Myanmar Coup Means Huge Losses for Thailand’s Border Trade
Myanmar Coup Means Huge Losses for Thailand’s Border Trade
Armored personnel carriers and military trucks patrol in Mandalay on Feb. 3, 2021. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
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By The Bangkok Post 3 February 2021
Thailand is estimated to forgo about 50 million baht (US$1.66 million, 2.21 billion kyats) a day from inconvenient transportation of goods and strict security checks by Myanmar’s military administration.
According to Aat Pisanwanich, director of the Center for International Trade Studies at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, the impact would amount to more than 1.5-2 billion baht a month if tight security inspections continue.
Joe Biden threatened new sanctions on Myanmar, also known as Burma, Monday after its military staged a coup and arrested the country’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Hours after the detainment of Suu Kyi and her top lieutenants, a military television network announced a one-year state of emergency with ultimate authority transferred to the army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.
Biden blasted the country’s army, calling it a “direct assault on the country’s transition to democracy and rule of law.”
“The United States removed sanctions on Burma over the past decade based on progress toward democracy,” Biden said in a statement. “The reversal of that progress will necessitate an immediate review of our sanction laws and authorities, followed by appropriate action. The United States will stand up for democracy wherever it is under attack.”
Myanmarâs Army Is Back in Charge. It Never Truly Left.
With the coup, the generals are ripping apart their prized project: a democratic front for a political system that still heavily favored them.
Guarding a Hindu temple in Yangon, Myanmar, during a senior military officerâs visit on Tuesday.Credit.The New York Times
The men in army green never truly retreated.
As Myanmar presented a facade of democracy to the world, the generals who had ruled the country for nearly half a century still dominated the economy and the halls of power. They even got away with what international prosecutors say was genocide in their murderous offensives against Rohingya Muslims.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Urges Myanmar People to Resist Coup
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Urges Myanmar People to Resist Coup
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is seen in Magwe Division in January 2017. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 1 February 2021
Myanmar’s leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called on the public to fully oppose the military coup staged on Monday.
In a statement released on the “Chair NLD” (National League for Democracy) Facebook page hours after she and others were detained by the armed forces, she said the military’s action completely disregarded the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and was an attempt to reimpose dictatorship upon the country.
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