Release Thin Thin Aung : Women Activists Urge India, Global Stakeholders to Focus on Myanmar
In a statement, activists have held that the journalist and pro-democracy activist is one among many held arbitrarily by the military in Myanmar.
People march during a protest against the military coup in Dawei, Myanmar April 13, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Dawei Watch/via Reuters
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New Delhi: Several prominent women rights advocates from all walks of life in India have released a statement urging the Myanmar military to release journalist and activist Thin Thin Aung and other illegally detained pro-democracy protesters.
In an appeal, both to the military which assumed power since the coup and to the international community including transnational business stakeholders, the activists have urged that the brutal violence perpetrated on protesters in Myanmar end and people’s rights be restored.
Myanmar Regime Hunts Down Prominent Critics
Myanmar Regime Hunts Down Prominent Critics
Clockwise from top left: actor Pyay Ti Oo, actress Eaindra Kyaw Zin, actor Ye Tike, Ma Su Zarli Shein, women rights defender Daw Thin Thin Aung and monk Yaypu Sayadaw.
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By The Irrawaddy 11 April 2021
Some of Myanmar’s prominent actors, artists, activists, media personalities, doctors and Buddhist monks are among those recently detained, charged and sentenced by the military regime.
The junta issues a daily list of arrest warrants against its critics.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which tracks detentions, the regime had detained more than 3,000 people by April 10 and issued arrest warrants for 656 people.
Published on: Saturday, April 10, 2021
By: AFP
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Protesters taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Mogok town, north of Mandalay.
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s junta refused on Friday to let a UN envoy visit the country, despite mounting international efforts for a diplomatic solution to the post-coup crisis.
The UN’s special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, is on a tour of Asian countries aimed at charting a path out of the turmoil engulfing the country.
It comes amid growing international concern at events in Myanmar, rocked by daily protests since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seized power on February 1.
When we see images of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar, we see the spectacular protests of hundreds of thousands of people pouring out into the streets of towns across the country. But we often forget that each person there, every person carrying a banner, every student giving the three-finger salute, every teenager singing a song for democracy has his or her own story of individual courage.
Every protestor knows the dangers he or she face. They have seen their friends being shot and killed. Every day people are arrested and tortured and yet knowing that arrest, torture and detention is a real possibility, they choose to fight for democracy in a country that has seen military rule of the most brutal kind in history of humankind.