In Myanmar, former government leader Aung Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison by the military junta. Aung Suu Kyi was ousted early this year after a military coup d’état in Myanmar. It was carried out because, according to the army, election fraud had been committed. […]
The Myanmar junta will consider ASEAN countries’ ideas about the crisis domestically once “stability has returned”. These Southeast Asian countries are calling, among other things, for an end to the violence and the admission of humanitarian aid. The countries made these calls in Indonesia last Saturday during a crisis […]
Nearly 3.4 million Myanmar residents are expected to face food shortages in the coming months due to the country’s military coup. The United Nations report this. More than 54 million people live in Myanmar. As a result of the coup, many jobs have been lost in multiple sectors, leaving […]
A group of politicians representing the impeached government of Myanmar has collected more than 180,000 pieces of evidence against the junta. They show that the military is guilty of “large-scale human rights violations”, they say. Myanmar has been very unsettled since the army took power on February 1. According […]
Myanmar’s military junta has released more than 600 detainees. Since early last month, they had been arrested in anti-coup demonstrations by the military, which has held the country in their grip. “We released 360 men and 268 women from Insein Prison today,” a senior official from the Myanmar prison […]
The United States announced new trade sanctions against Myanmar on Thursday (local time) in response to the military coup d’état in early February. The US Department of Commerce has imposed new restrictions on exports to Myanmar. These restrictions mean that the export of certain “sensitive” items is more strictly […]
Businesses in Myanmar closed their doors on Monday in protest against the military coup. Tens of thousands of demonstrators also took to the streets, despite the deadly violence used in protests last weekend. In addition to local shops, the branches of some international chains also closed their doors. These […]
The international community has responded with concern to the coup in Myanmar. The United States and Australia called on the army to release arrested leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other prisoners. The spokesman for UN CEO António Guterres called the developments a “big blow to democratic reforms”. Australia […]
