfare and human rights. It has continued to terrorize civilian population
across Myanmar since the illegal coup. This month, a junta’s truck blatantly rammed into civilians
protesting in Yangon, killing at least four people while burning 11 civilians in Sagaing region to death.
Similarly, civilians were also reportedly burned alive by the junta’s troops in first week of December
in Chin State two while thousands remain displaced by the relentless arson and attacks by the junta.
Since the coup, United Nations estimated roughly 15,000 people in Myanmar have fled to the Indian
border to avoid the junta's persecution.
As the humanitarian condition and security situation continue to deteriorate due to the illegal junta’s
barbarism and self-serving goals, the National Unity Government (NUG) in Myanmar urgently call for
the following:
1. We appeal urgently to the international community, especially the Thai government, UNHCR
and INGOs to deliver an emergency humanitarian response to the IDPs and refugees.
Provisions of food, clothing, medicine are urgently needed and can be delivered through local
groups responding to the refugees. Furthermore; we urge the international community to call
for de-escalation of violence strongly.
2. We also would like to request the government of India for continues humanitarian support
and cross border access for Myanmar people seeking refuge at the border.
It is unfortunate that the civilian population bears the burden the junta’s atrocities. The current
incident in Karen State and the continues fighting in different part of Myanmar is reminder how the
failed coup is directly and inevitably impacting our neighboring countries. The junta’s atrocities must
end as soon as possible thus, we urge the international community to impose stronger pressure
against the junta and help restore the civilian government. The military junta is a terrorist
organization by national and international law’s definition, as indicated in the latest policy brief of
the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar. Since the coup, the junta responded with violence, killing
more than 1,000 civilians, arbitrarily detaining more than 8,000 people, looting and destroying civilian
properties, and violating international human rights and humanitarian laws in its offensive operation
against ethnic areas.
Lastly, the National Unity Government and the people of Myanmar express deep appreciation to the
Kingdom of Thailand for opening up the border and allowing the refugees to get to a safe zone. We
express our sincere gratitude to the Thai officials and first responders on the ground for extending
assistance to those who crossed the border. We also express our sincere appreciation to the
government of India and officials of India’s Northeastern states for continues assistance to our people
at the border..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Myanmar - NUG
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-18
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"ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ
ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ရုံး
ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁)
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၁၈) ရက်
အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
၁။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်မထမ်းဆောင်ပဲ ဓမ္မဘက်မှရပ်တည်၍ ပြည်သူနှင့်တသားတည်းဖြစ် စေရန်နှင့် အမိန့်အာဏာဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) တွင်ပါဝင်ကြစေရန် အကြိမ် ကြိမ်ဖိတ်ခေါ် ကမ်းလှမ်းခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ် ပါသည်။
၂။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ရုံးအနေဖြင့်လည်း အောက်တိုဘာလမှစတင်၍ အမိန့်အာဏာ ဖီဆန်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) တွင်ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ဝန်ကြီးဌာနမဖွဲ့ရသေးသောဌာနအသီးသီးမှ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း သူရဲကောင်းများ၏ လူမှုဖူလုံရေး၊ လုံခြုံဘေးကင်းရေးနှင့် ဖိအားကင်းစင်ရေး တို့အတွက် အလေးထား ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
၃။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ၏လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေ ပြီး CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများအား ဖိအားပေးခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှထုတ် ပစ်ခြင်း၊ တရားစွဲဆိုခြင်းနှင့် ဥပေဒနှင့်အညီပြန်ဆပ်ရန်မလိုတော့သည့် လစာချေးငွေများအား အတင်းအဓမ္မ ပြန်လည်ပေးဆပ်ခိုင်းခြင်းများ စသည့် အမျိုးမျိုးသောဖိနှိပ်မှုများကိုကျူးလွန်နေသောသာသနာရေးနှင့်ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန(ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနနှင့်အမျိုးသား ပြတိုက်ဦးစီးဌာန)မှအောက်ဖေါ်ပြပါ ဝန်ထမ်းများအားအမည်ပျက်စာရင်းသွင်းလိုက်ပြီး ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှထုတ်ပစ် (Dismiss) လိုက်သည်။..."
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Office of the Prime Minister of the Union - NUG
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2021-12-18
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"စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပွားလာရသည့် လက်နက်ကိုင်တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ရသည့် စစ်ဘေးရှောင်ပြည်သူများအား အရေးပေါ်လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုအကူအညီများ ပေးအပ်ပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံချက်
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၇ ရက်
တရားမဝင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ တပ်များသည် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကရင် ပြည်နယ်ရှိ လေးကေကော်မြို့သစ်သို့ စီးနင်းဝင်ရောက်ခဲ့ကြပြီး ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက်နေ့တွင် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် (၂) ဦးဖြစ်သော ဦးဝေလင်းအောင်နှင့် ဒေါက်တာ ဝေဖြိုးအပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ စုစုပေါင်း (၃၀) မှ (၆၀) ဦးအား ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက်နေ့၊ ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနေ့အတွင်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ တပ်များနှင့် ကရင်အမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် (KNLA) တို့အကြား တိုက်ပွဲများ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပါသည်။ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မြဝတီမြို့နယ်၊ လေးကေကော်မြို့သစ်အနီး မဲ့ထောသလေး တွင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ တပ်များနှင့် KNLA တို့ အကြား တိုက်ပွဲများ ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ပြီး တိုက်ပွဲရှောင် ပြည်သူစုစုပေါင်း (၃,၀၀၀) ဦးနီးပါးသည် ထိုင်း-မြန်မာ နယ်စပ်သို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ ရပါသည်။ ယနေ့အချိန်အထိ သတင်းဖော်ပြချက်များအရ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူစုစုပေါင်း ၂,၅၀၃ ဦး (ကျား ၈၀၄ ဦး၊ မ ၉၁၀ ဦး၊ ကလေး (ကျား) ၃၄၈ ဦး၊ ကလေး (မ) ၄၄၁ ဦး) တို့သည် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ၍ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရပြီး စစ်ပွဲများအကြားတွင် ပြည်သူအများအပြားသည် လက်ရှိတွင် ပိတ်မိနေသေးကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။ အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) ၏ ဆက်သွယ်စုံစမ်းချက်အရ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ တပ်များ ပစ်ခတ်မှုများကြောင့် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံနယ်စပ်ရှိ စစ်ဘေးရှောင်ပြည်သူများနေထိုင်ရာ နေရာ များသို့ လက်နက်ကြီး ကျရောက်ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာ သိမ်းအဖွဲ့နှင့် စစ်ပွဲများ ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပွားနေမှုကြောင့် တိုက်ပွဲရှောင် ပြည်သူအရေအတွက် မှာလည်း ဆက်လက်တိုးပွားလာနိုင်ပါသည်။ ထိုင်း-မြန်မာနယ်စပ်ရှိ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မြဝတီမြို့နယ်၊ လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သည် KNU/KNLA တပ်မဟာ (၆) လက်အောက်ရှိ ထိန်းချုပ် နယ်မြေတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့်အပြင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့ က ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိသည့် ပြစ်မှုများနှင့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုများကြောင့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရသည့် ပြည်သူများ၏ ခိုလှုံရာ လုံခြုံမှုရှိသည့် မြို့တစ်မြို့လည်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။
ကရင်ပြည်နယ်၌ လွန်ခဲ့သည့် (၂) ရက်အတွင်း ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် ဖြစ်ရပ်သည် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ် အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု ကင်းမဲ့မှုများနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုး ဖောက်နေမှုများကို တွေ့မြင်နေရခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့ အနေဖြင့် တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက် နိုင်ငံတဝန်း အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများအား ဆက်တိုက်ကျူးလွန် လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့သည် ယခုလအတွင်း ရန်ကုန်မြို့အတွင်း ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ ဆန္ဒပြနေသည့် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများကို ကားဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် ဝင်ရောက်တိုက်ကာ ဖြိုခွင်းခဲ့သောကြောင့် အနည်းဆုံး ပြည်သူ(၄)ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ရသည့်အပြင် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး တွင်လည်း အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ(၁၁)ဦးအား အရှင်လတ်လတ် မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အလားတူ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ပထမပတ်အတွင်း ချင်းပြည်နယ်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ တပ်များက အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူ(၂)ဦးအား အရှင်လတ်လတ် မီးရှို့သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ပြီး အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ ထောင်ချီမှာလည်း နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ၍ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ခန့်မှန်းတွက်ချက်မှုအရ တရားမဝင် အာဏာသိမ်းခဲ့သည့် အချိန်မှစ၍ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ စုစုပေါင်း ၁၅,၀၀၀ ဦးခန့်မှာ အိန္ဒိယ နိုင်ငံနယ်စပ်သို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ရပါသည်။
အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့ တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များ၏ ကိုယ်ကျိုးရှာမှုများနှင့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ် မှုများကြောင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုအခြေအနေများနှင့် ပြည်သူများ၏ လုံခြုံရေး အခြေအနေများ ဆိုးရွားလာများမှုအရ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) အနေဖြင့် အောက်ပါအတိုင်း တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။
1. မိမိတို့အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်း အထူးသဖြင့် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံအစိုးရ၊ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာမဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး (UNHCR) နှင့် အခြား အစိုးရမဟုတ်သော အဖွဲ့အစည်း (NGO) များက စစ်ဘေးရှောင်ပြည်သူများအား လိုအပ်သည့် လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှုအကူအညီများ ပေးအပ်ရန် တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။ အစားအသောက်၊ အဝတ်အထည်နှင့် ဆေးဝါးများ အရေးပေါ် လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိပြီး လိုအပ် သည်များကို ဒေသခံအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ကာ တိုက်ပွဲရှောင် ပြည်သူများထံ ပေးပို့နိုင်ပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်ပေးပါရန်လည်း တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်၊
2. မိမိတို့အနေဖြင့် အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံအစိုးရအား လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုအကူအညီ များကို ဆက်လက်ပေးအပ်ပေးပါရန်နှင့် ခိုလှုံခွင့်ရှာဖွေနေကြသည့် နယ်စပ်ရှိ တိုက်ပွဲ ရှောင်ပြည်သူများအား နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော်ဝင်ရောက်ခွင့်များပေးရန် တောင်းဆိုအပ် ပါသည်။
မြန်မာပြည်သူပြည်သားများသည် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှု များကို ကြုံတွေ့ခံစားနေရသည်မှာ အလွန်ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ကောင်းပါသည်။ လက်ရှိ ကရင် ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ဖြစ်ရပ်နှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြားတွင် ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပေါ် နေသော တိုက်ပွဲများကိုကြည့်ရှုခြင်းအားဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ ကျရှုံးသည့် တရားမဝင် အာဏာသိမ်းမှုသည် အိမ်နီးချင်းနိုင်ငံများသို့ မလွဲမသွေတိုက်ရိုက်သက်ရောက်မှု ရှိစေနိုင်ကြောင်းကိုလည်း သတိပေးနေခြင်း ဖြစ်သည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့၏ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုများအား တတ်နိုင်သမျှ အမြန်ဆုံး အဆုံးသတ်ရမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့အား ပြင်းထန်စွာ ဖိအားပေးရန်နှင့် အရပ်သားအစိုးရကို ပြန်လည် ထူထောင်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် ကူညီပေးပါရန် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အထူးအကြံပေးကောင်စီ၏ နောက်ဆုံးထုတ် မူဝါဒရေးရာအကျဉ်းချုပ်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားသည့်အတိုင်း ပြည်တွင်းဉပဒေ၌ သာမက နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေ၏ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုချက်အရ အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ တရားမဝင် နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာရယူပြီးချိန်မှစ၍ အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းအဖွဲ့ သည် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ ၁,၀၀၀ ကျော်အား သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ခြင်း၊ အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူ ၈,၀၀၀ ကျော်အား မတရားဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ခြင်း၊ အပြစ်မဲ့ ပြည်သူများ၏ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုများကို လုယက်ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတကာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေများအား ပြောင်ပြောင်တင်းတင်း ချိုးဖောက်ကာ တိုင်းရင်းသား ဒေသများ၌ အကြမ်းဖက် ထိုးစစ်ဆင် တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ခြင်းတို့အား ဆက်တိုက် ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
နိဂုံးချုပ်အနေဖြင့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) နှင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူပြည်သူများသည် နယ်စပ်ကိုဖွင့်ပေးကာ ဒုက္ခသည်ပြည်သူများအား ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းဝေးပြီး လုံခြုံမှုရှိသည့် နယ်မြေအတွင်းသို့ ရောက်ရှိအောင် ခွင့်ပြုပေးသည့် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံအား အထူးပင်ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိ ပါကြောင်း ပြောကြားလိုပါသည်။ နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် ဝင်ရောက်လာသော ပြည်သူများအား အကူအညီများ တိုးမြှင့်ပေးခဲ့သော ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံမှ တာဝန်ရှိသူများအပါအဝင် မြေပြင်အခြေအနေတွင် ကနဦးဆုံးကူညီခဲ့သူများအား ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြလိုပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် နယ်စပ်ရှိ မိမိတို့၏ပြည်သူများအပေါ် အကူအညီများကို ဆက်လက်ပေးအပ်နေခြင်းကြောင့်လည်း အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ အစိုးရနှင့် အိန္ဒိယအရှေ့မြောက်ပိုင်း ပြည်နယ်များမှ တာဝန်ရှိသူများအား အထူးပင် ကျေးဇူးတင် ရှိပါကြောင်း ဖော်ပြအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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"December 17, 2021, Myanmar: The Myanmar military has commissioned aircraft manufactured in France, Russia and China, during a ceremony held on Wednesday to mark the 74th anniversary of the Myanmar Air Force.
Aircraft include an ATR-72 600, an Airbus Eurocopter, a Y-12, Yak-130s and K-8s.
ATR-72 600s are manufactured in France by ATR, a French-based joint venture between Airbus and Italy’s Leonardo Corporation.
Eurocopters are also manufactured in France by Airbus. Airbus’ corporate headquarters are in the Netherlands.
The aircraft were commissioned by EU sanctioned war criminal and junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as the Myanmar military intensifies its terror campaign following the February brutal and illegal coup attempt. In recent weeks, the junta has carried out indiscriminate airstrikes in Kachin and Shan states and the Sagaing and Magwe regions, killing civilians, destroying property and causing mass displacement. Earlier air raids had also targeted Chin, Karen and Karenni states. These attacks amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Data from ACLED, analysed by Altsean Burma, shows a 632% increase in armed clashes and attacks compared to 2020. Between February 1 and November 26, Myanmar had more armed clashes and attacks than both Yemen and Afghanistan.
The European Union has an arms embargo on Myanmar with a ban on the transfer of dual use goods, although the Myanmar military has a history of bypassing arms controls through their network of private brokers and crony-run airlines.
Justice For Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung says: “The French, Dutch and Italian governments must immediately investigate how ATR and Airbus aircraft got into the hands of the terrorist Myanmar military junta. These aircraft will be used by the military to attack civilians and kill children. The fact that the military continues to procure aircraft must be a wakeup call for the European Union, which has not imposed new sanctions on Myanmar since June. That contrasts with the US, UK and Canada, which have targeted entities related to military procurement in the latest round of sanctions. France has a particular responsibility as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and should be leading the push for a global arms embargo on Myanmar. It is unacceptable that the junta is still able to procure European aircraft after the 2017 genocide against the Rohingya, their illegal coup attempt and continued acts of terrorism.”
In addition to European aircraft, the Myanmar military has commissioned K-8 trainer jets, Yak-130 fighter jets and a Y-12 military transport plane.
K-8s and Y-12s are manufactured by subsidiaries of the Chinese state-owned company AVIC. K-8s are produced by AVIC’s Hong Kong listed subsidiary AviChina Industry and Technology Co. Ltd, connecting AviChina investors to AVIC’s complicity in the Myanmar military’s atrocities.
AviChina’s biggest investors include Airbus, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors and the sovereign wealth funds of Australia, New Zealand and Norway.
Yak-130s are manufactured in Russia by the majority state-owned United Aircraft Corporation.
Justice For Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung says: “China and Russia are aiding and abetting the junta’s war crimes and crimes against humanity by selling aircraft, profiting from the murder of Myanmar people. The fact that two UN Security Council permanent members with veto power are arming the terrorist military junta explains why the UN’s highest body has utterly failed to take meaningful action on Myanmar. The international community must take action against Russia and China’s complicity in the Myanmar military’s atrocity crimes.
It is alarming that sovereign wealth funds and major international corporations continue to invest in AVIC, despite clear evidence of their complicity in the Myanmar military’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. We demand that shareholders of AVIC immediately divest to end their link to the Myanmar military’s crimes. International partners and suppliers of AVIC and United Aircraft Corporation also have a responsibility to prevent human rights impacts linked to their business relationships. We call on them to cut ties with AVIC and United Aircraft Corporation immediately.”..."
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"The Myanmar military has been carrying out indiscriminate attacks on its civilian populations and obstructing access to necessities critical to their survival since it seized power nearly a year ago on 1 February, 2021, Amnesty International said today.
Amnesty International interviewed four displaced civilians and six local aid workers and volunteer humanitarian responders. Their powerful accounts highlight the military’s systematic attempts to starve people and prevent them from accessing health care as it seeks to crush armed resistance to the coup.
For more than six decades, the military has applied a “four cuts” strategy in the country’s border areas, cutting off essential resources to destroy the support base of ethnic armed organizations fighting for self-determination. Now, it has expanded these tactics to areas where new People’s Defense Forces have emerged, as it continues to violently crack down on all forms of resistance to the coup. The military’s use of the four cuts strategy has had devastating consequences for the civilian population.
As part of its war against armed resistance, the military has not only launched indiscriminate airstrikes and burned hundreds of homes, but it has also cut off vital items and services for civilian populations across diverse ethnicities and geographic areas.
The United Nations has identified 284,700 people internally displaced due to armed clashes and insecurity since the coup and at least two million people newly in need of humanitarian assistance in 2021, while projecting that humanitarian needs will further escalate in 2022.
On 9 December, the UN described “severely limited” humanitarian access with challenges including road blockages and increased scrutiny of humanitarian supplies and personnel.
“Since the military seized power, the people of Myanmar have faced extreme hardships. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their own homes. Many are suffering from hunger and facing the frightening reality of having to survive without health or medical care even as the pandemic continues,” said Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research.
Barely surviving in the forest
Katherine* was entering the second trimester of her pregnancy when fighting between military forces and combined forces of civilian resistance groups and ethnic armed organizations erupted across Kayah State in May. The military responded to the new opposition front by conducting airstrikes, firing heavy artillery and shooting indiscriminately, causing 100,000 people to flee their homes as of 8 June, according to United Nations estimates.
On 9 June, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” across the state as the military cut off displaced people’s access to food, water and medicine, including by blocking aid deliveries.
When the fighting reached Katherine’s village in Demoso township, she and her husband fled into the forest with their two children. The family relocated several times for their safety and endured the rainy season sleeping under a sheet of tarpaulin. According to her husband, although they received some food from humanitarian aid groups and other villagers, it was insufficient.
Around seven months into Katherine’s pregnancy, she began vomiting and suffering from dizzy spells, fatigue and shortness of breath. On one occasion, she went into seizures. By eight months, her limbs had swelled, and she had lost the ability to walk. She went into labor in October. Even though a midwife was present, neither Katherine nor her baby survived.
“She could not access nutritious food or warm shelter. My wife faced difficulties during her pregnancy, and she became weak and unable to deliver the baby,” said her husband.
She could not access nutritious food or warm shelter. My wife faced difficulties during her pregnancy, and she became weak and unable to deliver the baby.
-Katherine's husband
Kayah State’s Hpruso township has also seen mass displacement since May, but Francis* could not immediately flee with his family because he is paralyzed from the waist down. His wife and mother-in-law ran into the forest with their four children, and he joined them the next day, when people from his village came back for him and carried him.
The family returned home after a week and a half, but soon had to flee again because fighting resumed. In total, they spent about a month in the forest. “When we first ran, we just slept where we could, with no blanket or shelter. After one or two days, when things quieted down a bit, we brought some bedsheets and blankets [from home]. We stayed under a tarpaulin the whole time,” said Francis.
His family and others who had to flee their village not only had to survive with whatever food and water they could find. They also could not access medicine or medical supplies. Francis’ wife usually uses rubber gloves and catheters to assist his bowel movements and urination, but they ran out while in the forest.
In June, a charity group offered him more stable shelter, where he now stays with his wife and two youngest children. Although the shelter offers better facilities and access to resources than the forest, Francis said food is still limited. He also fears that the place where he is staying could come under attack.
Francis’ two older children are staying in their grandmother and aunt’s home, and they are still fleeing in and out of the forest as the fighting between the security forces and armed resistance groups continues. He wants to reunite with his children, but he worries it would create difficulties for those who are helping him. “If I choose to go back to the village and then I must flee again, I will be a burden to others. I cannot cope with that anymore, so I decided to stay here until things get better,” he said.
Carrying loved ones on their backs
In Sagaing and Magway Regions and Chin State, in Myanmar’s northwest, fighting between the military and civilian resistance groups as well as ethnic armed organizations has displaced more than 93,000 people according to the United Nations, as the military attacks residential areas with airstrikes, arson and indiscriminate gunfire.
Tial Lian,* age 30, fled into the forest from her village in Chin State’s Mindat township with her husband, two children, her father and grandmother when clashes escalated in May.
Because her father, age 77, and grandmother, whose age she estimates to be more than a hundred, are unable to walk well, Tial Lian and her husband carried them on their backs when their family fled. The family has since been going in and out of the forest, where Tial Lian and her husband have been constructing a small shelter out of tarpaulin. There would be times when, worried that their baby’s cries could alert soldiers to their location, the couple would run deeper into the forest with their children, leaving the two older people behind in the shelter for several days.
Sometimes, rats gnaw holes in the tarpaulin, which offers little protection from the elements. “When it rains, our tarpaulin cannot bear the weight of the water. We get soaked, and our blankets too,” said Tial Lian. They also sometimes go for days without eating because they do not dare to make a fire when soldiers are nearby.
Even when they can travel back to their village, accessing food and medicine is difficult. “The roads to buy rice are blocked, and no one sells rice in the village either,” said Tial Lian.
“Because the road is blocked by soldiers, we have to pay 1500 kyats (approximately US$1) for supplies that would [usually] be only 1000 kyats,” she added. In addition to being short on rice, she said sometimes the family cannot access cooking oil, salt, or fish paste.
According to UN estimates, renewed fighting since March between the Kachin Independence Organization and the military in Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin State has displaced more than 15,000 people across the state.
Hkaw Reng* has not been back to her village in Injangyang township since fighting intensified in March. She left her village and walked with her one-year-old son for two days before setting up camp. They have since received limited humanitarian assistance. “Roads are blocked and the place where I am staying is remote, so it is hard to access food and medicine,” she said.
Around April, Hkaw Reng found out she was pregnant, but she has not yet received any prenatal care. She worries about how she will deliver the baby, as traveling to a medical facility could take hours and she would need to pass through military checkpoints on the way.
Cutting off supplies
Six local humanitarian responders described ways the military has severely limited aid responses, including by arresting aid workers and by confiscating or destroying food, medicine and relief supplies or restricting their transport.
“The military is denying life-saving aid to people. They are strangling their lifelines such as food and medical supply routes and threatening medical workers who only want to save lives,” said Emerlynne Gil.
In November, the United Nations described a “fragile” security context in southeastern Myanmar and “heavily restricted” humanitarian access.
In southern Shan State’s Moebye township, where fighting broke out in late May, a humanitarian response team made up of local youth tried to send relief supplies to displaced people hiding in the mountains on the morning of 8 June, according to one of the team’s members. The person, who is not being identified for fears of reprisals, said he and other members of the response team loaded a van with sacks of rice at a school which was being used as a storehouse. But when the van embarked, soldiers opened fire towards it. The van never reached its destination.
“We had to flee quickly and were not able to move the supplies,” he said.
That night, he watched from a distance as soldiers emptied the storehouse of its contents and burned them. More than 80 bags of rice, as well as other food items, medical supplies, and drums of gasoline were destroyed. The soldiers also destroyed a marked ambulance and another vehicle. “They burned everything except the portable toilets,” said the humanitarian responder.
The military is denying life-saving aid to people. They are strangling their lifelines such as food and medical supply routes and threatening medical workers who only want to save lives.
-Emerlynne Gil, Deputy Regional Director for Research
Military forces also aimed and fired their guns into the mountains, he said, causing people who had already been displaced from their homes to relocate again. Although they did not have enough food, they feared coming out of hiding to find more.
This response team member also relayed that in early October, a driver transporting food supplies designated for IDPs in Moebye was arrested between the towns of Nyaung Shwe and Pekon. “[Soldiers] confiscated all the dry food supplies and the truck and arrested the driver and his assistant.”
The military also blocked the transport of medical supplies into Moebye since early October, according to him, and his team has been unable to receive donated relief items from Yangon. “The situation is not safe, so we don’t dare to go and collect donations and no drivers dare to transport them either.”
His team does not travel to the market in nearby Loikaw to purchase items themselves anymore and has delayed distributing some items because of the risks. They also face difficulties transferring funds to purchase items because few money transfer agents dare to help them, fearing they too could be targeted.
This volunteer response team, which also partners with healthcare professionals to provide mobile clinics and emergency response services, sometimes had to delay or suspend these services due to fear of arrest.
A civil society worker in neighboring Pekon township, where there have also been clashes and displacement since late May, told Amnesty International that the military started blocking roads there in June. “At first, we used other routes, but those were blocked too. Now, we are transporting [relief items] little by little but in some areas, we could not transport anything,” she said.
The military also regularly inspects the contents of vehicles at random checkpoints. “Lately, they have completely restricted transporting any medication. When people order medical supplies, [security forces] open the packages on the road and confiscate them,” she said.
Another civil society worker described similar challenges when attempting to distribute aid in Kayah State’s Loikaw, Demoso and Hpruso townships. “Soldiers stop and check a lot when we send food and tarpaulins for shelters and sometimes, we aren’t allowed to pass through. When we transport supplies, we cannot do it openly,” she said.
Her organization has removed the white flags it initially displayed on its vehicles to signal relief work. Furthermore, in order to avoid attention from the military, her organization now purchases aid in small quantities.
Fear of being attacked or caught in the crossfire has also delayed or stopped her team from reaching certain areas in Demoso township. “We have to look for a safe road which [the military] does not know about,” she said. “We stop in one place and keep the stuff, and when the road is clear, we resume the trip.”
Pervasive fear
Humanitarian responders in northwestern Myanmar are facing similar impediments, and the United Nations reported shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies on 9 December.
A volunteer with an emergency response team in Mindat, Chin State said that his group has been unable to send food or medical aid to many parts of the township due to blocked roads, and that the team delivers relief items in small quantities by motorcycle or on foot to reduce their visibility after one of its members was arrested while returning from delivering aid to displaced people.
In Sagaing region’s Kalay township, a civil society worker said that the military has “blocked all the main roads” and that security forces “check everything” in vehicles traveling in the area.
“They prohibit all items that can help [IDPs], and arrest people. There are times that we do not dare to help, and just wait,” she said. Her organization refrains from sending medicine altogether because they heard that the military confiscates all medicine at the entrance into the town.
The risks of transporting goods have also made it hard to find a driver in areas with ongoing fighting in Chin and Sagaing region where her organization operates, she said. “There were times when we had to negotiate and beg [drivers] to deliver food,” she said.
They prohibit all items that can help [IDPs], and arrest people. There are times that we do not dare to help, and just wait.
-civil society worker
A volunteer doctor in Sagaing region’s Yinmarbin township said that his team is unable to freely transport medicine or medical equipment. “Sometimes, [our suppliers] send it to us but we don’t receive it,” he said. He is part of a network providing mobile healthcare to conflict-affected communities and injured People’s Defense Force members, as well as food aid to displaced people in Sagaing region.
The military has shut down the internet in 24 townships in central and northwestern Myanmar, including Yinmarbin, since September. The volunteer doctor said that he and his teammates consequently face a delay in accessing information about the ground situation, which had severely hampered their medical response, especially in areas where the military has at times blocked phone networks.
He and his teammates also face security risks. He told Amnesty International that in July, a temporary medical facility was hit by military shelling and gunfire, causing the volunteers and patients to flee. At least three volunteers from his network were also arrested, he said.
These accounts are emblematic of what is happening across the country and demonstrate how the Myanmar military is systematically depriving civilians of desperately needed supplies and medicine.
“We will see more lives lost if the military continues this brutal campaign against its own people. The military must allow full access for humanitarian workers in affected regions,” said Emerlynne Gil.
Note: *Names have been changed to protect their security..."
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Amnesty International (UK)
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2021-12-17
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" At least 2,500 people including hundreds of children have fled a flare-up in fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic minority rebels and have taken refuge across the border in Thailand, Thai authorities and an aid group said.
Those displaced had poured into the Thai town of Mae Sot after fighting in the past few days between the Karen National Union (KNU) and Myanmar's army, Somchai Kitcharoenrungroj, deputy governor of western Tak province, told a news conference.
Myanmar was plunged into turmoil when the military ousted a civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, triggering protests in cities and sporadic clashes in the countryside between anti-junta militia and the army.
There has also been intensified fighting at times between the army and ethnic minority insurgents in border areas, like the KNU, Myanmar's oldest rebel force.
Somchai put the number of displaced on the Thai side of the border at 2,503. Ye Min, an official at the Aid Alliance Committee, a Thai-based Myanmar migrants group, said that total included 545 children.
"We are providing food assistance working together with Thai authorities," Ye Min said by telephone, adding most of the displaced were from Lay Kay Kaw and other villages.
The KNU has been seeking self-determination in a region of about 1.6 million people.
The KNU said in a social media post said four Myanmar soldiers were killed and four wounded during the fighting on Wednesday.
A report by Public Voice Television, which is backed by Myanmar's shadow government, posted photographs it said showed seized weapons and eight captured members of the Myanmar security forces.
It said 18 government soldiers had been killed.
Reuters could not independently verify the claims and a spokesman for Myanmar's military junta did not answer a call seeking comment.
Tak provincial authorities said there was a clash between the army and the KNU on Thursday about 500 metres (550 yards) from the Thai border.
It said a shell had fallen on the Thai side of the border though had not caused harm or damage, and Thai forces had intensified patrols in the area..."
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"Reuters" (UK)
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2021-12-17
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"Myanmar junta troops sustained heavy losses this week in fighting in Lay Kay Kaw in Karen State’s Myawaddy, where they encountered a combined force of troops from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and People’s Defense Force (PDF) civilian resistance groups from Wednesday.
As of Thursday, 18 junta soldiers had died and eight others had been captured during the fighting, the National Unity Government (NUG) said.
The Karen National Union (KNU), the political wing of the KNLA, condemned the regime’s attack as a “violation of human rights” and “destroying peace” in a statement on Thursday, adding that four junta troops—a captain and three sergeants—were killed during the clashes on Wednesday and it was still verifying Thursday’s causalities. On Friday, the KNU released pictures of eight soldiers arrested during the fighting. Among them, two were members of the Karen Border Guard Force, which is backed by the military and joined forces with the junta soldiers.
Military tensions rose this week when some 200 junta soldiers raided the area on Tuesday, alleging that democracy activists and members of People’s Defense Force (PDF) civilian resistance groups were hiding there. Two MPs-elect from the National League for Democracy (NLD), U Wai Lin Aung and Dr. Pyae Phyo, were among around 90 people detained by the junta on that day.
The raids and clashes followed the junta’s accusation that the KNU, Myanmar’s oldest revolutionary force, was supporting and sheltering striking civil servants and anti-regime armed resistance groups.
Padoh Saw Kwe Htoo Win, the vice chairman of the Karen National Union, told The Irrawaddy that the group “will respond with all-out defense to stop the junta’s incursion.”
The military tensions began due to the junta troops’ incursions into territory in which the KNU/KNLA operates, said the vice chairman. He explained that various groups control different parts of Lay Kay Kaw, and permission is required to pass through certain areas.
Following the military engagement in Lay Kay Kaw, clashes were also reported in nearby areas in Myawaddy, Kawkareik and Kyar Inn Seik Gyi townships.
The junta claimed that brigades 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the KNLA offered training and gave shelter to those evading arrest by the regime and supplied arms to groups engaged in urban guerrilla warfare in a number of cities and towns in the country.
This month, fighting has been frequent in areas in Mon and Karen states, and Tanintharyi Region, which host KNU brigades 1, 5, 6 and 4.
In the Brigade 5 area alone, the KNU’s Mutraw (Papun district) news outlet said on Thursday that 54 junta soldiers were killed and 39 injured during 111 clashes with KNLA troops between Dec. 1 and 16, in Papun, Karen State. The military retaliated with artillery and more than 100 shells struck civilian residences. The KNLA said it lost one soldier and six were injured.
Meanwhile, more than 2,500 locals are now seeking shelter in Thailand and about one third of them are children. Some 1,000 residents of Lay Kay Kaw are still internally displaced, according to relief workers.
Regarding the refugee situation, the NUG appealed to the Thai government “to allow the IDPs fleeing Lay Kay Kaw and seeking refuge to cross the border safely as soon as possible.”
The shadow government also urged the international community to provide urgent humanitarian and emergency assistance to the IDPs affected.
It also urged the international community “to strongly call for a de-escalation of violence.”..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-17
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"ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း စစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့ ပျံလွှားအောင် စစ်ဆင်ရေး ၃ ခုကိုဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့ ဒီနေ့မှာ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်ပါတယ်။
ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း စစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့က ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၆ ည ၇ နာရီမှာ ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်တောင်ပိုင်းမြို့နယ်က ရဲစခန်းနဲ့ ခရမ်းမြို့ ဘုရားပျိုရဲစခန်းအပြင် ခရမ်းအားကစားရုံဝန်းက အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်တွေ တပ်စွဲထားတဲ့နေရာကို အဲဒီနေ့ ည ၉ နာရီ ဝန်းကျင်မှာပဲ မမ ၄၀ ဗုံး ပစ်ခွဲတိုက်ခတ်နိုင်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာပါရှိပါတယ်။
ဒါအပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့မှာ ရန်ကုန်-ပြည်လမ်းမကြီး လှည်းငုတ်ချောင်းမြို့ဝင်ကြေးဂိတ်အနီး အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီရဲ့ လက်ရှိရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအဆင့် ဝန်ကြီး တစ်ဦးလိုက်ပါလာတဲ့ စစ်ကောင်စီယာဉ်တန်းကို ဖောက်ခွဲတိုက်ခိုက်နိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားအချို့ ဒဏ်ရာရှိခဲ့တယ်လို့
ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း စစ်ဒေသခွဲကွပ်ကဲရေးအဖွဲ့က ဆိုပါတယ်။..."
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2021-12-17
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"European Karen Network today called on the European Union to impose a new round of targeted economic sanctions on the Burmese military, and agree to impose regular new rounds of sanctions from now on.
As usual, it is ethnic people who are facing some of the worst human rights violations by the Burmese military since the coup. The majority of the 300,000 people displaced since the coup are from ethnic states. In Karen State, more than 70,000 internally displaced people have been hiding in the jungle since April, following bombing attacks which killed villagers and destroyed homes and schools. Since then jets and drones continue to fly over parts of Karen State every day, preventing people from returning home.
This week the Burmese military has attacked Lay Kay Kaw town, in Dooplaya District (Myawaddy Township), Karen State. Arrests of democracy activists have been followed by indiscriminate shelling using heavy artillery, which is a war crime. More than 1,000 civilians are now fleeing from the area, and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
People who have already been displaced have been unable to grow this year’s crops, and are dependent on aid, but the Burmese military continues to restrict humanitarian access and international donors are not providing enough funding for food, shelter, medical care and education for children. Despite the fact that there are millions of people who can be reached with aid and Covid vaccines using cross-border mechanisms, this has only been happening in a very limited way.
“There is much more that the European Union can do to cut the flow of money to the Burmese military, but while hundreds die and thousands are arrested, the EU is failing to use the economic leverage it has to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. Our Karen people and other people in Burma are doing everything we can to resist military rule, but the same cannot be said for the European Union,” said Nant Helen Buhtoo, Co-Chair of the European Karen Network.
We call on the EU to bring in a new round of economic sanctions including:
Gas revenue
Revenue from extractive industries including copper and rare earths
The Office of the Quartermaster General and other military bodies responsible for the purchase and manufacturing of arms
Banks in Myanmar used by the military to earn and transfer revenue, such as the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank
Sanctions on Burmese companies and individuals financing the military, or which are supplying the military with arms and equipment or facilitating the purchase of arms and other equipment.
The European Union should also impose sanctions to prevent European companies supplying aviation fuel to Burma, and impose sanctions on Burmese companies supplying fuel to the military.
“Reducing the air capacity of the Burmese military would be one of the single most effective short term things the European Union can do to help prevent further airstrikes against our people, and help reduce human rights violations and address the humanitarian situation on the ground,” said Nan Kyi Aye, Chair of the European Karen Network..."
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"Burma Campaign UK" (London)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-16
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Sagaing Massacre Latest in Military’s Escalating Terror Campaign
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"In a year where atrocities by Myanmar’s military have been commonplace, credible reports of a massacre of 11 people, including 5 children, who were bound, shot, and then burned, have sparked revulsion and outrage.
Photos and video circulated online show the remains of the victims in Don Taw village, Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar. Villagers returning from hiding after fleeing a military raid used their mobile phones to record the charred remains on December 7, 2021. Local media reported that government security forces committed the killings in retaliation for an attack earlier that morning by anti-junta militia.
The United Nations issued a statement that it was “appalled and alarmed at the escalation of grave human rights abuses in Myanmar.”
But the killings – and the burnings of the bodies – bear all the hallmarks of the Myanmar military. Decades of impunity for the worst crimes have created a mindset that soldiers can brazenly commit such atrocities without fear of being held accountable.
Human Rights Watch has previously documented the Myanmar military’s scorched earth campaigns in ethnic minority areas in Kachin and Karen States, and in Rakhine State against the ethnic Rohingya and Rakhine populations.
The Myanmar military is now deploying those tactics in the Sagaing Region, committing atrocities against civilians in response to attacks by People’s Defense Forces on security forces. From May to August, massacres were reported in villages across Kani township, with dozens of civilians killed in a series of incidents.
In September, the military also was implicated in massacres against the ethnic Yaw people in Gangaw township and elsewhere in Magwe Region.
Concerned governments should impose asset freezes that impact the flow of revenues to Myanmar’s military. But they should also press for the United Nations Security Council to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court. Prosecutors in many countries can also use the legal principle of universal jurisdiction to bring to justice to military commanders implicated in war crimes and other abuses. That’s happened recently in Argentina, where a national court will investigate the military’s crimes against the Rohingya, the first court to hear directly from the Rohingya victims themselves.
The latest killings show Myanmar’s military is escalating its campaign of terror. Without urgent and coordinated international efforts to halt military abuses, more atrocities can be expected in the year ahead..."
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"Human Rights Watch" (USA)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-15
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“ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားများကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (KNDF) နှင့်ပက်သက်သော ကြေညာချက် ”
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"ကြေညာချက် အမှတ် (၅ /၂၀၂၁)
၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ နတ်တော်လဆန်း ၁၀ ရက်
(၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၃ ရက်)
“ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားများကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (KNDF) နှင့်ပက်သက်သော ကြေညာချက် ”
၁။ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားများကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (KNDF) သည် ကရင်နီတပ်မတော် (KA) နှင့်အတူလက်တွဲ၍ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်ရေးတွင် တပ်ဦးမှတွန်းလှန် တိုက်ခိုက်နေသော တပ်ဖွဲ့ဖြစ်သည်။ KNDF သည် စနစ်ကျသော ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ၊ စစ်ဦးစီးမှု၊ ခိုင်မာသော မူဝါဒများဖြင့် ကရင်နီပြည်အတိုင်ပင်ခံကောင်စီ (KSCC) ၏ ကြီးကြပ်မှု အောက်တွင် ရပ်တည်လျက်ရှိသည်။
၂။ KNDF သည် ဒေသအတွင်းရှိ ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်မတော်(PDF)တပ်ရင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့များနှင့် ပူးပေါင်း ဆောင်ရွက်ကာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ချုပ်ငြိမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင်စု ပေါ်ပေါက်ရေးအတွက် တိုက်ပွဲ ဝင်နေသည့် တော်လှန်ရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းဖြစ်သည်။
၃။ ထို့အပြင် KNDF သည် ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန (အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ) နှင့်လည်း မြေပြင်စစ်ရေး၊ နိုင်ငံရေးအခြေအနေများကို စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ် ချိတ်ဆက် ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားများ ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (KNDF) သည် ကရင်နီပြည်ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဖြစ်ပြီး ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန (အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ) က အသိအမှတ်ပြု၊ ပူးပေါင်း ဆောင်ရွက်နေသည့် အဖွဲ့အစည်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန် ကြေညာအပ်ပါသည်။
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ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ..."
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COUNTRIES OF CONCERN: MYANMAR AND AFGHANISTAN
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"Myanmar saw a rapid decline in fundamental freedoms following the February 2021 coup, with the arrest, detention and criminalisation of hundreds of activists, including HRDs, trade unionists, journalists, political and student activists, doctors, poets, people from ethnic minorities, LGBTQI+ groups and artists. The junta used excessive force and firearms against protesters and disrupted the internet. Journalists were hunted down and dozens were arrested and charged. A number of political prisoners were allegedly tortured and ill-treated and there have been reports of sexual violence against women in detention centres. At the time of writing, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, 1,244 people had been killed and 7,122 people are currently in detention.
Another country of concern is Afghanistan, following the Taliban takeover in August 2021. There have been reports of activists facing systematic intimidation throughout the country. The Taliban are carrying out house-to-house searches for activists and journalists, particularly women, and interrogating them and their families. This has created a climate of significant fear and many have gone into hiding or have fled the country. The Taliban have also conducted raids on women-led CSOs across Afghanistan. Anti-Taliban protests, especially by women, in Kabul and other cities have been met with excessive force, gunfire and beatings to disperse crowds, leading to deaths and injuries of peaceful protesters. Journalists are at increased risk for covering the situation on the ground. Some covering the protests have been arbitrarily detained, tortured or ill-treated with impunity..."
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Civicus (Johannesburg)
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-13
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"Waiyan Phyoe Moe, Vice President of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, and Laypyay Soe Moe, Responsible Person of Student Rights of the University of Yangon Students' Union, have been reported to be severely beaten and tortured owing to their participation in the Silent Strike along with 89 other political prisoners. They have also been said to be moved from the Special Ward to the Main Jail to be isolated in solitary confinement.
With regards to this situation, we humbly request the public to help with the:
I. Unexceptional release of all political detainees, and
II. The rights of the detainees such as healthcare and security.
The current conditions of our comrades inside the prison is extremely distressing. We hereby implore the masses and the revolutionary forces fighting for the annihilation of the military dictatorship to stand in solidarity with our comrades and help them as best we can as per the updates on the situation..."
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"Myanmar’s military junta is blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid from reaching millions of displaced people and others at risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations, the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and concerned governments should press the State Administration Council (SAC) junta to urgently allow aid to reach all those in need.
In recent months, the junta and its security forces have imposed new travel restrictions on humanitarian workers, blocked access roads and aid convoys, destroyed non-military supplies, attacked aid workers, and shut down telecommunications services. The February 1, 2021 military coup also triggered widespread infrastructure collapse and a severe devaluation of the Myanmar currency, leading to increasingly dire banking and supply chain crises and shortages of food, medicine, and other essentials.
“Myanmar’s junta has worsened a self-created humanitarian catastrophe by displacing hundreds of thousands of people and then blocking the critical support they need to survive,” said Shayna Bauchner, Asia researcher. “The generals are callously denying lifesaving assistance to people affected by conflict since the military takeover, seemingly as a form of punishment.”
Since the coup, the junta has carried out a nationwide crackdown on anti-junta protesters and the political opposition that amounts to crimes against humanity and other abuses. Fighting in some ethnic minority areas has expanded, resulting in war crimes. The crisis has displaced over 284,000 people, with an estimated 22,000 refugees fleeing to India and Thailand.
While Myanmar authorities have long impeded access to aid for vulnerable groups, the military junta has established new restrictions, creating a nationwide humanitarian catastrophe. The UN estimates that the number of people needing assistance will grow from 1 million before the coup to 14.4 million by 2022, including more than 5 million children. About 25 million people, or half the population, could be living below the national poverty line.
A man displaced in 2011 and now living in a camp outside Laiza, Kachin State, told Human Rights Watch: “Since the coup, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] that provide food couldn’t travel easily to the camp and they cannot transfer funding easily. Many people used to go outside of the camp for day jobs and to support families, but because of the coup and Covid-19, there aren’t many job opportunities left they could do.”
The junta’s interference in relief operations has disregarded calls for unhindered aid delivery by the UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council, and Security Council, the European Parliament, and donor governments. The UN relief chief, Martin Griffiths, said on November 8 that “access to many people in desperate need across the country remains extremely limited due to bureaucratic impediments put in place by the armed forces.” He called on the junta to “facilitate safe, rapid, and unimpeded humanitarian access.”
On November 10, the UN Security Council issued a statement on Myanmar calling for “full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all people in need, and for the full protection, safety and security of humanitarian and medical personnel.”
The UN, regional bodies, and donors should pressure the junta to ensure the health and well-being of the population in accordance with Myanmar’s obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch said.
At the same time, the international response to the humanitarian situation in Myanmar has been inadequate. The UN and other aid agencies have only received 18 percent of the US$109 million requested to respond to the post-coup humanitarian emergency. Funding requirements for 2022 have more than doubled due to the crisis, to $826 million. Donors including the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom should increase funding while channeling aid through local civil society groups, rather than through junta authorities, given the military’s track record of corruption and misuse of assistance funding and material. Effective aid delivery hinges on engaging independent and impartial local partners that have the networks and experience to navigate a difficult environment.
In areas of armed conflict in Myanmar, the junta’s obstruction of humanitarian assistance violates international humanitarian law. All parties to an armed conflict are obligated to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded impartial humanitarian assistance to all civilians in need, and are forbidden from withholding consent for relief operations on arbitrary grounds. Unnecessary delays or obstruction of aid may also violate the rights to life, to health, and to an adequate standard of living, including food and water. The military has also attacked health facilities and medical workers, in violation of international law.
Neighboring countries, including India, Thailand, and China, should facilitate emergency cross-border aid to internally displaced people in Myanmar and provide protection, support, and humanitarian aid to all refugees, including allowing the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) access to screen asylum seekers.
The UN Security Council should go beyond issuing statements, and should urgently pass a resolution that institutes a global arms embargo on Myanmar, refers the military’s grave crimes before and since the coup to the International Criminal Court, and imposes targeted sanctions on the junta leadership and military-owned conglomerates.
“Governments should press Myanmar’s junta to facilitate, not block, the delivery of assistance that millions of people depend on to survive,” Bauchner said. “Regional bodies and donors should work closely with local groups and cross-border efforts to make sure aid is reaching those in need and not being diverted by generals neck-deep in atrocities.”
Humanitarian Crisis and Aid Blockages
As opposition to the February 1 coup grew, the Myanmar security forces, including the military and police, violently cracked down on peaceful protests throughout the country. The military launched new offensives in ethnic minority areas, resulting in abuses against civilians. In some areas, newly formed anti-junta armed groups fought alongside long-established ethnic armies against military forces. In November, clashes were reported in every state and region in Myanmar.
The UN has reported that the military has carried out targeted and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including airstrikes and heavy artillery barrages. Accounts from displaced people and aid workers suggest that the junta has continued to use the military’s longstanding “four cuts” strategy, in which the armed forces maintain control of an area by isolating and terrorizing the civilian population.
An estimated 638,000 people are displaced in Myanmar, including many who were forced to leave their homes years prior to the coup. Civilians displaced by fighting, particularly in Myanmar’s northwest and southeast, have faced dire restrictions on access to food, clean water, sanitation, shelter, and health care, leaving them at severe risk of disease and malnutrition.
Military forces have seized food deliveries en route to displacement sites and arrested people on suspicion of supporting aid efforts. As the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar reported in September, “The junta is directly to blame for the lack of humanitarian access to internally displaced persons, where its forces have deliberately blocked access roads and turned back aid convoys.”
The requisite travel authorization process for humanitarian workers, already highly bureaucratic and arbitrary, has grown even more constrained under the junta’s control, severely impeding aid delivery, in particular during monsoon season floods. Many international aid organizations’ memorandums of understanding with the government were signed prior to the coup and have since expired, raising concerns about travel authorizations for aid delivery. Visas for aid workers have also been delayed or denied.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported in October that “the need to procure travel authorization remains a major access impediment and a high constraint factor for the humanitarian partners’ capacity to reach people in need.” Where previously a negative Covid-19 test was sufficient for the application, for example, junta authorities began requiring all staff to submit a vaccination card and recommendation letter from the township medical officer for their travel authorization application, at a time when only 3 percent of the country was vaccinated.
Since February, the junta has cut off mobile internet data and blocked public Wi-Fi and most broadband internet service. It has continued to impose communication blockades, particularly in areas of increased hostilities. In August and September, the junta cut phone and internet services in dozens of townships in Chin and Kachin States and Mandalay, Magway, and Sagaing Regions. “We have no internet and sometimes mobile reception is not available,” an aid worker in Chin State said.
Disrupted supply chains, increasing prices and scarcity of goods, and loss of access to agricultural livelihoods have compounded food shortages around the country. The Myanmar currency, the kyat, has lost over 60 percent of its value since the coup, contributing to food crises in urban and peri-urban areas, including Yangon and Mandalay.
According to the UN Development Programme, urban poverty rates are set to triple by 2022. Humanitarian agencies and UN human rights experts recently raised grave concerns about the food, shelter, and cash needs of thousands of families who have been forcibly evicted from settlements in Mandalay and Yangon, including Hlaing Tharyar and Dagon Seikkan townships, since late October.
Northwest Myanmar
Since May, an estimated 93,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Chin State and Magway and Sagaing Regions in Myanmar’s northwest. In Chin State, fighting has increased between the armed forces and the Chinland Defense Force (CDF), an anti-junta militia. The UN special rapporteur on Myanmar reported that the military, after declaring martial law in the town of Mindat in May, carried out air and ground attacks, committing indiscriminate attacks and sexual violence and using civilians as human shields. An estimated 30,000 people fled the fighting.
After capturing Mindat, the security forces imposed drastic measures on the civilian population, effectively cutting the area off from all aid and supplies by closing all roads to the town; blocking nearby supply routes; turning back aid convoys; looting and destroying supplies; interrogating and arresting civilians entering the town for goods; and cutting internet services. In May, military forces fired at makeshift displacement sites marked with white flags. At least six displaced people reportedly died in the jungle from lack of access to health care.
Local aid groups and host communities who have tried to support displaced people with food and other supplies have suffered harassment, arbitrary detention, violence, and constant surveillance by the security forces. Some humanitarian workers have been arrested and charged with incitement under section 505A of the penal code. An aid worker in Mindat said that when a team member and an international staff member planning a humanitarian project were arrested, “our operations on the ground got a lot more difficult.” The worker noted that in October, security forces had even arrested people going shopping for household products in Mindat.
In July, the UN refugee agency received travel authorization to deliver emergency aid to displacement sites in Mindat, but displaced people in the area reported the aid never reached them after the junta denied aid workers access to any areas outside security force control.
In late October, the military deployed tens of thousands of troops to the country’s north and northwest, in seeming preparation for wide-scale operations against anti-junta forces. Satellite imagery revealed that over the next month, hundreds of buildings were burned in Thantlang, Chin State, corroborating video and witness accounts.
The aid worker in Chin State said that junta authorities were confiscating aid packages that local humanitarians had tried to bring to displacement camps. Since imposing martial law in Mindat, security forces have taken over the sale of products in town, reselling them at high prices, he said. Anyone attempting to buy more than the allotted amount of food or medicine is accused of supporting the Chinland Defense Force or anti-junta People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and risks arrest.
About 3,000 children have been displaced from the town of Mindat, but local aid workers said they have been unable to acquire any educational supplies because of security force checkpoints and the risk of arrest.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in December that with food running low in Mindat township, “people are becoming desperate.” Groups continue to advocate urgently for access: “The humanitarian community has developed a plan outlining the assistance it would immediately be able to provide to up to 26,000 people in Mindat Township if access was permitted, and is advocating at all levels for the necessary travel authorisations to be urgently granted.”
Southeast Myanmar
Since the coup, there has been major insecurity and fighting in southeast Myanmar, notably Bago Region and Karen (Kayin) and Karenni (Kayah) States. Over 173,000 people have been displaced since February. The junta has imposed severe movement restrictions in the area, requiring permission letters from local State Administration Council administrators to travel, as well as widespread security force checkpoints and patrols.
Meeting minutes of UN agencies from May show that the State Administration Council denied the World Food Programme’s request to provide one month of food support to about 4,500 recently displaced people in Myaing Gyi Nyu village in Karen State. Junta officials also suggested they take over the food distribution to the camp.
In June, media reported that military forces burned 80 bags of rice, barrels of cooking oil, other food, and medicine in Pekon, southern Shan State, that local residents had gathered for 3,000 people recently displaced by fighting.
An aid worker in Karen State said that both the Myanmar military and the ethnic armed group Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) had imposed obstacles to travel. In KNLA-controlled territory, the local aid workers had to get permission to deliver supplies or hand them off to the KNLA to distribute. Local aid groups have identified Myanmar military checkpoints in the area, which they avoid when transporting food or medical supplies due to the risk of detention, harassment, or confiscation.
At a national humanitarian meeting in August, UNICEF discussed the contingency plan for people displaced by airstrikes and ground fighting in Hlaingbwe, Karen State, including identifying supplies “so that we can manage very quickly before the road blockages occur,” according to meeting notes reviewed by Human Rights Watch.
Protracted Displacement
About 370,000 people were already displaced in Myanmar prior to the coup, most living for years in protracted displacement in Rakhine, Kachin, and northern Shan States. Humanitarian organizations reported in October that they faced “significantly decreased access” to the preexisting displacement camps and “increased scrutiny of implementing partners [and] activities.”
OCHA reported in August that constraints since the coup, including “new bureaucratic restrictions and access limitations linked to the TA [travel authorization] process,” had impeded more than half of all activities in Rakhine State, “negatively impacting the delivery of services and humanitarian assistance to around 440,000 people in need.” UN and international agencies meeting minutes noted the junta’s erratic approval process: “TA granted by RSG [Rakhine State government] is changing every month.”
About 600,000 ethnic Rohingya are confined to camps and villages in Rakhine State, denied freedom of movement under a system of apartheid, without adequate access to food, health care, and education. An estimated 130,000 Rohingya have been arbitrarily held in open-air detention camps in central Rakhine State since 2012.
Humanitarian agency documents detail the serious water scarcity in Rakhine State, noting that water availability there is affected by constraints on access, banking issues, limited funding for water transport and distribution, and increased fuel prices and scarcity. Only 12 percent of people in northern Rakhine State identified as needing humanitarian aid had access to safe drinking water as of September, and only 14 percent had access to functional latrines.
Food shortages in the camps and villages grew after June, when the World Food Programme had to halt its monthly cash allowance and food ration distributions. In northern Rakhine State, the junta even obstructs efforts to assess the extent of the gaps and needs. “The full extent of WASH [water, sanitation, and hygiene] needs in northern Rakhine continue to be largely unknown due to access restrictions,” humanitarian agencies wrote in their input to the 2022 Humanitarian Needs Overview.
In early November, as tensions between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army ethnic armed group grew, the junta closed down the Ponnagyun-Rathedaung road, forcing people from 60 villages in the area to travel by waterway.
Restrictions on Water, Sanitation, Health
Displaced people’s severe lack of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Myanmar – underscored by recent humanitarian data – is life-threatening. UN agency documents stated that “AWD [acute watery diarrhea] cases were reported in 2021 due to the reduction of WASH in many camps in Rakhine and Kachin states.” In late May, at least nine Muslim children reportedly died in central Rakhine State following a month-long outbreak of acute diarrhea.
“They have difficulties accessing drinking water, toilets, and sanitation products,” the Chin State aid worker said. “Kids in the camp had skin disease … because of dirty water. They don’t even have tanks to store water, they use plastic sheets to make water tanks.” He said that the Kyaukhtu camps in Magway Region have faced severe health crises:
Some kids died from malnutrition, had skin disease. People died from not getting medical attention on time. There’s not enough medicine or medical supplies at camps. There are doctors who came to the CDF territory to provide health care to IDPs [internally displaced people] but they can’t do much when there’s not enough medical supplies.
“IDPs have difficulty accessing food, clean water, and shelters,” an aid worker in Karen State said. “They’re now relying on rainwater…. There is seasonal flu, diarrhea because of no clean water, and Covid cases in the villages.”
The Myanmar healthcare system effectively collapsed after the coup. With the junta cracking down on medical professionals for their role in the Civil Disobedience Movement, Myanmar has become one of the deadliest countries in the world to work in health care, according to data from the World Health Organization and Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition.
From February 1 to September 30, state security forces allegedly killed at least 29 healthcare workers and arrested 210, with another 580 warrants issued for doctors and nurses. There have been 297 reported attacks on health care – nearly all by the security forces – including 87 raids and 56 military occupations of healthcare facilities.
Security forces have beaten and shot medical staff providing care to injured protesters and forced clinics operated by nongovernmental groups to close, driving medics and volunteers to work underground in poorly resourced makeshift mobile clinics. Despite moving frequently, hidden facilities have faced deadly attacks by junta forces. Police and military officials shot at or confiscated ambulances. At least 31 medical vehicles have been attacked since the coup.
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF) described the impact of the junta’s nationwide military deployment on access to health care:
Patients in Myanmar are forced to travel farther to get care at a time when risks are much greater. Security forces at checkpoints scrutinise those moving around, search their belongings, intimidate them and contribute to a climate of fear. For patients with conditions requiring regular and long-term care, such as HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C, the ongoing insecurity and delays in accessing medicines could be life-threatening.
Amid the healthcare system’s collapse, Myanmar faced its third and most severe wave of Covid-19 in mid-2021. The security forces blocked people’s access to hospitals for urgent treatment and hoarded oxygen supplies. They arrested aid volunteers for attempting to deliver oxygen to affected communities. The junta’s Health Ministry reportedly rejected a request from a top OCHA official visiting the country in September for greater humanitarian access to address the Covid-19 crisis, which had hit a 38 percent positive test rate at its peak in late July.
Myanmar’s UN Country Team reported in May that attacks on medical workers jeopardized the Covid-19 response and essential health services, “with potential devastating consequences.” The pandemic has also been used as a pretext for enforcing increasingly stringent restrictions on aid and movement.
Days before the coup, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had transferred US$372 million to the Central Bank of Myanmar for emergency Covid-19 support. How the junta has used the funds remains unknown. At a September briefing, the IMF stated, “It’s not possible for the Fund to ascertain whether the regime currently in effective control is using the IMF funds as they were intended. Namely, to tackle to COVID and support the most vulnerable people.” Covax, the global vaccine distribution facility, also delayed a shipment of vaccines, citing the junta’s opacity around distribution and refusal to prioritize vulnerable populations.
UN Security Council resolution 2286 condemns attacks on medical facilities and health workers in conflicts and calls on all parties to armed conflicts to respect international law, prevent attacks, and hold those responsible to account. It also asks the UN secretary-general to “bring to the attention of the Security Council situations in which the delivery of medical assistance to populations in need is being obstructed by parties to the armed conflict.”..."
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"660 letters from Burma Campaign UK supporters were sent to Liz Truss MP today, calling on the British Foreign Secretary to announce that the British government will join the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice.
The Gambia has brought a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Burma is in violation of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Liz Truss’s predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, steadfastly refused to join the genocide case, despite cross-party political support for doing so and a recommendation from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament.
The Burmese military faced no significant consequences for their genocidal military offensives against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017. Having literally been allowed to get away with genocide increased the sense of impunity enjoyed by the military and encouraged them to believe they would also face no significant consequences for holding the military coup.
“Action to hold the military to account for their violations of international law is essential, not just to ensure justice, but also to help prevent further human rights violations,” said Anna Roberts, Executive Director of Burma Campaign UK. “If Liz Truss is genuine about holding the military to account for their crimes, joining the genocide case at the ICJ is the most obvious and effective step she can take.”
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government to take four steps to help ensure justice and accountability in Burma:
Announce an intention to join the genocide case at the International Court of Justice.
Announce support in principle for referring Burma to the International Criminal Court.
Provide funding to local civil society organisations documenting human rights violations.
Consider reforming Britain’s universal jurisdiction laws to enable prosecutions in the UK.
The British government has provided significant funding to the IIMM and to Myanmar Witness for the documentation of evidence which can be used in future prosecutions. However, there is still very little funding going to civil society organisations from Burma on the ground which are documenting human rights violations, and which provide the IIMM and Myanmar Witness with information.
The British government also refuses to support referring Burma to the International Criminal Court. While we accept that Russia and China would likely veto a UN Security Council resolution referring Burma to the International Criminal Court, there is political value in announcing support in principle for a referral, as it will help erode the sense of impunity enjoyed by the military.
Britain’s universal jurisdiction laws are a complex mish-mash of various treaties and laws which are outdated and limited in scope. For example, even the crime of genocide does not come under Britain’s universal jurisdiction legislation. In light of the UN Security Council being unable to perform its duties properly because of obstruction by Russia and China, reforming Britain’s universal jurisdiction laws is a logical step to ensure the application of international law..."
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"Burma Campaign UK today welcomed new targeted sanctions on the Burmese military announced by the UK, USA and Canada.
The new sanctions announced today are:
The Quarter Master General’s Office
The Directorate for Defence Industries
The Directorate for Defence Procurement
The Myanmar War Veterans Organisation
The Myanmar War Veterans Organisation acts as a reserve for the military and has significant economic interests. The others are military bodies responsible for buying and manufacturing arms, Burma Campaign UK has been campaigning for sanctions on these entities.
The British government statement on the new sanctions is available here.
“The British government is doing exactly what is needed, systematically identifying and sanctioning sources of revenue and arms to the military,” said Anna Roberts, Executive Director of Burma Campaign UK. “We would like to see the British government increase the pace of rounds of sanctions, and expand them to areas such as aviation fuel. Military air strikes are being made against civilian targets, causing deaths and injuries, and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. This has created a humanitarian crisis.”
Since the military coup on 1st February 2021 more than 1,300 people have been killed, more than 10,000 arrested and nearly 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes.
Under the previous military dictatorship, sanctions were only introduced every few years in response to new atrocities. This time the British government is implementing sanctions in a much more strategic and effective way. This approach to implementing sanctions will have not only a financial impact on the military but also a psychological impact in letting them, and their business allies, know that the economic pressure will keep increasing.
“Inside Burma, people’s sanctions are cutting revenue to the military, with boycotts of military companies, and people refusing to pay electricity bills,” said Anna Roberts. “It’s right that the international community should join the people of Burma in seeking to cut the flow of money to the military. Liz Truss is showing global leadership in rallying allies to coordinate the implementation of targeted sanctions on the Burmese military.”
Burma Campaign UK also renewed its call for a new round of sanctions from the European Union.
“The European Union is lagging behind, with no new sanctions for almost six months,” said Anna Roberts. “The EU has economic leverage which it isn’t using. The EU must bring in a new round of sanctions and commit to implementing regular rounds of targeted sanctions in the future.”
Absent from sanctions so far are measures to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in gas revenue to the military. French company Total and US company Chevron are both involved in gas projects in Burma and are lobbying against sanctions which force them to stop financing human rights violations.
“Ten months on from the coup, President Biden and President Macron still appear more interested in protecting energy company profits than acting to stop hundreds of millions of dollars of gas revenue financing the Burmese military,” said Anna Roberts.
The Burmese military has been unable to consolidate the military coup, and is facing peaceful protests, boycotts and armed resistance every day. Today millions of people joined a nationwide silent strike, leaving city streets empty across the country. Military defectors report plummeting morale. It is vital that the British government and others do everything they can to cut the flow of arms and money to the military, deny them the legitimacy they crave, and hold them to account for the violations of international law they have committed..."
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"HURFOM: Ten months of terror have passed since the Burma Army orchestrated a failed coup on 1 February. “Trajectory of Terror,” is a new briefing paper by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) which outlines human rights violations committed in Mon State, Karen State and the Tanintharyi region perpetrated by the military junta between the end of February until the end of November 2021. Military impunity is emboldening the junta to commit more atrocities.
On Human Rights Day, HURFOM expresses grave concern over the lack of safety civilians are being forced to contend with amid the junta’s dark crusade for power and control. HURFOM calls for an immediate forfeiting of powers by the Burmese military and an end to the violence which has killed hundreds and injured many more, including the elderly, women and children. [Download in English]
The human rights situation in Burma has spiraled out of control. The increased violence and negligence wielded by the military Generals has left millions without food and shelter. Civilians do not feel safe in the country. Homes are being looted, and villages are being burned to the ground in deliberate acts of arson by the junta. Members of political opposition parties and human rights defenders have been forced into hiding. Children are being denied the right to be educated safely as military soldiers roam schools and use classrooms as bases. Livelihoods have been crippled as landmines litter farms and encircle villages, making leaving for food and work a life or death prospect. This sabotage of survival has been brought on willfully by the Burma Army.
HURFOM fieldworkers have spoken to witnesses on the ground who detailed arbitrary arrests, abductions and assaults on fundamental freedoms of residents in our target areas. The violence has created an unstable environment where hundreds are fleeing persecution and fearful for what their futures hold.
A response by the international community which meets the gravity of the peril’s civilians are being confronted with on a daily basis is long overdue. As the year ends, it is with the most profound urgency that HURFOM reiterates calls of our network and allies to respond to the many crises which are worsening daily.
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Nai Aue Mon, HURFOM Program Director, Email: [email protected], Signal: +66 86 167 9741
HURFOM was founded by exiled pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprisings, recent activists and Mon community leaders and youth. Its primary objective is the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma. HURFOM is a non-profit organization, and all its members are volunteers with a shared vision for peace in the country..."
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"Today, December 10th, people from around the world observe Human Rights Day to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”) in 1948. Because of the February 2021 military coup, this year’s Human Rights Day is an especially solemn and painful occasion for the people of Myanmar. The human rights violations being committed against the people of Myanmar since the coup are a direct result of the failure to end the Myanmar military’s longstanding oppression of ethnic and religious minorities. Thus, it is fitting that this year’s theme for Human Rights Day is Equality, as it serves as a reminder of what may come to pass when the principle of equality is disregarded. The human rights principle of “Equality” is found in Article 1 of the UDHR, which states, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Since February 2021, people across Myanmar have been protesting against the junta –– a regime that has consistently sought to undermine the principle of equality, impose discriminatory practices and sentiments, and embed them in the legal, political, economic and social framework of the country.
From the outset of the coup, people of all ages, ethnicities and religions in Myanmar have come together to peacefully demonstrate against a military dictatorship that pays no regard to human rights and uses its power to discriminate and oppress. Participants of the Civil Disobedience Movement (“CDM”), composed mostly of professionals in the public sector, have sacrificed their careers, freedoms, and lives by refusing to work for the junta. Similarly, young people have been on the frontlines fighting for their rights, often supported in the background by older civilians who also are standing against the military dictatorship in the hope of building a Myanmar in which the rights enshrined in the UDHR will become a reality for all. In their struggle against dictatorship, people across Myanmar have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention; torture, including sexual and gender-based violence; and enforced disappearance; with many being murdered by the junta in their defense of human rights.
Ethnic minorities in rural areas, who have long been the target of military abuse are once again facing challenges and threats to their lives, livelihoods, and physical security and integrity. Since the military coup, armed conflicts occurring between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed organizations have intensified. As early as March 2021, the Myanmar military began an airstrike campaign in Southeast Myanmar that often-targeted civilian areas. These airstrikes destroyed villages, killed many civilians, and caused mass displacement of villagers from their homes and ancestral lands. Southeast Myanmar continues to be heavily militarized by the junta. Civilians are unable to go about their daily lives due to the high risk of being killed, injured, or detained by the Myanmar military. Furthermore, there has been a recurrence of the military’s use of civilians for forced labor and as human shields, which were common forms of human rights abuses under past military regimes. Despite facing these abuses, rural villagers have been active in supporting the anti-coup movement and in protecting those who have placed themselves on the line in the defense of human rights. Local villagers have provided shelter and protection to CDM participants, ousted members of parliament, protesters and human rights defenders, and Myanmar military defectors. They have also participated in peaceful protests, even in the face of heavy military presence.
In recognition of the painful events of the past ten months, as well as the long history of ethnic oppression by the Myanmar military, the Karen Human Rights Group honors the people of Myanmar who continue to fight for a new Myanmar that recognizes that all are equal in dignity and rights. We also strongly urge the international community to remain steadfast in their support for the people of Myanmar, and to refrain from aiding or assisting the junta’s commission of human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations. This means actively refusing to give any legitimacy to the junta, and refusing both direct or indirect recognition of the junta as the government of Myanmar. It also means cutting ties with all businesses that support the junta or are implicated in the provision of weapons to the junta and its affiliates. Finally, we commemorate all those who have lost their freedoms and even their lives as a result of their resistance to the junta, in service to the fight for a federal democracy that respects, protects, and fulfills the human rights of all people of Myanmar equally..."
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City streets emptied during nationwide demonstration after massacre of villagers by soldiers
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"The streets in towns and cities across Myanmar were deserted on Friday as the public held a “silent strike” to protest against the military government, days after a massacre of villagers provoked international condemnation.
Reports of the killing of 11 villagers, including children, in Sagaing region on Tuesday, were described by the US as “credible and sickening”. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned of an “alarming escalation of grave human rights abuses in Myanmar”.
The military rounded up villagers, shooting them and setting them on fire, according to reports by independent local media. A video and photograph that appears to show the burned corpses in Don Taw village have been shared on social media.
The OHCHR called for a “firm, unified” international response. It also referred to a recent military attack on a small group of peaceful, unarmed protesters who had gathered in Yangon on 5 December. A military vehicle rammed into the group and opened fire, killing as many as five people, according to local media reports.
“These attacks are heinous, completely unacceptable, and disregard common values of humanity. They are also far from isolated,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the OHCHR.
In state-controlled media, the military responded to international criticism by accusing UN officials and others of interfering in Myanmar’s domestic affairs and relying on “distorted news”. It denied reports of the massacre in Don Taw and instead accused “nation-destroying media” of publishing false reports.
On Friday, the “silent strike” was observed in many areas of Myanmar, with businesses shut between 10am and 4pm to signal defiance against the junta. In Yangon, normally congested roads were deserted, and lines of shops and businesses shuttered. A prominent protest leader, Min Han Htet, posted images of empty streets on social media with the message: “We are one organism”.
The prominent activist Thet Swe Win said on social media that, in some towns, soldiers had confiscated the property of businesses that had closed, and that business owners had been forced to show up and be arrested.
Friday’s protest was reportedly observed across Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay, and in towns across Sagaing region, Bago region, Ayeyarwaddy region, Shan state and Magwe region.
Mass protests that spread across Myanmar in the aftermath of the coup were crushed with deadly violence by the military. However, opposition remains widespread and people continue to find new, peaceful ways to defy the junta. An armed resistance consisting of people’s defence forces has also emerged.
The military has killed at least 1,323 people since it seized power on 1 February, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group that monitors deaths and arrests. A further 7,881 are currently detained..."
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"Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC.
Five women who were detained for protesting against a military coup in the country earlier this year say they were abused and tortured in the detention system after their arrests.
Their names have been changed in the following accounts to protect their safety.
Warning: this piece contains disturbing descriptions of abuse.
Since Myanmar's military seized power in February, protests have swept across the country - and women have played a prominent role in the resistance movement.
Human rights groups say that although the military in Myanmar (also known as Burma) used disappearances, hostage-taking and torture tactics before, the violence has become more widespread since the coup.
As of 8 December, 1,318 civilians have been killed during military crackdowns on the pro-democracy movement, including 93 women, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) non-profit human rights organisation.
At least eight of those women died while in custody, four of whom were tortured to death in an interrogation centre.
More than 10,200 people have been detained in total, including over 2,000 women.
Democracy activist Ein Soe May was imprisoned for almost six months - the first 10 days of which were spent in one of Myanmar's notorious interrogation centres, where she alleges she was sexually assaulted and tortured.
Soe May old the BBC that one morning, while making placards for a protest, she was arrested and bundled into the back of a van.
"It was already night when I arrived [at an undisclosed location]. I was blindfolded and made to dodge imaginary objects as I made my way to the interrogation room, so they could make a fool of me," Soe May said.
Her captors questioned her, and for every answer they didn't like they hit her with a bamboo stick.
Soe May said she was also repeatedly pressed for details of her sex life. One interrogator threatened: "Do you know what we do to the women that end up here? We rape and kill them."
She was then sexually assaulted while blindfolded. "They pulled down the oversized top I was wearing, they touched me as they did it, exposing my body," she said.
Her blindfold was later removed, and she saw one of the guards take all but one of the bullets out of his revolver.
When she didn't give them details of her contacts, they made her open her mouth and "forced the loaded revolver inside it", she said.
Makeshift detention centres
According to Manny Maung, Myanmar researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), interrogation centres "could be anything from makeshift holding sites, a room in a military barrack or even an abandoned public building".
This was corroborated by a lawyer in Myanmar who spoke to the BBC, but asked not to be named for her own safety. She said she represented several detainees who had also reported being tortured and sexually assaulted during interrogations.
"One of my clients was wrongly identified but arrested anyway. When she explained she wasn't the person the authorities accused her of being, she was tortured with an iron rod which was rolled over her shins repeatedly until she lost consciousness," the lawyer said.
The woman was then "sent to another interrogation centre where she alleges a male guard told her that if she slept with him, he would get her released", she added.
The lawyer described a legal system in Myanmar as opaque, and where attorneys like her are sometimes powerless.
"We try to challenge [arrests and interrogations], but we are told the processes are legal and that [interrogators] have been given orders."
While it is impossible to verify Soe May's account, the BBC spoke to other female detainees who also said they had been tortured and sexually assaulted in interrogation centres.
"They forced me to raise the three-finger salute [a symbol of resistance in Myanmar] for more than an hour as a guard stroked my hair to intimidate me," one detainee said.
Another woman, who was taken to an interrogation centre in Shwe Pyi Thar township, said: "They pulled the girls out of the room. Some girls came back with some buttons on their clothes undone or missing."
'Fake news'
The BBC put Soe May's testimony to Myanmar's Information Deputy Minister Maj Gen Zaw Min Tun, who denied any torture was being carried out by the military and dismissed it as "fake news".
Earlier this year, the military broadcast an image of a female detainee. Her face had been beaten to the point she was unrecognisable. The image went viral.
She is still in prison, facing weapons charges.
The BBC asked Maj Gen Zaw Min Tun why the military did not hide the injuries.
He said: "It can happen when arrests are made. They try to escape and we have to capture them."
Solitary confinement
Abuse does not just happen in secret interrogation sites.
An activist in her 50s, who we are calling Ms Lin, described to the BBC how she was placed in solitary confinement for more than 40 days inside Yangon's Insein prison.
Ms Lin didn't have anything in her cell but the clothes she was wearing - not even necessary medication. During her detention she grew increasingly weak.
"I would lie in the dark and worry I was going to die," she said. "Sometimes, I heard shouting and crying from nearby cells. I kept thinking about who was being beaten."
She recounts how one day a male officer entered her cell with several female officers.
"When they were about to leave, I noticed the male officer was videoing me," she said. She made a complaint, but said it was "futile".
HRW researcher Manny Maung told the BBC that often in prisons about 500 women would be crammed into rooms only big enough for, at most, 100 detainees. They would have to take turns to sleep, because they can't all lie down at the same time.
They were also being denied basic sanitation, she said, adding such a step was "denying them a fundamental right".
The woman who was taken to Shwe Pyi Thar interrogation centre also experienced this in prison.
"The women who had just arrived from the interrogation centres had wounds that hadn't healed, whilst some were menstruating and were only allowed to shower after seven days in detention," she said.
Soe May, who was released in an amnesty of more than 5,000 prisoners in October, said her activism was worth the fear of being re-arrested.
"I understand there is always a possibility I could get arrested again and I might die, but I want to do something for my country," she said.
"Although I don't feel safe, I want to continue to be part of this movement."
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"Two journalists were injured at an anti-regime protest in Yangon when a military vehicle drove through the crowd on December 5. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the brutal attack and demands that the junta immediately cease its increasingly extreme violence against journalists.
Journalists with the independent Myanmar Pressphoto agency, Ma Hmu Yandanar Khet Moh Moh Tun and Ko Kaung Sett Lin, were on assignment when junta forces drove through a peaceful anti-regime protest in Yangon and opened fire on those attempting to flee. The attack killed five people and left dozens wounded, drawing international condemnation.
Hmu Yandanar sustained serious injuries when the military vehicle rammed into the back of the protest. She remains in a critical condition at a military hospital in Yangon following surgery. Kaung Sett Lin was also injured and received medical treatment at the same hospital before being taken into custody.
Coverage of the event by state-endorsed media made no mention of the military vehicle or the deaths, stating that its forces disbanded an “unlawful riot”. While the regime claimed that 11 demonstrators were arrested, witnesses suggest that over 15 people were taken into custody.
Myanmar’s junta has antagonised journalists since it assumed control in the military coup on February 1, with over 100 journalists arrested during its administration and more than 20 remaining in custody. After its exclusion at a regional summit in October, the junta released dozens of journalists in an amnesty on humanitarian grounds, an action largely met with distrust.
The IFJ said: “The IFJ condemns the junta’s ongoing violence towards journalists and demands that the journalists enduring detainment are released. This incident shows that, despite recent attempts to remedy its image, Myanmar’s junta continues to contravene international human rights standards and subjugate freedom of expression.”..."
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"Declaration of annulment of all guilty verdicts brought against the President of the Union,
U Win Myint, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political activists including
innocent members of the ethnic groups by various law courts.
1. From 1st February 2021 coup d’etat the terrorist military council had committed
transgressions and violations such as arbitrarily detaining the nation’s heads of state the
President U Win Myint, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Government officials,
Union Ministers, political figures, democratically elected Members of the Parliament, and
innocent members of the Ethnic Communities, on trumped up charges. The violations in
some cases included torture and unlawful killings.
2. The terrorist military council committed a treacherous putsch by breaking all the
democratic principles and the rule of law of the nation and betrayed the nation and its
people by an armed takeover. Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and
the National Unity Government (NUG) therefore, have already openly declared the terrorist
military council and its armed lackeys a terrorist group.
3. It is also to openly declare that the false accusations and concocted initial charges
made on Union President U Win Myint, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and all political activists including all those innocent members of the Ethnic Communities are
deemed invalid and thereby the verdicts made are null and void.
4. In the same theme, as the judges, law officers and the police force who are illegally
serving under the terrorist military council since the coup are aiding and abetting their
treacherous activities, we hereby give notice that appropriate actions will be taken under
due course of law.
5. It is also noted that the terrorist military council is solely responsible for the
transgressions and infringements of human and legal rights of the public by arbitrary
detentions and indictments without due legal process. Notice is given that full force of law
will be enacted upon the terrorist military council and their cabal..."
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"နိုင်ငံတော် သမ္မတ ဦးဝင်းမြင့်၊ နိုင်ငံတော်၏အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် နှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးတက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများ အပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့ တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူများအပေါ် ချမှတ်သည့် တရားရုံးအသီးသီး၏ အမိန့်များသည် မူလကပင် ပျက်ပြယ်ကြောင်းကြေညာခြင်း
၁။ အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့မှစ၍ နိုင်ငံသားအားလုံး၏ အထွတ်အထိပ်ဖြစ်သော နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ၊ လူထုခေါင်းဆောင် နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် အပါအဝင် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဝင်များ၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး နှင့် ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်များ၊ နိုင်ငံရေး ရာထူးလက်ရှိဖြစ်သူများ၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီ နည်းလမ်းတကျ ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက် ထားသော လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် များနှင့် အပြစ်မဲ့တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူများအား ဥပဒေမဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီး ချုပ်နှောင်ခြင်း၊ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ မဟုတ်မမှန်စွပ်စွဲ၍ တရားစွဲဆိုအပြစ်ပေးခြင်းများ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည်။
၂။ အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီသည် နိုင်ငံတကာတွင် ကျင့်သုံးလျက်ရှိသော ဒီမိုကရေစီကျင့်စဉ်များ နှင့် နိုင်ငံတော်၏ တည်ဆဲဥပဒေများကို ဖောက်ဖျက်ကျူးလွန်ပြီး နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာကို အကြမ်းဖက် သိမ်းယူခဲ့ခြင်း သည် နိုင်ငံတော် သစ္စာဖောက်ဖျက် ပုန်ကန်မှုကြီးကို ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ (CRPH) နှင့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) တို့က အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် အပေါင်းအပါများအား လက်နက်ကိုင်သောင်းကျန်းနေသူများဖြစ်သည့်အတွက် အကြမ်းဖက်အုပ်စုအဖြစ် အတိအလင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာခဲ့ပြီးလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။
၃။ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးဝင်းမြင့်၊ နိုင်ငံတော်၏အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် နှင့် နိုင်ငံရေး တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများအပါအဝင် ဥပဒေနှင့်ညီညွတ်ခြင်းမရှိဘဲ အကြောင်းပြချက်အမျိုးမျိုးပြကာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဒေသ အသီးသီးရှိ အပြစ်မဲ့တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူများအပေါ် စွဲဆိုထားသောအမှုများ အားလုံးသည် မူလစတင်တရားစွဲဆိုစဉ် ကပင် ပျက်ပြယ်သောအမှုများဖြစ်ကြောင်း နှင့် အဆိုပါအမှုများအပေါ်တွင် ပြစ်ဒဏ်ချမှတ်သည့် အမိန့်များသည်လည်း လုံးဝ တရားဝင်မှု မရှိကြောင်း အတိအလင်း ထုတ်ပြန် ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။
၄။ ထို့နည်းတူ အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်အောက်တွင် တရားမဝင် တာဝန် ထမ်းဆောင် နေကြသော တရားသူကြီးများ၊ ဥပဒေအရာရှိများ နှင့် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များသည် နိုင်ငံတော် သစ္စာဖောက်ဖျက် ပုန်ကန်မှု ကြီးအား အားပေးကူညီ ကျူးလွန်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များ အားလုံးကို အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ တရားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ပြဋ္ဌာန်းဥပဒေများနှင့်အညီ ပြင်းထန်စွာ အရေးယူမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးလိုက်သည်။
၅။ မတရားသဖြင့် ဖမ်းဆီးအရေးယူ အပြစ်ပေးခြင်းခံကြရသော ပြည်သူလူထုအသီးသီးတို့၏ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် ဥပဒေအရ အခွင့်အရေး ဆုံးရှုံးနစ်နာမှုများအတွက် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတွင် လုံး၀ တာဝန်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် ဥပဒေမဲ့ လုပ်ဆောင်မှုအားလုံးအတွက် စစ်ကောင်စီအဖွဲ့ဝင်များနှင့်တကွ အပေါင်းအပါများအားလုံးအပေါ် ပြင်းထန် ထိရောက်စွာ အရေးယူအပြစ်ပေးသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။..."
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The victims, all of whom were unarmed, included a disabled civilian and 10 members of local anti-junta guerrilla forces
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Eleven unarmed people, including teenagers, were captured and massacred by junta soldiers in a village in Sagaing Region on Tuesday, shortly before locals found the smoldering remains of their burnt bodies.
Some 100 soldiers raided Done Taw in Salingyi Township at around 11am after guerrilla fighters detonated explosives in an attack against a military convoy travelling nearby, local media reported.
Villagers found the badly charred bodies of the 11 victims in a pile, some with their hands tied, leading many to assume they were burned alive.
“The victims were taking shelter in a makeshift hut while running away from the military raiding their village,” said someone who is helping to organise their funerals. “The soldiers found them, beat them up and burned them.”
Done Taw is near the Letpadaung copper mine, which is owned by the military conglomerate MEHL and a Chinese company named Wanbao.
The Salingyi G-Z Local People’s Defence Force (PDF) also said the victims were burned alive after the soldiers beat them.
The leader of the Done Taw PDF, a self-organising anti-junta guerrilla group, added that the 11 were unarmed when they were captured. “They beat them to the brink of death and burned them alive before they died. Some of them are not even 18,” he said.
It is unclear if there were any eyewitnesses to the incident and Myanmar Now was unable to immediately confirm the exact circumstances of their deaths.
The victims were all male and included a 40-year-old with paraplegia and five teenagers under the age of 18, while the rest were aged 30 or younger, according to a list compiled by the Done Taw PDF.
The paraplegic man was the only victim who was not a member of the Done Taw PDF, the leader said.
Most of the victims were unrecognisable from being so badly burned, he added, except for 17-year-old Than Myint Aung, who was identifiable from his ear piercing.
All 10 PDF members worked as volunteers helping Covid-19 patients before joining the resistance against the junta, he added.
A video filmed by locals showed a group of burnt bodies lying in various positions in a pile of ashes with smoke still rising from the remains of what appears to have been a hut.
“Motherfucker,” says one of the people in the video, using a Burmese phrase that plays on the spelling of military chief Min Aung Hlaing’s name. “They’re not even recognisable anymore.”
The soldiers found the 11 victims on a betel farm at around 11am, around which time villagers heard gunshots and saw smoke rising from near that area, the PDF leader said. “They didn’t know that the soldiers were coming there until it was too late,” he said.
He added that he believed the victims were not shot dead.
Villagers were still fleeing for their safety when they gave accounts to Myanmar Now in the chaotic aftermath of the killings.
The 11 victims “were running through the farm and got shot and were taken to the hut where they were burned,” said a Done Taw villager.
Another local said she saw a monk get shot in the arm when soldiers started firing from the North Yamar bridge at around 7am.
“I saw the monk get shot with my own eyes,” she told Myanmar Now. “I heard that the bullet went neatly through his arm. I didn’t get to see his arm though.” The monk was not one of the 11 who were caught and he survived the gunshot, she added.
Early on Tuesday morning the Done Taw PDF attacked a convoy of military vehicles using three homemade explosives near the North Yamar bridge, which is about 300 meters from the village.
After the attack, soldiers began searching for the assailants in nearby woodlands, the PDF leader said. The soldiers were then seen entering the village from near the Pathein-Monywa road at 8am, according to other locals.
Their arrival led to people fleeing from nine villages in Salingyi and neighbouring Yinmabin Township, including Done Taw, Kyay Sarkya, Kan Kone and Aung Moe.
“They marched into the region on foot via the North Yamar bridge. They had a car with them as well. They also fired heavy and light weapons in the area,” said a villager from Kyay Sarkya village, which neighbours Done Taw.
Done Taw has only one entrance and exit route, through the Shwe Myin Tin farm on the bank of the Chindwin river, locals said. The lack of escape routes was likely the reason the 11 victims were captured, they added.
A local man living close to Done Taw said the soldiers who terrorised the area stationed themselves on Tuesday evening on Laynhyin hill, about a mile away from Done Taw.
The Done Taw PDF gave Myanmar Now a list naming ten of the 11 victims. They are: Arkar Soe, 14; Hsan Min Oo, 17; Than Myint Aung, 17; Kyaw Thet, 17; Chit Nan Oo, 19; Win Kaw, 20; Htet Ko, 22; Zin Min Tun, 22; Tin Naing, 30, and U Soe, 40.
The unnamed eleventh victim was 17 years old, the group said.
Earlier this year junta soldiers massacred dozens in the Sagaing township of Kani..."
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"Soldiers have been accused of killing 13 people from a village in central Myanmar, 11 of whose burned bodies were discovered on Tuesday.
The incident occurred near the city of Monywa, after local militias opposing military rule carried out at least two bomb attacks on a military convoy.
Locals say soldiers then swept through nearby villages, rounding up and killing six men and five teenagers.
The military junta is yet to comment on the incident.
Locals say that people's defence forces volunteers - armed groups formed to resist military rule in towns and villages - from the area planted two improvised explosives on a road used by the military in an attempted attack.
One of these devices detonated early, killing the two men planting it. When the second device exploded, two more men were reportedly detained and shot dead.
Residents allege the military then swept through nearby villages, rounding up and capturing six men and five teenage boys, who were in hiding. Their hands were tied, and they were shot before their bodies set alight.
Armed volunteer people's defence forces in towns and villages in Myanmar have carried out hundreds of bombings and assassinations targeting officials working with the military government after the violent suppression of pro-democracy rallies made peaceful protest almost impossible.
What is the background to the violence?
Mass protests had broken out across Myanmar after the military seized control of the South East Asian country in February and declared a year-long state of emergency following a general election.
The military claimed there had been widespread fraud during the election late last year, which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to power. The election commission has dismissed these claims.
Since then, the military has engaged in a brutal campaign of repression, killing at least 1,303 people in the demonstrations and arresting more than 10,600.
Earlier this week, Ms Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in prison for inciting dissent and breaking Covid-19 rules, in the first of a series of verdicts that could see her jailed for life.
Monywa is also close to a controversial Chinese-owned copper mine, which has provoked protests from local villagers going back 10 years over grievances that the Chinese company operating it, Myanmar Wanbao, is in a joint venture with a conglomerate controlled by the Myanmar military..."
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" Myanmar authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalists Kaung Sett Lin and Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun, who were arrested after sustaining injuries covering anti-military protests, and ensure that those responsible for injuring the journalists are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Authorities arrested photojournalist Kaung Sett Lin and videographer Hmu Yadanar, both with the independent Myanmar Pressphoto Agency, on December 5 while they were covering a flash mob protest on Pan Pin Gyi Road in the commercial capital Yangon, according to local news reports and MPA chief editor JPaing, who goes by one name. Both were in a military hospital due to injuries sustained at the event, he said.
“Myanmar must immediately release journalists Kaung Sett Lin and Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun and bring the perpetrators of the violence that injured them to account,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Myanmar’s junta must cease and desist from treating journalists like enemies of the state.”
Hmu Yadanar suffered injuries to her head after being hit by a truck allegedly driven by military forces into the back of the protest, The Irrawaddy reported. Security forces then opened fire on the protesters, killing at least five people in the melee, the same report said.
JPaing told CPJ by email that Hmu Yadanar has since undergone surgery for her head injuries at Military Hospital No. 2 in Yangon. Kaung Sett Lin was being held at the same hospital and recuperating from injuries, he said. CPJ was not able to immediately determine the nature of those injuries or how they were sustained. It was not immediately clear under what charges they were being held, JPaing said.
CPJ emailed Myanmar’s Ministry of Information for comment on Kaung Sett Lin and Hmu Yadanar’s arrests and The Irrawaddy’s account of violence by security forces, but did not receive an immediate response.
A CPJ special report in July documented the situation of journalists jailed in the wake of the military’s democracy-suspending February 1 coup, and found that at least 32 journalists were imprisoned due to their work as of July 1. Several journalists have been released and arrested since the mid-year census was conducted, according to CPJ reporting.
Many have been held on charges under Article 505(a) of the penal code, a broad and vaguely worded provision that penalizes incitement and the spreading of “false news” with maximum three-year prison penalties, CPJ research shows.
In April, CPJ called on coup maker Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to release all of the journalists jailed by his military regime..."
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