(Update 1: Adds details on strike, adds further information, changes head, lede, minor edits) Bangkok, Feb 1 (EFE).- Streets and businesses in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon and others in the country were deserted on Wednesday as citizens carried out silent protests against the military junta on the second anniversary of its coup. Organizers of the …
Bangkok, Feb 1 (EFE).- The people of Myanmar will never renounce their right to “freedom and peace,” the country’s parallel civilian government made up of deposed parliamentarians and activists opposed to the military junta said Tuesday on the second anniversary of the coup. “Our desire for peace and freedom far outweighs the tyrannical greed of …
Bangkok, Jan 16 (EFE).- Myanmar’s military junta has been manufacturing weapons that it uses against its own civilians allegedly using supplies from companies domiciled in at least 13 countries, according to a report by independent international experts. The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), which is made up of former United Nations experts on the …
Phnom Penh, Nov 12 (EFE).- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that “everybody has failed” Myanmar, referring to the crisis in which the country has been plunged since the military coup in February last year. “The international community as a whole has failed. And the UN is part of international community. It is …