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Asian businesses are coming under intense pressure to cut ties with the Myanmar military after this month's coup, with activists questioning whether such ventures benefit the wider population or fuel human rights abuses.
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Asian businesses are coming under intense pressure to cut ties with the Myanmar military after this month s coup, with activists questioning whether such ventures benefit the wider population or fuel human rights abuses.
Myanmar s military toppled the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, ending a decade-long democratic transition when businesses entered the Southeast Asian nation after international sanctions were lifted.
Starve the government of legitimacy and recognition; stop it from functioning by staging strikes; and cut off its sources of funding. That is the strategy emerging from a mass movement in Myanmar aimed at toppling the new military dictatorship.
As protesters defying the February 1 coup brave beatings, arrests, water cannon, and even live ammunition, activists hope a “no recognition, no participation” approach can sustain pressure even if demonstrations are stamped out with violence.
“The immediate aim is to take away the military’s power by stopping all of its governance mechanisms from working,” said Thinzar Shunlei Yi, who like many activists is now in hiding to avoid arrest.