Burma’s military junta’s repression grows after a year and a half of coup
The war in Ukraine harbors actions that are hard to account for and not only by its protagonists. One, cornered by the conflict, is the increasing repression of Myanmar’s military junta after a year and a half of the coup (February 1, 2021). Since then, all the news coming out of the faraway Asian country has been dramatic and dire. Destruction of homes and towns that have forced more than 800,000 people to relocate, arbitrary arrests of thousands of people, murders of more than 2,000 civilians, systematic torture as recorded in United Nations reports, etc., have turned the country into a hell made for opponents of the regime.
Meanwhile, as happens in countless conflicts, the international community has confined itself to ‘condemning’ such actions with a small mouth. By contextualizing the Burmese situation and not equating it with Ukraine’s, we consider little pressure and sanctions on the military junta that tightly controls the country, although the atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed there are be recognized.
The world watches with indifference as those who unjustly overthrown the elected civilian government of the National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi are consolidating power with blood and fire. That US State Department adviser Derek Chollet calls the ruling military a “bunch of thugs”; ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has strongly criticized the recent “official” executions of four people, including two political activists convicted in January of terrorism (Phyo Zeyar Thaw, former MP for the National League for Democracy, and Kyaw Min Yu), and that the rest of the democratic world condemns the regime’s brutality and violence against its own citizens, do little to end the Burmese military regime. Let’s not forget that since February 2021, more than 100 people have been sentenced to death.
The coup has plunged Burma into a deep political, social and economic crisis and has opened a spiral of violence with new civilian militias (People’s Defense Forces, the armed wing of the national unity government loyal to San Suu Kyi). guerrilla war that the country has been going through for decades that faces the military, police and clandestine squads called “blood drinkers” who support the military junta headed by General Min Aung Hlaing. Myanmar faces a tense and bleak future in which the suffering of its population will continue to increase.
Source: La Verdad
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