Peaceful protest held at Indonesian Embassy in Myanmar: FM spokesman 23rd February 2021 Teuku Faizasyah (ANTARA/Genta Tenri Mawangi) Jakarta (ANTARA) - A protest on Tuesday supporting ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi held before the Indonesian Embassy in Yangon ran peacefully, though the embassy s authority should ensure the safety of all Indonesians in the country.
The protest that arose following a Reuters report ran without acts of violence, Indonesian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Teuku Faizasyah, informed journalists in Jakarta on Tuesday.
However, Faizasyah admitted that over the course of the past few weeks, waves of protests against the military coup on February 1, 2021, had continued in Myanmar and made the country s condition unstable.
Myanmar’s military, which ruled the country for decades before the transition to a quasi-civilian government began in 2011, has a history of violence and impunity.
Armed forces chief Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup, also directed the 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya minority in the western state of Rakhine, which the United Nations has said was carried out with “genocidal intent“.
“The security forces’ approach could take an even darker turn fast,” the International Crisis Group warned in a briefing released on Wednesday.
“Soldiers and armoured vehicles have begun to reinforce the police lines and, should the generals become impatient with the status quo, could easily become the sharp end of a bloody crackdown, as has happened in the past.”