April 10, 2021 Share
As recently as last year, Myanmar was being touted as an attractive destination for international investors, even in the face of bad publicity over the government’s handling of the crisis in Rakhine State, where almost 1 million Rohingya residents had been massacred or driven into exile.
“While potential investors should be wary of inadvertently supporting the persecution, well-placed investments could yield rewards and spur a developing economy,” wrote the website World Finance – which bills itself as “the voice of the market” – in February 2020.
“The raw materials for a thriving investment climate are all present if businesses are willing to enter the market.”
Support the Myanmar workers putting their lives on the line
As the violence and the number of deaths in Myanmar increases, the international trade union movement is asking for funds to support workers
The people of Myanmar have been resisting the military coup from day one.
From the moment the coup broke, in February, workers, young people and ethnic groups took to the streets in a nationwide show of anger which, days later, formed into the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), Myanmar’s strongest ever civil society movement.
The country’s trade union movement also responded, by launching an on-going national strike. Protests and strikes are now a daily occurrence and the death toll of protesters killed by the military is growing.