Tag: Suu Kyi
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Seven more dead in fresh Myanmar protests, Suu Kyi faces new charge
Overnight, people also defied a curfew to hold several more candlelit vigils in parts of Yangon and also in Myingyan, southwest of the second city of Mandalay.
March 11, 2021 -
Suu Kyi rejects Rohingya genocide charge in UN court
Myanmar has always insisted it was tackling an extremist threat in Rakhine state, and Suu Kyi maintained that stance, calling the violence an "internal armed conflict triggered by attacks on police posts".
December 11, 2019 -
Myanmar in Court
Gambia’s legal team will ask the ICJ judges for “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingyas before the case is heard in full.
December 11, 2019 -
Suu Kyi at ICJ
Nay more, the beleaguered country bears witness to the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
November 23, 2019 -
Petrol bomb thrown at Suu Kyi’s residential compound
A petrol bomb was thrown into Myanmar State Counsellor and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s residential compound here on Thursday, an official said. Suu Kyi was in Nay Pyi Taw at the time of the incident and there were no casualties, Director-General of the State Counsellor office U Zaw Htay told Xinhua news …
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February 1, 2018 -
Token visit
After a spell of prolonged and intriguing silence, Aung San Suu Kyi has eventually condescended to visit the province of Rakhine in Myanmar, bordering Bangladesh. Sure, the exodus of more than half a million Rohingya Muslims has further alienated the purportedly democratic dispensation in Naypidaw within the comity of nations. But the country’s state counsellor …
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November 5, 2017 -
A bridge too far?
Myanmar is lucky to have a neighbour like India, which returned the resource-rich Kabaw valley of Manipur to it in 1953.
October 16, 2017 -
Suu Kyi calls for speedy rehabilitation measures in Rakhine
Myanmar’s de factor leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for speeding up measures for humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, resettlement and development in the conflict-torn Rakhine state. Citing Myanmar News Agency, Xinhua reported on Thursday that at a coordination meeting held at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, Suu Kyi …
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October 12, 2017 -
Canadian PM concerned over Rohingya crisis
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed concern over the attacks on Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar and urged the country’s leadership to end the violence. Trudeau made the observations during a telephonic call to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Trudeau stressed Suu Kyi’s importance as a moral and political leader in …
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September 14, 2017 -
Suu Kyi isn’t the only hypocrite
What are the chances that the appalling humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state could readily have been resolved had Aung San Suu Kyi at least attempted to live up to the ideals she so eloquently articulated during her decades of victimisation at the behest of the nation’s military junta? Given that she eventually entered into …
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September 14, 2017 -
Myanmar elections: Suu Kyi’s NLD retains heartland support
Official results from Myanmar's election committee show that Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy party has retained voters' loyalty in its Yangon strongholds, but has weakened in ethnic minority areas that helped boost her party's 2015 landslide general election victory. The results released for Saturday's by-elections show the NLD taking eight of …
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April 2, 2017 -
Suu Kyi pledges commitment to lasting peace in Myanmar
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged her commitment to achieving lasting peace in the country in 2017. Speaking at the opening of the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) here, Suu Kyi on Sunday said Myanmar's peace making efforts will meet with success in the coming year, Xinhua news agency reported. "From this building, …
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January 2, 2017 -
Unspecified anguish
Suu Kyi’s visit to Singapore, the largest investor in Myanmar, coincides with the renewal of brutal repression on the Rohingyas, a stateless minority segment that has been buffeted from shore to shore… relentlessly wandering in search of a home in bordering Bangladesh. The leader, though not the President, of the present dispensation was anxious to …
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December 6, 2016 -
Myanmar, one year after Suu Kyi
November 8, the United States will host an intriguing election. As the date draws closer, the results of the election appear harder to forecast. In previous weeks, the likelihood of a victory by US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appeared almost certain. However, after the FBI revealed new (but incomplete) findings on Mrs Clinton’s emails, …
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November 5, 2016 -
‘Landmark’ that wasn’t
It was presumptuous on the part of the Myanmar authorities to have packaged last weekend&’s peace talks with the ethnic groups as a landmark event under the new dispensation. Perhaps a little too much was expected at the threshold. As it turned out, the “historic talks” hit the reefs on the second day with one …
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September 6, 2016 -