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Japan s Myanmar community is supporting the country s protest movement from afar. More than 33,000 people originally from Myanmar call Japan home. Many of them fled during the 1988 military crackdown.
The latest coup has opened old wounds. But it s also bringing the older generation closer to the young people who are now standing up to the military.
Two generations, one goal
Than Swe, 60, witnessed the democracy uprising and military crackdown in 1988 when he was a geology lecturer at a university in Yangon. He supported the young activists but, worried that he would be detained as a result, fled to Japan the following year.
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Myanmar people will be disappointed and angry that ASEAN failed to hold the military regime to account for its coup and the deaths of over 700 civilians.
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CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and delegation left Nay Pyi Taw for Jakarta, Indonesia by special flight yesterday morning to attend the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting there and were seen off by Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Council members, Union ministers, the commander of Nay Pyi Taw Command and officials at the airport.
The Senior General was accompanied by Joint Secretary of SAC Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin and officials. On arrival at the Soekarno Hatta airport in Ja-karta at 11 am local standard time, the Senior General and delegation were welcomed by Chief of State Protocol Mr Andy Rachmianto of Indonesia