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With little to celebrate as they kicked off the Burmese New Year on Tuesday, people across Myanmar staged holiday-themed protests to defy the military junta in what an activist called “a funeral wake for the whole country,” while the U.N. rights chief said she feared the nation faces a fate similar to war-shattered Syria.
Opponents of the generals who overthrew the country’s elected government on Feb. 1 scrapped water-related blessings of the Buddhist Thingyan Water Festival for protest messages, strikes, and memorials to victims of the army regime that has turned rifle grenades and battlefield weapons on unarmed civilians.
Myanmar Crisis Hinges on Stance of Ethnic Political and Armed Organizations
Ethnic political and armed actors are natural allies of the anti-coup resistance, but they are ambivalent about Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD.
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March 01, 2021
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More than three weeks after the February 1 coup in Myanmar, in which the military toppled the civilian government led by the National League for Democracy (NLD), all attention is on the struggle between the junta and the disparate Civic Disobedience Movement, which has mobilized hundreds of thousands of (mostly young) people from across Myanmar’s geographical, social, and ethnic spectrum.
The protests have been covered in the international media much in the vein of the various “color revolutions” that have taken place in recent years: as a story of the people vs. the dictator. But a decentralized protest movement is not an actor, it cannot negotiate, and it is by itself unlikely to topple a regime. T
Kachin Protesters Reject Myanmar Military-Appointed Negotiation Team
An anti-regime protester’s placard reads, “We don’t want negotiation, we only want dictatorship out.” / Kachinwaves
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By The Irrawaddy 26 February 2021
Yangon Kachin State protesters have rejected appeals from a military-appointed negotiation team, which was reportedly formed to prevent activists from being harmed in protests and sent to jail.
Young people leading protests in the state capital, Myitkyina, said they would not accept the negotiation team.
“We don’t want military dictatorship. Therefore, we can’t accept any team assembled by the military,” said a female protest leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We can’t accept the laws arbitrarily enacted by the military dictatorship after it seized power by force. Talks will be useless.”
Chairman of Myanmar Military Govt’s Election Body Says NLD’s Win Invalid
25 February 2021
Chairman of Myanmar Military Govt’s Election Body Says NLD’s Win Invalid
NLD supporters celebrate in Mandalay on Nov. 9, 2020, after initial counts at polling stations indicated the party was headed for a victory in Myanmar’s general election held the previous day. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 26 February 2021
YANGON The chairman of the military-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC), U Thein Soe, said the results of the 2020 general election, which brought a landslide victory to the National League for Democracy (NLD), were invalid.