Lowy Institute Conversations: Aye Min Thant and Melissa Crouch on the coup in Myanmar
In this episode of Lowy Institute Conversations, Ben Bland, Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, sits down with Aye Min Thant and Melissa Crouch to discuss the causes and consequences of the coup in Myanmar.
In this episode of Lowy Institute Conversations, Ben Bland, Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, sits down with Aye Min Thant and Melissa Crouch to discuss the causes and consequences of the coup in Myanmar, and how protesters are using technology and humour to push back against the military.
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Myanmar’s military junta has rushed through a series of changes to its colonial-era Penal Code, seemingly designed to target the anti-coup protests that continue to gain momentum across the breadth of the country, from Myeik to Putao.
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country over the past week to denounce the coup, alongside a nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement that has brought the government to a standstill.
Printed in newspapers and posted on a military website in Burmese and English on February 14, the changes to the Penal Code include the revision of two existing articles, to broaden their applicability, and the insertion of three new provisions. (The previous version of the Penal Code is available here.)
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On 1 February, Myanmar’s military detained the country’s president and put a former army officer serving as vice president in his stead. The new president declared a state of emergency, handing government to the military for the next year. The takeover prevented a new legislature dominated by the National League for Democracy, which won an election last November, from sitting.
The military put the NLD leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, chief ministers of subnational states and territories and others incommunicado since. Protestors and others involved in civil disobedience campaigns, including doctors, teachers and some civil servants, have demanded the military step down and restore civilian government.
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AMCDP Statement in Support of Constitutional Democracy in Myanmar
We the undersigned members of the Australia-Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project (AMCDP), write to condemn the recent coup and arrests of political and community leaders in Myanmar. We support the people of Myanmar as they peacefully resist the military’s constitutionally improper and wilfully undemocratic imposition of a state of emergency.
The AMCDP is a consortium of legal scholars from a range of universities, formed in 2013. Since then, we have conducted a series of workshops in different centres around Myanmar with lawyers, judges, politicians, journalists, students, activists from civil society, ethnic leaders, and interested members of the public . The aim of the workshops has been to foster discussion of the fundamental principles informing constitutional democracy, departing from the premise that constitutional democracy cannot be sustained unless it is built from the bottom up by the people the
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