How Swiss personalities are sponsoring Burmese protesters Published on Share
Swiss personalities are lending their names with the hope of protecting protesters against the military junta in Myanmar.
Elisabeth Decrey, a former member of the Geneva parliament and driving force behind various humanitarian organisations and associations, has taken on a new challenge: she is urging prominent Swiss figures to demonstrate virtually alongside protesters in Myanmar. On the ground, the protester will wear a badge with the name of the Swiss sponsor, which reads: “Message to the army or police: Mr. X or Ms. Y, from Geneva (or elsewhere), is demonstrating with me today. If you arrest, injure or kill me, you are also arresting, injuring or killing them.”
How Swiss personalities are sponsoring Burmese protesters
At the end of March, a police deployment in the district of Yangon Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Swiss personalities are lending their names with the hope of protecting protesters against the military junta in Myanmar.
This content was published on April 20, 2021 - 09:00
April 20, 2021 - 09:00
Isolda Agazzi
Elisabeth Decrey, a former member of the Geneva parliament and driving force behind various humanitarian organisations and associations, has taken on a new challenge: she is urging prominent Swiss figures to demonstrate virtually alongside protesters in Myanmar. On the ground, the protester will wear a badge with the name of the Swiss sponsor, which reads: “Message to the army or police: Mr. X or Ms. Y, from Geneva (or elsewhere), is demonstrating with me today. If you arrest, injure or kill me, you are also arresting, injuring or killing them.”
Introduction
In a speech before the Indian Parliament in 2007, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced the ‘Confluence of Two Seas’, a precursor to Tokyo’s Indo-Pacific policy framework. It referred to the linking of the Pacific and Indian Oceans to make a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’; Abe named India as an anchor in such a vision.
To be sure, India-Japan relations date back to the decades after the Second World War. Their current partnership is increasingly featured as an important pole in Abe’s book,
Utsukushii kuni e (Towards a Beautiful Country: My Vision for Japan) where he writes that it would not surprise him if “in another decade, Japan–India relations overtake Japan–US and Japan–China ties.”
POSCO to terminate joint venture with firm backed by Myanmar junta
Posted : 2021-04-16 14:09
Updated : 2021-04-16 17:17
A POSCO flag stands alongside a Korean flag at the main gate of the steelmaker s headquarters in Gangnam-gu, Seoul in this undated photo. Korea Times file
By Yi Whan-woo
POSCO announced Friday that its affiliate, POSCO C&C, will terminate a joint venture with a firm backed by the military in Myanmar.
The world s fifth-largest steelmaker has been under fire for its business ties with Myanmar s military junta that seized power in February.
POSCO has claimed that the joint venture, Myanmar POSCO C&C (MPCC), is its only link to the military junta.