Myanmar Junta Arrests HIV/AIDS Patients in Yangon
The NLD HIV/AIDS Center in East Dagon. / CJ
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By The Irrawaddy 3 May 2021
Junta security forces arrested HIV/AIDS patients at a HIV care center in Yangon on Sunday.
Three people on ART – HIV medication – and nine others were arrested at the center, which was founded and is run by elected lawmaker and National League for Democracy (NLD) member Daw Phyu Phyu Thin.
“Those who are on medication are not in good health and if anything happens to them, the megalomaniac (junta) will be held responsible. I want to say that the clock is ticking for them. Prepare to be re-payed for what you have done and are doing to every person with grudges,” wrote Daw Phyu Phyu Thin on her Facebook page.
Elected NLD Lawmaker’s Yangon Office Destroyed by Myanmar Junta
Elected NLD Lawmaker’s Yangon Office Destroyed by Myanmar Junta
The NLD s office in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township was destroyed by security forces on the night of March 16. / Ko Yar Zar
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By The Irrawaddy 17 March 2021
The military regime’s security forces destroyed the Yangon office of an elected lawmaker from the National League for Democracy (NLD) on Tuesday night.
The office of Daw Phyu Phyu Thin, an NLD MP and a current member of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township was raided by more than 30 police and soldiers at 10pm on March 16.
Myanmar Lawmakers Denied Seats by Coup Hold Their Own Swearing-in Ceremony
Lawmakers display their swearing-in papers on Thursday after taking their oaths as parliamentarians at an improvised ceremony. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 4 February 2021
Around 70 lawmakers from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) took parliamentary oaths of office at an improvised swearing-in ceremony Thursday, three days after the Parliament to which they were elected last year was abolished by the military coup on what was to be its first day.
The informal ceremony took place at the government guesthouse in Naypyitaw, where lawmakers normally stay during parliamentary sessions. Until Wednesday, the facility housed more than 400 elected MPs, the majority of them from the NLD. Most of the lawmakers obeyed a military order on Wednesday instructing them to leave the capital within 24 hours, but nearly six dozen chose to remain. Due to their small number, authorities agreed to let th