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The Biden administration and Western powers look to condemn the military coup, cautiously.
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NEW YORK The United Nations Security Council is meeting this morning behind closed doors to debate how to respond to the military coup in Myanmar, but few diplomats expect the body to agree on a common position, amid a split between Western and Asian members of the Council.
The United Kingdom, which is leading the Security Council through February, proposed on Monday afternoon
that the Council express “deep concern at the state of emergency imposed by the Myanmar military on 1 February, and the detention of members of the legitimately elected civilian Government, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and civil society,” according to a draft text obtained by POLITICO.
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Myanmar s fragile, flawed democracy has collapsed. In the early hours Monday, the country s military initiated a coup, arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians, including ministers from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. A state of emergency was declared for a year. Soldiers blocked roads and fanned out across the capital Naypyidaw and Yangon, the country s largest city.
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Myanmar coup sparks fresh fears for persecuted Rohingya
As the impact of the military s actions ripple across Asia, the UN Secretary Council will meet to discuss security concerns
The coup has thrown the future of Rohingya repatriation further in doubt
Credit: Hannah McKay/Reuters
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to respond to the security situation in Myanmar, amid fears that the military coup could aggravate the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority still inside the country, and those living as refugees abroad.
The military chiefs who executed Monday’s coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi have been accused by UN investigators of overseeing a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya with “genocidal intent,” causing more than 740,000 to flee in 2017 to Bangladesh.