The Japanese government has accepted four members of Myanmar’s military for an education and training program this fiscal year, despite criticism over the practice from an international human rights group.
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Myint Swe, chairman of the Federation of Workers’ Union of the Burmese Citizen in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4. (Haruka Suzuki)
Myanmar citizens living in Japan continued their campaign urging the Japanese government and other nations to pressure the Myanmar military to release the elected leaders it detained in a coup, including the country s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Myanmar nationals held a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4 that followed a large demonstration in front of the Foreign Ministry building the day before that drew an estimated 3,000 protesters.
“Myanmar could return to a dark age,” said Myint Swe, chairman of the Federation of Workers’ Union of the Burmese Citizen in Japan, which has been promoting the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar. “I beg (the international community) to help Myanmar out.”
Myanmar residents in Japan protest the military coup in their homeland in front of the United Nations University in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Feb. 1. (Provided by Myint Swe)
A group of about 1,000 Myanmar nationals living in Japan protested the Feb. 1 military coup in their homeland in front of the United Nations University in the capital’s Shibuya Ward that same day.
The protest drew Myanmar nationals from outside Tokyo as far as Gunma Prefecture, Nagoya and elsewhere, as well as residents of the capital, who chanted, “Give us the democracy we wish for” outside the university and slammed the coup.