Tag Archives: National Unity Government

A new report says that Myanmar’s junta is starving NGOs of vital funds as it tries to keep close tabs on all incoming transactions to stop the opposition. Source link

The slain teacher, Saw Tun Moe, was a long-time educator who took part in antimilitary protests before taking charge of a high school founded by the country’s pro-democracy movement. Source link

Lawmakers from several countries are pushing for the bloc to do more to stop violence since 2021’s military coup that has already seen more than 2,000 people die; Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah recently lashed out at Asean for its lack of urgency. Source link

Tom Andrews urged 10-member bloc Asean to follow Malaysia’s lead and move from non-interference to ‘non-indifference’ in Myanmar, with much more needing to be done to avoid more death and suffering. Source link

The meeting marked the first publicly acknowledged occasion when a ministerial-level official from an Asean member state has had face-to-face talks with a counterpart in Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government. Source link

The Myanmar junta on Sunday rejected a regional special envoy’s request to meet with a group of ousted lawmakers – which it had branded a terrorist group – amid attempts to break a year-long political stalemate since the coup.Myanmar has been in chaos, its economy paralysed and more than 1,500 …