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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 23 July 2021)
Description: "As of 23 July, (931) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 23, a total of (5358) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. On July 17, four youths named Ye Myint, Htet Wai Min, photography enthusiast Kyaw Zin Win and another youth (name still unconfirmed), who all are from Lashio Town in Shan State, were arrested at their homes by junta police and soldiers for being accused of associating with the PDF. In the evening of July 21, workshop owner Soe Aung who was filling oxygen at Myingyan Industrial Zone in Mandalay Region and his 26 years old son, two others from the workshop, and a person who arrived to fill oxygen were arrested by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes with five private cars. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-23
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Title: Displaced Myanmar Civilians Denied UN Aid
Description: "United Nations aid to displaced people from Mindat, a mountainous town in Chin State which saw fighting between junta troops and civilian resistance fighters, is only reaching areas permitted by Myanmar’s regime. This week UN humanitarian organization the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) delivered humanitarian aid in “emergency response” to Mindat’s growing displaced population. However, the aid had not reached those in need, who fled the town following shootouts into rural Mindat. But villagers told The Irrawaddy this week that the aid had not left Mindat town and they had not received any assistance. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ceasefire-broken-in-chin-state-as-myanmar-junta-troops-clash-with-civilian-resistance-fighters.html “The travel authorization granted to UNHCR permitted access to a number of displacement sites within Mindat town,” the UNHCR told The Irrawaddy by email on Friday. UNHCR convoys carrying non-food items and COVID-19 preventative materials went to Mindat on Monday. The agency said that since February it has been closely following developments in Chin State to assist those displaced. The UNHCR said it “calls for the continued collaboration of all concerned to facilitate unimpeded humanitarian access in Chin State and across the country, so that no disruption to humanitarian work occurs”. The agency declined to provide details about how the aid was distributed and how many civilians benefited from the assistance. The agency said on Monday it plans to distribute tarpaulins, mosquito nets, sleeping mats, blankets, kitchen equipment, solar lamps and protective equipment for COVID-19 prevention as humanitarian assistance for up to 5,000 people. Dr. Bu Htang, a member of a displacement camp committee in Tuili village, about 50km from Mindat, told The Irrawaddy on Friday that the internally displaced people (IDP) in his village did not receive the UNHCR’s aid. His village hosts some 1,200 people who fled fighting in Mindat town and are unable to return home. “There is no support. We are sharing whatever donations we have. We heard the UN’s aid only goes to the areas where the military regime’s governing council permits. The aid should be delivered to the IDPs and many of those are in the villages, far from the town,” he said. Despite the hurdles, the UNHCR said the agency is in regular contact with partners “to explore the best way to reach and respond to the needs of those displaced in other areas of Chin State”..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-23
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Title: International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance members' statement on the crisis in Myanmar
Sub-title: Fourteen countries stand in solidarity with victims of attacks by the Myanmar security forces and condemn attacks on places of worship.
Description: "Statement from the 14 countries signed up to the International Religious Freedom of Belief Alliance: We stand in solidarity with the victims of human rights violations and abuses by the Myanmar security forces. People of all faiths and beliefs have come together to condemn the military’s actions since the 1 February 2021 coup. Faith actors have played prominent roles in the anti-coup movement, including by supporting human rights defenders and vulnerable communities. As a result, some have been subjected to inhumane treatment by the military regime. We remember those who have been killed and call for the release of all those unjustly detained. We echo the previous calls of Cardinal Charles Maung Bo to protect religious buildings, as well as hospitals, schools and other civilian structures during the ongoing violence. We condemn attacks on all those seeking refuge or protection. We condemn any violence against buildings that are at the very centres of communities, such as the Sacred Heart Church in Loikaw, Katkyaw Monastery in Bago, and Sule Mosque in Mandalay among others. We condemn any attack on places of worship in Myanmar and support all who pursue peace and human rights in Myanmar. We commend the role of faith actors in responding to COVID-19 in Myanmar as well as civil society organisations who are working in challenging circumstances, and remember all those who have died as a result of the pandemic. Co-signatories: Albania, Australia, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, US and the UK..."
Source/publisher: Govt. UK (London)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-23
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Title: The issue of providing immediate assistance to political prisoners - နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများအား အမြန်ဆုံး အကူအညီပေးရန် ကိစ္စ။
Description: "ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၃ ရက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်။ ================= သို့ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာကြက်ခြေနီကော်မတီ(မြန်မာ) အကြောင်းအရာ။ ။နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများအား အမြန်ဆုံး အကူအညီပေးရန် ကိစ္စ။ ၁။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၏ အာဏာ ကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် မတရားသောနည်းဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက်သိမ်းယူခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂။ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ခေါင်းဆောင်များဖြစ်သည့်နို်ငငံတော်သမ္မတဦးဝင်းမြင့်၊နိုင်ငံတော်၏အတိုင်ပင်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် တို့အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံအကြီးအကဲများ ၊ စာပေအနုပညာရှင်များ ၊ တက်ကြွ လှုပ်ရှားသူများ နှင့် ရဟန်သံဃာတော်များကိုလည်း နေအိမ်အကျယ်ချုပ်ထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်း ၊ စစ်ကြောရေး စခန်းများ ၊ လုံခြုံရေးကန့်သတ်ထားသည့်နေရာများနှင့် အကျဉ်းထောင်များတွင် မတရားသဖြင့် ဖမ်းဆီး ချုပ်နှောင်ခြင်းခံရပါသည်။ ၃။ နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာကို တရားမဲ့ရယူသည်ကို မကျေနပ်သဖြင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာဆန္ဒဖေါ်ထုတ်ခဲ့ကြ သည့် ပြည်သူလူထု (၅၀၀၀) ကျော်ကိုလည်း မတရားဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ထားခြင်း ခံရဆဲဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၄။ ထိုသို့ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ထားခြင်းခံရသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးတက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများအား အကျဉ်းထောင် ၊ အချုပ်ခန်း ၊ စစ်ကြောရေးစခန်းနှင့် စစ်ဆေးရုံများတွင် ချုပ်နှောင်ထားရှိရာတွင် လူ့ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာကျင့်ဝတ်နှင့် လျော်ညီစွာထားရှိမှုမရှိပဲ သန့်ရှင်းသော သောက်သုံးရေ၊ အစားအသောက်၊ နေရာထိုင်ခင်းနှင့် ဆေးဝါးကုသခံရမှုတို့ ချို့ယွင်းလိုအပ်လျက်ရှိကြောင်း ကြားသိရပါသည်။ ၅။ အကျဉ်းကျခံနေရသူများ၏ သက်ဆိုင်ရာမိသားစုများကို ထောင်ဝင်စာပေးခွင့်မပြုခြင်း၊ မိသားစုနှင့်အဆက်အသွယ်မရရှိခြင်း နှင့် တရားဥပဒေနှင့်အညီခုခံချေပခွင့် မရရှိခြင်းစသည်တို့ နစ်နာဆုံးရှုံးလျက်ရှိနေပါသည်။ ၆။ ကိုဗစ်တတိယလှိုင်းကို ကောင်းမွန်စွာ ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ခြင်း မရှိခြင်းကြောင့် အကျဉ်းထောင်များ အတွင်းတွင်လည်း ကူးစက်မှုများ များစွာဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် လိုအပ်သောကာကွယ်ကုသရေး များကိုလုံလောက်စွာ ပေးအပ်နိုင်ခြင်းမရှိကြောင်းတွေ့မြင်ကြားသိနေရပါသည်။ ၇။ ယခုအခါတွင် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါပိုးကူးစက်မှုကြောင့် အကျဉ်းသားသေဆုံးမှုများနှင့် ကျန်းမာရေး ချို့တဲ့သောအကျဉ်းသားများ ရောဂါပြင်းထန်ခံစားနေရမှုများကို နေ့စဉ်ကြားသိနေရပါသည်။ ၈။ အကျဉ်းထောင်များအတွင်းတွင်လည်း လူ့ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနှင့် မညီသော ဆက်ဆံခံရမှုများကြောင့် လူ့ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနှင့်အညီ ဆက်ဆံခံရရေးအတွက် တိုက်ပွဲဝင်တောင်းဆိုမှုများကိုလည်း ကြားသိနေရပါသည်။ ၇။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာကြက်ခြေနီကော်မတီ(မြန်မာ) အနေဖြင့် ယုံကြည်ချက် ကြောင့် ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခံနေရသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများ၏ နစ်နာဆုံးရှုံးလိုအပ်ချက်များကို ကော်မတီ၏တာဝန်ဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံတကာကျင့်ဝတ်များနှင့်အညီ အမြန်ဆုံးကူညီပေးနိုင်ပါရန် တိုက်တွန်းအပ်ပါသည်။ ဒေါ်ဖြူဖြူသင်း မင်္ဂလာတောင်ညွန့်မဲဆန္ဒနယ်၊ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် အတွင်းရေးမှူးအဖွဲ့ဝင်၊ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ..."
Source/publisher: Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-23
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Title: National Unity Government: Weekly Press Release No.9/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အပတ်စဉ်သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၉/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ www.nugmyanmar.org အပတ်စဉ်သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၉/၂၀၂၁) ၂၃ ဇူလိုင် ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ၁။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန် ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၁၀/၂၀၂၁) ဖြင့် ဝန်ထမ်း (၂၁) ဦး၊ ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၁၁/၂၀၂၁) ဖြင့်ဝန်ထမ်း(၈) ဦး၊ (၁၂/၂၀၂၁) နှင့် ဝန်ထမ်း (၂၅) ဦးတိုကို ဆက်လက်၍ အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခဲ့သည်။ ၂။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁) ဖြင့် ဌာနခွဲအသီးသီးရှိ CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများကို ဖိနှိပ်ခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပစ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအိမ်ရာများ ပြန်သိမ်းခြင်း/ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်သူ့အစိုးရက ပြန်ဆပ်ရန်မလိုဟု ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည့် ၂လစာချေးငွေများ ပြန်လည် တောင်းခံခြင်း တို့ကိုကျူးလွန်နေသည့် တရားမဝင်အာဏာ သိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံ အောက်ပါ ဝန်ထမ်းအကြီးအကဲ(၁၅) ဦးကို အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းဝင်သူများအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ် ကြေညာလိုက်ပြီး အလုပ်မှ ထုတ်ပစ်လိုက်သည်။ ၃။ ပုဂ္ဂလိကဆေးရုံများ၊ ပရဟိတဆေးရုံ၊ ဆေးခန်းများနှင့် သက်ဆိုင်သော Covid-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်သော အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာ တစ်ရပ်ကို အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေးကော်မရှင်က ၂၀၂၁ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပြီး အဆိုပါ ကြော်ငြာစာတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် Covid-19 တတိယလှိုင်း ကူးစက်ပြန့်ပွားမှုသည် ကြောက်ခမန်းလိလိ ပျံ့နှံ့လျှက်ရှိကြောင်း၊ လက်ရှိ ပြည်သူ့ဆေးရုံများသည် ဆေးရုံတွင် ကုသမှု ခံယူရန်လိုအပ်သော လူနာများအားလုံးကို ကုသပေး ရန် အတွက် လုံလောက်သော အရင်းအမြစ် အင်အားမရှိကြောင်း၊ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ အများပြည်သူများ လိုအပ်သော ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုကို အတတ်နိုင်ဆုံးရရှိစေရန်အတွက် ပုဂ္ဂလိက ဆေးရုံများ၊ ပရဟိတ ဆေးရုံ များတွင် ဆေးရုံတက်ရောက် ကုသမှုခံယူရန် လိုအပ်သော ပြည်သူလူထုအား ကမ္ဘာ့ကျန်းမာရေးအဖွဲ့ (WHO) မှ ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသော စံချိန်စံညွှန်းများနှင့်အညီ ကုသပြုစု စောင့်ရှောက်မှုပေးရန် တိုက်တွန်းကြောင်းတို့ပါဝင်သည်။ ၄။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး လုပ်ဆောင်မှုများအား ပြည်သူသို့ အစီရင်ခံတင်ပြစာ ၁ကို ၂၀၂၁ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့တွင်ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပြီး အဆိုပါ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်တွင် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါ ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသနိုင်ရေးအတွက် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရနှင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားဒေသအဖွဲ့အစည်းတို့ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်နေမှုများအကြောင်း၊ ပြည်သူလူထုအားကာကွယ်ဆေးထိုး နှံနိုင်ရေး နိုင်ငံတကာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများသို့ အကြံပြုထားသော နည်းလမ်း(၃) သွယ်အကြောင်းနှင့် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက လုပ်ကိုင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော ပညာပေးအစီအစဉ်များအကြောင်းတို့ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ ၅။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ဆက်သွယ်ရေး၊ သတင်းအချက်အလက်နှင့် နည်းပညာဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနများ၏ တရားဝင် အင်တာနက် စာမျက်နှာများကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်လွှင့်ခဲ့သည်။ ဆက်သွယ်ရေး၊ သတင်းအချက်အလက်နှင့် နည်းပညာဝန်ကြီးဌာန https://mocit.nugmyanmar.org/ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ https://moee.nugmyanmar.org/ ၆။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ဝန်ကြီးချူပ်ရုံး ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၈ ရက်နေ့စွဲဖြင့် ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေ အတွင်းရေးမှူးချူပ်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းများ၊ နိုင်ငံတကာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ အမျိုးသားအစိုးရများ၊ စေတနာ သဒ္ဓါတရားထက်သန်သော လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များထံသို့ အိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာတစ်စောင်၂ ပေးပို့ခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါ အိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာတွင် လက်ရှိမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် လူပေါင်း ၉၄၅၀၀၀ ကျော်မှာ အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေပြီး၊ ၃၃၆၀၀၀ ကျော်မှာ စစ်ဘေးဒဏ်ကို ပြေးရှောင် နေရသလို၊ အနည်းဆုံး လူပေါင်း ၆.၂ သန်းမှာ အစားအစာပြတ်လပ်မှုကြုံနေရပါသည်။ တရားမဝင် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ညံ့ဖျင်းလှသော စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုကြောင့် ကိုဗစ် ၁၉ တတိယလှိုင်း၏ ပြင်းထန်သော ရိုက်ခတ်မှုသည် မထိန်းသိမ်းနိုင်တော့သည့် အခြေအနေသို့ရောက်ရှိနေပြီး သေဆုံးမှုများမှာ တိုးပွားလျက် ရှိကြောင်း၊ ဆေးရုံများတွင် လူနာများအတွက် အိပ်ယာများမလုံလောက်ခြင်းနှင့် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါ ကူးစက်သူများကို ကုသရန် ငြင်းဆန်မှုများဖြစ်ပေါ်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ အောက်စီဂျင်ပြတ်လပ်မှုမှာ တစ်ဖြည်း ဖြည်း ပိုမိုဆိုးရွားလာပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီမှ အောက်ဆီဂျင်ထုတ်လုပ်မှုများနှင့် အောက်ဆီဂျင် ထုတ်လုပ်သည့် စက်ပစ္စည်းများကို လူမဆန်စွာ ပိတ်ပင်တားဆီးပြီး သိမ်းပိုက်ထားကြေင်း၊ စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ကျန်းမာရေးစနစ်နှင့် ကျန်းမာရေးလုပ်သားများအပေါ် ပစ်မှတ်ထား နှိမ်နှင်းနေပြီး ကိုဗစ် ၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါအား စစ်လက်နက်တစ်ခုအဖြစ် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ အသုံးချနေကြောင်း တစ်ဖြည်းဖြည်း ပေါ်လွင်လာနေပါသည်။ ယခုအခါ မြန်မာပြည်တွင် ကျန်းမာရေး ဝန်ဆောင်စောင့်ရှောက်နေသည့် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားတိုက်ခိုက်မှု ၂၅၀ ကျော်ရှိပြီဖြစ်ပြီး တိုက်ခိုက်ခံရမှုအများဆုံး တိုင်းပြည်ဖြစ်သလို၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာ ပညာရှင်များအတွက် အန္တရယ်အရှိဆုံး တိုင်းပြည်တစ်ခုဖြစ်လာနေကြောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ ချက်ခြင်းကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းမရှိလျှင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် မျိုးကွဲရောဂါသစ် အပါအဝင် ကိုဗစ် ၁၉ ပြန့်ပွားစေသည့် အဓိက နိုင်ငံတစ်ခုဖြစ်လာနိုင်ပါသည်။ မြန်မာ့ပြဿနာသည် ဒေသတွင်းနှင့် တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံး၏ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာကပ်ရောဂါကို ပြန်လည်ဖြစ်ပွားလာစေမည့် နိုင်ငံငယ်တစ်ခုအဖြစ် ရှိနေသည့်အတွက် နိုင်ငံ တစ်နိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်တွင်းအရေးတစ်ခုတည်း မဟုတ်တော့ပါဟု ပြောလိုပါသည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းမှ ကောင်းမွန်စနစ်ကျသော ဝင်ရောက်စွက်ဖက်မှုကို အမြန်ဆုံးဆောင်ရွက်ပေးပါရန် တောင်းဆိုကြောင်းတို့ပါဝင်သည်။ ၇။ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကျရောက်သည့် (၇၄) နှစ်မြောက် အာဇာနည်နေ့အခမ်းအနားများသို့ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့က သဝဏ်လွှာတစ်စောင်ပေးပို့ခဲ့သည်။ အဆိုပါ သဝဏ်လွှာတွင် အာဇာနည် ခေါင်းဆောင်ကြီး များသည် တောင်တန်း နှင့် မြေပြန့်မကွဲခြားဘဲ တန်းတူညီမျှရှိမှု၊ လွတ်လပ်မှု၊ တရားမျှတမှုစသည့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီစံနှုန်းများဖြင့် ပြည်ထောင်စု မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်သစ်တစ်ရပ် ကြိုးပမ်းထူထောင်နေစဉ် လမ်းခုလတ်၌ ကျဆုံးခဲ့ကြရ ကြောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတော်လုပ်ကြံမှုကြီး ကြောင့် လွတ်လပ်စမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ကံကြမ္မာမှာ တဆစ်ချိုးပြောင်းလဲသွားခဲ့ရသလို အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ကြံမှုကို ဦးဆောင်ခဲ့သော ဂဠုန်ဦးစောမှာလည်း ကြိုးစင်ထက်တွင် ဘဝဆုံးခဲ့ရပြီး လူသိများသော နိုင်ငံရေးသမား တစ်ဦးအဖြစ်မှ ပြည်သူလူထုတစ်ရပ်လုံး ရွံရှာစက်ဆုပ်သည့် လူယုတ်မာတစ်ဦးအဖြစ် သမိုင်းတွင် မှတ်တမ်းဝင် ကျန်ရစ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ ယနေ့ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးတွင် ရှေးကအာဇာနည်ကြီးများ၏စိတ်ဓာတ်အတိုင်း အများအတွက် အသက်စွန့်ခဲ့ကြတဲ့ သူရဲကောင်းတွေပေါ်ပေါက်လာခဲ့ရပြန်သည့်အပြင် ကိုဗစ်ကပ်ရောဂါ ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအတွက် အသက်စွန့်ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့ကြတဲ့ သူရဲကောင်းတွေ ကိုလည်း မြင်တွေ့နေရလျက် ရှိကြောင်း၊ ဤကဲ့သို့ အများအကျိုးအတွက် စွန့်လွှတ် အနစ်နာခဲ့ပြီး ဆောင်ရွက်တတ်သော အာဇာနည်စိတ်ဓါတ်သည် မိမိတို့ ဦးတည်ချီတက်နေတဲ့ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ပျက်သုဉ်းရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင်စု တည်ဆောက်ရေး အတွက် အင်အားများပင် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ ယနေ့ ၇၄ နှစ်မြောက် အာဇာနည်နေ့တွင် အာဇာနည် အမျိုးသား ခေါင်းဆောင်ကြီးများနှင့် တကွ ခေတ်အဆက်ဆက် မတရားမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်ခဲ့ကြသော၊ အများအကျိုးအတွက် စွန့်လွတ် အနစ်အနာခံခဲ့ကြသော အာဇာနည်တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူလူထုအပေါင်းတို့ကို အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရကိုယ်စား အလေးပြုဦးညွတ်လိုက်ကြောင်းတို့ပါဝင်သည်။ ၈။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ “အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး ကော်မရှင်မှ ပြည်သူသို့ ပန်ကြားလွှာ” ၃ တစ်စောင်ကို ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့နေ့စွဲဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပြီး အဆိုပါ ပန်ကြားလွှာတွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ အာဏာမသိမ်းခင်က ပြည်သူနှင့် ပြည်သူအစိုးရ တသားတည်း ရောဂါန္တရကပ်ဖြစ်သည့် COVID-19 ပထမလှိုင်းနှင့် ဒုတိယလှိုင်း ကို ညီညီညွတ်ညွတ် ဝိုင်းဝန်း၍ တွန်းလှန် တိုက်ဖျက်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့အဆင့်အတန်းမှီ၊ အဆင့်မြင့်နိုင်ငံ များတွင်တောင် ကောင်းမွန်စွာ ကုသ၊ ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်မှု မပေးနိုင်ခဲ့သည့်အချိန်တွင် ပြည်သူ့အစိုးရ၏ စနစ်တကျ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုကြောင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူပြည်သားအားလုံး စနစ်တကျ တည်ငြိမ်အေးချမ်းစွာဖြင့် ဖြေရှင်းကျော်လွှားနိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ မတရားအာဏာသိမ်း အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ပြည်သူအပေါ်တွင် စာနာထောက်ထား မှုကင်းမဲ့စွာ စေတနာလုံးဝမရှိဘဲ မိမိတို့အာဏာတည်မြဲရေးတစ်ခုကိုသာ ရှေးရှု၍ လုပ်ဆောင်နေပြီး COVID-19 တတိယလှိုင်းကို စနစ်တကျ စီမံခန့်ခွဲ ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ခြင်းမရှိကြောင်း၊ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းမရှိဘဲ CDM ဆက်လက် လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိသော ပြည်သူများကို တတ်အားသရွေ့ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီနေသည့် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ အရပ်ဖက် ပြည်သူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းအများ၊ ပရဟိတအသင်းအဖွဲ့များ၊ ပုဂ္ဂလိကဆေးရုံများကို အမျိုးမျိုးသော ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်မှုများပြုလုပ်၍ အများ ပြည်သူ လိုအပ်သော ရောဂါ၊ ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ် ကုသမှုများ မပေးနိုင်ရန် နည်းမျိုးစုံဖြင့် နှောင့်ယှက် ဖျက်ဆီးလျှက်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် ပြည်သူသို့ အကြံပြုချက်များပါဝင်သည်။ ၉။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေးကော်မရှင်က COVID-19 တတိယလှိုင်းတွင် ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုများ ပေးနေကြသော ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေး သူရဲကောင်းများအား အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီမှ မတရား ဖိနှိပ်၊ ဖမ်းဆီး၊ ချုပ်နှောင်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်သူများ လိုအပ်နေသည့် ဆေးဝါးများကို ဖျက်ဆီးသိမ်းယူခြင်းများကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ကန့်ကွက်ရှုံ့ချသော ကြေညာချက်တစ်စောင်၄ကို ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ အသေးစိတ်သိရှိလိုပါက 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Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-23
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Title: Urgent Diplomatic Release on Insein Prison Strike
Description: "At around 8 am this morning, anti-dictatorship chants were heard from inside Insein Prison, Yangon Region. The protest began in the women’s detention block annexe to Insein Prison. This block detains female prisoners arrested for pro-democracy protests and the CDM movement. The protest has now spread across the prison and some staff have joined. Currently, junta forces are storming the prison compound and confiscating all of the prison staffs’ weapons. Some of these staff have confirmed to us military vehicles have entered the prison compound. The situation COVID-19 situation has been deteriorating in the two female detention blocks, but the prison authority has only given treatment to those in special cells and prison hospital. The protest reportedly began because prisoners have not been provided with medical care, and neither have prison staff been given protection from COVID-19. These events follow an announcement by the director of Yangon Imprisonment Department they plan to release more than 1000 inmates from Insein Prison on 22 July who were incarcerated for narcotics and theft. In September 1990 dozens of political prisoners in this same Insein Prison as today staged a hunger strike to demand the military transfer power to the democratically elected National League for Democracy. In the brutal crackdown that followed, over 40 prisoners required hospitalization and six were reportedly beaten to death. Prison guards had played songs over loudspeakers from security towers to drown out the sound inside and outside the compound’s walls, of the prisoners screams, the guard’s verbal assaults, and sound of beating bodies. In response, the SLORC said “internationally-recognized batons” had been used and that only three prisoners had been “slightly injured”. AAPP has great concern the protests in Insein Prison will be viciously suppressed and there will be a massacre and rampant use of torture. Like-minded governments must apply pressure on junta officials to protect the lives of these pro-democracy supporters and secure their release from arbitrary detention. In Solidarity, AAPP..."
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Title: Anatomy of a Massacre: How Myanmar’s Military Killed Dozens of Pro-Democracy Protesters
Sub-title: The death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since mid-March. It had a chilling effect on the pro-democracy movement.
Description: "Running through alleys or hiding in terror at home, they feared for their lives as friends were picked off one by one. Many were never heard from again. It started in the early morning on April 9, as people in Myanmar woke up to graphic social media posts about military operations unfolding in the city of Bago, just 55 miles northeast of the country’s biggest city Yangon. But this was no normal operation. As blasts and gunfire lit up the predawn darkness, heavily armed forces launched an unprecedented assault on pro-democracy protesters in the medium-sized city studded with pagodas. After security forces arrested leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power in a Feb. 1 coup, Bago emerged as a flashpoint in the nationwide demonstrations sweeping Myanmar. Local civilian protesters set up barricades in the eastern part of the city, establishing a level of autonomy signaling resistance to junta rule. But in just 24 hours in Bago, human rights groups and residents say soldiers hunted down and killed more than 80 people there, many of them young activists. The government downplayed the crackdown and blamed protesters for the violence, but witnesses tell a different story of nearly being killed and losing friends. According to human rights monitor the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which keeps a running database of confirmed deaths and detentions, more than 900 protesters and bystanders have been killed by the military since February. The death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since March 14. It had a chilling effect on the pro-democracy movement and forced many activists to flee into the borderlands of Myanmar to join guerrilla resistance groups. It was just before sunrise, when troops encircled the “safe” zone established by protesters in the city, then stormed the encampment, using rifle grenades to destroy barricades on main cross streets and firing live rounds indiscriminately. “Some of us who were taking cover behind that barricade lost their lives. But we couldn’t go to pick up their bodies,” said Myo Ko, a protest organizer who had spent the previous night with his friends guarding barricade number 7 on the city’s Magadit Road. “While the road and the streets were filled with smoke, they started shooting at any moving thing or shadows they saw with a machine gun.” “Some of us who were taking cover behind that barricade lost their lives. But we couldn’t go to pick up their bodies.” In a matter of minutes, protesters on Magadit Rd were trying to defend themselves with homemade airguns, slingshots and fireworks against encroaching troop movements. While Myo Ko took cover with friends, “Thiri” could see what was happening on the street from her home. “We all heard the sound of shelling. We heard the noises continuously,” she said. “From the next streets we heard the machine guns. We heard the screams ‘run!’” Her real name is not being used out of fear of reprisals from security forces, who have arrested more than 5,000 people since the coup, according to monitors. With little effort, the army had taken over Magadit Road. Soldiers moved east to San Daw Twin Road to reinforce units attacking protesters there. That’s where another protest organizer going by the name of Kay was trapped. “Some of my friends were killed and many others were also arrested,” Kay said. In just over an hour, the last barricade on San Daw Twin Rd fell. The military had full control of the city. But the bloodshed was just beginning, as soldiers went door to door as people cowered in whatever safe place they could find. “We felt like we could die anytime,” said Thiri, who hid in an old storage room for 24 hours. She remained in utter silence and did not open the door until the next morning. “We felt like we could die anytime.” Myo Ko survived by fleeing south through alleys and fields, but his cousin wasn’t so lucky. “My cousin, he got shot in the leg and was hidden in a neighboring house. When the soldiers got into that house, he tried to run away and was shot from behind,” he said. Residents reported seeing soldiers stack dozens of bodies at the Zeyar Muni pagoda near Magadit Road. They said the injured were slumped over the dead. By the next morning, most of the bodies had disappeared, according to residents, along with much of the evidence of the military’s massacre. Only three bodies of victims were recovered by families in the days that followed the massacre, according to human rights organizations and sources on the ground. The next day, residents picked up shells, bullet casings and other remnants of the bloody day that littered the streets of Bago. Used mostly in remote border areas to fight rebel insurgents, the rifle grenades stood out in the urban environment. The message to the people of Myanmar was chilling: if you rise up against the army, you will pay. The junta disputes the allegations, claiming only one person was killed, even as AAPP has confirmed the deaths of 82 people. But the day marked a turning point in the protests. Months later, many protesters have given up on the idea of mass demonstrations and strikes, taking up arms with a People’s Defense Force as a last resort. “We will keep on fighting any way possible,” Myo Ko said, from an undisclosed location. “The youths are gathering to fight, to end this military dictatorship.”..."
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Title: As part of an ongoing monthly analysis WLB has released our June briefer on the situation of human rights amid the military coup in Burma.
Description: "As part of an ongoing monthly analysis WLB has released our June briefer on the situation of human rights amid the military coup in Burma, where 57 women have been killed & 1,060 women have been arrested. There must be justice & accountability!..."
Source/publisher: Women's League of Burma
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 22 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 22 July 2021: As of 22 July, (931) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Minkin Township and Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 22, a total of (5333) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. On July 21, terrorist junta’s troops raided Kun Seik Village in Sagaing Region’s Shwebo Township and shot dead local villager Thein Tint a.k.a Jit Leik, when he was running away in fear. Khin Mar Yi a.k.a Phwar Cho, former chairman of Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township Development Committee, who was arrested and charged under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code since March for involvement in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and protesting, suffers from chronic diabetes. She died on July 21 in a Minkin detention cell due to diabetes and heart failure as she was not allowed to receive medical treatment at hospital while detained. On the night of July 20, Mya Wunn Yan, chief editor of Than Lwin Thway Chinn News Agency based in Shan State’s Taunggyi City, and her two daughters, Nan Khin Hphone Thwe and Su Myat Noe, who are also reporters, were arrested at home in Taunggyi by the terrorist junta. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Title: The Human Rights Foundation of Monland Expresses Concern Over Junta’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in latest briefing paper, “Running Out of Air”
Description: "HURFOM, Mawlamyine: A new briefing paper by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), “Running Out of Air: How the Junta in Burma is Abandoning Civilians in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” finds that the Burma Army is ill-equipped to handle the response to COVID-19. Since the military seized power in a coup on 1 February, the lives of civilians have been under constant attack. Hundreds have been killed by state-sponsored forces and thousands remain imprisoned for their role in pro-democracy activities, include health care providers. With multiple crises unfolding nationwide, the junta’s poor handling of the pandemic threatens to only worsen the already dire situation in the country. In HURFOM target areas of Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi region, hospitals and various health infrastructure are running out of supplies. This has crippled civilian livelihoods who are struggling to access oxygen, masks and medicine from pharmacies. With prices of material goods increasing, and the junta blocking all pathways to access life-saving support, civilians are being pushed to the brink of survival. Our findings indicate that the military is deliberating excluding the most vulnerable from access to healthcare, in order to preserve their own interests. HURFOM is greatly concerned for the people of Burma. A lack of effective coordination to secure life-saving access to personal protective equipment and medical supplies has resulted in human lives paying the cost for the junta’s negligence. Without an immediate recourse in the response plan, the situation on the ground is only likely to worsen. Health providers must be protected and civilians guaranteed pathways to accessible, affordable care. Millions are at risk, and they are running out of options. HURFOM calls for immediate, urgently needed intervention by the international community and for regional actors including the Association of South East Asian Nations. The people of Burma cannot afford to wait any longer..."
Source/publisher: Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-22
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Title: KHRG’s Statement on Mass Killing in Dooplaya District
Description: "Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) stands firmly for human rights and is concerned by the news of 25 men found killed in Waw Lay, Ka Nae Lay area, Kaw T’ree Township, Dooplaya District in June 2021. In interviews with The Irrawaddy and Karen Information Center (KIC), the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) justified the killings, claiming that these men were spies working for the military junta, and adding: “we have had to do what we are supposed to do as we are fighting a war.” KHRG strongly condemns this mass killing. Extrajudicial executions constitute “willful killings” and are thus in serious violation of the Geneva Conventions, specifically Common Article 3, which addresses non-international armed conflict, and which the KNU has formally committed to abiding by. Also, under the International Human Rights Law, the prohibition of the arbitrary deprivation of life, the right to humane treatment, and the right to a fair trial applies to everyone including those alleged to be spies. KHRG welcomes the announcement by the Karen National Union (KNU) of a full investigation into this incident. Given KNDO is an armed wing of the KNU, KNU has a responsibility to conduct an impartial investigation. KHRG will watch for the results of the KNU’s investigation into this case and calls on the KNU to hold accountable those found to be responsible for this crime and to take appropriate judicial action against the perpetrators. KHRG is committed to the defense of human rights and the need to end impunity for violations, regardless of who the perpetrators may be. KHRG calls for accountability for all human rights violations and abuses committed by any actor during the present military coup and under past regimes..."
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Title: MYANMAR CRITICALLY NEEDS MASSIVE UN-MANDATED HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION TO FIGHT COVID
Description: "22 July 2021: The UN Security Council must urgently mandate an international humanitarian intervention in Myanmar, including aid workers on the ground, to get life-saving assistance to millions of people suffering under a devastating third wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, says the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M). The military junta in Myanmar has allowed COVID-19 to run free since it attempted to seize power six months ago. The impacts of its failed coup on 1 February have included the destruction of the country’s healthcare system, and a massive third wave of COVID-19 is devastating Myanmar as a result. People are lining the streets in search of oxygen supplies, families are losing multiple loved ones, and crematoriums are filled beyond capacity. “The situation has become a humanitarian disaster of such proportions that an international presence of health and medical personnel has become critical,” said Chris Sidoti of SAC-M. “The junta has demonstrated that it has neither the will nor the capacity to tackle a crisis on this scale – a crisis that it has deliberately fuelled.” SAC-M is calling for the UN Security Council to mandate an urgent humanitarian intervention under a joint initiative with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This is the only way to ensure life-saving assistance reaches the millions of desperate people in Myanmar’s heartlands and in the junta’s jails, where thousands of political prisoners have been detained arbitrarily. SAC-M called last week for urgent cross-border assistance, with supply lines into Myanmar from neighbouring countries. This remains vital for the ethnic service providers, civil society organisations, humanitarian groups and others aligned with the National Unity Government and Civil Disobedience Movement who are already fighting to keep people alive. The National Unity Government has called for assistance from the international community. Myanmar does not have time to wait for the junta to ask for help, as was the case after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country in May 2008. However, the UN Security Council and ASEAN can use the experience gained in the aftermath of Nargis as a precedent for much-needed humanitarian intervention. “This is a crisis the world cannot afford to ignore, much less the region,” said Marzuki Darusman of SAC-M. “The makeshift efforts to ease the plight of people crossing into Thailand and India are far from being able to roll back the epicentre of the pandemic within the country, which needs to be the primary strategic objective of massive regional and international action.” The junta’s forces are seizing supplies of oxygen and personal protective equipment and medical professionals are being detained by the junta if they are caught supporting volunteer relief efforts. Community preventative measures such as checkpoints are also being destroyed. Meanwhile, the junta is drastically under-reporting case numbers. “The junta is not a partner for the delivery of aid. That is why a humanitarian presence on the ground is needed,” said Yanghee Lee of SAC-M. “Assistance must be delivered through international medical personnel, and international protection given to Myanmar’s own medical professionals who are desperate to come out of hiding and work to save their country. No one will trust anything from the junta now.”..."
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Title: Myanmar doctors in hiding and hunted by the junta as Covid crisis ravages the country
Description: "A severe Covid-19 wave is devastating Myanmar -- a country already on its knees following February's military coup -- with people queuing for hours for oxygen in major cities and the seriously ill dying at home because they are too scared to visit understaffed, ill-equipped hospitals. Images from the biggest city, Yangon, show families of the sick waiting at oxygen plants in the hopes of refilling tanks, crematoriums packed with mourners and coffins, and funeral workers and volunteers in white hazmat suits working non-stop at cemeteries to bury rows of shrouded bodies. During months of bloody political turmoil, Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 900 people, including shooting protesters dead in the streets, and laid siege to entire villages. Thousands have been detained in the ongoing crackdown, with widespread reports of torture. Civil society has been eroded and the already-vulnerable health care system has collapsed. Doctors and other health workers, many of whom went on strike to protest the coup, have been forced into hiding to escape attacks and arrest from junta forces. As Myanmar now faces its worst Covid-19 outbreak, doctors and volunteers who spoke to CNN accuse the military of using the pandemic as a weapon against the people. They said the military has restricted critical oxygen sales to the public and refused sick patients at military-run hospitals. Covid-19 outbreaks have also reached prisons, including the main jail, Insein, housing anti-coup protesters. Terrified residents are choosing to self-treat at home, doctors say. When they do go to hospital they are often turned away as the facilities are running out of oxygen, treatments and beds, and there's not enough staff to treat patients, they said. eople wait to fill up empty oxygen canisters outside a factory in Mandalay on July 13. On Wednesday, the military-controlled health ministry reported 6,093 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total confirmed to 246,663. There were also 247 reported fatalities, with the confirmed death toll from Covid-19 5,814. But doctors and volunteer groups say those numbers are woefully under-reported. A once-promising vaccine program has crumbled under junta rule, and minimal testing, a lack of official data, and widespread public distrust of the military means no one has a clear idea of the extent of the crisis. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said one doctor who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals. "We are seeing patients deteriorating and people dying everyday." Joy Singhal, head of the Myanmar delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the "rapid rise of Covid-19 in Myanmar is deeply concerning and in recent days around a third of people tested are positive." "This rise of cases has placed the entire health system under huge strain," he said. "We urgently need greater levels of testing, contact tracing and vaccinations in all areas of the country." In the absence of a functioning medical system or official national Covid-19 plan, and with a public distrustful of anything linked to the military junta, a network of underground doctors and volunteer groups are trying to plug the gaps. Desperate search for oxygen Every day, desperate family members scour Facebook groups and encrypted apps searching for oxygen supplies for their loved ones. The words "urgent," "emergency" and "please help me" repeated in a constant flow of desperate messages. "My grandpa is very low in oxygen. Please help him. Is there any place where he can get oxygen?" asks one worried user on a Facebook group helping those in need of oxygen. Others offer tanks after their loved ones have died. Snowy, 25, is part of a group of 12 in Yangon who try and deliver oxygen tanks and other supplies to those posting on social media. Each day she contacts private oxygen suppliers and delivers tanks to those in need. But the supply is never enough. "They say, 'save us, save us.' But how can I save them? I'm not a doctor. I can only give them access to oxygen when I can get it. There are some people who die because we couldn't get the oxygen in time," she said. Snowy requested to use a pseudonym to protect her safety. It's not just oxygen in short supply. Snowy said she tries to source oximeters -- devices used to test oxygen levels -- oxygen concentrators, flow meters, ventilators and other equipment but they are expensive and scarce. The military junta said it banned some private oxygen plants from selling to the general public to stop citizens from hoarding, according to Reuters. Charities have also been prevented from procuring oxygen by the military, according to several doctors and volunteers CNN spoke to. Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) pray in front of bodies of people who died from Covid-19 during their funeral at a cemetery in Mandalay on July 14. "My friend, whose mother was low on oxygen levels, he queued and the military soldiers arrived with more than 50 tanks in their trucks and they sent everyone back out and filled their tanks first," said Snowy. CNN cannot independently verify the details of the accounts. In state media, the military at first denied there was a lack of oxygen, blaming shortages on "unscrupulous persons" spreading rumors. "We have enough oxygen," coup leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar. "Some try to do negative activities while gaining political profits. They buy the oxygen cylinder and spread the rumor that the country does not have oxygen anymore." In recent days, however, the military-controlled health ministry said it was ramping up its coronavirus response. State media has been full of stories of oxygen deliveries to hospitals across the country, the building of Covid-19 centers and oxygen plants and more treatments being made available for coronavirus patients. But residents say the situation on the ground is different. Kyaw Naing, not his real name, said nine members of his family in Yangon have contracted Covid-19. He said it's almost impossible to get oxygen or be admitted to a hospital. "We saw notices being put up saying that now they (the military) will stop giving oxygen supplies to members of the public, because the notices say they are not being stocked for use in private hospitals," Kyaw Naing said. "On the one hand, they're saying they are using this oxygen for private, public hospitals. At the same time, these public hospitals are not accepting or not admitting Covid-19 patients." CNN was unable to reach the military and military-run health ministry for comment on the outbreak and the state of oxygen supplies. Underground doctors treat patients The regime has also called on doctors, nurses, and other experts to volunteer at public hospitals and Covid-19 centers "due to a lack of manpower." But doctors say the military cannot guarantee their safety and they fear arrest and possible torture. Doctors were key drivers of the initial protest movement, and many have been arrested by the junta for their involvement. "There have been 240 documented cases of attacks on health care facilities and health care professionals. As of last week, you have over 500 outstanding arrest warrants for doctors and nurses," said Tom Andrews, UN special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar. "You can't attack Covid-19 and attack doctors and nurses and clinics at the same time. That is exactly what is making a bad situation exponentially worse in Myanmar." Doctors forced to go into hiding to evade arrest have set up underground networks of clinics and tele-consulation services. Each day they answer hundreds of requests from sick patients, on apps, social media, and video platforms -- however they can reach the people. "We are treating at least 150 people per day. More than half of those patients complain of fever, anosmia (lack of smell) and Covid-like symptoms," said the doctor, who did not want to be identified. "Half of patients are severe cases." People wearing face masks wait while caskets with bodies are queued outside a crematorium at the Yay Way cemetery in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 14. The doctor, who was an orthopedic surgeon before the coup, said his tele-consultation group EZ Care treated more than 1,000 patients in the past month. "Yesterday, two patients died when we were doing the consultation because there was a lack of oxygen," he said. "Without oxygen we can do nothing." Another young doctor in Yangon said six of her patients died in one day last week; the youngest was 49. She said she visits the very sick at home but feels helpless in the face of the growing crisis. "I saw a patient at his home and it's heartbreaking to see him struggling to breathe. It's like he was drowning in water but he is actually drowning in air. He didn't get oxygen in his lungs and blood. After the visit I got a phone call from his family and they said he had gone," she said. The young doctor, who also didn't want to be named for safety reasons, said people are in a state of panic. "There is a shortage of medicine and proper care, people are very panicked as they don't know where to go or how to get treatment, so they just buy every medicine that says on online 'this one is for Covid'," she said. She works all day and night, answering frantic messages on encrypted apps or giving consultations via video, but she said those at home don't have the necessary medical knowledge to treat their loved ones. "They don't know how to handle oxygen concentrators, cylinders, how to assemble the lines from the concentrator to the patient, or how much oxygen to give to the patient," she said. The doctor, who said she was a medic during the protests and helped demonstrators who had been shot, said the military has failed the people. "We have lost so many lives here who aren't supposed to die this way. Some were shot, some were tortured to death, some died because they didn't get proper treatment, some died because they didn't get enough oxygen. These are not reasons why people should die in 2021, in the 21st century," she said. What is causing the rise in cases? The latest outbreak is believed to have started about a month ago in western Chin state, which borders India, and comes as the Delta variant is hitting countries across Southeast Asia. The doctors CNN spoke to said while there were medical staff shortages and testing was lacking, previous coronavirus waves in Myanmar were brought under control. Before the coup, Myanmar was one of the first countries in the region to procure vaccines and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi had planned to launch a nationwide vaccine program in April. After the military takeover, Covid-19 testing, prevention measures and the vaccine program collapsed in the chaos of the upheaval. Several prominent medics involved in Myanmar's pandemic response were arrested, including the former head of its vaccination campaign, Htar Htar Lin, and the head of emergency medicine at Yangon's University of Medicine, who managed previous Covid-19 responses, Maw Maw Oo. In recent days, the military-controlled health ministry said it is aiming to get 50% of Myanmar's 55 million population vaccinated this year, according to state media. A man uses his mobile phone in front of empty oxygen canisters, which people are waiting to fill up, outside a factory in Mandalay, on July 13. "More than 1.6 million people have been vaccinated, and vaccines are constantly being imported to ensure that 100% of the population is fully vaccinated. About 750,000 vaccines from China will arrive on July 22, and more will arrive on July 23 and 24. In addition, plans are underway to receive more vaccines in the first week of August," a statement said. But even if those doses are procured, residents say there is deep distrust in the regime to give them a lifesaving shot, when it continues to kill and detain its citizens. Concerns are also growing for the fate of the people if the situation is left unmanaged. "It staggers the imagination as to what will be happening just really over the next few days, this thing is out of control," said UN special rapporteur Andrews. "This is a complete catastrophe. The entire health care system is in shambles. The number of people being infected is just going through the roof, and no one trusts this junta to provide them with information or health care or vaccines that they need to confront this pandemic." Snowy, the volunteer, continues to go out every day in Yangon to try and procure oxygen for the sick and desperate. She lives with her mother and grandmother but isolates when she returns home. She said she recently started to feel ill. "I hope it's not Covid," she said..."
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Title: Running Out of Air How the Junta is Abandoning Civilians in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Description: "Part 1: Situation Overview: As COVID-19 devastates Burma, health workers and first responders are responding with strength and resilience: Burma is facing a public health crisis. The virus is sweeping the nation with over 200,000 cases and nearly 5000 deaths as Myanmar’s health sector struggles to keep up. To make matters worse, people falling sick do not have adequate access to life saving supplies, like personal protective equipment (PPE), oxygen, or vaccines. At this moment, there is no clear plan established by the junta to control the rising cases and treat patients effectively. Quite the contrary, hospitals and health care infrastructure are struggling to cope with the influx of patients. The situation is dire. Civilians suffering from the economic and social impacts of the military coup, are now facing the worst outbreak the country has seen yet. The first COVID-19 case in Burma was recorded on 23 March 2020. In the months that followed, various committees were established to coordinate a response to the pandemic. The government proposed short sighted policies to tackle the virus, but local humanitarian responders were not consulted. The National League for Democracy (NLD) was attempting to move forward with solutions to mitigate the impacts of the virus, but when the military took over, these plans were shattered. By January 2021, the NLD purchased 30 million doses of Covishield/AstraZeneca. These vaccine doses were to be delivered in batches along with the 1.5 million doses of the vaccine gifted by the Indian government.1 However, not long after securing the vaccines, Burma descended into chaos on February 1. The NLD’s plan to curb the spread of the virus was effectively dead on arrival in the wake of the coup. In the months that followed, COVID-19 cases remained relatively low. But in recent weeks, cases have skyrocketed.2 Myanmar Doctors for Human Rights suggests this is partly due to a lack of testing that took place before the coup.3 Now, thousands are dying from COVID-19 nationwide as a third wave has spread to nearly 90% of townships throughout Burma.4 The outbreak is without a doubt, the worst the country has experienced and comes as multiple crises are threatening civilian safety, including internal conflict and adjusting to post-coup authoritarian norms. Against the backdrop of a wave of deadly cases, the junta is committing extreme acts of warfare on medical officers and their supplies. Junta soldiers have been seen forcibly dispersing civilians for merely queuing up for oxygen.5 The military has also turned their weapons on Burma’s health workers for their role in actively condemning the military’s violence since February. According to the United Nations, the junta has attacked at least 158 medical personnel, killing over 60 people and injuring dozens more.6 Security forces have also arrested and charged more than 139 doctors, and seized over 50 health facilities.7 The junta have continued to exercise their power to prioritize their needs and well-being over civilians. Military leaders and soldiers were among the first to be vaccinated in the country, and are in the position to decide who is vaccinated, if at all. As the crisis becomes more severe, civilians are losing trust in health systems under the military.8 Meanwhile, tens of thousands are being displaced as internal conflict in Burma’s ethnic states continue to ravage communities. Further, the junta’s lack of compassion is a troubling indicator of what’s to come in the coming months. The junta has undermined all efforts to respond to the humanitarian disasters unfolding in the country – of which are not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of their incompetence and inaction will be long-lasting, particularly on those least prepared to make a strong comeback alongside a crippling economy..."
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Title: Tokyo Olympics tainted by sponsorship from companies financing the Myanmar military’s terror
Description: "July 22, 2021, Myanmar: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has partnered with at least three businesses that continue to maintain commercial ties with the Myanmar army, in breach of their human rights responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Sponsors include Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, which are “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gold Partners”, and Daiwa House Industry, which is a “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Official Partner”. All three businesses are part of the Y Complex commercial real estate project in Yangon, on land leased from the Myanmar army’s office of the quartermaster general, which purchases arms for the military. According to the Olympic Charter, fundamental principles of the Olympics include “respect for universal fundamental ethical principles” and the promotion of “a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity” through sport. Justice For Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung says: “We are appalled that the Tokyo Organising Committee is partnering with companies that are complicit in the Myanmar military’s widening campaign of terror, which has involved the murder of over 900 people since the illegal February 1 attempted military coup. The military’s criminal conduct is enabled by companies like Daiwa House Industry, Mizuho and SMBC, which provides the military with a direct source of revenue. These companies have failed to uphold their human rights responsibilities. Promoting these companies through the Tokyo Olympics taints the games and goes against the fundamental principles of Olympism. We call on the Tokyo Organising Committee to revoke sponsorships with these companies that are aiding the Myanmar military’s atrocities.” The Y Complex project is being developed by Daiwa House Industry and Tokyo Tatemono, co-financed by Mizuho and SMBC, under a Build, Operate, Transfer (B.O.T.) agreement with the Myanmar army. In addition to annual lease payments of US$2.163 million, the army will take ownership of the building on completion of the lease, providing a continued source of revenue which can be used to finance their war crimes and crimes against humanity. Parties to the Y Complex project also include two publicly funded entities: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport and Urban Development (JOIN). In August 2019, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar published a report into the Myanmar military’s economic interests and recommended that businesses end their commercial relationships with the Myanmar military and entities it owns or controls, specifying real estate rental as a type of relationship. The parties to the Y Complex project have failed to implement these recommendations. Note to editors See joint press release on Y Complex: https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/press-releases/japan-stop-real-estate-project-in-myanmar See joint submission to the United Nations Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises regarding Y Complex: https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/press-releases/submission-by-civil-society-organizations-concerning-japanese-business-entities-operating-in-myanmar See Justice For Myanmar’s web features on Y Complex: https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/stories/land-lease-payments-tie-japanese-gov-and-investors-to-myanmars-military and https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/stories/y-complex Justice For Myanmar, a group of covert activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar, is calling for an end to military business and for federal democracy and a sustainable peace..."
Source/publisher: Justice For Myanmar
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Title: U.N. Member States: Form Emergency Coalition to Respond to COVID Outbreak and Coup d’état in Myanmar
Sub-title: Deadly third wave of COVID-19 is sweeping the nation
Description: "United Nations member states should immediately form an Emergency Coalition to provide humanitarian aid and coordinate a mass-vaccination campaign in Myanmar to contain the spread of COVID-19, said Fortify Rights today. Donor governments and international agencies should ensure the localization of aid to relevant humanitarian actors and avoid legitimizing the military junta. “COVID is killing untold numbers of people throughout the country,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Fortify Rights. “The junta is responsible for this crisis, which poses serious threats to the entire region and beyond. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing must step down and return the country to civilian rule before more lives are lost.” Since the military seized power in an attempted coup d’état on February 1, its forces have arbitrarily arrested, beat, and killed medical professionals and destroyed medical supplies and facilities, leaving Myanmar’s healthcare system in disarray as COVID-19 spreads throughout the country. Oxygen and medical supplies in Myanmar are scarce, hospitals and medical facilities are unable to treat a rising volume of patients, and bodies of those who have succumbed to the COVID-19 virus are reportedly piling up at morgues and crematoriums. Fortify Rights documented the looting and destruction of medical supplies and equipment by junta security forces. For instance, a medical doctor described how Myanmar Army soldiers and police destroyed medical equipment at a clinic in Mandalay on two consecutive days in March: “They destroyed the blood pressure manometer, the sphygmomanometer, some of the oxygen measurement SpO2, and some medication they threw and some they took with them,” he said. “They robbed some of the medication.” The World Health Organization (WHO) reports more than 260 attacks “on health care” in Myanmar since the coup, including attacks impacting medical facilities, patients, transport vehicles, medical personnel, and medical supplies. These attacks have severely limited COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccination. Doctors and medical professionals in Myanmar founded the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) on February 2, refusing to work under the military junta, making them a target of the junta and forcing many into hiding. “The military is arresting every government service employee, especially the doctors,” an emergency physician who is now in hiding told Fortify Rights. “I did the CDM. So, they want me.” According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), junta forces have arrested more than 5,315 men, women, and children, including 66 medical personnel since February 1. Another 571 medical professionals including doctors, nurses, and medics are reportedly evading arrest warrants and are in hiding, according to AAPP Political prisoners are also among those dying from COVID-19. On July 20, veteran politician and spokesperson for the National League for Democracy Party, Nyan Win, 79, died from the virus, according to media reports citing his lawyer. Other political prisoners in Myanmar are also reportedly showing symptoms of COVID-19, including Myanmar nationals as well as Australian economist Sean Turnell and American journalist Danny Fenster, both of whom face trumped-up charges related to the coup. Political prisoners nationwide in Myanmar are at grave risk due to COVID-19 and other ill-treatment by the junta, and they should be released immediately, Fortify Rights said. According to the WHO, Myanmar has 240,570 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,567 recorded deaths from the virus as of July 20. Fortify Rights believes the actual number of new infections and deaths from the disease are much higher than reported, based on communications with medical professionals and others in Myanmar. The Acting WHO Representative to Myanmar told Fortify Rights that COVID-19 cases might be underreported due to limited testing capabilities, adding that efforts were underway to “re-operationalize testing and surveillance activities.” “The test-positivity rate reported is as high as 35 percent as of July 12, 2021,” the Acting WHO Representative to Myanmar told Fortify Rights. “Because the data is limited, we cannot confirm how these figures reflect the real situation, but it reflects a rapidly increasing number of infections in the country.” A test-positivity rate of five percent is considered dangerous and “too high,” according to faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The WHO representative stressed that an effective response to the pandemic must include ensuring severe patients can “easily access COVID-19 treatment centers and hospitals.” It must also guarantee no limitation of lifesaving materials in treatment centers and hospitals and an adequate healthcare workforce capable of providing care and expert clinical management. Due to a lack of healthcare workers, lifesaving materials, and safe access to hospitals and healthcare facilities, many COVID-19 patients in Myanmar are self-treating themselves at home. “Although I am infected with COVID and feel some tightness of chest, [I] don’t have time to rest,” a Myanmar doctor-in-hiding and founding member of the CDM told Fortify Rights on July 19. He explained how he is treating home-based COVID patients by phone. “The situation is very bad here.” On July 12, the junta’s Deputy Minister of Information, Major General Zaw Min Tun, admitted to placing restrictions on civilian access to much-needed oxygen supplies, telling journalists in Naypyidaw: “The reason we put these restrictions in place is, firstly, because we discovered scams on the internet. Some people are committing fraud, pretending to provide services refilling oxygen supplies, and we received complaint letters.” Myanmar’s population exceeds 54 million. According to the junta-led Global New Light of Myanmar, an estimated 1.6 million people have been vaccinated to date. A medical professional in Myanmar, unnamed here for security purposes, told Fortify Rights that some in the country, including himself, received a first vaccination shot before the coup. Due mainly to the junta’s ongoing attack against the people, he and others have not received a second shot, leaving them less protected from infection, to say nothing of the unvaccinated masses. On July 20, the junta-led Global New Light of Myanmar reported that the Ministry of Health and Sports would vaccinate 50 percent of Myanmar’s population against COVID-19 this year. On July 7, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, called for the formation of an “Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar” to stop what he described as the military junta’s “reign of terror” in the country. On July 14, Andrews reiterated his call for the formation of the coalition to coordinate urgent international help to address the “perfect storm” of factors fueling the COVID-19 crisis. On July 18, the National Unity Government (NUG) of Myanmar—comprising elected members of parliament, leaders of anti-coup protests, and ethnic nationalities—requested the U.N. Secretary-General and the international community to urgently provide “humanitarian assistance and emergency support to the people of Myanmar” as the country grapples with a deadly third wave of COVID-19. Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which Myanmar is a State Party, the right to health requires States to ensure the “prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases” and to ensure “medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness.” The right to health also requires that health services, facilities, and goods are adequately available and accessible on a non-discriminatory basis. Furthermore, the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights clarified on November 27, 2020, that “States have a duty of international cooperation and assistance to ensure universal equitable access to [COVID-19] vaccines wherever needed.” Under the ICESCR, “States must strengthen their international cooperation to guarantee, as soon as possible, universal and equitable access to vaccines for COVD-19 globally, including for the populations of the least developed countries.” “The junta has thwarted all basic factors necessary for an effective response to the COVID crisis, including access to hospitals, lifesaving materials, and sufficient healthcare staff to attend to patients,” said Matthew Smith. “The world is failing the people of Myanmar, and more lives will be lost if governments do not coordinate urgently.”..."
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Title: condolence message - ဝမ်းနည်းကြောင်းသဝဏ်လွှာ
Description: "ဝမ်းနည်းကြောင်းသဝဏ်လွှာ ===================== ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၁ ရက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်။ ------------------------------------------ ပြည်ထောင်စုဥပဒေအထောက်အကူပေးရေးအဖွဲ့ ဥက္ကဌ ၊ အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် ဗဟိုအလုပ်အမှုဆောင်အဖွဲ့ အတွင်းရေးမှူးအဖွဲ့ဝင် ဦးဉာဏ်ဝင်းသည် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက် နေ့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းကို ခံခဲ့ရပြီး အင်းစိန်ထောင်အတွင်း COVID-19 ရောဂါပိုးကူးစက်ခြင်းကိုခံခဲ့ ရပါသည်။ အင်းစိန်ထောင်မှတဆင့် ရန်ကုန်ပြည်သူ့ဆေးရုံကြီးသို့ ပို့ဆောင်ဆေးကုသမှုခံယူစဉ် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၀ ရက်နေ့ နံနက် ၉ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ် အချိန်တွင် ကွယ်လွန်အနိစ္စရောက်သွားကြောင်း ကြားသိရ ပါသည်။ ယုံကြည်ချက်ကြောင့်အကျဉ်းကျခံရသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများကို လုံလောက်သည့် ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုပေးရန် ပျက်ကွက်သည့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတွင် တာဝန်အပြည့်ရှိသည့် အပြင် အဆိုပါကိစ္စရပ်များအတွက် တာဝန်အပြည့်ယူရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သိစေအပ်သည်။ ကွယ်လွန်အနစ္စရောက်သွားသော ဦးဉာဏ်ဝင်း၏မိသားစုနှင့် ထပ်တူဝမ်းနည်းကြေကွဲရပါ ကြောင်းနှင့် မပြီးဆုံးသေးသော စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ကျဆုံးရေးနှင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင်စု တည်ဆောက်ရေးအတွက် ဆက်လက်တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သွားမည်ဟု ကတိပြုပါကြောင်း သဝဏ်လွှာပေးပို့အပ် ပါသည်။ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ..."
Source/publisher: Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 21 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 21 July 2021: As of 21 July, (929) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (7) fallen heroes today. These (7) fallen heroes from Momauk Township in Kachin State, Htandabin Township in Bago Region and Kalay Township in Sagaing Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 21, a total of (5323) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. On July 20, Su Su Htay, a 2nd-year university student Kaung Myat Naing, and an 8th-grade student May Htoo Naing. The wife, son and daughter of Kyaw Soe Naing, MP for Nganzun Township of Mandalay Region, were arrested at Shwe-Kyar-Inn Monastery in Myittha Township when the terrorist junta could not find Kyaw Soe Naing there. Moreover, San San Maw, who is involved in Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), and lived with the family, was also arrested. In addition to this, Chit Naing, a 1st-year distance education student majoring in Geography at Dawei University, was followed and arrested by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes in Dawei City, Tanintharyi Region on July 20. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Title: MAP condemns the Myanmar junta’s attempt to usurp ambassador posts in the UK and the UN, and calls on the British Government and the UN General Assembly to refuse accreditation
Description: "Press Release for Immediate Publication from the Myanmar Accountability Project, MAPLondon, 19 July 2021: The Myanmar Accountability Project, condemns attempts by the Myanmar coup leaders to usurp top ambassadorial posts at the Myanmar embassy in London and the diplomatic mission at the UN in New York.Documentation obtained by MAP confirms that officials with strong military backgrounds are being sent by the junta to fill these two influential posts.“MAP has the official biographies of both these officers and they make ugly reading,” said MAP Director, Chris Gunness. “Aung Thurein, who the junta is demanding take over the UN seat, went straight into the army at the age of eighteen and according to his biography, he served until 2021, strongly suggesting he was in the military during the coup on 1 February and its bloody aftermath.”“Moreover, Aung Thurein served on three Myanmar delegations to Beijing where, as a military man, he would likely have been involved in deals to procure arms. It is an affront to the world body that the military government is sending to the UN a man with such strong connections to an institution with blood on its hands and which stood accused of genocide in the Hague even before the coup.”Over 900 people have been killed since 1 February. Human rights groups have well documented evidence that the Myanmar security forces have gunned down hundreds of peaceful protesters, some with a bullet directly to the head. In addition, over five thousand people have been arbitrarily detained, many are being held without trial and tortured.At the same time, MAP has learnt that the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is planning to grant diplomatic accreditation as the Myanmar Ambassador to London to Htun Aung Kyaw, who served as a fighter pilot during a seventeen-year career in the Myanmar air force.According to his official biography, Htun Aung Kyaw graduated from the country’s notorious military academy at Pyin Oo Lwin, from which leading members of the military junta have also passed out. These include coup leader and Commander in Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. In addition, Htun Aung Kyaw served as a fighter pilot and fighter pilot trainer in the 1990s, when according to human rights groups, the Myanmar army and air force carried out aerial attacks on ethnic nationality villages killing many civilians, which may constitute war crimes.“Prime Minister, Boris Johnson along with other G7 leaders have condemned the coup. The UK and all major allies have imposed sanctions on the coup leaders and their commercial interests,” said Gunness. “It is gross double standare and a moral outrage that the British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, should oversee the accreditation as Ambassador of a man who does not represent the legitimate state authority of Myanmar and who served in an army that stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”“MAP calls on the UK as an influential diplomatic presence on the Myanmar file at the UN in New York to ensure that the Credentials Committee, soon to meet at the General Assembly in September, does not recognise the military junta’s representative to the UN,” said Gunness.“We also demand that Dominic Raab stop in its tracks the accreditation of Htun Aung Kyaw. It beggars belief that he is allowing into the UK an ambassador representing a murderous dictator that a UN Fact Finding Mission recommended in 2018 should be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, along with his top commanders. Htun Aung Kyaw should be kept out of the country, let alone be recognised as an ambassador in London. And if he turns up in the UK he should be detained and investigated.”..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Accountability Project
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Title: Myanmar women give birth in jungle as military lies in wait
Sub-title: Heavily pregnant women displaced by fighting risk their lives to give birth after being forced from their homes in escalating conflict.
Description: "On a stormy night in June, Rosemary lay in the darkness of her home in a deserted village in Myanmar’s Mindat township, gripped by labour contractions as Mai Nightingale, a 25-year-old midwife, tried to stifle her cries. “Only the two of us were left alone in the village. We closed all the doors and windows of the house and stayed quietly inside,” said Mai Nightingale. “When she felt pain, I put a blanket in her mouth because we feared that soldiers might hear her.” Like others interviewed for this article, Al Jazeera has used pseudonyms for Mai Nightingale and Rosemary for their safety. Rosemary’s contractions had begun the previous night, but with soldiers approaching her village in southern Chin State, she and the other villagers fled into the forest. But there was no proper shelter from the unrelenting rain, so Rosemary and Mai Nightingale decided to take the risk of encountering soldiers and return the next morning. “The situation didn’t favour delivering a baby,” said Mai Nightingale. “We saw Burmese soldiers walking towards our village but we couldn’t turn back because [Rosemary] was already exhausted.” Rosemary’s husband did not dare accompany her for fear that, if seen, soldiers would mistake him for a member of a local armed group. Since a February 1 military coup, civilian defence forces, armed largely with hunting rifles and homemade weapons, have sprung up across the country to fight against the regime, and Mindat has been a hotspot of resistance since May. In line with tactics the military has used for decades to quash an armed rebellion and terrorise the people, soldiers launched disproportionate attacks on Mindat including firing artillery, rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns into residential areas while imposing martial law, causing the town to empty, according to local media reports. Young men are particularly likely to be targeted. Rosemary delivered her baby shortly after the sound of soldiers had faded, and Mai Nightingale cut and tied the umbilical cord with a razor blade and some thread which, lacking other means of sterilisation, she boiled in water. Although Rosemary and her baby are healthy and unharmed, the circumstances of the birth highlight the increasing risks which mothers and newborns face amid an escalating humanitarian crisis. Mai Nightingale and two other nurses interviewed by Al Jazeera, who are providing maternal and newborn healthcare to those displaced by armed conflict, say they are severely limited in their ability to safely deliver babies, and that physical insecurity further imperils pregnant women and newborns amid the continuing violence. “The main health risks for pregnant women and newborn babies are their lives. They can die during labour or after because they have to run whenever soldiers get closer to where they are hiding,” said a nurse in Loikaw township, Kayah State who goes by the nickname Smile. “There is not enough medical equipment or medicine … Babies cannot get vaccinations or adequate shelter.” Collapsing health system Some 230,000 people have been newly displaced since the coup, according to United Nations estimates. The military has not only attacked civilians but has also cut off food and water supplies to people affected by conflict, shelled displacement camps and churches of refuge, shot displaced people attempting to fetch rice from their villages, and burned food and medical relief supplies along with an ambulance. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s health system has all but collapsed, leaving few options even for those women prepared to risk returning to their town or village to give birth or seek vaccinations or treatment for their babies. Ongoing medical worker strikes amid a broader Civil Disobedience Movement have left government hospitals threadbare, while some health facilities have shut down altogether. The military has also repeatedly attacked healthcare professionals and facilities and occupied hospitals. "My mother placed her hand on my cousin and prayed. By the grace of God, she successfully gave birth." - SMILE, MYANMAR NURSE Alessandra Dentice, Myanmar representative ad interim with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told Al Jazeera that the vast majority of pregnant women displaced since the coup lack access to emergency obstetric care, while routine immunisations for children have “come to an almost complete halt”. “Without urgent action, we estimate that annually 600,000 newborns will miss out on essential newborn care, creating serious risks for their survival and long-term wellbeing across the country,” she said, adding that about 950,000 children are also missing out on critical vaccination services. In Mindat, Mai Nightingale has so far assisted three displaced women to deliver. Two of them, she said, had to keep moving in search of safe shelter in the days leading up to giving birth, causing them physical pain and possibly inducing their labour. Mai Nightingale knows that providing medical services to pregnant women and newborns while lacking facilities or hygienic equipment is exceedingly dangerous for the women and their babies, and that security forces could also target her, but says she feels it is the only option. “Even though soldiers could arrest both the patients and me, I will continue helping people who need medical assistance,” she told Al Jazeera. “There is no one else who can help them.” Pregnant women in Kayah State, where an estimated 100,000 people have been displaced since early June, also face a perilous situation. On June 8, the UN special rapporteur for Myanmar warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in Kayah due to military attacks and the blockage of food, water and medicine to those who fled to the forest. Smile, a 24-year-old nurse, escaped her village in Loikaw township on June 11 with her cousin, who was in the throes of labour contractions while she fled. “Artillery fell near the rock where we were hiding. That day was [my cousin’s] due date but she couldn’t deliver … we had to escape to safety,” said Smile. “She had to carry heavy things while we were running.” Recalling advice from her mother, also a nurse, Smile had grabbed a delivery kit with rubber gloves, forceps and scissors as she fled the village. “My mother told me that medical workers cannot stop even if the world is in chaos,” she said. She and her mother rubbed down the equipment with spirits while her cousin’s husband built a bamboo and tarpaulin tent, under which they delivered her cousin’s baby. “My mother placed her hand on my cousin and prayed. By the grace of God, she successfully gave birth without [heavy] bleeding,” said Smile. But tragedy has befallen some displaced mothers. Little time to grieve In Loikaw township, Khu Meh delivered twins at a local clinic on April 8. One was born dead; Khu Meh fled home with the other, a girl, in mid-May. “We travelled very far and moved from place to place, sometimes sleeping in the bushes,” she said. About three weeks later, the second twin died in the jungle while drinking milk at Khu Meh’s breast. Some 40km (25 miles) north, in Shan State’s Pekon township, Mary fled her home in the last week of May, when she was more than seven months pregnant. “The military was firing every night … we were very scared to sleep at home,” she said. She sheltered in a church, but after it was shelled on June 6, she fled again, to a cornfield where she delivered her fifth child, a baby boy, under a bamboo and tarpaulin shelter with the help of a local midwife. The next week brought endless rain, and Mary’s baby died suddenly. There was little time to grieve. Mary and her remaining children had to flee again a week later due to approaching soldiers. Although Myanmar saw a fall in maternal mortality rates and under-five mortality between 2000 and 2017, according to UNICEF, it remained one of the riskiest places for new mothers and infants in Southeast Asia even before the coup. Maternal mortality was 250 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017, while under-five mortality was 48 children per 100,000 live births. Al Jazeera was unable to locate data on maternal and infant mortality among displaced populations in Myanmar since the coup. Naw Winnie, a nurse from Demoso township, Kayah State who was herself displaced by fighting, is now volunteering with a local aid group in the mountainous area where she fled. She told Al Jazeera that illness among young children is common. She has treated dozens of skin infections and cases of diarrhoea, and fears that health problems will only increase because of poor hygiene caused by factors including the scarcity of clean water and the lack of toilets. The rainy season started in June, making sanitation more difficult and increasing the risk of catching a cold, flu, or mosquito-borne illnesses. Naw Winnie is also looking after more than 10 pregnant women. She had initially planned to send them to a temporary clinic near the foothills of the mountain, but the clinic’s volunteers and patients were forced to evacuate amid heavy fighting on June 16. Now she is not sure what she will do. One of the women, now more than five months pregnant, previously gave birth by Caesarean section, and Naw Winnie is concerned the woman could haemorrhage if she delivers vaginally, but it is simply too risky to perform a Caesarean section in the jungle. “We don’t have access to safe and hygienic facilities or equipment to deliver babies,” she said. “If I assist in delivering a baby without hygienic facilities, it will put both mothers and babies in danger.”..."
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Title: PROTESTS PERSIST ACROSS MYANMAR DESPITE ONGOING ARRESTS, TORTURE AND KILLINGS BY JUNTA
Description: "Protests have continued in Myanmar, more than five months after the Myanmar military junta seized power in a coup on 1st February 2021 and arrested the civilian leaders of the national and state governments. According to the latest data from human rights group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), as of 20th July 2021, 922 individuals have been confirmed killed by the military and a total of 5,315 people are currently in detention. The military junta has also continued its attacks against ethic armed organisations and the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) in various regions including in Kayah and Mon states, Kachin and Shan, Chin and Rakhine states, leaving at least 230,000 civilians displaced as of 24th June 2021. The People's Defence Forces formed by the underground National Unity Government and aimed to protect civilians from security forces has been mobilised against the junta. On 19th June 2021, the UN General Assembly issued a resolution condemning the coup and demanding that the military “immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators”. However, it stopped short of calling for a global arms embargo against Myanmar’s military, even as it took the rare step of urging member states to “prevent the flow of arms” into the country. It was approved by 119 countries, with 36 abstaining including China, Myanmar’s main ally. Only one country, Belarus, voted against it. It was sponsored by some 60 countries. Human rights groups have continued to call on the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo. On 26th June 2021, Pramila Patten, the U.N. special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, described an “extremely concerning” pattern of sexual violence by Myanmar’s military. Patten focused particularly on reports of sexual violence against women in detention centres. On 7th July 2021, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, called for the urgent formation of an “Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar” to stop what he described as the military junta’s “reign of terror” in the country. He added: “It could reduce the junta’s ability to attack its citizens, save the lives of those in acute crisis, and gain political leverage so that the crisis in Myanmar might come to a just and permanent conclusion”. Andrews highlighted the extreme human rights abuses committed by the junta, which he described as crimes against humanity. Various countries have continued to impose sanctions on the military junta. On 21st June 2021, the EU implemented new sanctions on top officials in Myanmar's ruling military junta, including travel bans and asset freezes on eight officials, and also targeted four "economic entities" tied to the Myanmar military. The UK also added three Myanmar economic entities to its sanctions list including a state-owned pearl firm and a timber company. The United States also imposed fresh sanctions on 3rd July 2021, on 22 individuals including four Myanmar government ministers. The sanctions target Myanmar’s minister of information Chit Naing, minister for investment Aung Naing Oo, labour and immigration minister Myint Kyaing, and Thet Thet Khine, the minister for social welfare, relief and resettlement. Three members of the powerful State Administrative Council were also hit with sanctions, as were 15 spouses and adult children of officials. On 8th June 2021, Japan's lower house adopted a resolution condemning the coup and urging the country to return to democracy. The resolution, adopted in a House of Representatives plenary session, described the military coup as an "act to trample on efforts and expectations for democratisation" and called on the Japanese government to "make full use of all diplomatic resources and every effort to realize" the restoration of democracy in Myanmar. However, the country has yet to impose sanctions. Human rights groups have continued to criticise ASEAN for its failure to address the human rights violations in Myanmar and for shielding the Myanmar military from international pressure and accountability. On 4th June 2021, a high-level delegation comprised of ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi and Erywan Pehin Yusof, the second minister for foreign affairs for Brunei, the current chair of ASEAN, met with coup leader and head of the Myanmar military authorities but reported little tangible progress. ASEAN members also tried to block a UN General Assembly draft resolution calling for a global arms embargo on the junta. In a positive development, the Human Rights Council (HRC) postponed the adoption of the outcomes of Myanmar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This came after 414 Myanmar and international civil society organisations urged the HRC to postpone the session and reject the Myanmar military junta representatives at the UN Offices in Geneva and recognise the National Unity Government (NUG). Over the last month, the junta has targeted artists, medical workers, lawyers, LGBTIQ activists and their families, youths and others. Some have been sentenced for ‘incitement’ (Section 505a) and ‘unlawful assembly’ (Section 145) while others have been tortured or killed by the junta with impunity. Nearly half of the 87 journalists arrested by Myanmar’s junta in the five months since it staged a coup remain in detention. An investigation by the rights group Global Witness found that Facebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar’s coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation..."
Source/publisher: Civicus (Johannesburg)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-21
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 20 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 20 July 2021: As of 20 July, (922) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Sanchaung Township and Hlaing Tharyar Township in Yangon Region and Kyaukdaga Township in Bago Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 20, a total of (5315) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Nyan Win, NLD Secretary, who contracted COVID-19 while he was detained in Insein Prison, and only then transferred to Yangon General Hospital due to his severe condition because he did not receive adequate medical treatment in prison, died on July 20 in hospital. Likewise, Win Kyaing, NLD executive member of Western Hlaing Tharyar Township of Yangon Region, died on July 20 due to COVID-19 having been detained in Insein Prison. Aye Hla, Vice Chairman of NLD of Kyaukdaga Township of Bago Region, died on July 19 at Daik-u (Kyaik Za Kaw) Prison due to injuries consistent with torture during interrogation. He was arrested on June 16 having been accused of providing training to PDFs and allegedly in possession of weapons, when the junta did not find his son Linn Linn Kyaw, MP for Kyaukdaga Township of Bago Region. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-20
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Title: Employment in Myanmar since the military takeover: A rapid impact assessment
Sub-title: This ILO brief is a rapid impact assessment of the impact of the military takeover of 1 February on employment in Myanmar.
Description: "On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar military seized control of the government, following a general election in November 2020. Consequently, nationwide political demonstrations and worker strikes over the military takeover have been met with violence, intimidation and harassment by security personnel. The political crisis has extensively destabilized the economy and halted an expected economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Bank, on 26 March, downgraded its 2021 GDP growth forecasts for Myanmar from 5.9 per cent to a negative rate of –10 per cent, citing such factors as the demonstrations, worker strikes, and military actions, as well as mobility restrictions, and the ongoing disruption of key public services, banking, logistics, and internet services. 1 Likewise, the Asian Development Bank, on 28 April, projected the economy to contract by 9.8 per cent in 2021.2 In this rapidly evolving context, and due to the lack of official employment statistics published after the first quarter 2020, this brief aims to estimate labour market trends since the military takeover. The rapid impact assessment includes an estimate of working-hour and employment losses, and also presents estimates of the impact on the three hardest hit sectors: construction, garments, and tourism and hospitality. The estimation methodology, outlined in the Annex, extends on previous methodologies used by the ILO to estimate labour market trends.3 It makes use of robust empirical relationships established on the basis of detailed, cross-country sentiment and mobility indicators. The estimates should nevertheless be interpreted as indicative and may not fully reflect the severity of the employment situation..."
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Title: IFEX calls on Myanmar junta to drop all charges under new censorship legislation, free all protestors and journalists, and restore media licenses
Description: "IFEX is calling for the restoration of media licenses to IFEX member Mizzima News and other media outlets who have played an essential role in shedding light on the violence inflicted by the junta against their own people. 897 people have been killed and over 6500 arrested, charged or sentenced since the coup in February. IFEX, the global network of over 100 organisations dedicated to promoting and defending the right to freedom of expression and information, is calling on Myanmar’s military junta to drop all charges under its repressive censorship legislation, Penal Code section 505A, and to immediately release all protestors and journalists detained under section 505A and other laws. IFEX is also calling for the restoration of media licenses to IFEX member Mizzima News and other media outlets who have played an essential role in shedding light on the violence inflicted by the junta against their own people. 897 people have been killed and over 6500 arrested, charged or sentenced since the coup in February. Shortly after seizing power, the junta amended section 505A to criminalize comments that supposedly “cause fear,” spread misinformation, or incite crimes against government employees. Offences under section 505A are non-bailable and subject to arrest without a warrant, with a guilty charge punishable by up to 3 years in prison. Legal experts have highlighted how the legislation has been used widely against opponents of military rule. “This legislation is typical of how repressive regimes the world over seek to silence critics, limit civic space and threaten the safety and freedom of expression of journalists and media outlets,” stated IFEX Executive Director Annie Game. “With the junta continuing to perpetrate violence against their own people, access to reliable information has never been so important. All charges under section 505A should be dropped, all protestors and journalists freed, and media licenses restored so that our colleagues at Mizzima News and other outlets can operate freely.” Addressing a recent session of the UN Human Rights Council, Thomas H. Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, described how the military junta continues to stifle freedom of expression, including by “using criminal defamation charges to target journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society leaders.” Speaking at the same session, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet labelled the situation in Myanmar as a, “multi-dimensional human rights catastrophe,” that requires immediate action. She pointed to the silencing of civil voices, the arrests of journalists, and the shuttering of media outlets, and highlighted “multiple reports of enforced disappearances; brutal torture and deaths in custody; and the arrest of relatives or children in lieu of the person being sought.” Mizzima News has been one of the many targets of these attacks. Since the coup, Mizzima has been outlawed and their offices raided. Despite these threats, the organisation has continued to operate, oppose the coup, and call for the restoration of democracy. In response the military junta has charged 18 Mizzima staff members and journalists under section 505A, including Ko Zaw Zaw, Mizzima’s Myeik-based freelance reporter who was sentenced to two years in prison. Women human rights defenders and journalists have been at particular risk of arrest under the legislation. On April 8, Thin Thin Aung, co-founder of Mizzima, was arrested in Yangon along with James Pu Thoure, a Mizzima staff member. Her house was ransacked, her computer seized and the entirety of her and her news outlet’s funds taken away. Both of them were taken to Mingalardon interrogation center (Yay Kyi Aing) for two weeks, before being transferred to Yangon’s Insein prison on April 21. Thin Thin Aung remains in prison to this day, charged under section 505A. Her next court hearing is scheduled for July 28. There have been numerous calls for her release, including from a group of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, with concerns being expressed over her health and high risk of torture. IFEX member organisations across the Asia-Pacific region and the globe have expressed their strong condemnation of the coup and support for those struggling for their rights. Updates from the developing situation in Myanmar are available on the websites of IFEX and Mizzima..."
Source/publisher: International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-20
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Title: ILO estimates reveal heavy job losses in the first half of 2021 in Myanmar
Sub-title: With an economy already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid assessment by the ILO reveals a deep employment crisis following the military takeover in Myanmar.
Description: "Estimates released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) suggest a significant deterioration in labour market conditions in Myanmar since the military took power in February this year. Employment contracted by an estimated 6 per cent in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, reflecting 1.2 million job losses. In the first half of 2021, an estimated 14 per cent of working hours were lost, which is equivalent to the working time of at least 2.2 million full-time workers. In terms of both working-hour and employment losses, women are estimated to have been impacted more than men. “Myanmar was already facing economic stress with jobs and livelihoods under threat as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However the estimates show a serious and rapid deterioration in employment in the first half of this year on a scale that could drive many in Myanmar into deep poverty,” said Mr Donglin Li, ILO Myanmar Liaison Officer/Representative. All sectors of the economy have been impacted, with construction, garments and tourism and hospitality among the hardest hit. In the first half of 2021, employment in these sectors decreased by an estimated 35 per cent, 31 per cent and 25 per cent respectively, with even higher losses in relative working hours..."
Source/publisher: International Labour Organization
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Title: Around 5,000 Sagaing Villagers Flee Myanmar Junta Raid
Description: "Over 5,000 residents from three villages in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region, fled their homes after junta raids on Sunday. Shootouts occurred outside Pa Lai village on Sunday evening when resistance fighters used homemade rifles against large numbers of advancing junta troops. “They came with informants. At first, there was only a truck of them but more troops followed in smaller vehicles. We were outnumbered and they fired artillery at the village. All the villagers have fled into the forest,” said a Pa Lai villager. Junta troops set a National League for Democracy ((NLD) supporter’s house in Pa Lai on fire. The two-story building, along with four silos and harvesters, was destroyed. The financial loss was estimated at more than 100 million kyats (US$61,000), said another resident. About 16km from Shwebo, Pa Lai is a large village with a population of more than 3,000. Nearby villages Kantha and Gontan have a combined population of over 2,000. “All the villagers fled. We can’t yet return because they are stationed at a monastery in the village. Some houses were damaged by shelling. I don’t know yet if anyone was injured,” said a resident. Junta troops also reportedly ransacked the house of a former NLD chairman in Kantha village and detained three villagers. Personnel have also reportedly raided villages adjacent to Kantha and Gontha. “We are still in the forest and having troubles. Some of us are elderly and children. They are raiding one village after another. I heard a woman was shot by a sniper. I don’t know if she died. Many of us ran as soon as they entered the village. All the villagers followed after they started firing artillery,” said a villager. Four residents were killed in a shootout between a neighborhood watch group and junta troops in Seik Khun village on Saturday..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-19
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 19 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 19 July 2021: As of 19 July, (919) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (5) fallen heroes today. These (5) fallen heroes from Bago Township in Bago Region and Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region were killed the previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 19, a total of (5293) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. The family was informed that political activist Naing Linn Soe a.k.a. Ye Gyi from Bago Township in Bago Region, who was detained and interrogated by Infantry Division No.77 in Bago since June, was sent to hospital on July 17 due to COVID-19, and died on July 18. He was arrested after his wife was detained as a hostage on June 14, and forced to show his hiding place to the terrorist junta. On the night of July 17, junta troops raided Seik Khun village in Sagaing Region’s Shwebo Township and shot four youths to death unprovoked while they were guarding the village. These youths are Thet Soe, Htay Hlaing Win, Aung Paing Htwe and Aung Hein Kyaw. Activist Tin Htut Paing and Aung Min Oo were arrested at an apartment in Yangon Region’s Hlaing Township by junta forces on the night of July 18. In addition to this, on the night of July 18, Lin Htin Soe, Mandalay Region’s Chairman of the Takhon Farmer Federation for Burma, living in Pyin Oo Lwin Township in Mandalay Region, was arrested at his home by the junta, the junta forces also confiscated some money and a car from his home. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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Title: Myanmar: Human rights defenders under siege, say UN experts
Description: "UN human rights experts today expressed their utmost concern for the situation of human rights defenders in Myanmar, and called for a stronger international response to the military coup, including coordinated sanctions and an arms embargo against the junta by an ‘emergency coalition of nations’. “The brute force terror campaign we are witnessing in Myanmar continues to be directed towards human rights defenders,” said Mary Lawlor, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and Tom Andrews, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. The experts highlighted credible information they had received concerning human rights defenders being forced into hiding after having arrest warrants issued against them under section 505(a) of the Penal Code. Their homes were raided, their possessions seized, and family members threatened and harassed. Many others, unable to flee, have been arbitrarily arrested, including labour rights defenders and student activists. Lawyers representing people detained following the coup have themselves been detained, as have journalists covering the protests. “For years, human rights defenders have been doing essential work promoting human rights in the country,” Lawlor said. ”Since the coup, and despite enforced internet blackouts along with difficulties accessing basic resources, especially for defenders forced into hiding or living in rural areas, they have been documenting the mass violations being perpetrated by the military. As a result, they have been targeted,” the expert said. “The people of Myanmar appreciate expressions of concern from the international community, but what they desperately need is action. It is critical that nations stand with and for the beseiged people of Myanmar who are being held hostage by an illegal military junta. It is time for strong, focused and coordinate action that includes economic sanctions and an arms embargo,” added Andrews. Women have played a leading role in the protest and civil disobedience movement that has emerged in the country in response to the military's seizure of the State apparatus in February, and the experts expressed particular concern for the situation of women human rights defenders in the country. “We have heard from women human rights defenders from different ethnic groups in various areas of the country. Their bravery in continuing to speak out against the human rights violations being perpetrated by the military against the country's population, coming as it does in the face of threats of gender-based violence and massive risks for their safety, is astonishing,” said Lawlor “Women human rights defenders are particularly at risk in remote rural areas and are often beaten and kicked before being sent to prison where they can face torture and sexual violence with no medical care provided,” said the Special Rapporteur. Over 892 men and women have been killed since the coup. “A more determined, unified international solidarity with human rights defenders in Myanmar is required to avoid further attacks," Andrews said. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, Andrews called for the urgent formation of an “Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar“ to stop what he described as the military junta’s “reign of terror” in the country..."
Source/publisher: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-19
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Title: Myanmar: ‘Brute force terror campaign’ targeting rights defenders, UN experts say
Sub-title: Human rights defenders in Myanmar are being targeted under a “brute force terror campaign” by the military junta, United Nations independent experts said on Monday, calling again for a stronger international response to the coup.
Description: "In a statement, Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, and Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders highlighted credible reports of activists forced into hiding after having arrests warrants issued against them, under Section 505 (a) of the Penal Code. Their homes were raided, possessions seized, and family members threatened and harassed, they said, noting that many others who where unable to flee, have been arbitrarily arrested. Lawyers representing those detained after the coup have themselves been detained, as have journalists covering the protests, the statement added.....Citizens ‘held hostage’: Special Rapporteur Andrews said that the people of Myanmar appreciate the expressions of concern from the international community, “but what they desperately need, is action”. “It is critical that nations stand with and for the besieged people of Myanmar who are being held hostage by an illegal military junta. It is time for strong, focused and coordinate action that includes economic sanctions and an arms embargo.” “A more determined, unified international solidarity with human rights defenders in Myanmar is required to avoid further attacks”, Mr. Andrews added, reiterating his call for an Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar to stop what he described as the junta’s “reign of terror” in the country. More than 892 men, women and children have been killed and countless more wounded by security forces in a brutal crackdown since the 1 February coup. According to humanitarians, thousands of people across Myanmar have also been displaced due to clashes between the military and regional armed groups, and the situation is further complicated by the worsening COVID-19 situation, which risks overwhelming health and medical services across the country. ‘Astonishing’ bravery Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, applauded the bravery of rights defenders, in the face of massive risks for their own safety. “Women human rights defenders are particularly at risk in remote rural areas and are often beaten and kicked before being sent to prison where they can face torture and sexual violence with no medical care provided”, Ms. Lawlor said. “We have heard from women human rights defenders from different ethnic groups in various areas of the country. Their bravery in continuing to speak out against the human rights violations being perpetrated by the military against the country’s population, coming as it does in the face of threats of gender-based violence and massive risks for their safety, is astonishing.” The Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. The experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity..."
Source/publisher: UN News
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-19
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Title: COVID-19 response runs underground in junta-ruled Myanmar
Description: "For a week, 21-year-old student Phoe Thar has been out by dawn to gather oxygen cylinders from the homes of coronavirus sufferers in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay. He and fellow volunteers line the tanks up outside charities for filling and returning, trying to save lives in a country whose health system has largely collapsed since a Feb. 1 coup and which now faces its worst surge of COVID-19 infections. Funded by donors on social media, Phoe Thar and his team are part of a growing grassroots effort that bypasses the authorities and echoes the way Myanmar's people responded to crises during previous decades of army rule. "Since the number of people who need oxygen tanks is massive, it's a huge challenge for us," Phoe Thar told Reuters by phone from Mandalay. Health ministry figures showed deaths from COVID-19 stood at 231 on Sunday from a record 233 on Saturday, but medics and funeral services say the real toll is much higher, and crematoriums are overloaded. The total official death toll has risen 50% already this month to 5,000 with the spread of the Delta variant that has also surged elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Reuters was unable to reach the health ministry or a junta spokesman for comment on the outbreak and public response. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing appealed for volunteers and for national cooperation at a meeting on the coronavirus emergency in comments broadcast on state television on Sunday. "Some people do not dare to volunteer because of intimidation. Some people want to join but they have different reasons and difficulties," he said. "As I said before, I welcome them. Cooperation is required." The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said producing more oxygen was a priority. The junta's critics say lives have been lost because of restrictions it has imposed on some private oxygen suppliers in the name of stopping hoarding. A health system that was already among the region's weakest foundered after the coup as many health workers joined a Civil Disobdedience Movement to oppose the junta. COVID-19 vaccination, testing and prevention measures all stalled. 'THE HOSPITALS CAN'T DO ANYTHING' One underground doctor who recently volunteered help on social media said he was inundated with hundreds of requests. When he made house calls he found almost all the sick had coronavirus symptoms and most had low oxygen levels. "The situation is severe," said the doctor, who works under the name Pa Gyi. "The hospitals can't do anything for them... I can't just sit and watch as the patients are getting helpless." He contrasted the situation with that during two previous waves of the coronavirus that were largely brought under control by the government of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now deposed and on trial on an array of charges. Suu Kyi's government had the advantage of volunteers who manned quarantine and testing centres and helped to take some of the weight at public hospitals. But far fewer are coming forward to help a military government that still faces daily protests against its seizure of power after alleging fraud in an election landslide by Suu Kyi's party last year. Most of the volunteers in Mandalay from the first and second waves of coronavirus infections had disappeared, said Phoe Thar. Instead, groups like his are organising by themselves, resembling the way Myanmar's people often helped each other during disasters in the past - notably after a limited response by a previous junta to the devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008. Groups of friends in the main city, Yangon, told Reuters they were clubbing together to try to import oxygen cylinders from neighbouring Thailand. Residents of the town of Kawlin in the western Sagaing Region are trying to raise at least $30,000 to import their own oxygen generator from China. "Now we are suffering the third wave of COVID. We don't know how many more waves there we will be," one of the organisers told Reuters by phone, declining to be named for fear of reprisals. "We now have to act as though we don't have any government."..."
Source/publisher: "Reuters" (UK)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-18
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Title: The UK Government’s Response to the Myanmar Crisis: Fourth Report of Session 2021–22
Description: "Summary: The situation in Myanmar (Burma) is grave. The Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, is continuing its violent crackdown on protestors, which has led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of disappearances. A crisis of this scale requires swift, coordinated action, and the many thousands of people who have been displaced by the violence urgently require humanitarian assistance. The UK holds a number of unique roles and responsibilities which allow it to lead on preventing further violence and ensuring essential humanitarian support reaches those who need it. The Government has taken some strong measures in response to the coup and the violence, but there is much more that it can do. In this report we recommend a number of actions the UK Government should take to help reduce the violence against civilians. At a time when the Government is planning greater engagement with the Indo-Pacific, Myanmar presents a test of how effective our policy in the region can be. We recommend that the Government take further steps to secure a binding arms embargo on Myanmar, widen its sanctions approach to include a much broader range of people and organisations, provide humanitarian and logistical support to ethnic advocacy and media organisations, and take steps to ensure that those perpetrating these crimes will face justice in the future. Effective mediation in Myanmar requires concrete action. Failure to do so in the past has led to the crisis we see today. Failure to do so in the future will only lead to further violence, instability and loss of life.....Introduction: 1. In February 2021, the Myanmar military staged a coup which led to the deposition and detention of the country’s democratically elected representatives, and the military taking control of the country. The protests and violence that have followed the coup have led to hundreds of deaths, thousands of disappearances, and tens to hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Evidence from diaspora groups paints a harrowing picture: many speak of family members who have been unlawfully detained and many others who are beyond contact.1 2. The Tatmadaw2 staged this coup and declared a state of national emergency following their claims that the 2020 General Election was compromised by mass voter fraud. It has provided no evidence for these claims.3 The election has been found by international observers to “reflect the true will of the electorate”.4 3. While there has been much international condemnation of the coup and the military junta’s violence against protestors, there has been little substantial action taken. Months on from the coup, clear proof that the junta is committing serious crimes against the Myanmar people continues to surface regularly. Statements of condemnation have not and will not prevent these crimes—only clear action will. 4. The need for this action is urgent. Dr Sasa, the Minister for International Cooperation in the democratically elected National Unity Government (NUG), said: It is a pivotal movement in our history. The darkest hour in our history which was heading to the great civil war and genocide. Some 54 million brave people of Myanmar are facing the cruellest military junta.5 The UK has a unique role to play. As the United Nations Security Council ‘penholder’ on Myanmar, and as an accepted Dialogue Partner to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),6 there are several fronts on which the UK can exert further diplomatic influence. This crisis is also a major test of the effectiveness of the UK’s tilt to the IndoPacific region, as announced in the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.7 If the Government is serious about building its influence in the region it should show a willingness to take moral leadership and prevent further conflict and loss of life. This report sets out what more the UK Government could and should do..."
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Title: CRPH Announcement No.33/2021: ကြေညာချက် အမှတ် ( ၃၃/၂၀၂၁ )
Description: "ကြေညာချက် အမှတ် ( ၃၃/၂၀၂၁ ) ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆိုလဆန်း ၉ ရက် ဇူလိုင်လ (၁၇)ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ်။ ================== ၁။ မြန်မာပြည်သူများသည် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ မတရားအာဏာသိမ်းယူခြင်းနှင့် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါကူးစက်မှုမြင့် တက်နေခြင်း ဆိုးကျိုးနှစ်ခုလုံးကို တစ်ပြိုင်တည်းတွေ့ကြုံခံစားနေရသည့်အပေါ် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြု ကော်မတီ(CRPH)အနေဖြင့် များစွာစိုးရိမ်နားလည်ခံစားရပါသည်။ ၂။ ယခုကာလတွင် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီသည် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ လူမှုကူညီရေးအသင်းအဖွဲ့များတွင် ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေသူများကို ဥပဒေမဲ့ မတရားပုဒ်မတပ်ကာ ဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ခြင်း၊ ''ပြည်သူမှ ပြည်သူသို့'' ထောက်ပံ့ ကူညီမှုများကို တားဆီးပိတ်ပင်ခြင်း၊ ကိုဗစ်ကူးစက်မှုခံစားနေရသော ပြည်သူများ၏ အောက်ဆီဂျင်ရှာဖွေရယူမှုများကို ပိတ်ဆို့ဖြတ်တောက်ခြင်းများ ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိကြောင်း ကြားသိနေရပါသည်။ ၃။ ပြည်သူလူထုရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ထားသည့် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့၏ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးဝင်းမြင့်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်တို့ဦးဆောင်၍ ပြည်သူနှင့်အတူ လက်တွဲပူးပေါင်းကာ အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည့် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါကူးစက်မှု ထိန်းချုပ်ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် ကုသရေးအစီအမံများ အပါအဝင် ကိုဗစ်ပြန်လည် ကုစားရေးအစီအစဉ် (CERP) ကိုလည်း အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် ဆက်လက်အကောင် အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ခြင်း မရှိဘဲ၊ လျစ်လျူရှု ဖျက်သိမ်းခဲ့သည်ကို တွေ့ ရှိရပါသည်။ ၄။ ယခုအခါ အကျဉ်းထောင်များအပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့တွင် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါ ကူးစက်ပျံ့နှံ့မှု ပြင်းထန်စွာ ဖြစ်ပွားလျက် ရှိပြီး နေ့စဉ်သေဆုံးသူအရေအတွက်မှာလည်း အလွန်အမင်း မြင့်တက်လျက်ရှိသည်ကို စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ရာ တွေ့ရှိရပါသည်။ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါကူးစက်မှုကို ထိန်းချုပ်ကာကွယ်တားဆီး ခြင်း၊ ရောဂါရှာဖွေစစ်ဆေးပေးခြင်း၊ ရောဂါကူးစက်ခံထားရသူများနှင့် သံသယလူနာများကို လုံလောက်သော ဆေးကုသ မှုပေးခြင်းတို့ကို မဖြစ်မနေ ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရမည် ဖြစ်သည်။ ၅။ ကိုဗစ်တတိယလှိုင်းကြောင့် ပြည်သူလူထု အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ သေဆုံးပျက်စီးနိုင်သည်အထိ အန္တရာယ်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင် ကြုံတွေ့နေရချိန်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းအတွက် လုံလောက်သော ဆေးကုသခွင့်နှင့်အတူ လိုအပ်သည့်ထောက်ပံ့ကူညီမှုများ စီမံဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန် ပျက်ကွက်နေသည့်အပြင် ပြည်သူလူထု၏ ကိုယ်အားကိုယ်ကိုး စီမံဆောင်ရွက်မှုများကိုပါ ပိတ်ပင်တားဆီးမှုများ လုပ်ဆောင်နေခြင်းသည် နိုင်ငံသား အခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး မြန်မာပြည်သူများအပေါ် ကြီးလေးသော ရာဇဝတ်မှုကျူးလွန် ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ အထက်ပါလုပ်ရပ်များကြောင့် နောက်ဆက်တွဲဖြစ်ပေါ်လာမည့် အကျိုးဆက်များအတွက် အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် အပြည့်အဝ တာဝန်ယူရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးလိုက်သည်။ ၆။ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ကိုဗစ်ရောဂါ ထိန်းချုပ်ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် စီးပွားရေး ပြန်လည်ကုစားရေးတို့အတွက် သက်ဆိုင်ရာ ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအားလုံးနှင့် အမြန်ဆုံး လက်တွဲလုပ်ဆောင်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး မိမိတို့နှင့် လက်တွဲပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ပေးကြရန် နိုင်ငံတကာနှင့် ပြည်တွင်းအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအားလုံးကို လေးနက်စွာ တောင်းဆိုပါကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာအပ်ပါသည်။ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ..."
Source/publisher: Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
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Title: CRPH Announcement No.33/2021
Description: "The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) would like to express its deep concern for the People of Myanmar who are suffering from the twin impacts of brutal coup d’etat and severe COVID-19 crisis. During this crisis, the junta has been undertaking inhumane actions such as arresting the health care workers and volunteers in an unlawful manner, prohibiting community support among people and restricting oxygen supplies for the COVID-19 patients. The control and response interventions for COVID including the COVID Economic Relief Plan (CERP) formerly implemented by the civilian government together with the citizens under the leadership of President U Win Myint and State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has crumbled as being neglected by the junta due to their inability to continue the implementation. Currently, the rate of disease spreading out is dramatically high throughout the country including in the prisons and the daily death rate is extremely worrying. The junta must take the actions for prevention and control of the disease, tracing and testing, and providing proper treatment to the infected patients and suspected persons While many people are encountering the risk of losing their lives due to the third wave of the global pandemic COVID 19, the junta fails to provide the needed support and the right to treatment for every citizen. Moreover, the military even prevents people from making their own efforts for their survival. This is a clear violation of human rights and rights of citizens, and obviously is a terrible crime committed against the people of Myanmar. Therefore, the CRPH warns that the junta must be fully responsible for all consequent impacts resulting from the above-mentioned actions. The CRPH stands by to work with all multilateral agencies, INGOs and individuals for COVID response and economic relief, and the CRPH calls on all international and local organisations for collaboration..."
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 17 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 17 July 2021: As of 17 July, (914) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (2) fallen heroes today. These (2) fallen heroes from Sinbaungwe Township in Magwe Region and Minkin Township in Sagaing Region were killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.. As of July 17, a total of (5281) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. In the morning of July 16, Tin Ohn from Ayekayit village in Magwe Region’s Sinbaungwe Township, was shot over 15 times by the terrorist junta and died while he was working at sesame field when the junta did not find his son Yan Myo Aung, MP of No (1) Constituency of Sinbaungwe Township of Magwe Region, who was evading arrest because he did not sign to not support CRPH and NUG. On July 16, the terrorist junta raided nearby villages including Inpinhla Village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township and shot Zwe Ko Ko from Inpinhla Village to death. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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Title: Father of NLD MP shot dead by junta soldiers in Sinbaungwe, Magwe Region
Sub-title: Villagers say the 60-year-old farmer was killed while tending to his sesame field
Description: "The father of a National League for Democracy (NLD) regional parliamentarian was shot dead in Sinbaungwe Township, Magwe Region by the junta’s soldiers on Friday morning. Two locals confirmed to Myanmar Now that the troops shot and killed Tin Ohn, a 60-year-old farmer, in his field at 10am. He was the father of elected regional MP Yan Aung Myo. A villager from Tha Ngar village, where Tin Ohn lived, said he was working in a sesame field when he was killed. “According to the sound of the gunfire, they shot about 20 rounds,” the villager said. “The soldiers knew where [Yan Aung Myo’s] family members were because of information given to them by military informants.” He added that some villagers reportedly saw Tin Ohn's body being taken away by the army on a three-wheeled motorcycle. Villagers have been unable to contact Tin Ohn’s other family members since his death, the villager said. “We can’t call them. They have not picked up the calls,” he said. Myanmar Now is continuing to gather information surrounding Tin Ohn’s killing. A Sinbaungwe resident said that at around 2pm on Friday, the junta announced that Tin Ohn’s body could be retrieved from the township hospital. A village administrator and clerk were reportedly going to claim it. Villagers from Tha Ngar made a grave to bury Tin Ohn on Saturday. Parliamentarian Yan Aung Myo, Tin Ohn’s son, lived in Aye Ka Rit village near Tha Ngar, but he had been on the run since April, the Sinbaungwe resident said. Yan Aung Myo contested and won the 2020 general election as an NLD candidate in Magwe’s regional parliament for Sinbaungwe’s Constituency 1..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-17
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Title: Myanmar: Acts of torture while in custody against Man Zar Myay Mon
Description: "The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Myanmar. New information: The Observatory has been informed about the acts of torture while in custody and the ongoing judicial harassment against Man Zar Myay Mon, an environmental and land rights defender, member of the Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) [1] and of the Subnational Coordination Unit (SCU) of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) [2] in Sagaing Region. According to a family member, Man Zar Myay Mon had his fingers broken during interrogation at the headquarters of the Tatmadaw’s Northwestern Command in Monywa, Sagaing Region, where he was detained following his arrest on June 8, 2021. At the time of publication of this Urgent Appeal, Man Zar Myay Mon was detained in Monywa prison, Sagaing Region. On July 7, 2021, Man Zar Myay Mon appeared for his third hearing in the Monywa prison court. During this hearing, he was able to meet with his lawyers in person for the first time since his arrest. Man Zar Myay Mon is facing five charges of “incitement” under Article 505(a) of the Penal Code. Among those charges, it is unclear to which alleged actions by Man Zar Myay Mon the charges are related. The Observatory recalls that Man Zar Myay Mon has worked for many years to promote accountability of the extractive industries for the benefit of local communities. He led a regional mining investigation and helped inform the development of mining legislation in Sagaing Region. Throughout this process he helped uncover many instances of corruption among government officials. He was also active as one of the community leaders in the Letpadaung mine protests in Sagaing Region [3]. Since February 2021, he led non-violent anti-coup protests in Chaung-U Township, Sagaing Region. Since his arrest, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar expressed deep concern about Man Zar Myay Mon’s arrest. The Observatory expresses its utmost concern regarding the torture to which Man Zar Myay Mon has been subjected during his detention and alerts on the high risk of further acts of ill-treatment and torture he is facing while in military custody. The Observatory urges the military junta to immediately release Man Zar Myay Mon, put an end to all acts of harassment - including at the judicial level - against him, and guarantee in all circumstances his physical integrity and psychological well-being..."
Source/publisher: International Federation for Human Rights
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Title: National Unity Government: Ministry of Electricity and Energy Notification No.7/2021 - လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁) ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆို လဆန်း ၉ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၇ ရက်) ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင် ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းမဖက်အာဏာဖီဆန်လှုပ်ရှားမှု (CDM) တွင် ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြပြီး ပြည်သူနှင့် အတူ ရပ်တည်ပေးနေခဲ့ကြ သော နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ လူမှုဘဝဖူလုံရေးနှင့် လုံခြုံရေးကို အထူး အလေးထား ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင် ပါဝင်ခြင်းကြောင့် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ အနေဖြင့် အလုပ်ထုတ်ခံရခြင်း၊ မတရားဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခံရခြင်း၊ ပင်စင်ခံစားခွင့်မရခြင်း၊ လတ်တလော ကွယ်လွန်သည့်အခါတွင်ပင် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းတဦးအနေဖြင့် ခံစားခွင့် မရရှိခြင်း စသည့်် မတရားဖိနှိပ်မှုများ ကို ခံစားနေကြရပါသည်။ သို့ဖြစ်ပါ၍ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ဌာနခွဲအသီးသီးရှိ CDM ဝန်ထမ်းများကို ဖိနှိပ်ခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှထုတ်ပစ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအိမ်ရာများ ပြန်သိမ်းခြင်း/ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်း၊ ပြည်သူ့အစိုးရကပြန်ဆပ်ရန်မလိုဟုထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည့် ၂လစာချေးငွေများ ပြန်လည် တောင်းခံခြင်း တို့ကိုကျူးလွန်နေသည့် တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံ အောက်ပါ ဝန်ထမ်းအကြီးအကဲများကို အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းဝင်သူများအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ် ကြေညာလိုက်ပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏ ရာထူးတည်ရှိမှုအပါအဝင် ကိစ္စအဝဝကို အစိုးရအနေဖြင့် လုံးဝ အသိအမှတ် ပြုတော့မည် မဟုတ်ကြောင်း နှင့် ၄င်းတို့အားလုံးကို ထုတ်ပယ်ပစ် (dismiss) ပြီး ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။ စဉ် အမည် ရာထူး ဌာန ၁ ဒေါ်မိမိခိုင် ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချူပ် လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအားစီမံရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၂ ဦးအေးကျော် ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချူပ် လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားပို့လွှတ်ရေးနှင့် ကွပ်ကဲရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၃ ဦးဟိန်းထက် ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချူပ် ရေအားလျှပ်စစ် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၄ ဦးသန်းနိုင်ဦး ဦးဆောင်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားထုတ်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်း ၅ ဦးရဲတိုးသွင် ဦးဆောင်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားဖြန့်ဖြူးရေးလုပ်ငန်း ၆ ဦးအောင်ကျော်ဦး ယာယီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ရန်ကုန်လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားပေးရေး ကော်ပိုရေးရှင်း ၇ ဦးတင်အောင် ယာယီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ မန္တလေးလျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားပေးရေး ကော်ပိုရေးရှင်း ၈ ဦးစိုးမြင့် ဒု-အမြဲတမ်းအတွင်းဝန် ဝန်ကြီးရုံး ၉ ဦးဇော်ဝင်းခိုင် ဒု-ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအားစီမံရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၁၀ ဦးဟန်ဇော် ဒု-ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် လျှပ်စစ်စွမ်းအားစီမံရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၁၁ ဦးသူရအောင်ဘို ဒု-ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားပို့လွှတ်ရေးနှင့် ကွပ်ကဲရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၁၂ ဦးမျိုးနိုင် ဒု-ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားပို့လွှတ်ရေးနှင့် ကွပ်ကဲရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၁၃ ဦးအောင်ဇော်မင်း ဒု-ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် ရေအားလျှပ်စစ် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန ၁၄ ဦးစိုးဝင်း ဒု-ဦးဆောင် ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားထုတ်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်း ၁၅ ဦးသိန်းသူရ အင်ဂျင်နီယာချုပ် လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အားဖြန့်ဖြူးရေးလုပ်ငန်း ဦးစိုးသူရထွန်း ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-17
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Title: Emergency Release: COVID-19 in Burma’s Prison
Description: "Across Burma COVID-19 is devastating communities, in this way the junta is benefiting from the spread of the deadly disease, they don’t have to use weapons, the virus is killing people. Thousands are dying from lack of oxygen whilst the junta claims people are hoarding supplies, in fact the junta has ordered oxygen factories to refuse refilling cylinder from individuals. Charity groups are struggling to save the lives of COVID-19 patients, but the junta shoots at crowds of people trying to fill up containers of oxygen for their loved ones. In prisons the situation is getting worse, the junta has restricted visits to lawyers and family, even prison staff cannot make contact with outside. It is becoming even more difficult to obtain information. However, AAPP knows there have been outbreaks in Insein, Hpa-an Taung Galay, Taunggyi and Taungoo prisons, but we do not know how many have been affected, or even how many have been killed. NLD legal advisor U Nyan Win has contracted COVID-19, but he is in a prominent position and receiving medical treatment at Yangon General Hospital. The situation for the other individuals still detained will be much worse. AAPP’s 2018 report on Prison Overcrowding and the Urgent Need for Reform analysed an investigation conducted by the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission in 2017 revealed rampant overcrowding. Of the 30 prisons investigated by MNHRC, there was a total capacity of 31,500 but the prisons were found to hold over 50,000 prisoners, 19,000 over capacity. The problem has not improved since the report’s publication. From AAPP’s previous visits to prisons we understand that medical care is not nearly sufficient, Burma’s prisons are in control of an institution which does not care if people die. The success of the civilian government to procure vaccines and administer them has been dismantled by the military coup. At the outbreak of COVID-19 last year, AAPP visited 33 prisons and labour camps from May to November 2020 to distribute masks, and sanitiser, probing officials on statistics and practices from the arcane military-controlled prison department. We did this because the military-controlled prison department could not be trusted to reveal the truth. Just as the junta is now torturing people to death and saying COVID-19 is the cause. It is clear COVID-19 is being used as a weapon of war by the junta, the terrorists in the so-called State Administrative Council understood an outbreak would happen. They occupied hospitals to launch night-time raids to detain medical students, tortured healthcare workers, and indiscriminately shot at protests led by doctors and nurses. Prisoners in Burma remain especially at risk to the spread of disease because of chronic overcrowding and systemic violations to their rights. Prison staff are also poorly trained, and in Insein and Taunggyi where there are rumours of infection, ratio of prisoners to one staff was 14.6, and 16.0 respectively. Not nearly enough for officials to monitor the physical and mental health of prisoners, or isolate prisoners displaying symptoms or with positive infection. This is why thousands of pro-democracy supporters are at risk, especially in Yangon. Legal advisor U Khin Maung Myint told The Irrawaddy on 7 July that there are around 13,000 prisoners inside Insein Prison which has a capacity of 5000. This would mean according to U Khin Maung Myint, that Insein is now operating 260% over-capacity. Reports of an outbreak in Taunggyi Prison are also a significant threat, the prison was operating at 251.3% overcapacity even before the coup, 754 prisoners to its 300 intended capacity. But there are systematic issues beyond overcrowding, HIV is highly prevalent in prisons, and the junta’s letter to MSF to stop work in in Dawei treating HIV patients is indicative of their approach to the human life. According to a reliable source, there has been a recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Taung Galay Prison, Hpa-An. A woman died on suspicion of COVID-19 last week in a custody cell, but the news was not disclosed by the prison. Prisoner patients who lost the sense of smell are being kept together with other inmates and denied necessary medical treatment, their access to medical supplies is also being restricted due to the prohibition of family visits and communication. It is clear what the junta thinks of fundamental rights, the vaccination program must not be administered by the junta. The people do not want this, and they will not trust the process. AAPP has great concern for everyone in Burma and its ramifications for the entire region. In order to help our people, we need a trusted leadership, chosen by the people with free civil and political civic space inside the country. We therefore urge the international community including the US, EU, ASEAN, China, UN and donor organizations to put pressure on the junta to restore civilian government and open civil political and civic space. Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-16
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation- NUG: Announcement No.10/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၁၀/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၁၀/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-16
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation- NUG: Announcement No.9/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၉/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၉/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG
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Title: Myanmar crisis risks damaging entire generation of children, UN Child Rights Committee warns
Description: "Children’s rights in Myanmar are facing an onslaught that risks leaving an entire generation damaged, the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) has warned. Since the military coup, 75 children have been killed, about 1,000 arbitrarily detained and countless more deprived of essential medical care and education, according to credible information obtained by the Committee. “Children in Myanmar are under siege and facing catastrophic loss of life because of the military coup,” Mikiko Otani, Chair of the CRC, said. The Committee monitors the compliance by States parties to the Child Rights Convention. Myanmar acceded to the Convention in 1991. The Committee strongly condemned the killing of children by the junta and police. Some victims were killed in their own homes, including a six-year old girl in the city of Mandalay, who was shot in the stomach by police and died in her father’s arms. The CRC also deplored the arbitrary detention of children in police stations, prisons and military detention centres. The military authorities have reportedly taken children as hostages when they are unable to arrest their parents. Among those detained is a five-year-old girl in the Mandalay region whose father helped organize protests against the junta. “Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day. They have guns pointed at them, and see the same happen to their parents and siblings,” Otani warned. The Committee is profoundly concerned at the major disruption of essential medical care and school education in the entire country, as well as access to safe drinking water and food for children in rural areas. The UN Human Rights Office has received credible reports about hospitals, schools and religious institutions being occupied by security forces and subsequently damaged in military actions. According to UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, a million children in Myanmar are missing key vaccinations. More than 40,000 children are no longer getting treatment for severe acute malnutrition. “As a result of the military coup and conflicts, children’s right to life, survival and development have been repeatedly violated,” said Otani. “If this crisis continues, an entire generation of children is at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic consequences, depriving them of a healthy and productive future.” The Committee called for immediate action to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis and urged Myanmar to uphold its obligations under the Convention to protect and promote children’s rights to the utmost degree..."
Source/publisher: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-16
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Title: MYANMAR – Humanitarian Snapshot (July 2021)
Description: "HUMANITARIAN NEEDS COUNTRYWIDE: A total of 3 million people are targeted for humanitarian assistance and protection services across various parts of the country. This includes 1 million people in need in conflict-affected areas previously identified and a further 2 million people identified since 1 February. The additional caseload of 2 million people includes families in urban and peri-urban townships in Yangon and Mandalay, which have seen dramatic increase in humanitarian needs, as well as people newly displaced in conflict-affected areas since 1 February. An additional US$109 million is requested to address the new needs and complement the existing Humanitarian Response Plan, which seeks $276.5 million in funding.....DISPLACEMENT IN THE SOUTH-EAST: The security situation in southeastern Myanmar remains volatile, with sporadic clashes reported between the MAF and “People’s Defense Forces (PDF)” in Kayah and Mon states, marking an increase in hostilities in recent weeks. UNHCR estimates around 170,100 people have been internally displaced in southeastern Myanmar due to violence, insecurity and clashes between the MAF, EAOs and “PDF” since 1 February. This includes 121,400 people displaced in Kayah and neighboring townships in southern Shan since late May, a further 47,600 people displaced in Kayin with another 1,100 displaced in Mon states since 1 February.....DISPLACEMENT IN KACHIN AND SHAN: The security situation in Kachin and Shan states remains volatile, with clashes reported between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) or among the EAOs on a regular basis. In Kachin, around 11,510 people have been internally displaced since the resurgence of hostilities between the MAF and the “Kachin Independence Army” in mid-March 2021. Over 7,800 of them remain displaced in eight townships. Around 6,900 people were newly displaced due to various clashes in north and southern areas of Shan State over the course of June. In total, 22,156 people have been internally displaced across Shan State since the start of 2021; about 7,500 people remain displaced in six townships....DISPLACEMENT IN CHIN, CASUALTIES IN RAKHINE: The security situation remains volatile in Chin State with intermittent clashes between the MAF and “PDF” reported in several townships in Chin State, as well as in neighboring Pauk and Saw townships in Magway Region. About 16,300 people are currently hosted in over 100 displacement sites in five townships in Chin State since May and in Saw Township in Magway and Kale Township in Sagaing regions since June. Meanwhile, almost 9,850 people, displaced by the MAF-Arakan Army conflict, remain in Paletwa Township, Chin State. In Rakhine, two civilians in Ann Township sustained injuries from a landmine explosion on 10 July. According to UNICEF, 38 civilians have been killed or injured by landmines in Rakhine State in the first five months of 2021, which represents 37 per cent of the total casualties countrywide during this period..."
Source/publisher: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (New York) via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-16
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Title: National Unity Government: Weekly Press Release 8/2021
Description: "1. The Privatization Commission under the terrorist military junta is planning to sell off 23 state-owned properties by open tender. The NUG Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment is advising no one to buy them as such action is not lawful. In its statement (5/2021)1 of 9 July 2021, the Ministry has warned that it will nationalize those properties. 2. On 10 July 2021, the NUG Ministry of Electricity and Energy has announced (Statement 5/2021)2 that it is cancelling various fees for petroleum and petroleum products. 3. The NUG Ministry of Health has now launched its COVID-19 Knowledge Centre, a Facebook page that will provide correct and beneficial information regarding COVID-19 for the public. All advice on prevention and control of the disease will be posted on this page. The Ministry will answer questions related to COVID-19 submitted by the public between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays on the next working days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Ministry of Health has also started TeleHealth (https://facebook.com/telehealthmm) , an online clinic that provides health care services for the public, including COVID-19 cases. The clinic is open daily from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm. General practitioners and specialists have been treating up to 12 specialist cases. Five Telegram channels will also be available from 16 July 2021 for exclusive COVID-19 consultations and treatments for the public. The ministry will launch COVID-19 Awareness Week (12 – 18 July 2021) under the theme of ‘Look after each other and beat COVID-19’ to respond to the fast-spreading coronavirus across the country. The campaign will ensure increased awareness of the guidelines published by the NUG Ministry of Health, observance and sharing of the information. It also promotes homemade fabric/cloth masks as it is increasingly difficult to buy surgical masks which are rising in price. COVID-19 related posters and videos of the Ministry of Health are available on http://tinyurl.com/c19mohnug. Meetings between the Ministry of Health and EHO teams, as well as political and social organisations, for the prevention, control and treatment of coronavirus disease have been held. A campaign, ‘Let me breathe freely’ is now organized and will begin soon. This campaign will focus on denouncing the thuggish junta’s prohibition of refilling oxygen cylinders. COVID-19 patients need these urgently. The ministry is also running a COVID-19 webinar series for health care works on three days a week. This is accessible at http://facebook.com/MoHNUGMyanmar. The ministry also advises the public to stay at home for two weeks except for emergencies and follow the guidelines. 4. The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has approved U Toe Aung’s nomination by the National Unity Government as Union Auditor General. 5. The NUG Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation has announced that it has blacklisted (11) employees with statement(3/2021)3, (32) employees with statement(4/2021)4, (9) employees with statement(6/2021)5, (10) employees with statement(7/2021)7, (9) employees with statement(8/2021)8,who have been threatening those taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). The blacklisted employees also include those who are loyal to the military junta and continue working under the junta. Resolution no. 7 of the meeting held on 10 July 2021 agreed to take appropriate actions against these individuals based on their activities. On 12 July 2021, the NUG Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation submitted a report5 on the Nationally Determined Contributions – NDC programme regarding Myanmar’s efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. 6. The Ministries of the NUG met civil society organizations on 12 July and obtained recommendations as to the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights. 7. The National Commission on Prevention, Control and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) of the NUG has released announcement (1/2021)9 on 13 July and has warned the military junta about COVID-19 infections and deaths in prisons. 8. The NUG Ministry of Human Rights has issued a statement10 regarding measures in response to the third wave of COVID-19. It states that people in Myanmar are deprived of their right to health, such as (1) the right to health without discrimination, (2) the right of everyone to obtain necessities for prevention of disease and health risks, (3) the right to access health products (4) health programmes that are community-based and accepted by the public (5) quality of health care services. Such denial of the rights to health by the military junta constitutes a further violation of crimes against humanity. The ministry warns the regime to stop harassing health care organisations immediately and ensure that health care services are delivered to the people. 9. The NUG Ministry of Electricity and Energy has released announcement (6/2021)11 on 14 July that it has dismissed nine employees who have been loyal to the junta. These individuals have oppressed, threatened, and sacked the employees participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement. They also evicted these CDM participants from staff accommodation and coerced them to repay a salary advance for two months. အသေးစိတ်သိရှိလိုပါက ထပ်မံလေ့လာရန် လင့်ခ်များ ၁။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/145212184366088 ၂။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/145863500967623 ၃။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/147099670844006 ၄။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/147819244105382 ၅။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/148482904039016 ၆။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/148681640685809 ၇။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/149418967278743 ၈။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/149378983949408 ၉။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/147877507432889 ၁၀။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/147933740760599 ၁၁။ https://www.facebook.com/NUGmyanmar/posts/148603070693666..."
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Date of entry/update: 2021-07-16
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Title: National Unity Government: Weekly Press Release 8/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အပတ်စဉ်သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၈/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "အပတ်စဉ်သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၈/၂၀၂၁) ၁၆ ဇူလိုင် ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ၁။ အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ စီမံကိန်း၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန က အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂလိကပိုင်ပြုလုပ်ရေးကော်မရှင်က နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦနှင့် မြေကွက် (၂၃)ခုကို အိပ်ဖွင့်တင်ဒါစနစ်ဖြင့် ရောင်းချရန် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်နေခြင်းသည် တရားဝင်မှု မရှိသောကြောင့် ဝယ်ယူခြင်း မပြုကြရန်နှင့် ဝယ်ယူထားသည့် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦ နှင့်မြေကွက် များအား နိုင်ငံပိုင်အဖြစ် ပြန်လည် သိမ်းယူသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးတားမြစ်သည့် ကြေညာချက် (၅/၂၀၂၁)၁ ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်က ၉ ရက်နေ့ ရက်စွဲဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ ၂။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ရေနံနှင့် ရေနံထွက်ပစ္စည်းများဆိုင်ရာ အခွန်အခများ လွတ်ငြိမ်းခွင့်ပြုကြောင်း ကြေညာတဲ့ အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၅/၂၀၂၁)၂ ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၀ ရက်နေ့ရက်စွဲဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ ၃။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရက အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းခဲ့သည့် ဦးတိုးအောင်အား ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၀ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီက ပြည်ထောင်စုစာရင်းစစ်ချုပ်အဖြစ် အတည်ပြု ခန့်အပ် တာဝန်ပေးအပ်လိုက်သည်။ ၄။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ကိုဗစ် ၁၉ ဗဟုသုတစင်တာ (https://facebook.com/ckcmohnugmm) လူမှုကွန်ယက်စာမျက်နှာကို ဇူလိုင်လ ၄ ရက်နေ့က စတင်ဖွင့်လှစ်လိုက်သည်။ ကိုဗစ် ၁၉နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော မှန်ကန် ၊အကျိုးရှိမည့် ကျန်းမာရေး ဆိုင်ရာအချက်အလက် အကြောင်းအရာများကို ပြည်သူလူထုထံသို့ ဖြန့်ဝေပေးနိုင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပြီး ကိုဗစ် ၁၉ရောဂါဆိုင်ရာ ဆောင်ရန်ရှောင်ရန်အချက်များနှင့် ကြိုတင်ကာကွယ်ရမည့် နည်းလမ်းများကို ဖော်ပြပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ အထူးသဖြင့် အပတ်စဉ် အင်္ဂါနေ့နှင့် သောကြာနေ့တို့တွင် နံနက် (၉) နာရီမှ ည (၇) နာရီအတွင်း ကိုဗစ်ဗဟုသုတဆိုင်ရာ မေးခွန်းများကို ပြည်သူများထံမှ စုစည်းရယူပြီး ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးနေ့နှင့် စနေနေ့တို့တွင် အဆိုပါမေးခွန်းများကို ပြန်လည် စုစည်းဖြေကြား ပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် တယ်လီကျန်းမာအွန်လိုင်းဆေးခန်း (https://facebook.com/telehealthmm) ကိုလည်း (၁၉-၆-၂၀၂၁) ရက်နေ့က စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ပြီး ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါအပါအဝင် ပြည်သူလူထု၏ ကျန်းမာရေးပြဿနာများကို အွန်လိုင်းမှတစ်ဆင့် ကုသပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ နေ့စဉ် နံနက် (၈) နာရီမှ ညနေ (၆) နာရီအထိ ဆေးခန်းဖွင့်လှစ်ထားပြီး အထွေထွေရောဂါဆရာဝန်များအပါအဝင် အထူးကုဆရာဝန်ကြီးများက အထူးကုရောဂါ အမျိုးအစား (၁၂) မျိုးထိ ကုသပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် (၁၆-၇-၂၀၂၁) ရက်နေ့မှစတင်၍ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါဆိုင်ရာ သီးသန့်အကြံပေးကုသပေးမည့် Telegram Channel (၅) ခုဖြင့် ပြည်သူလူထု၏ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါ ကျန်းမာရေးပြဿနာများကို ဖြေရှင်းဆောင်ရွက် သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် “ပြည်သူက ပြည်သူကို စောင့်ရှောက်ခြင်းဖြင့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါကို အနိုင်ယူပါ” ဆောင်ပုဒ်ဖြင့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါဆိုင်ရာ ကျန်းမာရေးအသိပညာ ဖြန့်ဝေရေး လူထုလှုပ်ရှားမှု ရက်သတ္တပတ်ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ (၁၂) ရက်နေ့မှ (၁၈) ရက်နေ့အထိ ဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နေရာဒေသအနှံ့၌ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါသည် လျင်မြန်များပြားစွာ ကူးစက်ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည့်အတွက် ပြည်သူများသည် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသော ရောဂါကာကွယ်ရေးနည်းလမ်းများကို ပိုမို သိရှိ၊ လိုက်နာ၊ ဖြန့်ဝေကြစေရန်နှင့် အထူးသဖြင့် Surgical Mask များ ဝယ်ရခက်ခဲပြီး ဈေးနှုန်းများ မြင့်တက်လာသည့်အတွက် မိမိအိမ်တွင် ချုပ်လုပ်ကြသည့် အဝတ်နှာခေါင်းစည်း (Homemade Fabric / Cloth Mask) များကို ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ဝတ်ဆင်လာကြစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါ ပညာပေးပိုစတာများ၊ ရုပ်သံဗီဒီယိုများကို အင်တာနက်လိပ်စာ https://tinyurl.com/c19mohnug တွင် တစ်စုတစ်စည်းတည်း ရယူနိုင်ရန် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်ထားရှိပါသည်။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါ ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေးအတွက် EHO အဖွဲ့များ၊ အခြားနိုင်ငံရေးနှင့် လူမှုအင်အားစုများနှင့်လည်း တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးမှုများလည်း ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီက ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါကူးစက်ဖြစ်ပွားနေသော ပြည်သူများ အရေးပေါ် လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသည့် အောက်စီဂျင်စလင်ဒါများ ပြန်လည်ဖြည့်ခြင်းအား ပိတ်ပင်ခြင်းကို ရှုံ့ချသည့်အနေဖြင့် လူတိုင်း လွတ်လပ်စွာ အသက်ရှုခွင့်နှင့် အသက်ရှင်ခွင့်ရရှိစေရန်အတွက် "လွတ်လပ်စွာ အသက်ရှုခွင့်ပေးပါ Campaign" ကိုလည်း ယခုရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်း ဆောင်ရွက်သွားရန် စီစဉ်လျက်ရှှိပါသည်။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများအတွက် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ဆိုင်ရာ ဆေးပညာမျှဝေမှုအစီအစဉ် (COVID-19 Webinar Series) ကိုလည်း တစ်ပတ်လျှင် (၃) ရက် ပြုလုပ်ပေးလျက်ရှိပြီး ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ Facebook Page (https://facebook.com/MoHNUGMyanmar) တွင် Live ထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါ ကူးစက်ဖြစ်ပွားမှုများ ကာကွယ်ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရန် ပြည်သူများအနေဖြင့် မဖြစ်မနေ အပြင်ထွက်ရမည့် ကိစ္စမှအပ မိမိတို့နေအိမ်ထဲတွင်သာ (၂) ပတ် နေထိုင်ရန်နှင့် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည့် ရောဂါကာကွယ်ရေးနည်းလမ်းများကို လိုက်နာဆောင်ရွက်စေရန်လည်း နှိုးဆော် ဆောင်ရွက် သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ၅။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက မိမိတို့ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအတွင်းရှိ CDM တွင်ပါဝင် ဆန္ဒပြနေသည့် ဝန်ထမ်းများကို အမျိုးမျိုးဖိအားပေး ခြိမ်းခြောက်နေသည့် အကြမ်းဖက် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ ဩဇာခံများနှင့် ယင်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်တွင် ဆက်လက် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေကြသည့် ဝန်ထမ်းများ (Non- CDM များ) အား ၎င်းတို့၏ လုပ်ရပ်/ပြစ်မှု အပေါ်မူတည်ကာ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရက ထိုက်သင့်သည့် ပြစ်ဒဏ်များ ချမှတ်ကာ ထိရောက်စွာအရေးယူသည့်အနေဖြင့် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ (၁၀) ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြုလုပ်သည့် အစည်းအဝေးဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် အမှတ်(၇) အရ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၃/၂၀၂၁)၃ ကို ထုတ်ပြန်၍ ဝန်ထမ်း (၁၁) ဦး၊ (၄/၂၀၂၁)၄ ကိုထုတ်ပြန်၍ ဝန်ထမ်း (၃၂) ဦးတို့ကို အမည်ပျက်စာရင်း(Blacklist) သွင်းခဲ့ကြောင်း ကြေညာခဲ့သည်။ ၁၂-၇-၂၀၂၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် “အမျိုးသားအဆင့် ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှု လျှော့ချရေးနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေ ရှိစေရေးဆိုင်ရာ အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ် (Nationally Determined Contributions-NDC)” ဆောင်ရွက်မှုအစီရင်ခံစာ၅ တင်သွင်းခဲ့သည်။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ထုတ်ပြန် ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁)၆ ဖြင့် ဝန်ထမ်း (၉) ဦး၊ ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁)၇ ဖြင့် ဝန်ထမ်း (၁၀) ဦး၊ ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၈/၂၀၂၁)၈ ဖြင့် ဝန်ထမ်း (၉) ဦးတို့ကို အမည်ပျက်စာရင်း(Blacklist) သွင်းခဲ့ကြောင်း ထပ်မံကြေညာခဲ့သည်။ ၆။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနများသည် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအခြေအနေ ပုံမှန်သုံးသပ်မှုလုပ်ငန်းစဉ် (Universal Periodic Review - UPR) နှင့် ပတ်သက်ပြီး အကြံပြုချက်များ ရယူနိုင်ရန်အတွက် အရပ်ဖက်လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၂ ရက်နေ့တွင် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးခဲ့သည်။ ၇။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး ကော်မရှင်က အကျဉ်းထောင်များတွင် COVID-19 ရောဂါ ကူးစက်ပြန့်ပွားသေဆုံးမှုများ ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည့်ကိစ္စနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအား ပြင်းထန်စွာသတိပေးသည့် အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၁/၂၀၂၁)၉ ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၃ ရက် နေ့စွဲဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ ၈။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန က "ကိုဗစ်တတိယလှိုင်းတုန့်ပြန် လုပ်ဆောင်နေမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်" တစ်စောင်၁၀ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။ အဆိုပါထုတ်ပြန်ချက်တွင် ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာအခွင့်အလမ်းများ ရရှိခံစားခွင့် အချက် (၅) ချက်ဖြစ်သည့် ၁။ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာ အခွင့်အရေးများကို မည်သူ့အပေါ်မှ ခွဲခြားခြင်းမရှိဘဲ ရယူခံစားခွင့် (Non-Discrimination) ၂။ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကာကွယ်တားဆီးရေးနှင့် ပတ်သတ်၍ လိုအပ်သော အရာများကို လူတိုင်း ရရှိပိုင်ခွင့်(Availability) ၃။ ကျန်းမာရေးပစ္စည်းများကို အလွယ်တကူ ဝယ်ယူပိုင်ခွင့်(Accessibility) ၄။ ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုအစီအစဉ်များလုပ်ဆောင်ရာတွင် လူထုကို အခြေပြုပြီး ပြည်သူအများလက်ခံနိုင်မှု (Acceptability) ၅။ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ၏ အရည်အသွေးပြည့်ဝမှု (Quality) စတဲ့ ရရှိခံစားခွင့်များကိုပင် မရရှိသည့် အခြေအနေနှင့် ကြုံတွေ့နေရကြောင်း၊ ထိုသို့ပြုလုပ်နေခြင်းဟာ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီက မြန်မာပြည်သူတစ်ရပ်လုံးအပေါ်သက်ရောက်စေသည့် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်တစ်ခုလုံးအပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှု ကို နောက်ထပ်ကျူးလွန်ခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကူညီ လုပ်ဆောင်နေသော အဖွဲ့များအပေါ် နှောက်ယှက်ဟန့်တားနေမှုတွေကု ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်ပြီး ပြည်သူတွေဆီ ကျန်းမာရေးအကူအညီတွေ ရောက်ရှိစေရန် ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန် သတိပေးကြောင်းတို့ ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ ၉။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနက လျှပ်စစ်နဲ့စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန လက်အောက်ရှိ ဌာနခွဲအသီးသီးက CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှုမှာ ပါဝင်တဲ့ ဝန်ထမ်းတွေကို ဖိနှိပ်ခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှ ထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအိမ်ရာများမှ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်း၊ ပြန်ဆပ်ရန် မလိုသည့် ၂ လစာချေးငွေများကို ပြန်လည်ပေးဆပ်ခိုင်းခြင်း စတဲ့လုပ်ရပ်တွေကို ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ တရားမဝင် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံဝန်ထမ်းအကြီးအမှူး ၉ ဦးကို အမိန့်ကြေငြာစာအမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁)၁၁ ကိုထုတ်ပြန်၍ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပစ်လိုက်ကြောင်း ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၄ ရက် ဒီကနေ့ရက်စွဲဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။..."
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Title: Nearly 50 Held in Myanmar’s Insein Prison Now Infected With COVID-19
Sub-title: International experts accuse Myanmar's military rulers of 'weaponizing' the virus by blocking aid from civil society and humanitarian groups.
Description: "Nearly 50 prisoners held in Myanmar’s notorious Insein prison are infected with COVID-19 but are being denied effective medical treatment by the country’s military, which overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in a Feb. 1 coup, lawyers for some inmates said on Friday. Among the 48 now infected are political leaders from the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD), doctors connected to the country’s Civil Disobedience Movement, and American journalist Danny Fenster, editor of the online Frontier Myanmar magazine. Top NLD leader Nyan Win, 78, and Yangon Region Social Affairs Minister Naing Lin, both now diagnosed with COVID-19, were arrested on Feb. 1. Nyan Win has been charged under Section 505(b) of Myanmar’s Penal Code for calling the military coup unlawful and its instructions invalid. Naing Lin was charged under Section 409 and under Section 55 of Myanmar’s Anti-Corruption Law. Nyan Win, already suffering from prostate and gastrointestinal problems, was admitted to Yangon General Hospital on July 11 after testing positive for the disease, NLD lawyer San Malar Nyuint told RFA on July 16. “He is a little weak, but his oxygen level is good and he has no fever,” the lawyer said. “He was transferred here from the prison hospital. He is also taking medications for his prostate and gastric problems,” he added. Ko Naing Lin, who was charged under Section 409 of the Penal Code and Section 55 of Myanmar’s Anti-Corruption Law, was not taken to the hospital, though, and is getting treatment in his cell, he said. Dr. Maw Maw Oo, a key figure in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak during NLD rule, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 5 and was admitted to Yangon General Hospital along with Nyan Win. Arrested on April 12, she has been charged under Section 505 (a) for joining Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) opposing military rule. U.S. journalist Fenster, charged under Section 505 (a) after being arrested at Yangon International Airport on May 24, was infected with COVID-19 in Insein Prison but has received no medical treatment at all, defense lawyer Than Zaw Aung said. “I saw him yesterday by appointment on a video call. I could only see him on the phone. When I asked him how he was doing, he said that he had been infected with COVID-19. I asked him if he was receiving any treatment, and he said no.” “I told the warden to tell this to the hospital,” Than Zaw Aung said, adding that his client is frustrated that court hearings are not being held more quickly. Also speaking to RFA, family members of other prisoners held at Insein expressed concern over the presence of infected persons in the prison, which reported its first case of coronavirus on May 25. Kay Thwe Moe, wife of detained NLD Central Committee member Monywa Aung Shin, said she fears for the health of her husband, who has asthma and suffers from breathing problems in the cold. “Now that there are COVID-19 cases in the prison, I’m very worried about him” she said. “There’s a lot of rain now in Yangon, and in this kind of weather his asthma gives him problems,” she said.....Prison under lockdown: Thousands of prisoners are being tried in six military tribunals and 38 special courts set up in Insein Prison, and lawyers believe the virus may have spread to other inmates as around 300 people, including lawyers, enter the prison compound every day. Due to the spread of infection, Insein Prison is now under lockdown until July 21, though, and the special courts are currently closed. Most of the prisoners now infected with COVID-19 at Insein Prison were arrested for taking part in anti-coup protests and are not receiving adequate medical care, an official with the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said. “Even under normal circumstances, the health care in prisons is terrible, but this is now a very serious situation,” the AAPP official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We don’t know how many people in the country have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, and for people in prison, things are even more worrying.” “People on the outside may be able to help each other, but it’s harder for people to help each other behind prison walls,” he said. Zaw Zaw, director of the Yangon Region Prisons Department, said that no infections are present in the main prison building itself, but only among inmates held in special wards and those transported to the prison by police, and that adequate medical treatment is available. “There is no COVID-19 virus in Insein Prison itself,” he said. “But there is a test center outside the prison walls where we screen the newcomers, and infected people are kept at this center and not brought inside,” Zaw Zaw said, adding, “Testing began during the second wave of infections. Now, in this third wave, we have found around 50 positive cases.” “[Prisoners] have special court appointments, and the virus could be transmitted from there,” he said. “When they leave their cells for their hearings they come into contact with outsiders. That’s why we have closed the prison courts and imposed a semi-lockdown.” Around 20 health workers, including doctors, are now giving necessary medical treatment to infected prisoners in a separate ward inside the prison, prison officials said. Red Cross provides assistance Writing to RFA in an email, Jacqueline Fernandez—International Red Cross Information Officer for Myanmar—said that Red Cross workers have been unable to visit prisons in the country since March 2020 due to the pandemic, but have been able to provide some assistance to prisoners by distributing face masks and disinfecting places of detention. “[We have also] offered COVID-19 prevention information, financial assistance and hygiene items to people as part of our ‘Safe Return Home’ program after they leave detention, and in some cases have provided material support to detainees in quarantine sites,” she said. In a July 16 statement, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar, a group of independent international experts, accused Myanmar’s military rulers of “weaponizing” the COVID-19 crisis by blocking civil society organizations and humanitarian groups from providing aid “for millions of people as a massive third wave of COVID-19 sweeps the country.” “The junta is weaponizing COVID-19 for its own political gain by suffocating the democracy movement and seeking to gain the legitimacy and control it craves—and has so far been denied—by deliberately fueling a humanitarian disaster and then co-opting the international response,” Council member Yanghee Lee said. “The generals are not partners for the delivery of aid. They are murderers who will be held to account for their crimes,” Lee said. The bodies of COVID-19 victims continue to pile up in Yangon each day, with corpses stacked for transport to a crematorium at the city’s Kyizu Cemetery, a citizen journalist said in a video recorded by mobile phone on Friday. As many as 200 bodies were cremated at Kyiza and other cemeteries around the city on Friday, an official from Myitta Thingaha Volunteer Funeral Services in Yangon’s South Dagon township said..."
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Title: Nearly Two Dozen Killed Amid New Clashes in Myanmar’s Beleaguered Sagaing Region
Sub-title: The deaths included 19 military troops, two militiamen, and two civilians, sources said.
Description: "At least 19 troops loyal to Myanmar’s junta and two members of a militia formed to protect residents from the military were killed during a firefight in Saigaing region’s war-torn Kalay township, sources said Friday, as fighting drove some 3,000 civilians to flee for safety in the nearby mountains. Fighting broke out between the military and members of the Kalay People’s Defense Force (PDF) around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday as junta soldiers began a raid on the villages of Doe Nwe and Ashaysee, around 30 miles south of downtown Kalay, a member of the PDF told RFA’s Myanmar Service, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “The battle went on for six hours … and only ended after 8:00 p.m.,” the source said in recounting the fighting that killed the 19 people. “Additionally, two [civilian] men from Tin Thar [village] who were on their way to Doe Nwe village on a motorcycle were killed when soldiers fired at them. Myint Thein and Tun Naung actually were ordinary villagers and not our fighters,” the militiaman said. After a relatively quiet night, fighting resumed early on Friday morning, the PDF member said. “They have been firing at us with heavy weapons since about 5:00 a.m. We are also hitting them back with Tumee [traditional flintlock] rifles and handmade rockets. They have not been able to get out of the village since yesterday. Our PDF teams have surrounded the village and attacked them. There are only injuries on our side. No deaths. Hold on, a rocket is coming our way. I'll call you back in a moment. " PDF members later told RFA that two of their group had been killed and claimed that the military was “using drones” to track down their fighters. Residents of the area confirmed to RFA that they had heard the sound of “hundreds of shells” beginning at 5:00 a.m. on Friday and said more than 3,000 people from nine of the surrounding villages had fled into the mountains beginning the previous night, when junta troops began conducting surprise checks and arrests. “They were checking the cellphones of anyone they encountered, so we decided to leave,” said one villager, who declined to be named. “Along the way, we saw many people from other villages fleeing the area too. There are four villages near Ashaysee village. A lot of men are among those who fled.” A resident of Doe Nwe village said the region is currently dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19 infections and that many of those who fled lack access to medicine. A Tin Thar villager told RFA that nearly everyone from the surrounding area had left. “We are worried [the military] might set fire to the houses,” the villager said. “Only some elderly and some family members of COVID-19 patients are left behind. Everyone believes the army will launch an all-out offensive against us. I’m in the forest myself now.” Attempts by RFA to contact junta Deputy Information Minister Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun about the fighting in Kalay went unanswered Friday. There have been at least seven clashes between the PDF and the military in Kalay since the junta ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government on Feb. 1, the last of which was on June 27. Junta troops remain stationed in the villages of Kyaukphu and Ashaysee and the Kalay PDF has warned residents to exercise caution.....Military murders: Myanmar’s military says its takeover was warranted because former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in November 2020 general elections as the result of voter fraud. The junta has provided no evidence to back up its claims and violently responded to widespread protests, killing 912 people and arresting 5,277, according to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). Amid nationwide turmoil, the military has stepped up offensives in remote parts of the country of 54 million that have led to fierce battles with several local militias. According to the United Nations and aid groups, conflict in Myanmar’s remote border regions has displaced an estimated 230,000 residents since the junta coup. They join more than 500,000 refugees from decades of conflict between the military and ethnic armies who were already counted as internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the end of 2020, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a Norwegian NGO. Reports of the clashes in Kalay came as sources told RFA that at least 23 villagers in Sagaing’s neighboring Kani township have been murdered by the military in the past 16 days, including 16 villagers who were discovered with their hands bound behind their backs and appeared to have been shot from behind, execution-style. A resident named Tittar told RDA that junta troops entered the villages of Yin and Kone Thar on July 9 and 10 so that they could surveil Kani township from afar. “When they were about to enter the villages, they started firing with heavy weapons. Four houses in our village were destroyed by the shelling. One house was set on fire. All the villagers fled in fear into the jungle as the army arrived. Some took their elderly on carts, motorcycles and tractors, he said. “The soldiers followed into the forests and hunted the refugees down. Those who were found were tied with ropes and some were cut down with machetes. We also found trails of some who were tied to ropes and dragged away. The bodies were no longer recognizable as they were all bruised and mutilated.” Tittar said people were killed and left in the forest, still bound, while others were “tied to small tree trunks and dragged along” to their deaths. “Some of the bodies were piled up. All of them were simple farmers. None of them were PDF members,” he said, adding that several were people who couldn’t leave their elderly parents. There were those who couldn't leave behind their parents who couldn’t run. Some were people who were asked by their parents to stay with them. People who were murdered ranged from a 63-year-old to a 21-year-old ... Some were tied and dragged. All of their clothes had been torn off and some of them no longer had pants on.” In addition to the killings, residents said, junta troops destroyed more than 60 motorbikes, and burned down food storage containers and crops. Another villager named Moe Thee said the men were shot dead by soldiers from behind. “They didn’t kill them immediately after the arrests, the victims were tortured and killed,” he said. “It looks like these people had their hands tied behind them and told to run and then shot from behind, like in the movies. It was totally inhumane.” Other deaths included four villagers killed on July 1 whose bodies were discovered “in close proximity, with their heads blown off,” a resident said. “They must have been shot at close range. The tops of the heads were gone. Only the mouth remained,” the resident said. “We couldn’t collect the bodies and had to set them on fire.” The military has yet to comment on the allegations.....Children at risk: Also on Friday, the United Nations’ Child Rights Committee (CRC) issued a statement noting that since the coup, about 75 children had been killed, while around another 1,000 were arbitrarily detained and countless others deprived of essential medical care and education. The group warned that children’s rights are facing an onslaught that “risks leaving an entire generation damaged,” the agency said. “Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day. They have guns pointed at them and see the same happen to their parents and siblings,” said Mikiko Otani, chair of the CRC. The CRC said it is “profoundly concerned” at the major disruption of essential medical care and school education in the entire country, as well as access to safe drinking water and food for children in rural areas. According to UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, a million children in Myanmar are missing key vaccinations. More than 40,000 children are no longer getting treatment for severe acute malnutrition. “As a result of the military coup and conflicts, children’s right to life, survival and development have been repeatedly violated,” said Otani. “If this crisis continues, an entire generation of children is at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic consequences, depriving them of a healthy and productive future.” The CRC called for immediate action to resolve Myanmar’s political crisis and called on the country’s leadership to safeguard and promote children’s rights to the utmost degree..."
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Title: THE PEOPLE OF MYANMAR NEED URGENT ASSISTANCE AS THE JUNTA WEAPONISES THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Description: "The international community must urgently respond to Myanmar’s crippling COVID-19 crisis and get life-saving assistance across borders into the country through the democracy movement’s networks, says the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M). Local responders, ethnic service providers, civil society organisations, humanitarian groups and others aligned with the National Unity Government and Civil Disobedience Movement across Myanmar are fighting to provide vital services and life-saving humanitarian aid for millions of people as a massive third wave of COVID-19 sweeps the country. They are in urgent need of help. “The junta allowed COVID-19 to run free. The coup it launched in February has failed. The junta has not established ordinary government structures and it is unable to do so. The only viable way of dealing with the COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar is to deal with the democracy movement,” said Chris Sidoti of SAC-M. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the extreme violence and brutality of the junta’s forces for Myanmar’s jungles and border states, including medical professionals now running underground clinics. SAC-M is calling for the urgent opening of supply lines across Myanmar’s borders, from Kachin state in the north to Karenni and Karen states in the east and Chin state in the west. Humanitarian assistance must be directed through ethnic administrations, civil society organisations and service providers whose networks can reach those in need in the more remote states as well as Myanmar’s central towns and cities. “ASEAN resolved to provide humanitarian assistance over two-and-a-half months ago as part of its five-point consensus,” said Marzuki Darusman of SAC-M. “It is unacceptable that ASEAN only acts at the pleasure of the junta while so many lives are being lost. There is no excuse for ASEAN, UN agencies or any other actors to delay. There are ways to get assistance directly to the people now.” Since launching the coup, the junta’s forces have killed, detained and threatened medical professionals, attacked ambulances, clinics and social workers, destroyed and looted medical equipment, and occupied hospitals. They seized oxygen cylinders as the COVID-19 crisis escalated and blocked factories from refilling people’s oxygen cylinders. “The junta is weaponising COVID-19 for its own political gain by suffocating the democracy movement and seeking to gain the legitimacy and control it craves – and has so far been denied – by deliberately fuelling a humanitarian disaster and then co-opting the international response,” said Yanghee Lee of SAC-M. “The generals are not partners for the delivery of aid. They are murderers who will be held to account for their crimes.”..."
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Title: “Hate speech” committee threatens more censorship
Sub-title: A new drafting committee for a “hate speech” “law” that includes much broader political “crimes” is another sign of the military’s intention to restrict freedom of expression in the long term.
Description: "According to information received, on 21 May 2021 the military established a new drafting committee with a mandate to change an old draft “hate speech” bill first developed by the USDP government and then re-written by the NLD. The military’s internal notification includes a deeply concerning order that the scope of a new “law” should include not only religious and ethnic “hate speech”, but also political and social “hate speech”. “Hate speech” is best defined as an expression of discriminatory hate towards people. “Hate speech” laws, where they conform to democratic standards, are intended to protect the safety and social equality of marginalised groups with “protected characteristics”, including for example, women, ethnic minorities, members of religious groups, or the disabled. “Hate speech” is best addressed through educational and social programmes promoting values of tolerance, with criminal laws only used against severe hate speech such as incitement or targeted threats. There is no such thing as political “hate speech”. Political expression is an expression of a political opinion, often against a political opposition, and is a fundamental democratic act. Sometimes political expression can be heated or even offensive to the political interests involved, but it is about changing politics and the decisions that control people’s lives. In a democracy, leaders must accept that they are going to be criticised, sometimes unduly, and those who try to prevent political expression should be regarded as dictators. Including political “hate speech” within the scope of the law is clearly intended to criminalise opposition to the coup. Both the USDP and NLD governments developed a series of drafts of a “hate speech” law, which many have been demanding in order to address discrimination. Each of those drafts was seriously flawed, focusing mainly on punitive punishments rather than promoting tolerance and inclusion. Although political “hate speech” was not included in previous drafts, FEM and other organisations raised serious concerns that those drafts did include vague definitions which meant that if adopted the law could be misused to censor political expression. The NLD also issued an internal directive on “hate speech” which was also seriously flawed. Since the coup began, the military has already undermined the rule of law, created new crimes to restrict the right to freedom of expression, and violently punished opposition voices. Given that the military is already detaining people arbitrarily, and already has a wide range of undemocratic laws to punish their opposition with, the adoption of yet another “law” may indicate a much longer term intention to embed censorship. This statement does not include recommendations that would indirectly legitimise any unlawful authority. Nevertheless, all stakeholders should act where possible to raise awareness of and address the military’s further attacks on freedom of expression..."
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Title: Coup, COVID fuelling ‘perfect storm’ in Myanmar, UN expert warns
Sub-title: Surging COVID-19 cases as the Delta variant spreads, a collapsed health system, and “deep mistrust” of the military junta, are a “perfect storm” of factors that could lead to further major loss of life in Myanmar, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country warned on Wednesday.
Description: "In a statement, Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews said “emergency” assistance for Myanmar was desperately needed to save lives. “The highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being and that right is being denied to most within Myanmar. The international community must act.” He reiterated his appeal last week for an Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar, to provide emergency humanitarian aid to the country, amid reports of severe shortages of vital medial supplies and oxygen. Vaccination and testing capacity across Myanmar is also severely limited. Of those being tested, an alarming 26 per cent reported positive, Mr. Andrews said last Wednesday, cautioning that the country is at “grave risk of becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader State”, impacting untold numbers of people both inside and outside its borders. ‘Junta lacks capability, legitimacy’ In particular, Mr. Andrews highlighted that the junta “lacks the resources, the capabilities, and the legitimacy” to bring the crisis under control. “The crisis in Myanmar is particularly lethal because of the pervasive mistrust of the military junta”, he said, calling on the international community to help facilitate a politically-neutral body to coordinate a COVID response that includes a vaccination programme “that the people of Myanmar will trust”. “Member States, international organizations, regional bodies and non-government organizations that are willing and able to provide much needed aid must do so before untold numbers perish and Myanmar becomes a super spreader of this deadly virus”, the expert stressed. Detention could become a ‘death sentence’ The Special Rapporteur also raised alarm over the situation of Myanmar’s vulnerable communities, including prisoners held in overcrowded facilities. “Myanmar’s prison population, including the thousands of political prisoners who have been arbitrarily detained since the coup, are in grave danger. Prisoners, particularly those with underlying conditions could see their detention become a death sentence,” he warned. Nearly 6,000 people have been arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since the military overthrew the elected Government and seized power on 1 February. In addition, approximately 900 people, including children, have been killed and countless more wounded. “Myanmar’s neighbours are well placed to help and have a self-interest to do so, but there is no time to waste”, urged Mr. Andrews, “Those with influence on junta leaders must immediately seek to secure their cooperation. The UN and others in the international community are positioned to provide immediate assistance to confront this rapidly deteriorating crisis.”..."
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 15 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 15 July 2021: As of 15 July, (912) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Pyi Gyi Dagun Township in Mandalay Region was killed on the previous day and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 15, a total of (5269) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Sithu, 16 years old, was shot dead as the terrorist junta opened fire into the crowd arguing among each other in Pyi Gyi Dagun Township, Mandalay Region on July 14. Htwe Htwe Myint, NLD member of Aye Thar Yar Town in Shan State’s Taunggyi Township, was arrested at home under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code on July 12 by the terrorist junta for allegedly writing on Facebook criticizing the junta. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Title: Japan: Stop Real Estate Project in Myanmar
Sub-title: Commercial Dealings with Abusive Military Undermines Rights
Description: " Japanese business entities should stop their participation in a commercial real estate project involving Myanmar’s abusive military, Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, Japan International Volunteer Center, Justice For Myanmar, and Mekong Watch said today. The proposed Y-Complex in Yangon is being constructed on land leased from the country’s armed forces, the Tatmadaw, whose long record of abuses has worsened since the February 1, 2021, military coup. One participating company, Tokyo Tatemono, stated that they have suspended operation of the Y-Complex project since the coup. However, project participants, including publicly-funded Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport and Urban Development (JOIN), Fujita Corporation, and Tokyo Tatemono, have not publicly disclosed the duration of the suspension or the conditions for resuming operations. “The Japanese government and businesses failed to appropriately assess the risk associated with doing business in Myanmar,” said Ryutaro Ogawa, Vice Secretary General at Human Rights Now. “They should admit their own shortcomings and act responsibly, otherwise, they will risk financing the military.” The Y-Complex, which includes a shopping mall, hotel, and office rental space, is being built on “military-owned Military Museum land” leased by Myanmar’s Quartermaster General’s office, according to a copy of the “Build, Operate, Transfer (B.O.T) Land Lease Agreement” dated October 15, 2013. The agreement states that upon termination or expiry of the B.O.T agreement, the land, including buildings and fixtures, developed on the land should be transferred to the “lessor.” Therefore, companies involved in Y-Complex risk creating immoveable long-term assets for the military, which can continue to yield income after the agreement is terminated. On June 22, 2020, a Myanmar military spokesperson confirmed that the military owns the land, and the Ministry of Defense receives rental payments for the Y-Complex development. On March 5, 2021, in response to an inquiry by Mekong Watch, JBIC said that Myanmar’s Defense Ministry received all payments for the land rent. JBIC also asserted that the rental payments are ultimately included in the government’s national budget, under the National Budget Law, but did not disclose the basis for this claim. JBIC said it was coordinating with the involved business entities as well as the Japanese embassy in Myanmar to confirm such details with the Myanmar government after outside “stakeholders” raised concerns; but it has yet to publicly do so. “Even before the coup, we were raising concerns to the Japanese government and businesses about the dangers of money flowing into the military, but they did not take necessary measures,” said Yuka Kiguchi, Executive Director of Mekong Watch. “We strongly condemn the fact that Japan’s public funds likely ended up in the hands of the Tatmadaw.” Under Myanmar’s 2008 Constitution, adopted during military rule, Myanmar’s Defense Ministry falls under the military, and the military is independent of the democratically elected government. Under article 20(b) of the Constitution, “The Defence Services has the right to independently administer and adjudicate all affairs of the armed forces.” Under article 232(b)(ii), the defense minister is nominated by the military commander-in-chief from the ranks of the military. Other laws further prevent any scrutiny or accountability of the Y-Complex lease payments. For example, according to section 39 of the Union Auditor General Law, the Defense Ministry is exempt from audit, so the land lease payments to the Defense Ministry are not subject to government scrutiny. Abuses by the military, which has been long implicated in crimes against humanity in Rakhine State and other grave international crimes in ethnic areas throughout Myanmar, have intensified since the coup. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) reported that as of July 12, 2021, the security forces have killed more than 900 people, and the authorities have arrested, charged, or sentenced more than 5,200. The military has also intensified operations in ethnic minority areas, with indiscriminate airstrikes and ground attacks that have hit schools, villages, places of worship, and other civilian structures. “Japanese companies and the government knew that they were dealing with a military responsible for countless atrocities over many years, not a civilian-controlled defense ministry,” said Teppei Kasai, Asia program officer at Human Rights Watch. “The Japanese government and companies should make it clear that they do not intend to resume commercial projects with the Tatmadaw.” In a joint submission to the United Nations Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises on February 17, 2021, the five groups requested an investigation into whether the Y-Complex project is financing Myanmar’s military. At the time of the joint submission, none of the Japanese businesses involved in the Y-Complex project had conducted effective human rights due diligence as called for by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. “It is deplorable that the companies involved in the Y-Complex have not clarified the status of the project following Myanmar’s attempted coup and the military’s widening campaign of terror,” said Yadanar Maung, spokesperson at Justice For Myanmar. “There is no justification for leasing land from the office of the quartermaster general, the very office that purchases weapons that the military uses to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Japanese government and businesses must end their complicity in the Myanmar military’s atrocities.” The UN Guiding Principles state that, “States should take additional steps to protect against human rights abuses by business enterprises that are owned or controlled by the State, or that receive substantial support and services from State agencies.” On May 12, 2021, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called on businesses to “uphold their human rights responsibilities and put pressure on the military junta to halt grave human rights violations;” while adding that companies should act in line with the Guiding Principles to “avoid contributing to human rights violations, or becoming complicit in crimes if they continue to operate in Myanmar.” On October 16, 2020, the Japanese government announced a five-year National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, stating that it “wishes to contribute to promoting and protecting both the human rights of people who would be adversely affected by the activities of business enterprises and human rights for society as a whole, including the international community.” “The Japanese government and businesses should get serious about human rights and follow the commitments laid out in the National Action Plan as well as their corporate policies in a responsible and proactive manner,” said Naoko Watanabe, Manager for Overseas Program Group at Japan International Volunteer Center. “If they don’t, they not only risk funding the Myanmar military but further damaging their reputations.”..."
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Title: Military blames Covid-19 for deaths of detainees during interrogations
Sub-title: Junta authorities have attributed multiple detainees’ deaths to Covid-19, a designation that loved ones say is a final attempt to cover up the abuse they endured in military custody
Description: "Protesters Soe San and Zaw Lin were not home when some 30 junta troops raided their homes in Te Su village, in Mandalay Region’s Wundwin Township, at midnight on June 28. Unable to locate the men, the soldiers initially arrested Zaw Lin’s wife, then released her. Maintaining their innocence and fearing the further terrorisation of their families, Soe San and Zaw Lin went to the hospital in the Wundwin Township village of Pindale the following afternoon to meet with the regime authorities stationed there. “They didn’t do anything wrong, so they decided to meet with them to clear the air so that they would leave their families alone,” a local man from Te Su who was familiar with the arrest told Myanmar Now on the condition of anonymity. After spending less than one day in the junta’s custody, 44-year-old Soe San, who was also the chair of the National League for Democracy party's office in Te Su, was declared dead. “I think they went too far with the interrogation and killed him,” another resident of Te Su village said. Strangely, the local said, Soe San’s body was presented to his family sealed in plastic—the standard practice for a patient infected with Covid-19, but not a man who had died in police custody. Soe San’s face was reportedly the only part of his body exposed at the funeral. He was one of multiple people who have died in military custody since the February 1 coup and whose bodies were later concealed from their families under the junta’s claim that they had Covid-19 and were still contagious. If they could examine the victims, family members of the deceased say they believe their bodies would exhibit clear signs of torture. “I think they went too far with the interrogation and killed him." According to data released by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) on Wednesday, there have been at least 911 civilians who have died at the hands of the military council since the coup. Of these, at least 30 died in detention. The military council has repeatedly dismissed the AAPP’s figures as being exaggerated. No Covid-19 tests are known to have been carried out in the junta’s interrogation centers, which are frequently outside of prisons. Those who have been imprisoned and released since the coup have reported that Covid-19 tests were not carried out in the prisons, either.....Interrogation at the hospital, police station: Soe San and Zaw Lin’s families were only notified that the men had been sent to Pindale police station at around midnight, after they had been interrogated at the hospital all afternoon and evening. Soe San was reportedly sent back to the hospital after passing out at the police station. The following morning, June 30, Soe San’s family was notified at 11am that he had died. Their attempts to claim his body were in vain, the first Te Su villager said. While the military council allowed them to hold a funeral for Soe San at the Wundwin cemetery on the afternoon of July 1, they forbade the family from taking photos of the body or posting about the ceremony on social media. “They wrapped his body in plastic with just the face exposed. They didn’t directly tell the family that he died of Covid-19, but word got out,” the villager said. Only 10 family members were allowed to attend the funeral, accompanied by around 30 heavily armed troops, including soldiers from the air force and military engineers. Zaw Lin, who turned himself in along with Soe San, was released on bail on July 3. Residents of Wundwin said he was severely injured to the point that he was not able to dress himself. Myanmar Now tried to contact the Pindale police station for comment on the arrests, death and allegations of torture, but the calls went unanswered.....A pattern of deaths: The military’s handling of Soe San’s death was reminiscent of that of 19-year-old Mai Nuam Za Thiang, in Kalay, Sagaing Region on June 23. She was shot by troops while riding on the back of a motorcycle and died shortly after arriving at the hospital. “Their post-mortem report said that the girl died of excessive bleeding. However, the body was sealed and returned to us with the claim that she had Covid-19,” a family member of Mai Nuam Za Thiang told Myanmar Now in June. Again, citing a Covid-19 infection, the military forced her family to cremate her immediately. “I think they wanted to hide something, so they used that label [of Covid-19]. We could see only the report they gave us, and her face, so we were forced to accept what they said,” her relative said at the time. “Their post-mortem report said that the girl died of excessive bleeding. However, the body was sealed and returned to us with the claim that she had Covid-19." Just two days later on June 26, 26-year-old farmer Salai Van Tha Cung, also known as Zaw Htet, was arrested for unknown reasons at the hostel where he was staying. He died within 24 hours in detention. Salai Van Tha Cung was cremated immediately, again due to the claim that he was positive for Covid-19, despite showing no symptoms of the virus before his arrest, according to a close relative. The relative added that the victim had not been involved in the anti-coup movement. Chin State-based media reported that on May 9, a 59-year-old farmer from Haka Township, Pu Tale Lein, was arrested by the military and died after two days in detention. Although a local church asked that his body be returned for burial, the junta authorities told them that he had already been cremated because he had been infected with Covid-19. One of the earliest known examples of the junta blaming Covid-19 for the death of a detainee was in the case of 26-year-old Yar Zar Aung, who was shot in a crackdown on a protest in Mandalay and then taken into military custody on February 20. Four days later, his family was informed that he had died in detention, allegedly from Covid-19. Only four of his family members were allowed to attend his cremation, and from afar. His wife, Phyu Phyu Win, told Myanmar Now on the day of the funeral that she did not believe Yar Zar Aung’s cause of death was the coronavirus, and felt that he had died as a result of injuries inflicted by the junta. “We were only able to look at him from a distance, as they said he had died of Covid-19. When we attempted to take his body [from the hospital], they wouldn’t let us,” she said. “I’m upset. I’m not going to let this go.”..."
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation- NUG: Announcement No.7/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၇/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း..."
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Title: Myanmar: UN expert warns of “perfect storm” over COVID, calls for urgent international help
Description: "The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called for emergency international engagement to address a “perfect storm” of factors that are fuelling the deepening COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar. “An explosion of COVID cases, including the Delta variant, the collapse of Myanmar’s health care system, and the deep mistrust of the people of Myanmar of anything connected to the military junta, are a perfect storm of factors that could cause a significant loss of life in Myanmar without emergency assistance by the international community,” Tom Andrews said. “The highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being and that right is being denied to most within Myanmar. The international community must act.” Andrews reiterated his call made at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 7 July for an “Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar” to, among other things, provide emergency humanitarian aid to the country. “The junta lacks the resources, the capabilities, and the legitimacy to bring this crisis under control,” he said. “The crisis in Myanmar is particularly lethal because of the pervasive mistrust of the military junta. “The international community must help facilitate a non-junta, non-political body to coordinate a COVID response initiative that includes a vaccination programme that the people of Myanmar will trust. “Member states, international organisations, regional bodies and non-government organisations that are willing and able to provide much needed aid must do so before untold numbers perish and Myanmar becomes a super spreader of this deadly virus. “The junta must also account for the $350 million in COVID aid the International Monetary Fund provided the people of Myanmar just days prior to the coup d’état.” Andrews highlighted the acute need for greater amounts of life saving aid to treat COVID. “There is a major lack of capacity including oxygen support to treat those suffering from the virus,” he said. “People are dying because of a shortage of medical resources and trust.” Andrews expressed particular concern for vulnerable populations, including those held in Myanmar’s overcrowded prisons. “Myanmar’s prison population, including the thousands of political prisoners who have been arbitrarily detained since the coup, are in grave danger. Prisoners, particularly those with underlying conditions could see their detention become a death sentence,” he warned. “Myanmar’s neighbours are well placed to help and have a self-interest to do so, but there is no time to waste. Those with influence on junta leaders must immediately seek to secure their cooperation. The UN and others in the international community are positioned to provide immediate assistance to confront this rapidly deteriorating crisis.” ENDS Mr. Thomas Andrews (United States of America) is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. A former member of the US Congress from Maine, Mr. Andrews is a Robina Senior Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and an Associate of Harvard University’s Asia Center. He has worked with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and parliamentarians, NGOs and political parties in Cambodia, Indonesia, Algeria, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Yemen. He has been a consultant for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma and the Euro-Burma Network and has run advocacy NGOs including Win Without War and United to End Genocide. The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Comprising the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, Special Procedures is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity..."
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Title: The NUG’s Rohingya policy: ‘Campaign statement’ or genuine reform?
Sub-title: The National Unity Government’s plan to end discrimination against the Rohingya and replace the 1982 Citizenship Law could face opposition from among its own supporters – if the parallel government gets the chance to implement it.
Description: "In early June, the National Unity Government, a parallel administration set up by lawmakers elected last November, issued a new policy on the Rohingya promising to end human rights abuses against them and grant them citizenship. Discrimination and violence against the largely stateless Muslim minority have been a source of controversy within Myanmar and abroad for decades, and the NUG’s position is already proving divisive. The United Nations welcomed the change in policy, as have Rohingya leaders. However, some also question whether the NUG can even implement what it has proposed when it is still struggling to be recognised and function as Myanmar’s government. Due to the military coup, many people who in the past have stridently opposed recognising the Rohingya have remained quiet about the policy. Although some NUG supporters welcomed the new stance, most still seem unwilling to accept extending citizenship rights. Meanwhile, locals in Rakhine State were said to be unhappy they had not been consulted and questioned the NUG’s authority for issuing the policy.....Cautious support for the new policy: Many countries, including the United States, condemned the military coup on February 1 and expressed support for anti-coup protestors and the NUG. Despite this support, NUG representatives engaging with the international community and seeking support have faced tough questions about its position on the Rohingya. At a May 4 hearing held by the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, Myanmar’s permanent representative to the United Nations, U Kyaw Moe Tun, was questioned about the lack of Rohingya representation within the NUG and its position on granting citizenship. Representative Ted Lieu of California sent a clear message: “I cannot support the NUG and will oppose efforts for the United States to support your National Unity Government until you commit to having at least a representative of the Rohingya people and you commit to stopping the genocide.” On June 3, the NUG released its new policy, which commits to ending human rights abuses against the Rohingya and promises to grant them equal citizenship rights. In just one of the many striking departures from National League for Democracy policy, the statement used the term “Rohingya”. The NLD government had usually called them “Muslims living in Rakhine”, but after Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacks on police and military posts in August 2017 it even referred sometimes to “extremist Bengali terrorists”. The policy says the Rohingya should have the right to citizenship and should enjoy the same rights as other citizens in accordance with human rights law and in line with the principles of federal democracy. The NUG also promised that once a new constitution is drafted it would repeal laws used to repress the Rohingya, including the 1982 Citizenship Law, which discriminates against the Rohingya and other ethnic groups deemed non-indigenous. It also said it would abolish the National Verification Card process – the current pathway to citizenship for the Rohingya, but one that they have largely rejected. “This new Citizenship Act must base citizenship on birth in Myanmar or birth anywhere as a child of Myanmar citizens,” the policy states..."
Source/publisher: "Frontier Myanmar" (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-15
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Title: Situation Update on 30 June Prison Releases
Description: "On 30 June, the junta prison department announced the release of over 2000 protestors arbitrarily detained since the coup. AAPP began to diligently monitor and record these releases amid that disorder. However, in the 2 weeks since 30 June only around 400 of the releases have been identified. These supposed releases were immediately hampered by the hostility of the junta. There were not as many releases across the prisons on 30 June, and in the days since many of the supposed released remain in a torturous prison system. The junta only announced how many prisoners were released by region or state but not how many were released from each prison, making it difficult to trace the exact number of prisoners released. The process was also beyond transparent, the junta deliberately spread misinformation about which day the prisoners would be released. It is because of the deliberate attempt to complicate oversight that there is discrepancy in the figure of recent releases. Misleading information is a practice of this junta, in their submission to ASEAN leaders on 24 April in Jakarta, the terrorist-like SAC group alleged “A total of 9,948 persons detained from February 1 to April 15… As of now, we have 4,511 released, 5070 charged, and further 367 charged in near future”. This was below AAPP’s identified figure as of 15 April that 4483 had been arrested since the coup and 3459 were actively under detention. Yet, AAPP has consistently identified our data as ‘at least’, detained or killed, and that our figures “will be likely be much higher” because of the conditions which led to so many of arrests across the country. The documentation process is currently tough because of the situation on the ground, impact of COVID-19 is also deteriorating with limited access to information. The military cancelled prison visits and special court hearings by reason of COVID-19, including lawyers visits to their clients, making it difficult for them to understand conditions inside prison. The junta has also banned media and civil society organization including our organization AAPP. This intends to restrict access to accurate information simultaneously as the junta is spreading misinformation about our organization. AAPP’s documentation includes precise names and other relevant data, as such our release lists can only be updated if the specific data is obtained. Those who were released on 30 June were primarily youths, civilians and journalists, AAPP maintains that those who remain behind imprisoned will be tortured even more severely. The organization believes with evidence of past experience that those released have been tortured and intimidated from engaging with independent media and civil society. In Solidarity, AAPP..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
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Title: UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific (RBAP) Myanmar Emergency - External Update, 15 July 2021
Description: "HIGHLIGHTS: Although displacement figures have remained steady in recent weeks—some 206,000 people are displaced within Myanmar since 1 February—continued armed conflict and unrest across the country have meant that the needs of the internally displaced are increasing. Their needs and the challenges of addressing them have been further exacerbated by the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar, which has added to existing restrictions on humanitarian actors’ access to internally displaced persons (IDPs). With Myanmar reporting record numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the last two weeks, either the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) or ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) have imposed movement restrictions in areas of displacement. There have not been significant refugee movements from Myanmar to neighboring countries in the past month, but UNHCR and other humanitarian actors continue advocacy efforts to ensure any new refugee arrivals would have access to protection measures and assistance. Thai authorities continue to regularly arrest Myanmar nationals attempting to enter Thailand irregularly though Tak and Kanchanaburi provinces, without systematic identification of whether such individuals are seeking or in need of international protection. Local communities in India, meanwhile, are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their support of Myanmar refugees who have now been in Mizoram and Manipur for months..."
Source/publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Title: Crematoriums Overflow in Myanmar’s Biggest City as COVID Deaths Spike Amid Oxygen Shortage
Description: "Dead bodies are being lined up, head to toe, awaiting cremation at Yangon’s crematoriums—the result of COVID-19 patients in Myanmar’s biggest city being turned away in increasing numbers by hospitals that are overwhelmed and lack supplies of medical oxygen, a crucial lifeline for victims of the coronavirus’ deadly new variant. On Tuesday, Yangon’s Yeway Cemetery saw a steady stream of ambulances carrying bodies to funerals from the morning hours. The same scenes are being played out at the city’s other three burial sites, according to charity workers. At Yeway Cemetery, a corridor leading to the crematorium teemed with body-laden trolleys. Many of the corpses had been collected by charity workers directly from homes where the victims died of COVID-19. “They died due to lack of oxygen,” said one worker from a charity organization. He noted that his charity alone took 50 bodies to the cemetery on Tuesday. It is just one of many social charities in the city volunteering to handle COVID-19 victims’ remains. “So, just guess the number of deaths,” he added. Myanmar has been experiencing a public health crisis since late last month with the spread of the deadly new variant of COVID-19. As of Tuesday, the country’s Health Ministry had reported 201,274 positive cases with 4,036 deaths since March last year. Given the number of people dying at home, however, the official death toll is believed to be underreported. Nearly 90 percent of the country has been affected by the third wave of coronavirus infections, with 296 of 330 townships nationwide reporting COVID-19 cases since May. Making matter worse, the country’s healthcare system has collapsed since the military coup in February. The regime has arrested and issued arrest warrants for many healthcare workers who have been on strike, refusing to work under military rule. As a result, many hospitals that were able to cope with the influx of patients amid the country’s first and second waves of the virus before the coup are now understaffed and unable to treat people—especially those with severe COVID-19 symptoms—who show up at their emergency rooms. Turned away by hospitals, many people have to rely on treatment at home, including finding their own medical oxygen. This has caused panic buying and shortages of oxygen cylinders. In response, the regime has imposed restrictions on oxygen plants, ordering them not to refill cylinders for individual use because “people are doing it unnecessarily”, according to a junta spokesperson’s comments at a press conference on Monday. The ban has only led to more chaos. On Facebook, desperate family members beg to secure cylinders by any means as loved ones gasp for air. Many of these COVID-19 sufferers don’t make it. On Tuesday, the parking lot at Yeway Cemetery was crammed with ambulances from charities. The number of people in hazmat suits outnumbered the mourners. Bodies wrapped in blankets or body bags lay untouched for hours before being cremated. “We had to wait for a long time to get a parking space to unload the body,” said a charity worker..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-14
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 14 July 2021)
Description: "As of 14 July, (911) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (5) fallen heroes today. These (5) fallen heroes from Seikphyu Township in Magwe Region, Minkin and Kani Townships in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 14, a total of (5257) people are currently under detention. (254) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. On July 12, Lun Maung, a local palm farmer from Thayet Pin Village in Seikphyu Township in Magwe Region, was shot dead unprovoked by local junta police. Locals from nearby villages including Zin Kalal village in Sagaing Region’s Minkin Township are fleeing the terrorist junta raids on villages. San Win from Zin Kalel Village, one of the villagers fleeing, was killed by the terrorist junta while he was returning to the village to bring rice on July 11. According to a local, his hands were placed behind his back and there were injuries on his face and heads from beatings consistent with torture. In addition to this, Myint Swe from Than Pauk Village in Minkin Township was killed by the terrorist junta on July 13. On July 12, three teachers from Thar Ya Mae Village in Tanintharyi Region’s Myeik Township, who are involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), were arrested on the night of July 12 by the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes. These three teachers are primary school teacher Nyo Mar Lwin from Pa Htet Kyun Su High School, primary school teachers Zin Mar Lwin and Than Ei Ei Nyein from Sub Shwe Du Middle School. In addition to this, Naing Linn, a hundred households administrator from Thar Ya Mae Village, was arrested on the same night. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG: Announcement No.5/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၅/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၅/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း..."
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation- NUG: Announcement No.6/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း..."
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Title: National Unity Government: Ministry of Electricity and Energy Notification No.6/2021 - လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၆/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနက လျှပ်စစ်နဲ့စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန လက်အောက်ရှိ ဌာနခွဲအသီးသီးက CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှုမှာ ပါဝင်တဲ့ ဝန်ထမ်းတွေကို ဖိနှိပ်ခြင်း၊ ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခြင်း၊ ရာထူးမှ ထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပယ်ခြင်း၊ ဝန်ထမ်းအိမ်ရာများမှ နှင်ထုတ်ခြင်း၊ ပြန်ဆပ်ရန်မလိုသည့် ၂ လစာချေးငွေများကို ပြန်လည်ပေးဆပ်ခိုင်းခြင်း စတဲ့လုပ်ရပ်တွေကို ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံဝန်ထမ်းအကြီးအမှူး ၉ ဦးကို နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းအဖြစ်မှ ထုတ်ပစ်လိုက်ကြောင်း ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၄ ရက် ဒီကနေ့ရက်စွဲနဲ့ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာလိုက်သည်။..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
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Title: National Unity Government: Ministry of Human Rights Statement on Covid-19 Response
Description: "Statement on COVID-19 response: We are deeply concerned that there have been many weaknesses in the way the military regime is handling the fresh wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar and by the resultant health crisis Myanmar people are facing. Far from enjoying their right to health, Myanmar people who are now going through the third wave of the pandemic, are seeing their health entitlements being denied by the regime. The Right to Health is normally measured by five elements as follows: Non-discrimination: health facilities, goods and services must be accessible to all, without discrimination on any of the prohibited grounds. However, currently in Myanmar, military personnel and their families are enjoying privileges over ordinary citizens who need urgent protection. Instead of a systematic COVID-19 vaccination program by determining priority population groups, those from the military circle are being prioritized. And the military is keeping healthcare facilities including COVID-19 care centers and oxygen plants for itself, violating the fundamental right of every human being to equally enjoy healthcare. Availability: there must be sufficient quantity of functioning public health and health care facilities, goods and services for all. Due to weaknesses in preparation, people especially the grassroots are finding it extremely difficult to have access to basic requirements like facial masks and oxygen. What’s worse, the military regime is intentionally restricting the people’s access to necessary healthcare products and using those products for themselves, seriously affecting their availability. Accessibility: Health facilities, goods and services have to be accessible to everyone. The military regime is however controlling the import of healthcare products needed to prevent coronavirus, restricting the accessibility of health services. Acceptability: all health programs must be based on the people and serve the people. Confiscation of oxygen and other relief supplies provided by donors and disruption of their assistance breaches acceptability. Quality: health care services must be of good quality. As a result of inadequate preparation, COVID-19 centers run by the regime are ill-equipped and have failed to provide reliable information. The quality of healthcare services delivered by the regime is obviously concerning. Those acts show the regime’s lack of political will and its intent to take political advantage of the COVID-19 third wave to weaken the nationwide anti-regime movement. The regime is deliberately creating panic among the people by refusing them necessary healthcare services, in what appears to be retaliation against public opposition to it. Such acts only deepen public health crisis and are blatant violations of the right to health. It is the regime’s another crime against humanity affecting entire Myanmar people. We sternly warn the regime to immediately stop disrupting the organizations providing healthcare assistance, and keep aid channels open so that medical aid reaches the regions and people in need..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Human Rights
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Title: US urges ASEAN to press for return to democracy in Myanmar
Description: "U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked his Southeast Asian counterparts Wednesday to press for an end to violence in Myanmar, its return to democracy and the release of all political prisoners in a video conference attended by the military-led nation’s top diplomat. In the meeting with foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Blinken also underscored the U.S. rejection of China’s “unlawful” territorial claims in the South China Sea and stressed that Washington stands with nations at odds with Beijing in the sea disputes. Blinken’s meeting with the 10-nation bloc also addressed the coronavirus pandemic, State Department spokesman Ned Price said, as surging infections fill hospitals and morgues and further devastate Southeast Asian states’ once-bustling economies. Blinken “called on ASEAN to take joint action to urge the end of violence, the restoration of Burma’s democratic transition and the release of all those unjustly detained,” Price said in a statement, using the former name for Myanmar. The U.S. and European nations have been the most vocal opponents of the military takeover that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in February. Suu Kyi was arrested and detained with top members of her National League for Democracy party, including President Win Myint. Last week, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the rights situation in Myanmar has changed from a political crisis to a “multi-dimensional human rights catastrophe,” adding that nearly 900 people have been killed and 200,000 forced to flee their homes because of military raids. The World Food Program has estimated that more than 6 million people are in severe need of food aid, she said. Blinken urged ASEAN to take immediate action “to hold the Burmese regime accountable” to a consensus forged in April by the bloc’s heads of state with Myanmar’s military leader. The five-point document called for an immediate end to violence and the start of a dialogue among contending parties with a special ASEAN envoy mediating in the talks. Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. pressed for the restoration of the political conditions before the Feb. 1 military takeover, but lamented that “So far, nothing’s happened.” Although highly contentious issues were raised, the two-hour meeting was “very civil,” a Southeast Asian diplomat told The Associated Press. The diplomat was involved in the meeting but spoke on condition of anonymity for lack of authority to publicly discuss what went on. It was not immediately clear if Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister responded to Blinken’s concerns or to the previous ASEAN demands. ASEAN member states have recommended to Myanmar officials the names of possible ASEAN envoys from Thailand and Indonesia but there has been no response. Two ASEAN representatives who traveled to Myanmar last month asked to meet Suu Kyi and other detainees but were rebuffed, the Southeast Asian diplomat said. The South China Sea territorial disputes involve four ASEAN states. Ahead of his meeting with ASEAN on Wednesday, Blinken accused China of continuing “to coerce and intimidate Southeast Asian coastal states, threatening freedom of navigation in this critical global throughway,” and upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s maritime claims in the region. China deplored Blinken’s remarks, saying he was sowing discord among Asian countries and stoking disputes. “The U.S. always poses as a defender of international law and keeps making an issue of the South China Sea, but it has not joined the UNCLOS,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing, referring to the 1982 U.N. treaty that governs the use of the world’s seas and oceans. An international arbitration tribunal, acting on a complaint filed by the Philippines, in 2016 declared most of China’s sweeping territorial claims invalid. Beijing has refused to recognize the ruling. Blinken’s meeting with his ASEAN counterparts was to have taken place in May but he was unable to secure an online connection as he took a flight for an emergency trip to Israel. The bloc’s foreign ministers, who waited for nearly an hour, decided to cancel the meeting. The State Department later apologized. Founded in 1967 in the Cold War era, ASEAN is a diverse collective of democracies and authoritarian states that has become a battleground for regional influence between the U.S. and China. Its members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam..."
Source/publisher: "Associated Press" (New York)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-14
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Title: ကိုဗစ်တတိယလှိုင်းတုန့်ပြန်လုပ်ဆောင်နေမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေငြာချက်
Description: "National Unity Government: Ministry of Human Rights Statement on Covid-19 Response - ကိုဗစ်တတိယလှိုင်းတုန့်ပြန်လုပ်ဆောင်နေမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေငြာချက်..."
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 13 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 13 July 2021: As of 13 July, (906) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (4) fallen heroes today. These (4) fallen heroes from Sub-MyoThit Township in Tamu District in Sagaing Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 13, a total of (5239) people are currently under detention. (252) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Two teenagers were shot dead on spot, three arrested and one managed to escape when the terrorist junta opened fire on the six teenagers from Naungket village in Sub-MyoThit Township, Tamu District, Sagaing Region who were returning home from visiting a nearby village at 10pm on July 10. One of the three arrested teenagers was shot in the stomach and released on July 12. The two others were tortured to death in detention, it is not yet confirmed if they were the teenagers under-18. The four fallen teenagers were Ngam Chin Pso, 23 years old, Dou Kho Lel, 16 years old, Mang Gou, 17 years old, and Pao Gin Mang, 18 years old. The bodies were not returned to the families. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-13
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Title: In Myanmar’s Divided Shan State, a New Appeal for Unity; China Will Be Watching
Description: "Last week, a newly formed Shan political organization known as the Shan State Front for Federal (SSFF) and a Shan political party, the Shan State Liberation Party (SSLP), called for a united front against the military dictatorship and urged reconciliation and a truce between two rival Shan armed groups. It is reported that this new political group comprises Shan youth and intellectuals who want to see unity in Shan State. They claim to fight for democracy, federalism, ethnic states’ rights and the right to self-determination. The group made its announcement on July 7. A few days later, on July 11, it declared war on the State Administration Council (SAC), the governing body established by the military after its coup in February. However, the newly formed Shan group remains something of a mystery, and it is not yet clear how much support it commands. Meanwhile, the two rival ethnic Shan armed groups, the Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP) and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), have been fighting over a territorial dispute for a month in the mountains of Kyethi Township, southern Shan State. The war has forced thousands of villagers to flee their homes. Influential Shan monks have been trying to stop the conflict. On July 8, the RCSS issued a statement in English and Chinese calling for a peaceful solution to the conflict in northern Shan State. The statement also said that a combined force of SSPP and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) troops has been attacking military camps and strongholds of the RCSS in Namtu and Kyaukme townships. “These prolonged armed conflicts have been causing great difficulties for the local populations,” it reads. But behind both the recent and past armed clashes, Shan analysts suspect that the powerful Wa armed group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA), is behind the SSPP and TNLA. This time, according to Shan observers, the SSPP and TNLA are deploying heavy artillery, suggesting some ethnic forces might have been involved in assisting the SSPP. Both the Wa and the TNLA have denied claims the former is backing the latter. Commenting on the ongoing conflict, Sao Pha, the general secretary of the SSFF, told The Irrawaddy that the group is unhappy to see armed clashes between the RCSS and SSPP and said that Shan people want reconciliation between the two Shan groups. In Shan State, he said, the RCSS and SSPP are at loggerheads and engaged in a protracted armed conflict. The Shan are frustrated as two ethnic Shan armed groups are in conflict instead of targeting the Myanmar military. In fact, these two major Shan forces have been fighting each other in northern Shan State since 2016-17. In recent years, the RCSS expanded its territory into northern Shan State, which shares a border with China. Notably, this conflict has worsened since the RCSS signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the government of former President U Thein Sein in October 2015. Soon after, it expanded its forces to the north, resulting in clashes with the TNLA.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-13
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Title: National Commission for Prevention, Control and Management of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) National Unity Government Republic of the Union of Myanmar Directive (1/2021)
Description: "Severe admonishment of the terrorist military council for the deaths of inmates in prisons as a result of contracting COVID-19 disease. At this moment in time, alarming death rates are being observed in Myanmar due to COVID-19 disease. It has come to our attention that the terrorist military council has shown no empathy towards its own citizenry and is using the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its armament in preserving its illegal hold on power. There is also abundant evidence that they are using all sorts of means and methods to deter the public, as part of their human rights, from being able to seek medical assistance. It is also noted, nowadays, that the general public has been put into a situation with nowhere to run or hide with so much angst and dread every day. To make matters worse, reliable sources from news agencies inform us that the infectivity rate and deaths from COVID-19 disease in inmates in most prisons are so menacingly high that it is of a major concern. This is intentional on the military council’s part so that the political prisoners who had been arbitrarily detained would die from COVID-19 disease. To prevent these unnecessary deaths, we demand that all political prisoners be released unconditionally in order that they can be given medical assistance without delay. If the military council does not comply with our demand, we hereby give the terrorist military council a stern warning that they will have to suffer the consequences from their inhumane acts if any of the inmates were to come to harm and that according to the wishes of the people they will be pursued in the law courts and legal justice sought By Order Dr Zaw Wai Soe Secretary National Commission for Prevention, Control and Management of Coronavirus Disease National Unity Government Republic of the Union of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
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Title: National Commission for Prevention, Control and Management of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) National Unity Government Republic of the Union of Myanmar Directive (1/2021) - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး ကော်မရှင် အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် ( ၁/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး ကော်မရှင် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် ( ၁/၂၀၂၁) နေ့စွဲ။ ။ ၁၃ ဇူလိုင် ၂၀၂၁ အကျဉ်းထောင်များတွင် COVID-19 ရောဂါ ကူးစက်ပြန့်ပွားသေဆုံးမှုများ ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည့်ကိစ္စနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအား ပြင်းထန်စွာသတိပေးခြင်း ယခုလက်ရှိ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် COVID-19 ရောဂါ ဖြစ်ပွား၊ သေဆုံးမှုများ ကြောက်ခမန်းလိလိ ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှုမရှိဘဲ မိမိအာဏာတည်မြဲရေး ကိုသာရှေးရှု၍ ပြည်သူလူထုအားဖိနှိပ်ရာတွင် COVID-19 ရောဂါကို လက်နက်သဖွယ် အသုံးချလျက်ရှိသည်ကို တွေ့မြင်နေရသည်။ ထို့အပြင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်သော လူတိုင်း လွတ်လပ်စွာ ဆေးကုသ ပိုင်ခွင့်ကို နည်းမျိုးစုံဖြင့် ပိတ်ပင်တားဆီးလျက်ရှိနေသည်ကို သက်သေသာဓက အမြောက်အမြားနှင့်တကွ တွေ့ရှိနေရသည်။ ယခုအချိန်အခါတွင် ပြည်သူလူထုသည် “ပြေးစရာ မြေမရှိ” ဆိုသကဲ့သို့ စိတ်ဓာတ် လုံခြုံမှု မရှိဘဲ နေ့စဉ်နှင့်အမျှ စိတ်ရောကိုယ်ပါ ပင်ပန်းဆင်းရဲကြီးစွာ ခံစားနေရသည်ကိုလည်း ကြားသိနေရပါသည်။ ပို၍ ဆိုးသည်မှာ အကျဉ်းထောင်များထဲတွင် COVID-19 ရောဂါ ဖြစ်ပွား၊ ကူးစက်၊ သေဆုံးမှုနှုန်းများ စိုးရမ်ဖွယ်ရာကောင်းလောက်အောင် မြင့်တက်နေသည်ကို ခိုင်လုံသော သတင်းရင်းမြစ်များမှတစ်ဆင့် သိရှိရပါသည်။ အထူးသဖြင့် မတရား ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်းခံထားရသော နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများကို COVID-19 ရောဂါ ကူးစက်ပြီး ထိခိုက်သေဆုံးစေရန် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီက ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိသည့်အတွက် နိုင်ငံအကျဉ်းသားများအနေဖြင့် COVID-19 ရောဂါကူးစက်မှုကြောင့် ထိခိုက်သေဆုံးမှုများ မဖြစ်ပွားစေရန်နှင့် လုံလောက်သော ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုများ ခံယူရရှိနိုင်စေရန်၊ နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားအားလုံးကို ချွင်းချက်မရှိ ချက်ချင်း လွှတ်ပေးရန် သတိပေးလိုက်သည်။ သို့တည်းမဟုတ်ပါက ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသော အကျိုးဆက်များအားလုံးကို အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီက တာဝန်ယူရမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး လူမဆန်သောအဆိုပါလုပ်ရပ်များအတွက် ပြည်သူ့ဆန္ဒအရ တရားဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။ အမိန့်အရ ဒေါက်တာဇော်ဝေစိုး အတွင်းရေးမှူး အမျိုးသားအဆင့် COVID-19 ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး ကော်မရှင် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
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Title: All Burma Federation of Student Unions: Announcement No.8/2021 - ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် ၈ / ၂၀၂၁: ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါပိုး ပြန့်ပွားနေသည့် အခြေအနေနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ ဗကသများအဖွဲ့ချုပ်၏ သဘောထား ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်
Description: "ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် - ၈ / ၂၀၂၁ နေ့စွဲ - ၁၂ / ၇ / ၂၀၂၁ ယခုကာလသည် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ တိုင်းပြည်တွင် ဖက်ဆစ်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုနှင့် COVID – 19 ရောဂါဘေးကို လူထုလူတန်းစားပေါင်းစုံ ကြုံတွေ့ခံစားနေရသည်။ အာဏာသိမ်း ဖက်ဆစ်အုပ်စုသည် စစ်အာဏာတည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲရေးအတွက် COVID – 19 ကပ်ရောဂါကို ဇီဝလက်နက်တခုသဖွယ် အသုံးပြုပြီး ပြည်သူလူထုအား ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်လျှက်ရှိသည်။ ပြည်သူလူထုဘက်တွင် မားမားမက်မက် ရပ်တည်ကာ CDM ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သော ဆရာဝန်များ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများကို ဖမ်းဆီး နှိပ်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ ကျူးလွန်နေသည့် ဖက်ဆစ်စစ်အုပ်စုသည် ယခုကာလတွင် ကပ်ဘေးရောဂါကို မထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ဖြစ်နေသည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် ပြည်သူလူထုတွင် ကြုံတွေ့နေရသော ကပ်ဘေးရောဂါကို ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် ဖမ်းဆီးထားသူများကို အမြန်ဆုံးလွှတ်ပေးပြီး တရားစွဲဆိုထားသော CDM ဆရာဝန်များနှင့် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ထမ်းများအား ပြည်သူလူထုအတွက် လွတ်လပ်စွာ ဆေးကုသခွင့်ပြုရန် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ ဗကသများအဖွဲ့ချုပ်က သတိပေးလိုက်သည်။ ဖက်ဆစ်အုပ်စုအနေဖြင့် ပြည်သူလူထုအား ဖမ်းဆီး နှိပ်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်နေမှုများနှင့် ကပ်ရောဂါကို ဇီဝလက်နက်တခုသဖွယ် အသုံးပြုပြီး ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်နေမှုများအား ကျွန်ုတို့ ဗကသများအဖွဲ့ချုပ်က ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ဆန့်ကျင်ရှုတ်ချသည်။ လူထုလူတန်းစားပေါင်းစုံ ပြည်သူလူထုတရပ်လုံးအနေဖြင့်လည်း ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အပါအဝင် ကပ်ရောဂါကိုပါ တပါတည်းတိုက်ဖျက်ကြရန် လေးနက်စွာ တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်အပ်ပါသည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ ဗကသများအဖွဲ့ချုပ်သည်လည်း ပြည်သူလူထုနှင့်လက်တွဲကာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်အား အမြစ်ပြတ်သည်အထိ နည်းလမ်းပေါင်းစုံသုံး၍ တိုက်ခိုက်ချေမှုန်းသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး ပြည်သူလူထု တရပ်လုံးအတွက် ကပ်ရောဂါဘေးထိန်းချုပ်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းများအား အင်တိုက်အားတိုက် ဆောင်ရွတ်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ ဖက်ဆစ်ကိုလည်းတိုက်၊ ကိုဗစ်ကိုလည်းတိုက် ဗဟိုအမှုဆောင်အဖွဲ့ ဗမာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂများအဖွဲ့ချုပ်..."
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 12 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 12 July 2021: As of 12 July, (902) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (3) fallen heroes today. These (3) fallen heroes from Chan Aye Tharzan Township in Mandalay Region, Kani Township in Sagaing Region and Thongwa Township in Yangon Region were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 12, a total of (5203) people are currently under detention. (249) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Hla Po, Yin Village in Sagaing Region’s Kani Township, who was arrested by the terrorist junta on July 8, died on July 9 due to torture in detention. According to locals, there were bruises from beatings on the whole body of Hla Po. Khant Ko Ko Maung, a CDM policeman from the traffic police force in Chan Aye Tharzan Township in Mandalay Region, who was evading arrest in Kyi Kone village, Patheingyi Township, was shot dead from the back in the evening of July 10 when the terrorist junta opened fire while arresting him soon after a woman active in helping the CDM movement was detained. Phoe Sal died due to with beatings consitent with torture on July 10 after his arrest by the junta on July 10 while he was searching for oxygen to help treat COVID-19 at Thongwa Township, Yangon Region. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-12
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Title: Imprisoned NLD exec Nyan Win transferred to hospital with Covid-19
Sub-title: He is the first detained senior member of the former ruling party known to have contracted the disease so far
Description: "Nyan Win, a central executive committee member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), has been transferred to a hospital from Insein Prison to receive emergency Covid-19 treatment, prison authorities have confirmed. Nyan Win, 78, was taken to Yangon General Hospital late Sunday after testing positive for the disease, a senior prison official told Myanmar Now. “Doctors were treating him for aching muscles. They became suspicious, so they decided to check his blood and found that his oxygen saturation levels were low,” said the prison’s deputy director, San Aye Kyaw. “Not only is he a bit old, but he also has underlying health issues. And he tested positive on his Covid-19 test,” he added. Nyan Win is the only senior NLD member detained at Insein Prison since the February 1 coup to have been diagnosed with Covid-19, according to San Aye Kyaw. However, he added, only those with symptoms of the disease have been tested. One other high-profile prisoner, Dr. Maw Maw Oo, a medical officer from the Yangon General Hospital emergency ward, has also been hospitalized with Covid-19, he said. Dr. Maw Maw Oo was transferred to North Okkalapa Hospital on July 6 and is still receiving treatment in an intensive care unit (ICU) there. Nyan Win, who is also in an ICU, was in stable condition as of Monday morning, according to San Aye Kyaw. Before last year’s election, he received treatment for gastrointestinal bleeding. He was taken into custody on February 21 and held in an interrogation centre for more than a month before being transferred to Insein Prison to face charges of incitement under Section 505b of the Penal Code, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). The charges against Dr. Maw Maw Oo, who was on the frontlines of the ousted civilian government’s Covid-19 efforts until the coup, have not been disclosed. There has been no public acknowledgment of rising Covid-19 cases in Myanmar’s prisons, but San Aye Kyaw said that a two-week partial lockdown has been in place at Insein Prison since July 8. Volunteer groups told Myanmar Now on Sunday that there were at least 105 deaths from the disease in Yangon in the first 10 days of the month. The groups have also accused the junta of withholding oxygen supplies from the general public, at a time when few are able to access hospitals due to a breakdown of public services since the coup..."
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG: Announcement No.4/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၄/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၄/၂၀၂၁)..."
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Title: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG: Announcement No.3/2021 - အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၃/၂၀၂၁) အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာခြင်း
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့်သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ် (၃/၂၀၂၁) ..."
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Title: Shan State Front for Federal: Announcement No. 3/2021 - သျှမ်းပြည်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးပါတီ/သျှမ်းပြည်ဖယ်ဒရယ်တပ်ဦး ၏ ကြေညာချက် (၃/သဖတ/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် နှင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်အပေါင်းအပါ အားလုံးကို သျှမ်းပြည်ဖယ်ဒရယ်တပ်ဦး(SSLP/SSFF)က စစ်ကြေညာ..."
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Title: Silence on Coup Makes Strategic Sense for Myanmar’s Wa
Description: "While the whole country has risen in revolt against the Feb. 1 coup—at first peacefully and then more violently when the military began to open fire on the protesters—there is one part of Myanmar that appears to be unaffected by the nationwide turmoil: the Wa Hills of northeastern Shan State. Ethnic groups like the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) have provided shelter to activists who have fled urban areas and even trained some of them in guerrilla warfare. Other ethnic rebels have at least issued statements condemning Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s power grab, often working together with civil society organizations. Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic army, the 20,000-30,000-strong United Wa State Army (UWSA), on the other hand, has remained conspicuously silent since the coup. But that doesn’t mean that all Wa agree with the stance that the UWSA and its political wing, the United Wa State Party (UWSP), have taken. On March 25, 10 Wa civil society organizations, among them the Tang-yan Wa Youth Network, university students from the Wa Christian Fellowship and the Wa Women’s Network, sent an open letter to the UWSP/UWSA leadership urging them to say something about the killings and to publicize their stand on the movement for federal democracy. That hasn’t happened, though, and the issue at stake is the UWSA’s close relationship with the security services across the border in China. Those agencies do not want to get involved with any movement that wants to overthrow the coup-installed government in Naypyitaw—and the UWSA is an ally in China’s geostrategic quest for dominance in Myanmar and beyond. Put in plain words, China’s support for the UWSA gives Beijing leverage inside Myanmar, the only neighboring country that provides China with easy and convenient access to the Indian Ocean. When Aung Min, then president’s office minister in the Thein Sein administration, visited Monywa, a town northwest of Mandalay, in November 2012 to meet local people protesting a controversial Chinese-backed copper mining project in the area, he openly admitted: “We are afraid of China…we don’t dare to have a row with [them]. If they feel annoyed with the shutdown of their projects and resume support to the communists, the economy in the border areas would backslide. So you’d better think seriously.” By “the communists” he clearly meant the UWSA and its allies, offshoots of the once China-supported Communist Party of Burma’s (CPB) powerful army, which collapsed after a mutiny among its hilltribe—mainly Wa—rank-and-file in 1989. And he was right. In fact, the UWSA, which like the old CPB is supported by China, has become even stronger and better equipped than the old party ever was. The UWSA’s strength—and the scope of its arsenal—was demonstrated on April 17, 2019, when it celebrated the 30th anniversary of the mutiny against the elderly, orthodox Marxist-Leninist and mainly Burman leadership of the CPB. The CPB with its increasingly anachronistic policies had lost its importance to the Chinese, who are now more interested in exporting consumer goods than Maoist-style revolutions. The old CPB leaders were allowed to retire in China, and the UWSA and three other components of the erstwhile CPB were born. Those four former CPB forces also entered into ceasefire agreements with the then junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council, which suited China’s interests as well. On that day, a bit over two years ago, thousands of Wa soldiers in impeccable uniforms goose-stepped in perfect formation past the grandstand where their leaders stood at attention. Then came an impressive display of surface-to-air missiles, heavy artillery, mortars, rocket launchers, machine guns, assault rifles, armored personnel carriers and even a weaponized drone. Columns of civilians, mostly Wa tribesmen but also people from other ethnic groups from the over 30,000-square-km area that the UWSA controls along the Chinese border and in the south near Thailand, made their way to the parade grounds. Spectacular fireworks lit up the sky after dark and people cheered and danced through the night. Needless to say, China’s security services do not want to see a war like the one the CPB once fought from the same areas. Such hostilities would mean instability in the border areas, a flood of refugees into China and a disruption of trade between the two countries. But China, almost the sole supplier of weaponry to the UWSA, wants it to be strong enough to deter the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, from even trying to bring its base area under central control. As Aung Min inadvertently admitted, the UWSA has become exactly what the Chinese want: a useful bargaining chip when they want to put pressure on the Myanmar government to get economic concessions. Moreover, before the coup, China was also eager to prevent Myanmar from straying too close to the West. But that is hardly an issue today as the West has condemned the coup and imposed sanctions on the Tatmadaw and affiliated entities. Today, after the coup, China wants to be seen as a moderating voice that, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at the opening of the 9th World Peace Forum in Beijing on July 3, is opposed to sanctions and other punitive measures and wants to see a solution to Myanmar’s current crisis “through internal dialogue and reconciliation.” Russia, the other main power that has come out against Western condemnation and sanctions in the wake of the coup, has adopted a similar view. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated during a visit to Jakarta on July 6 that his country supported ASEAN’s five-point proposal for restoring “normalcy” to Myanmar, which includes “a constructive dialogue to find a peaceful solution” to the upheaval. But Wang is not so naïve as to believe that such a dialogue leading to reconciliation is possible, and Lavrov, an experienced diplomat, must realize that ASEAN’s five-point proposal is a nonstarter. Support for ASEAN’s “peace plan”, however, serves as a convenient cover for protecting other interests and opposition to the West’s sanctions policy. For the Russians, it is a question of protecting lucrative arms sales to Myanmar and other economic interests, as well as gaining a new ally in a region where Moscow’s influence has waned since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. China’s long-term objectives go way beyond Russia’s, and access to the Indian Ocean is only one aspect of Beijing’s massive, all-encompassing and ultimately global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure project, which President Xi Jinping launched in 2013. Myanmar’s strategically important location between South and Southeast Asia is of utmost importance to China. There is no doubt that the Wa’s dependence on China is real and overwhelming, militarily as well as economically. Apart from being equipped with Chinese-made weaponry, the Chinese yuan, not the Myanmar kyat, is the preferred currency in the area under UWSA control. People are connected to Chinese mobile phone and internet providers, and petrol and diesel come from China, as do medical supplies and most of the food. Furthermore—and this has escaped the attention of the outside world—the UWSA-controlled area is the only part of Myanmar where nearly everyone has been vaccinated against COVID-19. Supplies and even many of the medics administering the vaccine came from Yunnan, across the border. Nonetheless, it would be a serious mistake to believe that the Wa are hapless Chinese minions and compliant pawns in Beijing’s quest for regional and ultimately global dominance. Many Wa I have met are aware that the Chinese feel superior to them and, in many instances, refer to them as erstwhile headhunters and therefore uncivilized savages. There could be as many as 600,000 Wa in Myanmar—no one knows for sure—and another 400,000 in China, where they are also recognized as an ethnic minority. But what little most Chinese outside Yunnan know about the Wa comes from a series of music videos in which young girls, accompanied by young men beating drums, shake their long hair back and forth. The girls are dressed in red woven skirts with some kind of pattern that looks like it could be of hilltribe origin, and the young men are bare-chested. The problem is that those skirts are much shorter than the sarongs Wa girls would normally wear, and no female living in the hills, where water is scarce, would have hair that long because it would be impossible to keep it clean. Besides, young Wa men these days would not go around dressed in little more than a loincloth, even when taking part in cultural events in their home villages. Tellingly, these dances are not performed in a rural Wa setting but in purpose-built theaters in front of big audiences. The famous “Wa hair dancers” are, in fact, the daughters of city cadres who are of Wa, Chinese, or mixed Wa-Chinese ancestry. According to Swedish anthropologist and Wa expert Magnus Fiskesjö, the Chinese have created “an official socialist-era image of the Wa as a member of the happy family of nationalities within the Chinese nation: as exotic dancers full of primitive energy, now sanitized and harnessed under Communist Party guidance—the socialist-era version of Wa primitivity.” In line with this thinking, ethnic theme parks have been established in several Chinese cities where one of the main attractions is “real Wa headhunters” performing exotic dances. Young Wa, because of their dark complexion, are hired to perform not only as wild Wa but, according to Fiskesjö, as Africans, New Zealand Maori and American Indians. These performers are Wa from Yunnan or Myanmar who have migrated to Chinese cities to find work in factories, and take part in such spectacles to earn some extra money. But it is easy to imagine what the Wa dancers themselves think about their ethnicity and culture being exploited and, in effect, humiliated in this way. No central or local Chinese authority ever controlled, or even showed interest in, the Wa-inhabited areas of southern Yunnan—not until the communist takeover in 1949. Remnants of the defeated Kuomintang (KMT), who had not been able to flee to Taiwan along with their supreme leader Chiang Kai-shek, retreated into those areas and, more importantly, the Wa Hills of Myanmar. Those hills were only nominally part of Myanmar; at that time, headhunting was part of the way of life there, along with local wars and feuds between different tribes and clans. In the early 1950s, the communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered southern Yunnan to prevent the KMT from trying to achieve their stated objective, to “reconquer the Chinese mainland”. Hardly any Chinese had been there before, and the PLA as well as the KMT were seen as foreign forces, so people did not know what to expect and were afraid of them. But the PLA, which needed local support and knowledge of the terrain to be able to push the KMT back into Myanmar, treated the Wa rather leniently. The KMT, on the other hand, could be very rough in its behavior towards the Wa and other tribes in the frontier areas. After a few years of tolerance—and as soon as the KMT threat had been eliminated—the Chinese authorities brought in an entirely new oppressive system aimed at “uprooting feudal superstition”, as the Chinese communist jargon went. Weapons in the possession of Wa tribesmen, who were used to being armed because they depended on hunting, were confiscated and, according to Fiskesjö, all headhunting paraphernalia was destroyed. Social institutions that were important in Wa society were disbanded. Drum-houses, the main meeting place in every Wa village, were torn down and the Wa’s log drums were thrown out or burned. Only a few survive in a few faraway museums, such as those on display at the Yunnan Nationalities University in Kunming, Yunnan’s provincial capital. According to Fiskesjö: “Roadside a nog [head-container posts planted along the approach to a village] were destroyed or abandoned; the fortifications protecting villages were broken up and demolished. The major rituals of the past were abandoned. Chief ritualists and other community leaders were demoted, marginalized, or even persecuted.” Wa elders Fiskesjö spoke to during his research in the area in the 1990s regarded 1958 as the key watershed: “Since in that year the Chinese shifted policy from reconciliation to enforcement.” Even the Wa had to become Chinese communists and were herded into people’s communes. Although this happened in the Wa-inhabited areas of Yunnan, the bitterness based on memories of that repression is deep on both sides of the border. That resentment, and unhappiness with the disgraceful way in which the Wa are being treated in China today, are consequences of a long-standing, strained relationship between these proud tribesmen—regardless of where they live—and the Han Chinese. Since the 1989 mutiny, the UWSA has built up what amounts to a well-organized, de facto self-governing state between Myanmar and China with its own administrative offices, courts, hospitals and schools. It may be argued that a lot of the wealth that has made this possible comes from the trade in narcotics—first opium and heroin and then methamphetamine—and that is something the Wa leadership cannot hide or escape from. Today, other sources of income exist, such as tin and rare earth metals. But the way forward, for the Wa and the rest of Myanmar, would have to take into account the unique history of the Wa, and the fact that they have never been ruled by any central authority. Before independence, colonial presence in the area was limited to occasional flag marches up to what the British perceived as the border with China. Then, in the 1950s and well into the 1960s, KMT warlords and local chieftains ruled the Wa Hills. That was the case until the early 1970s, when the CPB took over the entire border area, including the Wa Hills. And after the 1989 mutiny, of course, the UWSP/UWSA became the new governing body. An enlightened and democratic Myanmar government could through wiser policies than those of the past integrate the Wa Hills with the rest of the country. But the possibility of that happening seems remote: the military, with its chauvinistic approach to ethnic minorities, remains in power in Naypyitaw, and the Chinese are not likely to abandon their strategically important grip over the UWSP/UWSA any time soon. Sadly, the Wa issue is more likely to continue to exist as one of many sources of despair in the seemingly never-ending Myanmar tragedy. But, at least, it deserves a better understanding than what has so far been the case both in Myanmar and internationally. The Wa may be Chinese puppets, but they are no Chinese stooges..."
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Title: Myanmar caught off guard as cases surge, oxygen dwindles
Description: " Soe Win stood in line at a plant to buy oxygen for his grandmother, who is struggling with COVID-19 symptoms. “I have been waiting since 5 in the morning until 12 noon but I’m still in line. Oxygen is scarcer than money,” said the resident of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. Consumed by a bitter and violent political struggle since the military seized power in February, Myanmar has been slow to wake up to a devastating surge in cases since mid-May. It has left many of the sick like Soe Win’s grandmother to suffer at home if they cannot find a bed at an army hospital, or prefer not to trust their care to the widely disliked government. Under Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader ousted by the military, Myanmar had weathered its second coronavirus surge beginning in August last year by severely restricting travel, sealing off Yangon, and curbing election campaigning in virus hot spots where lockdowns were imposed. Suu Kyi appeared frequently on television with stern but empathetic entreaties to the public on how to deal with the situation. Vaccine supplies were secured from India and China. Her ouster came less than a week after the first jabs were given to health workers. Suu Kyi’s removal by the military sparked widespread protests, and medical workers spearheaded a popular civil disobedience movement that called on professionals and civil servants not to cooperate with the military-installed government. Military hospitals continued operating but were shunned by many, while doctors and nurses who boycotted the state system ran makeshift clinics, for which they faced arrest. The pace of vaccinations slowed to a crawl, threatening an explosion in infections. “No wise person with a good heart and a sincere desire for truth would want to work under the junta’s rule,” said Zeyar Tun, founder of the civic action group Clean Yangon who helped out at quarantine centers. “Under Suu Kyi, the government and volunteers worked together to control the disease, but it is difficult to predict what the future holds under military rule.” Photos and news stories early last week of people lining up to buy oxygen in the city of Kalay in the northwestern Sagaing region brought home the reality that Myanmar’s health care, already one of the world’s weakest, was on its knees. “From Myanmar, our U.N. colleagues on the ground say they’re concerned about the rapid increase in the number of recorded COVID-19 cases,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York. “The U.N. team warns that a major outbreak of COVID-19 would have devastating consequences on both people’s health and on the economy. They stress the importance of resuming the delivery of essential health services, implementing measures to prevent the spread of the virus, and to scale up vaccinations.” By the end of the week, residents of Myanmar’s two biggest cities, Yangon and Mandalay, were also having trouble finding oxygen supplies. Myanmar’s new leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, in a Friday meeting on COVID-19 response ordered oxygen plants to work at full capacity, including converting industrial oxygen for the needs of patients. Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Aung Naing Oo followed up on Saturday with an announcement that the government is dropping all duties and licensing requirements for the import of oxygen concentrators — devices that generate oxygen. The Health Ministry on Saturday reported a record 4,377 new confirmed cases for a total of 188,752, as well as a record 71 deaths, bringing the toll to 3,756. The number of tested people found to be infected is hovering around 25%, and equally alarming is how quickly the numbers have been rising. The data on vaccinations is not very clear, but it appears that as of last month, only 3.5 million doses had been administered to the country’s 55 million people, meaning a maximum of 3.2% of the population would be fully vaccinated with two doses. According to Johns Hopkins University, the seven-day rolling average rose from 1.18 cases per 100,000 people on June 25 to 6.08 cases per 100,000 people on July 9. In the same period, deaths jumped from 0.01 per 100,000 people to 0.08. Even those numbers are likely an undercount. According to aid group Relief International, Myanmar’s major challenges are a lack of adequate screening, testing capacity and availability of vaccines. The Health Ministry announced Thursday night that all schools would be closed for two weeks. Stay-at-home orders had already been issued for badly hit neighborhoods in several cities, including Yangon, and basic field hospitals set up..."
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Title: Oral Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Sub-title: Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Description: "Madam President, Mister Special Rapporteur, FIDH and its member organizations ALTSEAN-Burma and Women Peace Network welcome this oral progress report. We are troubled by ongoing reports of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, sexual violence, torture, and prosecutions of human rights defenders, National League for Democracy members, and junta critics and opponents. It is even more troubling that women and children have continued to be deliberately targeted by the junta’s security forces. Last week’s release of more than 2,000 prisoners charged under Article 505(a) of the Penal Code is welcome, but they shouldn’t have been detained in the first place. This cynical tactic to avoid criticism ahead of high-profile international meetings like this one does not negate the fact that scores of people have been charged with the capital offence of treason and 65 have been already sentenced to death. Several thousands more political prisoners remain behind bars and must be immediately released. We welcome the National Unity Government’s public commitment to uphold human rights and establish accountability for abuses, including those committed against Rohingya and other ethnic groups. In light of this, we urge the NUG (National Unity Government) to review the recommendations made by UN member states during the Universal Periodic Review of Myanmar in January 2021 and to submit its response to these recommendations ahead of the next Human Rights Council’s session. Thank you..."
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Title: Transport of food, medicine restricted despite temporary ceasefire extension in Mindat
Sub-title: Only 10 bags of rice are allowed into the town each month by the junta, and medicine remains a ‘banned item,’ locals say
Description: "A temporary ceasefire between local resistance forces and the military in Mindat, Chin State, has been extended until July 14, but locals say the junta continues to impose restrictions on the transportation of basic necessities into the area, contributing to food shortages and insufficient healthcare access. The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in Mindat and the military coup council had agreed to a temporary ceasefire from June 23 until July 4 in the town and then extended it 10 more days. Rice is being transported to Mindat from Pakokku, in Magwe Region, but the junta is only allowing 10 bags of rice—each weighing around 45kg—to be brought in per day, according to the Mindat People's Administration. “This rice is not enough, even for the town. Most of the people have bought millet and corn to eat,” a Mindat resident said. Each household is additionally restricted by the military authorities from buying more than one bag of rice per month, a town elder and member of the bilateral negotiating team told Myanmar Now. He speculated that the aim of the junta’s restrictions on rice may be an attempt to cut off the food supply route for the CDF in Mindat. An official from the management committee for Mindat’s internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) camps said that the town was running out of medicine and basic healthcare necessities because the junta had declared medicine a “banned item.” “Medicines are not allowed to be transported to Mindat. The junta’s forces arrest anyone who brings medicine, so no one dares to carry it. There are still a lot of sick people in the mountainous areas,” the committee official explained. Myanmar Now tried to contact the junta’s information officers to inquire about the restrictions, but the calls were unanswered. Fighting between local forces and the military began in Mindat in April. Since May 12, clashes have intensified, and more than 20,000 people have fled the area. A two-week ceasefire agreement was reached in June after the town elders and religious leaders held talks with the military for one week. The temporary ceasefire agreement bans both sides from firing their weapons, harassing or threatening civil servants—particularly those involved in the anti-coup Civil Disobedience Movement—and states that vehicles transporting food may be inspected but must be allowed into Mindat. During the 10-day temporary ceasefire extension, representatives from both forces have reportedly agreed to communicate by phone, and to contact the negotiating committee if necessary. Some IDPs have returned to their homes during this period, but others are reluctant to go back to the town, citing a lack of security and ongoing difficulties procuring basic needs, such as access to healthcare. “The military council’s side runs an outpatient clinic, from 8 am to 10 am. But some people think the medical care in the town is now inadequate, so they do not come here,” the Mindat town elder and negotiating team member said. The junta’s health ministry announced on July 2 that there was one new case of Covid-19 in Mindat town. “If the town is locked down because of the Covid-19 pandemic, people will face more difficulties getting food. Commodity prices will be higher. The situation in Mindat will not be easy at all,” the elder said, adding that he feared his community would “disappear” due to these struggles. During a one-month period between May and late June, a total of seven people, including pregnant women, infants and the elderly, died while fleeing the ongoing instability in Mindat, according to the Mindat IDP camps’ management committee..."
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Title: Chinland Defense Force - Kalay Kabaw Gangaw: Announcement No.1/2021 - ကြေငြာချက်အမှတ် (၁/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ကြေငြာချက် ကြေငြာချက်အမှတ် (၁/၂၀၂၁) ရက်စွဲ။ ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်(၉) ရက် ၁။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဖမ်းဆီးနှိပ်စက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကို ခုခံကာကွယ်ရန်အတွက် Chinland Defense Force ကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဧပြီလ (၄) ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။ မိမိတို့ဒေသ အနေဖြင့် မိမိကိုယ်ကိုခုခံ ကာကွယ်ခြင်းကို ဧပြီလကတည်းက စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၂။ ကလေး-ကဘော်-ဂန့်ဂေါဒေသအတွင်းရှိ တော်လှန်ရေးရဲဘော်ရဲဘက်များနှင့် ဆွေးနွေးမှုများ ပြုလုပ်ပြီးနောက် Chinland Defense Force—Kalay Kabaw Gangaw (CDF-KKG) ကို ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ(၁)ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်သည်။ ၃။ CDF-KKG သည် အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ဖျက်သိမ်းရေး၊ နိုင်ငံတော်၏အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာကို ပြည်သူ့ လက်ဝယ်ပြန်လည်ထားရှိရေး၊ အရပ်သားအုပ်ချုပ်ကွပ်ကဲမှု(Civilian Supremacy) ဖော်ဆောင်ရေး၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ပြဌာန်းခွင့်နှင့် အမျိုးသားတန်းတူရေး အာမခံချက်ရှိသည့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင် စုနိုင်ငံတည်ဆောက်ရေးအတွက် တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သွားပါမည်။ ၄။ CDF-KKG သည် ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ်ဦး (CNF) ၏ လမ်းညွှန်မှုကို ခံယူ၍ ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ် မတော် (CNA)၏ ကြီးကြပ်ကွပ်ကဲမှုအောက်တွင် ဒေသအသီးသီးရှိ CDF တပ်ဖွဲ့များနှင့်အတူ တိုက်ပွဲ ဝင်မည်။ ၅။ CDF-KKG သည် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) မှဖွဲ့စည်းထူထောင်သည့် ပြည်သူ့ ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်မတော် (PDF) နှင့် ပူးတွဲ၍ ခုခံကာကွယ်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ပြုလုပ်သွားမည်။ ပြည်သူ့တော်လှန်ရေး အောင်ရမည်။..."
Source/publisher: Chinland Defense Force - Kalay Kabaw Gangaw
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-10
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Title: CRPH Announcement No.32/2021: ကြေညာချက် အမှတ် ( ၃၂/၂၀၂၁ )
Description: "အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရက အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းခဲ့သည့် ဦးတိုးအောင်အား ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီက ပြည်ထောင်စုစာရင်းစစ်ချုပ်အဖြစ် အတည်ပြု ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးအပ်လိုက်သည်။..."
Source/publisher: Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-10
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 10 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 10 July 2021: As of 10 July, (899) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. Today there were no confirmed fallen heroes. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 10, a total of (5173) people are currently under detention. (249) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. 68 year old Saw Kyi and 13 year old Zay Myo Satt, the mother and nephew of protester Kan Win from Pyin Gyi Village in Tanintharyi Region’s Launglon Township were arrested in the evening of July 6 as Kan Win is evading arrest despite terrorist junta searched his home frequently for staging protests. Political activist Win Tun Naing from Pathein Township, who was evading arrest as a warrant was issued against him for his leading role in the anti-dictatorship protests in Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, was arrested at a house in Shwepyitha Township, Yangon Region on June 28. He was interrogated at interrogation center 2 of Insein Prison for one week and then transferred on July 6 and now currently detained at Pathein Myoma Police Station. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-10
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Title: Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment - NUG: Recording Acknowledgments - စီမံကိန်း၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန ၏ ''မှတ်တမ်းတင်ကျေးဇူးတင်လွှာ''
Description: "''မှတ်တမ်းတင်ကျေးဇူးတင်လွှာ'' ====================== ချစ်ခင်လေးစားရပါသော NUG Support Team မှ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေး မိတ်ဆွေများနှင့် မြန်မာ့ဖက်ဒရယ် ဒီမိုကရေစီအရေးအတွက် အားသွန်ခွန်စိုက် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်နေကြသည့် ပြည်ထောင်စုဖွား ညီအစ်ကို၊ မောင်နှမများခင်ဗျား... မြန်မာ့မြေပေါ်တွင် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် လုံးဝချုပ်ငြိမ်း ပျောက်ကွယ်​စေရေးအတွက် အရေးပါသော လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်သည့် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီကို အခွန်မဆောင်ရေးနှင့် NUG ပြည်သူ့အစိုးရ၏ လုပ်ငန်းဆောင် တာများ ပိုမိုထိရောက်အောင်မြင်စေရန် "ငါတို့ အစိုးရ ငါတို့ အခွန်ဆောင်ကြစို့" ကြွေးကြော်သံနှင့်အတူ စည်းရုံးလှုံ့ဆော်ရေးတွင် တဘက်တလမ်းမှ အင်းတိုက်အားတိုက် ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက် အားဖြည့်ပေးနေကြသော NUG Support Team မှ တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ချင်းစီအား ကျေးဇူးအထူးတင်ရှိပါသည်။ အမျိုးသားညီညွှတ်ရေးအစိုးရ စီမံကိန်း၊ ဘဏ္ဍာ ရေးနှင့်ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန အနေဖြင့်လည်း NUG Support Team ၏ စည်းရုံးရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ၊ ရှေ့ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ် လိုအပ်ချက်များနှင့် အကောင်အထည် ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် လိုအပ်သည်များကို ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသွားမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ NUG Support Team အနေဖြင့်လည်း "ငါတို့ အစိုးရ ငါတို့ အခွန်ဆောင်ကြစို့" လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်၏ အရေးပါမှုနှင့် အကျိုးကျေးဇူး ရလဒ်များကို အခွန်ထမ်းပြည်သူများထံသို့ တိကျရှင်းလင်းစွာ သတင်းစကားပါးရင်း ထိရောက်စွာ စည်းရုံးလှုံ့ ဆော်နိုင်လိမ့်မည်ဟု မျှော်လင့်ယုံကြည်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment - NUG
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Title: Myanmar’s Third Wave of COVID-19 Spreads to Almost 90% of Townships
Description: "Nearly 90 percent of the country has been affected by Myanmar’s third wave of coronavirus infections, with 296 of 330 townships nationwide reporting COVID-19 cases since May. Addressing a meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control measures on Friday, coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing admitted that “the current infection [outbreak] in Myanmar is serious” and was spreading faster than the first and second waves of the coronavirus epidemic in Myanmar. “If necessary, restrictions should be tightened so the people strictly follow the orders related to COVID-19,” he said. The junta’s Health Ministry said in mid-June that three mutant strains of the coronavirus have been detected in Myanmar, including the Delta strain, which was first detected in India. On Friday, Myanmar reported 64 fatalities—the highest death toll since the military coup in February—and 4,320 new COVID-19 cases, after testing 15,747 swab samples, according to the ministry. As of Friday, Myanmar had reported a total of 184,375 COVID-19 cases with 3,685 deaths. On Thursday, regime-controlled television announced that all schools, including private and monastic schools, will be closed until July 23. The regime reopened schools on June 1 after they had been shuttered for more than a year under the ousted civilian government due to the pandemic. Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing added that the regime had an agreement with China to buy 5 million doses of vaccines, while Russia was planning to deliver the first batch of 2 million doses purchased from the country. Additionally, the junta leader said the regime would “arrange for Myanmar Pharmaceutical Industry to manufacture the vaccines” with support from Russia, which has promised to provide technical help on vaccine production. Myanmar reported its first cases of COVID-19 in March last year, and a second wave followed in August. In both outbreaks, public participation was huge, with healthcare professionals and volunteers at the forefront of measures to prevent and contain the disease. After Myanmar experienced a second wave of COVID-19 in August last year, the National League for Democracy government began to implement a nationwide vaccination program on Jan. 27, days before the military coup on Feb. 1. Health-care staff and volunteer medical workers were the first to receive shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by India. In defiance of military rule, thousands of healthcare professionals are taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and refusing to work for the military regime. COVID-19 testing declined from between about 16,000 and 18,000 swab tests a day in January under the ousted NLD civilian government to fewer than 2,000 per day between February and early June. Swab testing increased again in late June, with over 8,000 tests conducted. The military regime has imposed stay-at-home orders in 45 townships: three in Sagaing Region; five in Chin State; seven in Bago Region; eight in Mandalay Region; three in Shan State; three in Ayeyarwady Region; two in Naypyitaw; Gangaw in Magwe Region; three in Mon State; and 10 in Yangon Region..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-10
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Title: National Unity Government: Ministry of Electricity and Energy Notification No.5/2021 - လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၅/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင် ဝန်ကြီးဌာန အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၅/၂၀၂၁) ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ် ဝါဆိုလဆန်း ၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၀ ရက်) အကြောင်းအရာ။ ။ ရေနံနှင့် ရေနံထွက်ပစ္စည်းများဆိုင်ရာ အခွန်အခများ လွတ်ငြိမ်းခွင့်ပြုကြောင်း ကြေညာခြင်း။ ၁။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်တော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန သည် ကိုဗစ် - ၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါ ကြောင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဖိနှိပ် နှိပ်စက်မှုများကြောင့် လည်းကောင်း ပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုးလျော့ကျစေရေး နှင့် သယံဇာတမှရရှိသောရန်ပုံငွေကို ပြည်သူ အား နှိပ်စက်နေသော အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့များထံ မရောက်ရှိစေရေးအတွက် အောက်ပါ အမိန့်ကို ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်သည်။ ၂။ လျှပ်စစ်နှင့်စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် ဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏မူဝါဒများအနက် ဒုတိယဖြစ်သော ပြည်သူ့ ဝန်ဆောင်မှု လုပ်ငန်း များနှင့် ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ ရင်းနှီးမြုပ်နှံမှုများ မပြတ်တောက်စေရေး နှင့်အညီ ပြည်သူလူထု၏ ခရီးသွား လာရေး၊ ကုန်ဈေးနှုန်း မတိုးမြင့်စေရေးတို့အတွက် လောင်စာဆီ ဈေးနှုန်းများအား ထိန်းသိမ်းနိုင်စေရန် ရေနံနှင့် ရေနံထွက်ပစ္စည်း ဥပဒေ ပုဒ်မ ၈ ပါ အောက်ပါ အခွန်အခများအား နောက်ထပ် ညွှန်ကြားချက် တစုံတရာ မရရှိမီ အထိ ဥပဒေ ပုဒ်မ ၅၄၊ ပုဒ်မခွဲ (ခ) အရ လွတ်ငြိမ်းခွင့် ပြုကြောင်း ကြေညာလိုက်သည်- (က) နှစ်စဉ်ကြေး (ခ) သက်တမ်းတိုးကြေး (ဂ) ရက်လွန်ဒဏ်ကြေး (ဃ) ပိုင်ရှင်လွှဲပြောင်းကြေး (င) အမည်ပြောင်းလဲကြေး (စ) သိုလှောင်နိုင်သည့်ပမာဏပြင်ဆင်ပြောင်းလဲကြေး (ဆ) ပျက်စီး/ ပျောက်ဆုံးမိတ္တူမှန်ကြေး ၃။ ရေနံနှင့်ရေနံထွက်ပစ္စည်းဥပဒေသည် ပြည်သူလူထုကရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်သောအစိုးရ နှင့် လွှတ်တော်က ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်တွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ဥပဒေအမှတ် ၂၀ ဖြင့် ပြဋ္ဌာန်းခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီက ကိုင်စွဲသုံးစွဲခွင့်မရှိဘဲ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော် က သဘောတူတင်မြှောက်ခဲ့သော အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေး အစိုးရက သာ ကိုးကားဆုံးဖြတ်ခွင့်ရှိပါသည်။ ယခု အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအား ကျော်လွန်လုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်း၊ ဥပဒေမဲ့ လုပ်ဆောင် ခြင်း များ အား အစိုးရ၏သက်ဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနများက အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရန် သတင်းပို့ညှိနှိုင်းသွားမည် ဖြစ်သည်။ (စိုးသူရထွန်း) ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး..."
Source/publisher: National Unity Government of Myanmar
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Title: National Unity Government: Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment Announcement No.5/2021 - စီမံကိန်း ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ကြေညာချက် (၅/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "ကြေညာချက် (၅/၂၀၂၁) ဇူလိုင်လ ၉ ရက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ================ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ လက်အောက်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂလိကပိုင်ပြုလုပ်ရေးကော်မရှင်က နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦနှင့် မြေကွက် (၂၃)ခုကို အိပ်ဖွင့်တင်ဒါစနစ်ဖြင့် ရောင်းချရန် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်နေခြင်းသည် တရားဝင်မှု မရှိသော ကြောင့် ဝယ်ယူခြင်း မပြုကြရန်နှင့် ဝယ်ယူထားသည့် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦ နှင့်မြေကွက်များအား နိုင်ငံပိုင်အဖြစ် ပြန်လည်သိမ်းယူသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးတားမြစ်ခြင်း။ ---------------------------- ရည်ညွှန်းချက် ။ ။၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လ ၂၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်ဝေသည့် ကြေးမုံသတင်းစာပါ { နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့် အဆောက်အဦနှင့် မြေကွက်များအား ရောင်းချရန် အိပ်ဖွင့်တင်ဒါခေါ်ယူခြင်း} ။ ------------------------------ ၁။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ပြည်သူလူထုထံမှ အာဏာကို မတရားသောနည်းလမ်းဖြင့် အတင်းအဓမ္မ သိမ်းယူထားသော တရားမဝင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းဖြစ်သည့်အပြင် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအပါအဝင် မည်သည့်ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံကမျှ တရားဝင်အစိုးရအဖြစ် အသိအမှတ် ပြုထားခြင်းမရှိသည့် အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းသာဖြစ်သည်။ ၂။ အဆိုပါ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လက်အောက်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂလိကပိုင်ပြုလုပ်ရေးကော်မရှင်သည် ကချင်၊ စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီ၊ ပဲခူး၊ မွန်၊ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်တို့ရှိ နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦ နှင့်မြေကွက် စုစုပေါင်း (၂၃)ခုအား အိပ်ဖွင့်တင်ဒါစနစ်ဖြင့် ရောင်းချရန် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်နေကြောင်း သိရှိရသည်။ ၃။ နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦ နှင့်မြေကွက်များ၏ မူရင်းပိုင်ရှင်သည် နိုင်ငံတော်အတွင်း မှီတင်းနေထိုင်ကြသော နိုင်ငံသား ပြည်သူများသာဖြစ်သည့်အတွက် ပြည်သူလူထုအားကိုယ်စားပြုမှု အလျဉ်းမရှိသော အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့် ယင်း၏ လက်အောက်ခံ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ အနေဖြင့် အဆိုပါ မြေနှင့်အဆောက် အဦ နှင့်မြေကွက်များအား စီမံခန့်ခွဲပိုင်ခွင့်၊ ရောင်းချပိုင်ခွင့် မရှိပါ။ ၄။ သို့ပါ၍ နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့်အဆောက်အဦ နှင့် မြေကွက်များအား ရောင်းချရန် အိပ်ဖွင့်တင်ဒါခေါ်ယူခြင်းသည် တရားဝင်မှု လုံး၀မရှိသော ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်သာဖြစ်၍ ဝယ်ယူခြင်း မပြုကြရန်နှင့် လက်ဝယ်ရယူထားသည့် မည်သူမဆိုထံမှ နိုင်ငံပိုင်အဖြစ် ပြန်လည်သိမ်းယူသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သတိပေးတားမြစ်လိုက်သည်။ တင်ထွန်းနိုင် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး စီမံကိန်း၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုဝန်ကြီးဌာန..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment - NUG
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 9 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 9 July 2021: As of 9 July, (899) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Myingyan Township in Mandalay Region was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 9, a total of (5141) people are currently under detention. (249) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. Total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Phyo Hlaing Win from Sarkhar Village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township, was shot dead unprovoked while he was passing in front of the old industrial hall where the terrorist junta’s troops had camped on the night of July 8 at Myingyan City. In the early morning of July 6, the terrorist junta’s forces raided a tea shop which is located in Ohn Pin Chan Village in Mandalay Region’s Sintgaing Township and arrested tea shop owner Min Thu Tun, his 12 year old son Aung Swan Pyae, wife Tin Nwel Hlaing, the younger brother of Tin Newl Hlaing, and three waiters. Marn Zar Myay Mon, a protest leader of Chaung-U Township in Sagaing Region, who was charged with five charges of Section 505(a) of a Penal Code, was tortured and his fingers were broken during interrogation. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-09
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Title: EU Levels Third Wave Of Sanctions Against Myanmar; Is That Really All That Can Be Done?
Description: "A crucial update has occurred in the developing conflict going on in Myanmar. Following the February 1st military coup of Myanmar’s 10-year-old fledgling democracy, humanitarian concerns have caused the region to become a subject of international focus. While not only violently overthrowing a democratic government and detaining a democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar military has once again resumed the targeted killings of the Rohingya ethnic minority living within the region. These actions, while not only morally reprehensible, have also positioned the new Myanmar Regime directly against the United States and the European Union (EU). The Myanmar Regime’s direct conflict with the EU and the Liberal Hegemony has ultimately resulted in the EU’s third leveling of sanctions against the Southeast Asian nation. Following the February 1st overthrow, the nation erupted into pro-democracy protests that prompted a military crackdown. While the military junta contests these activist group’s numbers, (suggesting that they are in fact much lower), Reuters cites the group’s observation that 860 people have been killed by the junta since February 1st and over 4500 people have been jailed. This clear and ever-mounting chaos has failed to be stopped by previous EU sanctions and diplomatic efforts, which previously formed a blacklist of various Myanmar military officials and government-owned businesses. While the current update has been expanded to address some 43 officials and six military-owned entities, it is important to note that these particular measures have been crafted to target the timber and gems economic sectors. As both of these sectors are currently under the junta’s control, the EU argues that “by targeting the gems and timber sectors, these measures are aimed at restricting the junta’s ability to profit from Myanmar’s natural resources, while being crafted so as to avoid undue harm to the people of Myanmar.” While the EU has also allocated 20.5 million euros in humanitarian aid to provide support to refugees from the crisis, other groups have begun to be skeptical about whether the European Union is doing enough for the region. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has begun to argue that the EU’s actions while signaling that they will continue to pressure the Myanmar junta are largely symbolic. They note how the three entities added to the list, Myanmar Gems Enterprise, Myanmar Timber Enterprise, and Forest Products Joint Venture Corporation, are only a small part of the regime’s foreign currency revenues. The FIDH instead points to Myanmar’s natural gas reserves which generate approximately an annual one billion U.S. dollars in revenue for the regime, or about one-third of the regime’s total income. This is the largest source of the regime’s income coming from the selling of Myanmar’s natural reserves to oil and gas giants such as Total (France based), Chevron (U.S.), Posco (South Korea), PTT (Thailand), China National Petroleum Corporation (China) or Petronas (Malaysia). It is important to note that of this list, three of the major giants are based in either EU members or close EU allies countries. Going even further, this list of sanctions has also failed to seize the military’s largest foreign stocks, foreign bank accounts, and central bank reserves. Ultimately, the FIDH argues that the EU’s actions are simply too timid, and instead calls for the “EU to work in coordination with like-minded jurisdictions to explore all options available, including the possibility to prohibit all financial transactions whose ultimate beneficiary is the Tatmadaw [Myanmar military].” While certain individuals might be taken aback by the aggressive approach and the potential that it might damage Myanmar’s people unduly, it is important to recognize that the points the FIDH have made challenge the credibility of the EU as an institution that is fully committed to the humanitarian wellbeing of the Myanmar people and Myanmar’s democracy. While the list of the natural oil reserves was relatively short, it is important to recognize that three of the seven companies are housed in regions with “like-minded jurisdictions”. With that being said, it is fair to argue that such an attempt to limit those three companies directly profiteering from the exploitation of the Myanmar military, would be hindered by the massive political lobbying force that these oil corporations wield. What this means is that once again, the power that massive corporations hold over democratic institutions is obstructing the wellbeing of humanitarian citizens. This argument could also be extended to include the massive influence of private banking interests, and their obstructions to humanitarian aid. While all of that is a lot more speculatory, it must be noted that the current state of EU sanctions on the Tatmadaw is showing to have little effect..."
Source/publisher: The Organization for World Peace
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-09
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Title: Five-Year-Old Forced to Endure Stress Positions During Two-Week Detention by Myanmar’s Junta
Sub-title: Su Htet Waing was arrested with her mother and sister when authorities failed to detain her activist father.
Description: "A five-year-old girl whose father helped organize protests against Myanmar’s junta was forced to endure stress positions during more than two weeks in detention, according to her father, making her what observers say was the country’s youngest known political prisoner under the military regime that seized power in February. On June 13, security forces in Mandalay region raided the home of Soe Htay, a local activist who had led demonstrations in Mogok city against the junta following its Feb. 1 takeover of Myanmar’s democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government. Soe Htay had already gone into hiding with his two sons, and when authorities failed to locate him, they arrested his wife Nan Kyi Kyi Khine and their daughters Theint Sandi Soe, a 17-year-old third-year law student, and Su Htet Waing, a five-year-old girl. Arresting relatives of wanted protesters has been a common practice. The protests Soe Htay had organized in Mogok were part of a nationwide backlash against the military following its coup, which it said was necessary because the NLD’s landslide victory in the country’s November 2020 elections was the result of widespread voter fraud. Regime leaders have yet to produce any evidence of their claims, while soldiers have violently cracked down on the demonstrations. According to the Bangkok-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), the military has killed 898 people and arrested 5,127 in connection with the anti-junta protests. Of those, 2,269—including Su Htet Waing—were freed from prisons across the country as part of a general amnesty on June 30, although observers say the release was little more than a stunt by the military to gain international recognition. Soe Htay, who was reunited with Su Htet Waing and remains in hiding, recently told RFA’s Myanmar Service that his daughter was left “traumatized” because of the poor treatment she was subjected to during her 18 days in detention. He said Su Htet Waing told him that she and others were regularly forced to assume the “ponzan” posture—a half-sitting, half-standing stress position—during roll call, and that she “hated the people” who ordered her to do it. Su Htet Waing “knows nothing about politics” and had only called for the release of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with several other party officials shortly after the military takeover, Soe Htay said. “She doesn’t understand the politics we were discussing,” the NLD member and leader of the Mogok Township Peace and Open Society told RFA. Soe Htay said he recently learned from staff at the Mogok Prison that his older daughter is enduring “serious health problems” while she remains in detention. He said that he has had no direct contact with his family members since the day of their arrest. “My eldest daughter was on medication, suffering from rheumatism when she was arrested. On the day of her arrest, she was taken away with the only clothing she had on, and she didn’t have any of her medicine,” he said. “She had to kneel down, handcuffed, on the concrete floor for two or three hours during questioning … and now she is in critical condition, according to what a friend in the prison told me.” Attempts by RFA to contact junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun for comment on the arrest of Soe Htay’s family members went unanswered Friday. ‘Illegal’ detention Speaking to RFA this week, lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said arresting a five-year-old is “illegal.” “Even if children under the age of 18 commit crimes, they are not allowed to go to jail. They are not allowed to be held behind bars,” he said. “Arresting a five-year-old is totally unlawful. It’s a violation of human rights, too. There is nothing this military regime wouldn’t hesitate to do if their hold on power was threatened. Not even children will be spared.” Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, Minister for Women, Youth and Children for Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), said Su Htet Waing will be recorded as the youngest political prisoner under the military regime. “Such arrests constitute war crimes and those responsible must be held accountable,” she said. “This arrest and detention are a violation of childrens’ rights and the law. The child is too young and can be left deeply traumatized. We are working with professional counselors.” Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe also condemned what she called “hostage-taking” by the junta, adding that by NUG’s count there are around 80 minors currently in detention. Soe Htay told RFA he is determined to fight to the end against the military, even though his family has been arrested. “I am determined to root out this dictatorship,” he said. “I see the suffering of my daughters and wife as a sacrifice to this revolution. It is from these feelings that I get the strength to fight for a speedy end to the revolution.”..."
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Title: Inside the Myanmar mountain camp where rebels train to fight for freedom from the junta
Description: "Camp Victoria, Myanmar (CNN)Full-throated they belt out songs of victory, their boots adding the drumbeat as ranks of new recruits jog in formation through their jungle training camp. There's no doubting the shining eyes of these young people united by an ideal -- freedom from the junta that's smothered democracy in Myanmar. Nor, perhaps, hiding from the dark tragedy that may await them. They pour into Camp Victoria, the headquarters of the long-standing ethnic army of the Chin National Front (CNF) in western Myanmar, close to India's border. They defy attempts by the camp's leadership to suspend training because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many come from within the surrounding mountainous territory. But many others make the dangerous journey across a nation that's already riven with protests, army violence and oppression -- in search of military skills. On the cusp of adulthood, these volunteers say they demonstrated against the military coup that swept away their civilian government in February. And as the junta's response has grown increasingly bloody, so they have taken up arms. But any hope of singing songs of actual victory anytime soon are remote. Their leadership is warning of a long fight. "Now it's a kind of an urban guerrilla-type (conflict) but within months it will transform into a conventional civil war," Suikhar, vice chairman of the CNF, tells CNN. This bleak truth raises the prospect, indeed the probability, that Myanmar will descend into a protracted conflict where no victors emerge, and the country collapses. In a report on the emerging civil war in Myanmar published at the end of June, the International Crisis Group (ICG), a transnational think tank, accused the military of using a strategy that targeted civilians to undermine militia support. But the experts' prognosis for the civilian population was grim, too. "The coming period of national economic collapse, widespread poverty and deprivation will give them greater incentive to secure sources of revenue, either directly from locals or at their expense. These factors point to the likely emergence of new, sustained armed groups in these areas, following dynamics witnessed many times over the decades of insurgency in various parts of Myanmar," the report said. Suikhar insisted that his movement and the Chinland Defence Force, which are also being trained at Camp Victoria, were led by Myanmar's National Unity Government. This exiled administration that exists largely, for now, in name only, is a loose alliance of anti-junta forces and has no command or control authority over the armed groups inside Myanmar itself. And for the new graduates from the jungle training camp, there may be a bitter end to the romantic vision of a fight for freedom. Anxious to hear how outsiders saw the conflict unfolding, a young fighter, a former journalist and graduate from the University of ​Yangon explained that he was the commander of what started out as a 10-person group specially trained in urban guerrilla warfare. "At least, I did command 10 people. Now there are only seven. I lost three last week when they were carrying a homemade bomb to use against the junta. It blew up in their hands. They all died on the spot," he says. He's been ordered by his superiors in the Chinland Defence Force back to Camp Victoria for a break after this blooding. In a few days he was in a new black uniform and undergoing more specialist training. His eyes now shone with cold determination, not hope. Stalemate is not victory But the junta army is striking back ruthlessly, analysts say. "The Tatmadaw is using its long-established 'four cuts' counter-insurgency strategy in these areas, a cruel approach that deliberately targets civilians in an effort to deprive insurgents of food, funds, recruits and intelligence on troop movements (hence the four cuts). Attacks on populated areas are an integral part of this strategy, along with the looting of food stores and denial of relief supplies, in clear violation of international humanitarian law," the ICG alleges. The strategy is well enough known around Camp Victoria, where civilians are leaving outlying villages for small refugee encampments, or safety in Indian communities across the Tiau River. Most of the refugees are women, children and the old. They all left their villages for the same reasons. "I am really afraid of the Myanmar military because they're very nasty and they are ​a brutal military. Twenty years ago the military tortured my son in my own house. They hit him on the head. There was blood all over his head and that's why I am really afraid of them," said Tial Song, an elderly woman who was sitting under the orange plastic sheeting of a newly erected shelter. "How long will be you a refugee?" CNN asked Chanlal, Song's neighbor on this muddy hillside. "As long as the military rules over us," he replies. Beyond the outer defenses of Camp Victoria, the mountains of Chin State leap in near-vertical waves of thick jungle. Travel is on precipitous mountain passes along tiny mud tracks. Locals, many of them experienced hunters, have the edge over invading armies. They also have the mass intelligence network of their own communities, with fighters receiving live updates of enemy troops movements from village agents all over the state. But these advantages alone won't help the anti-junta forces survive. Stalemate is not victory. An unlikely jungle guerrilla Getting in, or out, of the Chin-controlled zone is a grueling test of endurance. It often involves entire days of back-breaking bouncing along the mud-slickened tracks on the back of small Chinese-made motorbikes. These little 125cc workhorses are the mules of the modern era, carrying fighters, ammunition and food to far-flung camps run by the Chinland Defence Force. One of these camps that CNN visited sits close to a jungle trail, with a small network of bunkers and dormitory tents for the volunteers. It may be their home and fighting base for many months to come. John Ling gave up his history studies at ​the University of ​Yangon to join the insurgency. Swapping the classroom for a hilltop camp​, he's the administrator, or quartermaster, for about 150 other volunteers. A slightly built man of 22, Ling's an unlikely jungle guerrilla. "Aren't you afraid of being killed?" CNN asks him. "No, because I stand for my country," he replies -- adding that his parents are not worried about him, but proud of the stand that he's taken. It may be noble -- but it's also open-ended. The armory is an A-framed tent of plastic sheeting and tree trunks. Its precious contents, dozens of shotguns designed for shooting birds, are lined up along each wall. On the floor, a log fire burns to keep the damp out, and rust off the guns. Suikhar, the Chin National Front vice chairman, is adamant that these fighters will soon be supplied with automatic firearms, such as AK-47s. "There are international smugglers. ... You can get weapons anywhere," he insists, but is opaque about how those weapons would be paid for. "People donate, raise the funds. So I don't think that money will be a problem." Many armed groups in Myanmar have relied for decades on smuggling, especially drugs like heroin and methamphetamines, to fund their insurgencies. And the longer they depend on local populations, the greater the chances are that civilians will be burdened by graft, protection rackets or simple taxation by rebel armies. The CNF says it believes it's one of 16 ethnic armies, and hopes for cooperation among them against a common enemy -- all in the name of "democracy and federalism." Young citizens have flocked to this ideal; it was the thwarting of a democratic future that drove so many young people into the forests with guns. But the future length of their war, indeed whether they win or lose, may depend less on the young people of the opposition than on the young soldiers and officers being sent to fight them from the national army. The quickest end to fighting rests in a "young officers' coup" against the brutality and corruption of the generals who returned to power in February. The Chin leadership knows this..."
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Title: Junta troops detain yet another child after shootout near Mandalay airport
Sub-title: Aung Swan Pyae, 12, was detained with his father and five others at a tea shop on Tuesday
Description: "Junta soldiers detained a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday along with six others, including his family members, after resistance fighters clashed with the military near Mandalay International Airport. Aung Swan Pyae was taken from the Shwe Kyal Zin tea shop as troops raided his village of Ohnbin Chan in Sintgaing Township. Thirty-two-year-old Min Thu Tun, who is the boy’s father and owns the teashop, was also arrested. The other detainees were Min Thu Tun’s wife, Tin Nwe Hlaing, his brother-in-law, and three of his employees, a local resident said. Early on Tuesday morning, junta soldiers exchanged fire with fighters from the Sintgaing People's Defense Force (PDF) near the airport in Tada-U, a second resident said on condition of anonymity. During the shootout, a junta soldier was killed and a PDF fighter was arrested, he said, adding that the soldiers then went to nearby Ohnbin Chan and raided a hut where someone lived. “Within half an hour of the shootout, they raided the house and a nearby tea shop. I feel sorry for those arrested, including the kid. They were not involved in the shooting,” he said. Junta forces reportedly found handmade explosives at the hut and searched the tea shop because they suspected Min Thu Tun had helped the person who lived in the hut, the first resident told Myanmar Now. The seven are being kept at a detention centre in Sintgaing and some are still being interrogated, said a lawyer representing them. Aung Swan Pyae will have a court hearing on Monday, while the trial against the adults will begin on July 16. “It is not yet known which charges they will have to face,” the lawyer said. The Sintgaing police station could not be reached for comment. The junta has repeatedly arrested young children as part of its crackdown against both peaceful and armed resistance to its rule. Last month regime forces detained a four-year-old girl along with her mother and 17-year old sister when they were unable to find the girl’s activist father in Mogok. She was released after spending her fifth birthday in detention. Dr Htar Htar Lin, the former head of Myanmar’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, was arrested early last month along with her husband, her seven-year-old son, and the family dog. Their whereabouts are still unknown..."
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Title: Republic of the Union of Myanmar National Unity Government: Weekly Press Release No.7/2021
Description: "1. The National Unity Government (NUG) has announced its position on international humanitarian assistance in Myanmar so that international organizations can cooperate with the NUG and its Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and develop more 2. The NUG Ministry of Human Rights has released information regarding the state of press freedom since the coup. Based on the data up to 3 July 2021, 39 journalists have been detained; 6 imprisoned; 3 injured. The junta released 49 journalists but issued arrest warrants for 26 journalists. It has also revoked the licenses of eight media companies. 3. The NUG Commission for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response held its first coordination meeting and discussed sector-wise matters and efficient and quick delivery of assistance for the people who are suffering under the dictatorship and from the COVID-19 pandemic. 4. The NUG ministers held a joint meeting with Japanese parliamentarians on 6 July 2021. They discussed matters related to urgent humanitarian assistance to Myanmar and IDPs who fled the violence and terror of the military junta. They also agreed to urge the Japanese government to recognize the NUG and continue its support for the success of just efforts in Myanmar that will enable the people to enjoy the democracy they deserved. 5. The National Unity Government has offered a public tribute2 to the events marking the 59th anniversary of the Seventh July Incident, honoring students, young people and revolutionaries who have sacrificed their lives for truth, justice, and liberty in the history of the country. The NUG said that their love of truth and courage to resist injustice stay alive today despite lives and properties being destroyed and oppressed by force for three generations over 60 years under effective ways for humanitarian aid. successive military dictators. Such love of truth and courage continue to inspire the present antidictatorship movement. The NUG is confident that the dream of young people - for a democratic and federal union where they can enjoy justice and equality - will come true through the combination of the Union spirit of all students and young people, the strength of the people, and the experience of all the leaders of ethnic groups. 6. On 6 July 2021, Daw Zin Mar Aung, Foreign Minister of NUG, had a meeting with The Right Honourable Nigel Adams, Minister for Asia at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). They discussed the current political situation in Myanmar, atrocities and the terror campaign of the military junta, as well as worsening human rights violations and the humanitarian condition in the country. 7. Throughout the whole of Myanmar the infectivity rate of COVID-19, in its third wave, has been observed to be very high and a high mortality rate has also been detected, including in areas under military council’s control, as they have not been able to provide preventive mitigation measures nor treatment regimes. The Ministry of Health, National Unity Government, has been giving public health information daily via its social media pages, with directives on preventive and mitigation methods, on isolation measures on exposure to suspected or positive cases, on signs and symptoms of COVID-19 infection and management protocols. To be able to effectively control this situation the National Commission for Corona Virus Disease(COVID19) Prevention, Control and Management has been established today on 7th July led by the acting President Duwa Lashi La, in collaboration with ministers from affiliated ministries, health associations from ethnic communities, experts and professionals. This commission will be responsible for and work towards acquiring vaccines, personal protective equipment (PPE), equipment for testing, etc,. by liaising with neighbouring countries, representatives from international aid associations and Ethnic Armed Organisations. Whilst these efforts are being made, the general public are urged by Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, Union Minister for Health, to help stop the spread of the virus and reduce the infectivity rate by everyone adhering to the mitigation strategies such as regular hand washing, wearing of face masks or facial coverings, social distancing, staying indoors when required. With the public unity complying with these measures, Myanmar will be able to overcome this deadly pandemic..."
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Title: Republic of the Union of Myanmar National Unity Government: Weekly Press Release No.7/2021 - ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ အပတ်စဉ် သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၇/၂၀၂၁)
Description: "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ www.nugmyanmar.org အပတ်စဉ်သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် (၇/၂၀၂၁) ၈ ဇူလိုင် ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ၁။ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီများ ပေးအပ်လျက်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံတကာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားရေးနှင့်ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ဆိုင်ရာစီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းညှိနှိုင်းဆောင်ရွက်ကာ ပိုမိုထိရောက်သော လူသားချင်းစာနာကူညီရေး နည်းလမ်းများအားဖော်ထုတ် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ရေးကို ဦးတည်လျက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ နိုင်ငံတကာ လူသားချင်းစာနာ ထောက်ထားမှု လုပ်ငန်းများအတွက် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ သဘောထား ရပ်တည်ချက်ကို ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ ၁ ၂။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနက အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးတဲ့နောက်ပိုင်း သတင်းမီဒီယာအပေါ် ဖိနှိပ်မှုအခြေအနေ (၂၀၂၁ ဇူလိုင် ၃ နောက်ဆုံးရ အချက်အလက်) များကို ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။ လက်ရှိတွင် သတင်းမီဒီယာသမားများထဲမှ ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရသူ (၃၉) ဦး၊ ထောင်ဒဏ်ကျခံနေရသူ(၆) ဦး၊ ဒဏ်ရာရရှိသူ (၃) ဦး၊ ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာသူ (၄၉) ဦး၊ လိုင်စင်အသိမ်းခံရသည့် မီဒီယာ (၈) ခု၊ ဖမ်းဝရမ်းအထုတ်ခံရသူ (၂၆) ဦး ရှိကြောင်း ဖော်ပြပါရှိပါသည်။ ၃။ လူသားချင်းစာနာကူညီရေးနှင့် ဘေးအန္တရာယ်တုံ့ပြန်ရေးကော်မရှင်၏ ပထမအကြိမ် ညှိနှိုင်း အစည်းအဝေးကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ပြီး သက်ဆိုင်ရာ ကဏ္ဍအလိုက် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မည့် ကိစ္စများ၊ လတ်တလော အာဏာရှင်ဘေးနှင့် ကိုဗစ်ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကြုံတွေ့နေရသော ပြည်သူများအား ထိရောက်သော အကူအညီများ လျင်မြန်စွာ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီနိုင်ရေး ကိစ္စများကို ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပြီး လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များချမှတ်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ၄။ ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ (၆)ရက်နေ့တွင် အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG)၏ ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးများနှင့် ဂျပန်လွှတ်တော် အမတ်များသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ အရေးပေါ်လိုအပ်နေသော လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ ထိရောက်စွာရရှိရေး၊ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုကြောင့် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာရသော ဒုက္ခသည်များအား ကူညီနိုင်ရေး၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရကို အသိအမှတ်ပြုရန် ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ အစိုးရအား တိုက်တွန်းပေးရေးနှင့် တရားသော ကြိုးပမ်းမှုအောင်မြင်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားများနှင့် ထိုက်တန်သော ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ် ပြန်လည် ကျင့်သုံးနိုင်ရေး တို့ကို ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံက တတ်နိုင်သည့် နည်းလမ်းပေါင်းစုံဖြင့် ဆက်လက်အားပေး ထောက်ခံပေးရန် အတွက် အစည်းအဝေးပွဲတစ်ရပ် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ၅။ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရက (၅၉) နှစ်မြောက် ၇ ဇူလိုင် အခမ်းအနားများသို့ သဝဏ်လွှာတစ်စောင်၂ ပေးပို့ခဲ့ပြီး အမှန်တရားနှင့် တရားမျှတ လွတ်လပ်ခြင်းအတွက် ခေတ်အဆက်ဆက် ဘဝနှင့်အသက်ကိုပေးဆပ်ကာ လက်ဆင့်ကမ်း တိုက်ပွဲဝင်ခဲ့ကြသည့် ကျောင်းသားလူငယ် တော်လှန်ရေးရဲဘော်အပေါင်းအား အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရက လေးစားစွာ ဦးညွှတ်ဂုဏ်ပြုပါကြောင်း၊ စစ်အာဏာရှင်အဆက်ဆက်၏ နှစ်ပေါင်း ၆၀၊ မျိုးဆက် ၃ ခု ကြာမျှ လက်နက်အားကိုးဖြင့် ဖိနှိပ်အနိုင်ကျင့်ကာ ဘဝနှင့် အသက်အိုးအိမ်စည်းစိမ်များကို ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းခံခဲ့ရသော်လည်း အတိတ်သမိုင်းမှ ကျောင်းသား လူငယ်များ၏ အမှန်တရားကို ချစ်မြတ်နိုးသည့်စိတ်ဓါတ်၊ မတရားမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန် ရဲသည့် သတ္တိတို့သည် ယနေ့တိုင် ဆက်လက်ရှင်သန်နေဆဲဖြစ်ပြီး ယခုလက်ရှိ စစ်အာဏာရှင် ဆန့်ကျင်တော်လှန်ရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှုများကိုလည်း လက်ဆင့်ကမ်း ဆက်လက်စေ့ဆော်ပေးလျက်ရှိကြောင်းနှင့် လူငယ်များ၏ တရားမျှတသော၊ တန်းတူညီမျှသော ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပြည်ထောင်စု စိတ်ကူးအိပ်မက်အား ကျောင်းသားလူငယ် အားလုံး၏ သမဂ္ဂစိတ်ဓါတ်၊ ပြည်သူလူထု၏အင်အား၊ တိုင်းရင်းသား လူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံမှ ခေါင်းဆောင်အားလုံး၏ အတွေ့အကြုံနှင့် ပေါင်းစပ်ကာ အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်သွားနိုင်မည်ဟု မုချယုံကြည်ကြောင်းတို့ပါဝင်သည်။ ၆။ အမျိုးသားညီညွှတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဒေါ်ဇင်မာအောင်သည် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ (၆) ရက်နေ့က ဗြိတိန် အစိုးရ နိုင်ငံခြားရေး၊ ဓနသဟာရ နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ဝန်ကြီး Mr. Nigel Adams နှင့် မြန်မာပြည် အတွင်းလက်ရှိ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လျက်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံရေး အခြေအနေများ၊ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ နှင့် ပိုမိုဆိုးရွားလာသော လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ၊ လူသားချင်း စာနာမှု အခြေအနေများနှင့် ပက်သက်၍ တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ၇။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့တွင် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါ တတိယလှိုင်းကူးစက်ပြန့်ပွါးမှုနှုန်းသည် အလွန်မြင့်မားလျက်ရှိပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီထိမ်းချုပ်နယ်မြေများတွင် ထိရောက်သော ကာကွယ်မှု၊ကုသမှုမပေးနိုင်၍ သေနှုန်းမြင့်မားလျက် ရှိပါသည်။ အမျိုးသားညီညွှတ်ရေးအစိုးရ ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန လူမှုကွန်ယက်စာမျက်နှာများမှ လူတိုင်း မိမိကိုယ်ကို ထိရောက်စွာ ကာကွယ်နိုင်မည့် လမ်းညွှန်ချက်၊ ရောဂါရှိသူနှင့် ထိစပ်သူ (သို့) သံသယလူနာများ မိမိ အိမ်တွင် သီးခြားခွဲနေလျှင် လိုက်နာရမည့် လမ်းညွှန်ချက်များ၊ ရောဂါဖြစ်လာလျှင် စောင့်ကြည့်နေရမည့် ရောဂါလက္ခဏာ များနှင့် ရောဂါပြင်းထန်မှုပေါ်မူတည်ပြီး လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် လမ်းညွှန်ချက်များကို နေ့စဉ်မျှဝေပေးလျက်ရှိပါသည်။ ဤအခြေအနေကို ပိုမိုထိရောက်စွာ ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်လျက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ၇ ရက်နေ့တွှင် Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) ကာကွယ်၊ ထိန်းချုပ်၊ ကုသရေး အမျိုးသားအဆင့် ကော်မရှင်ကို ယာယီသမ္မတ ဒူဝါ လရှီးလက ဦးဆောင်ကာ သက်ဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ ဝန်ကြီးများ၊ ဒေသ အသီးသီးမှ တိုင်းရင်းသား ကျန်းမာရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ နှင့်ပညာရှင်များ နှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းခဲ့ပါသည်။ ဤကော်မရှင်သည် ပြည်သူလူထု လိုအပ်နေသော ကိုဗစ်ကာကွယ်ဆေး၊ အကာအကွယ် ပစ္စည်းများ၊ စစ်ဆေးရန် လိုအပ်သော ဓါတ်ခွဲခန်းသုံး ပစ္စည်းများရရှိနိုင်ရန် အိမ်နီးချင်းနိုင်ငံများ၊ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ မိတ်ဘက်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ နှင့် ပြည်တွင်းရှိ တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင် အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် အရှိန်အဟုန်မြှင့် လုပ်ဆောင်သွားမည်ဟု အသိပေးအပ်ပါသည်။ ထို့သို့ ကြိုးစားလုပ်ဆောင်နေချိန်တွင် ဤရောဂါပိုးပြန့်ပွားမှုကျဆင်းပြီး အမြန်ဆုံး ထိမ်းချုပ်နိုင်စေရန် ပြည်သူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ချင်းစီမှ ပါဝင်ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ကြရန် ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဒေါက်တာဇော်ဝေစိုးမှ တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်ပါသည်။ ကာကွယ်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များဖြစ်သော လက်မှန်မှန် ဆေးခြင်း၊ ပါးစပ်နှာခေါင်းစည်း(Mask) တပ်ဆင်ခြင်း၊ ခပ်ခွါခွါနေခြင်း၊ အိမ်ထဲမှာနေခြင်းတို့ကို သတိအထူးဖြင့် လုပ်ဆောင်ပါက ဤရောဂါကပ်ဘေးဆိုးကို အတူတကွအောင်အောင်မြင်မြင်နှင့် ကျော်ဖြတ်နိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။..."
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Title: Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup (Updated 8 July 2021)
Description: "Updated 8 July 2021: As of 8 July, (898) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Waimaw Township in Kachin State was killed yesterday and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when. As of July 8, a total of (5127) people are currently under detention. (247) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1963 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. Total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. Mee from Makhawyan Village in Mainer Village Tract in Kachin State’s Waimaw Township was shot to death while she was selling fruit, when junta troops op ened fire on a car which did not stop on the evening of July 7 at Waimaw Township. On the night of July 6, Aye Min Thein, who is the father of Aung Khant Hphone, Hlegu Township student union member, was arrested when the terrorist junta did not find Aung Khant Hphone at his home in Yangon Region’s Hlegu Township. Maung Maung and Kyi Thar Maung Maung, the father and younger brother of Khin Marlar Maung Maung, Constituency 2 Regional MP of Hlegu Township in Yangon Region, were arrested by the terrorist junta on the night of July 6. AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses..."
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-08
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Title: Myanmar: Continued arbitrary detention of lawyers and defenders | Joint statement of LRWC and LSEW
Sub-title: Oral Statement to the 47th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and The Law Society, NGOs in Special Consultative Status
Description: "Mme President; Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the Law Society of England and Wales thank the High Commissioner for her update. We deplore the junta’s continuing assault on the rule of law. The junta has extrajudicially killed hundreds of civilians[1] and arbitrarily detained more than 5,000,[2] including numerous lawyers,[3] journalists,[4] defenders, peaceful protestors, politicians, dissidents, and even children. An additional five lawyers have been arrested since May 24th, 2021. The junta routinely denies detained persons access to lawyers and fair trials. There are regular reports of torture of those in custody. While the junta has announced the release of approximately 2,300 prisoners,[5] the junta’s relentless attacks on fundamental rights continue to demand urgent global action. We urge all Council members and observer States, including China, Russia, and ASEAN States, to take immediate action: To call for immediate and unconditional release of all arbitrarily detained persons, including lawyers and defenders; To support the work of the High Commissioner and Special Procedures towards the implementation of human rights and the rule of law in Myanmar; and To urge the UN Security Council to apply a global arms embargo and other measures to prevent the junta from continuing its grave, systematic, and widespread violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Thank you..."
Source/publisher: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada and Law Society of England and Wales
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-08
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Title: Myanmar: Dismantling Dissent Crackdowns on Internet Freedoms
Description: "Acknowledgements: Internet freedoms are increasingly under threat, constituting part of the continuous regression in freedom of expression in Southeast Asia. Nowhere has this concerning trend been more apparent than in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, since 1 February 2021 coup d'état. Threatened by the modern and dynamic capacity of the internet to facilitate democracy, the internet was the first target of the Tatmadaw's new tenure of brutal control and censorship. In conceptualising this report and placing a spotlight on these developments, Asia Centre would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Burmese nationals currently residing in Myanmar, as well as members of the Burmese diaspora who have aided us with valuable inputs for this report. These individuals wish to remain anonymous due to security concerns. We are also grateful for the speakers and participants who contributed generously through their insights during consultations as well as a webinar, “Law and Lawlessness: Myanmar Coup and Human Rights”, on 11 March 2021, in the run-up to the drafting of the report. We are thankful and grateful to our partners, The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) for reviewing the draft of this report and providing constructive feedback. This report was led from the front, with research, drafting and editing by Asia Centre’s Executive Director Dr. Robin Ramcharan and Programme Coordinator Yawee Butrkrawee. Asia Centre’s Research Interns - Rory McAfee, Roshni Sharma and Ayman Ragab also supported the research. A special mention and thank you goes to Asia Centre’s Associate, Dr Balázs Szántó, for his help in reviewing the report. We would also like to recognise Communications Assistant Srettapong Srimekarat for designing the cover, infographics and layout of the report. For the cover page, “wire fence background” is supplied by j88DESIGN via Getty Images. We would also like to thank Centre Manager Patcharee Rattanarong for her administration of the project. Myanmar: Dismantling Dissent: Crackdown on Internet Freedoms is dedicated to the people of Myanmar, especially those leading the protests. Democracy exacts a huge price; we remember in this report those who have perished during the ongoing struggle for democracy in Myanmar..."
Source/publisher: Asia Centre , The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
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Title: Myanmar: UN expert calls for Emergency Coalition to end junta’s “reign of terror”
Description: "The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today called for the urgent formation of an “Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar“ to stop what he described as the military junta’s “reign of terror” in the country. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Andrews said it was time to the end “the failure of those outside of Myanmar to take measures that could help end this nightmare”. “The international community is failing the people of Myanmar,” he said. Andrews highlighted the extreme human rights abuses committed by the junta, which he described as crimes against humanity. “The junta’s military forces have murdered approximately 900 people, forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands, tortured many, including torturing people in custody to death, disappeared untold numbers, and arbitrarily detained nearly 6,000.” Despite its brutality, Andrews stressed that the junta has failed to take control of the country after launching its February coup. “The junta captured many levers of State power, the purse strings of Myanmar’s Treasury and the administrative offices, but it has not - not even close - taken control of the nation and its people,” he said. “The people of Myanmar roundly view the junta as illegitimate and, indeed, a terrorist scourge set loose upon them. “Now, more than ever, we must summon the courage of the people of Myanmar and choose the path of meaningful and sustained action.” Andrews’ call for an Emergency Coalition for the People of Myanmar would include “nations willing to stand with the people of Myanmar through meaningful, coordinated action”. He added: “It could reduce the junta’s ability to attack its citizens, save the lives of those in acute crisis, and gain political leverage so that the crisis in Myanmar might come to a just and permanent conclusion.” The UN expert said that a coalition of nations that are willing work together on strong action to pressure the junta was necessary in light of the paralysis that has followed the consensus decision making that has plagued the international response to date. “The UN Security Council, Human Rights Council and General Assembly have offered statements and resolutions but the people of Myanmar need immediate action,” he told the Council in Geneva on Wednesday. Andrews cited five key actions the Emergency Coalition should take: Significantly reduce the revenue that the junta needs to continue its reign of terror by coordinated tough targeted sanctions, including against Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise; Outlaw the export of arms to the Myanmar military, as called for in last month’s General Assembly resolution; Pursue universal jurisdiction cases and coordinate investigations against Myanmar’s senior security officials; Dramatically increase humanitarian aid by working with the National Unity Government to utilize non-junta channels to assure that aid goes directly to the people of Myanmar; and Work together to deny any claims of legitimacy that the junta may try to assert, such as the false claim that they are recognized by the United Nations. “Future generations may look back upon this moment and ask: ‘Did the people and nations of the world do all that they reasonably could to help the people of Myanmar in their hour of great peril and need?’ “I’m afraid that the honest answer to that question, at this point, is no. “There is still time to set a new course and achieve a just outcome for the desperate people of Myanmar,” Andrews said. “But time is short and the stakes could not be higher.” ENDS Mr. Thomas Andrews (United States of America) is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. A former member of the US Congress from Maine, Andrews is a Robina Senior Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School and an Associate of Harvard University’s Asia Center. He has worked with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and parliamentarians, NGOs and political parties in Cambodia, Indonesia, Algeria, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Yemen. He has been a consultant for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma and the Euro-Burma Network and has run advocacy NGOs including Win Without War and United to End Genocide. The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Comprising the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, Special Procedures is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity..."
Source/publisher: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-08
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Title: The police defecting as a new civil war looms in Myanmar
Description: "As Myanmar heads towards a new civil war, the police are coming under intense pressure to decide which side they are on. Since the military coup on 1 February, police have been used to brutally suppress mass protests. Some protesters have taken up arms to fight back, forming civilian militias called the People’s Defence Force. The BBC has been given rare access to the first group of police officers who defected and joined the people’s side. Some of those officers now say they’re prepared to use their weapons against their former colleagues..."
Source/publisher: "BBC News" (London)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-08
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Title: Telenor sells Myanmar operations to company on ‘dirty list’ for military ties
Sub-title: Telenor declares it will pull out of Myanmar and hand over its infrastructure to the M1 Group, a company on a UK advocacy group’s blacklist for its dealings with the military
Description: "Telecommunications provider Telenor announced on Thursday that it had entered into an agreement to sell its Myanmar operations to the M1 Group for US$105m. The agreement, which is pending regulatory approval, allows for M1 to acquire all of Telenor Myanmar’s licences, contracts, employees and customers. Sigve Brekke, president and CEO of the Norwegian company Telenor Group, said in a statement on Thursday that the company’s decision to leave Myanmar was based on the “increasingly challenging” context of working in the country in recent months. The announcement came days after the Telenor Group said it was considering pulling out of Myanmar. Following the February 1 military coup, Myanmar’s junta cut off mobile and internet connections nationwide and has continued to restrict access in a bid to stifle massive popular resistance to its rule. “We have evaluated all options and believe a sale of the company is the best possible solution in this situation,” Brekke said in the statement, adding that the sale to the M1 Group would “ensure continued operations.” Activist group Justice for Myanmar described the move as “a further nail in the coffin” for the “prospects for freedom of expression and the right to privacy in Myanmar,” which the group said had been destroyed in the attempted coup. “The lives of activists and journalists are put at even more risk from Telenor’s planned, irresponsible exit from Myanmar,” Justice for Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung told Myanmar Now, adding, “The people of Myanmar must now be more vigilant in regards to military surveillance and the weaponisation of telecommunications.” The M1 Group was founded and is run by Lebanon’s former prime minister, billionaire Najib Mikati, and his brother Taha Mikati and nephew Azmi Mikati. The Mikati family history, which includes corruption charges in Lebanon and a pattern of investing in telecoms infrastructure in authoritarian contexts, should be “alarming” to the people of Myanmar, Yadanar Maung said. M1 has been listed on the Burma Campaign UK’s “Dirty List” of companies with ties to the Myanmar military since August 2019. Director Mark Farmaner told Myanmar Now that M1 was included for being a major shareholder in Irrawaddy Green Towers, Ltd. (IGT)—the largest telecom towers company in Myanmar, founded in 2014—which also has links to telecoms provider Mytel, a joint venture with the military. In December 2020 it was announced that IGT would be sold to CVC Capital Partners Asia. However, the nearly $400m loan CVC Capital Partners Asia required for the acquisition was reportedly “put on hold” after Myanmar’s coup. “If M1 sold their interest in IGT, they would be removed from the list. They have not replied to our letters and emails,” Farmaner said. At least one member of M1’s leadership still serves on IGT’s board of directors, according to IGT’s website and its listing on the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration in Myanmar. During genocidal military operations against the Rohingya population of Rakhine State in August 2017, eyewitnesses reported that a tower constructed by IGT and leased to Telenor was used by Myanmar army soldiers as a sniper post from which to shoot fleeing Rohingya villagers in Alethankyaw, Maungdaw Township. Telenor is one of four telecommunications operators in Myanmar and has around 18 million subscribers. It entered the market in 2014, when the military-backed government first allowed foreign investment in the industry. The company wrote off the value of its Myanmar operation—once $782m—in May, saying the worsening security and human rights situation in the country showed “limited prospects of improvement.” ..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-08
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Title: H.E. Dr. Sasa Addressed to the Foreign Affairs Committee of Defenses and Armed Force of the Senate, the Parliament of France - ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဒေါက်တာဆာဆာမှ ပြင်သစ်အထက်လွှတ်တော် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးရာ၏ ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင်အင်အားစုများ ကော်မတီထံသို့ပန်ကြားလွှာ
Description: "ဒေါက်တာဆာဆာ၊( အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေး ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး၊ အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ ပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသူနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာကုလသမဂ္ဂအထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဟောင်း)သည် လွန်ခဲ့သော အပတ် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လ၊ ၃၀ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြင်သစ်အထက် လွှတ်တော်၏ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးရာ ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့်လက်နက်ကိုင်အင်အားစုများ ကော်မတီထံသို့ မိန့်ခွန်း ပြောကြားခဲ့ရာ မိန့်ခွန်းတွင်ပါဝင်သည့် အကြောင်းအရာအပြည့်အစုံကို အများပြည်သူ နားလည်သဘော ပေါက်နိုင်စေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပြီး အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာမှ မြန်မာဘာသာသို့ အတတ်နိုင်ဆုံး ဘာသာပြန် ဆိုထားပါသည်။ ဤမိန့်ခွန်းသည် ဒေါက်တာဆာဆာမှ ပြင်သစ်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်များထံသို့ ဒုတိယအကြိမ်မြောက် မိန့်ခွန်းပြောကြားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ပြင်သစ်အထက်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်ပေါင်း (၁၅၀)ကျော်မှ အမျိုးသား ညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအား မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏တရားဝင်အစိုးရအဖြစ် ပြင်သစ်အစိုးရမှ အသိအမှတ်ပြုရန် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးခဲ့ကြပြီး လက်ရှိတွင် ဆက်လက်အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်သည့်အပေါ် ဆုတောင်းကူညီပေးကြပါရန် အလေးအနက်မေတ္တာရပ်ခံအပ်ပါသည်။ အားလုံးကို ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar
Date of entry/update: 2021-07-07
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