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On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military announced that it had seized control of the country from the country s democratically elected government.
1 In response to the coup, the US has so far designated 12 individuals and three entities and imposed restrictions on certain exports. Allied governments, including the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, either have promulgated their own sanctions or are considering doing so. The US has signaled that it is preparing additional measures targeting the individuals responsible for the coup and ensuing violence. Given the Burmese military s pervasive presence in Burma s economy, companies are advised, as a matter of priority, to assess their commercial ties with Burma.
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The generals in Myanmar have hired an Israeli intelligence veteran to run a global lobbying campaign amid the deadly mass protests which have engulfed the country in the aftermath of the February 1 coup d’etat.
Ari Ben-Menashe and his Montreal-based Dickens & Madson Canada certainly have the right experience in dealing with difficult countries, but his mission – to “assist in explaining the real situation in the country” – is as naive as it is mercenary.
Other public relations firms in Southeast Asia have refused to have anything to do with the junta and its five top generals, who were touted for a genocide trial even before ousting an elected government and slaughtering at least 50 supporters to date.
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As the unrest in Myanmar has intensified in the month since the military’s seizure of power, the crisis is also playing out in the quiet, carpeted halls of the United Nations building in New York, where a dispute is simmering over who has the right to represent Myanmar within the global body.
The dispute sharpened on Friday when Myanmar’s U.N. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun gave an emotional address to the General Assembly, in which he publicly broke with the junta, raised a three-finger salute in solidarity with anti-coup protesters, and pledged loyalty to the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, a shadow parliament formed by lawmakers chosen at November’s election.