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The UK and other countries issued a joint statement remembering the victims of last years violence and urging countries to stop supporting the military regime.
Rights organisation, Fortify Rights, has released “Nowhere is Safe”: The Myanmar Junta’s Crimes Against Humanity Following the Coup d'État, a 193 report detailing junta crimes against humanity in the first six months following the coup on 1 February 2021.
In other words, the University actually responded to student opinion
The University initially refused to allow an on-campus food fundraiser for activists in Myanmar, but reversed its decision after a “strongly-worded email” from OUSA President Michaela Waite-Harvey.
The fundraising Burmese students were shocked when Property Services said their food stall could not operate within University grounds because it would “interfere too much with commercial outlets who pay to be on campus”.
The students reached out to OUSA, who then got in touch with Property Services about the fundraising ban. “This was an example of an unfair and outdated policy and I am very thankful for how quickly property services have worked with us to not only approve a fundraising food stall for the Burmese students but also that we have now committed to sit down and review the policy to allow more students to fundraise outside the union building,” said Michaela.
She just fell down. And she died : More than 40 kids killed in Myanmar
7 Apr, 2021 02:07 AM
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Security forces have killed at least 40 children since February. Photo / Hla Myo Oo via The New York Times
Security forces have killed at least 40 children since February. Photo / Hla Myo Oo via The New York Times
New York Times
By: Hannah Beech
Myanmar s security forces have killed more than 40 children since February. Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu. She was 10. In the swelter of the hot season, Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practised blows of his machete. Small hands reached out for the first slice, cool and slippery.