Mizoram group urges Centre to impose sanctions on Myanmar
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ZORO writes to President, PM over political crisis in neighbouring country
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ZORO writes to President, PM over political crisis in neighbouring country
A Mizoram-based group representing the Zo indigenous people of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar has petitioned President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose sanctions on
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Their letters to the President and Prime Minister were submitted through Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai on March 12, two days after the Minister of Home Affairs asked the paramilitary Assam Rifles and four northeastern States bordering Myanmar to check “illegal influx” into India.
Security forces arrived at a protest in Mandalay "in a very coordinated and systematic way," a Mandalay activist, whose name is being withheld for his protection, told DW. "They raided a six-story building, and two snipers got on the roof and they started shooting random people," he said.
Myanmar: Police brutality escalates, death toll mounts
Demonstrators have returned to the streets of Myanmar s cities, after police shot two people dead in nighttime protests against military rule. More than 70 protesters have been killed since the army took control in February.
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Protester run from police during a protest against the military coup in Yangon March 8, 2021. Reuters pic
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YANGON, March 12 Myanmar’s military is likely committing “crimes against humanity” in its attempt to stay in power, a UN expert said yesterday, as the junta claimed that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments of cash and gold.
At least 70 people have reportedly been “murdered” since the February 1 coup, said Thomas Andrews, the UN’s top expert on rights in Myanmar.
Move legitimises military takeover, according to Sajith Premadasa
Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa “vehemently” condemned the Rajapaksa administration’s invitation to the Myanmar junta’s Foreign Minister, for a virtual meet of regional body BIMSTEC early April. The invitation “basically legitimised the military takeover”, Mr. Premadasa said, describing the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s move as “distasteful and dastardly.”
In a letter sent earlier this month, Mr. Gunawardena invited the junta-appointed Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin for a ministerial meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation that Sri Lanka currently chairs.