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Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words. – Human Rights Watch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The junta's barbarity and callous disregard for human life aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement, european Union member states, the United States, and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This horrific news was compounded by the junta's failure to notify the men's families, who learned about the executions through the junta's media reports. – Elaine Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
With the responsibility to protect life and properties of the people, The NUG... launched a people's defensive war against the military junta. – Duwa Lashi La	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists. – Frontier Myanmar	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It staggers the imagination as to what will be happening just really over the next few days, this thing is out of control, this is a complete catastrophe. The entire health care system is in shambles. The number of people being infected is just going through the roof, and no one trusts this junta to provide them with information or health care or vaccines that they need to confront this pandemic. – Tom Andrews	Found on CNN 2 years ago
By targeting the gems and timber sectors, these measures are aimed at restricting the junta’s ability to profit from Myanmar’s natural resources, while being crafted so as to avoid undue harm to the people of Myanmar. – The EU	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The [ junta has been ] accused of crimes against humanity. The more remote, the more abuses because no one is watching. – Toe Zaw Latt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Lots of citizen journalists know that these kind of records are really important, the [ junta has been ] accused of crimes against humanity. The more remote, the more abuses because no one is watching. – Toe Zaw Latt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
ASEAN needs to be careful if it is seen to be legitimating the junta even if it's not its intention, if ASEAN is seen to be siding with the junta, that would probably create more disquiet and unhappiness among all the other groups in Myanmar. – Ja Ian Chong	Found on CNN 3 years ago
ASEAN must make it abundantly clear that he is not there as a representative of the Myanmar people, who totally reject his barbaric junta. min Aung Hlaing, who faces international sanctions for his role in military atrocities and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, should not be welcomed at an intergovernmental gathering to address a crisis he created. – Human Rights Watch	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This is an absurd move by the junta to try to legitimize their illegal power grab. – Charles Santiago	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I don’t think anyone can say with any certainty what might happen over the next three days, what’s likely is that Myanmar’s veering towards its most acute constitutional crisis since the abolition of the old junta in 2010. – Hkalam Samson	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The junta government yearned for international acceptance after the coup...and formed a dark alliance with Malaysia, the only person who can issue these orders is Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. – Pannika Wanich	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people. – Paul Chambers	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Most of the sanctions programs were formulated during the junta years and the dynamics and the situation, for which there has been a lot of progress – although still a lot of problems – have changed since then, sanctions are an important tool, but its leverage is quite limited, and the scope of the previous sanctions would not provide much leverage in deterring military behavior currently. There is also the question of who you are punishing and unintended consequences. – Erin Murphy	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It will embolden junta leader Prayuth to think he has millions of Thais behind him and it will extend military control not for one or two years but 20 years. – Sinai Phase	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Thai junta has sunk to a new low by charging an activist’s mother under the ‘insulting the monarchy’ law, which has been systematically abused to silence critics, prosecuting someone for her vague response to a Facebook message is just the junta’s latest outrageous twist of the lese majeste law. – Brad Adams	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence. – Brad Adams	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The junta is mobilizing state machinery and everything is being used to promote the draft constitution while people who oppose the draft are being targeted. – Sunai Phasuk	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
With legitimacy stretching thin and achievements falling flat, the junta feels the pressure to silence critics to maintain its power. – Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to keep quiet and give the junta a chance. – The Shinawatra family	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The junta is using the law as a tool for political purposes, what we did was to highlight graft and we will continue to do this as is our right - our purpose was not political. – Anon Nampha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Myanmar military junta's unjust conviction and sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is part of its methodical assault on human rights around the country, the military's willingness to forcibly disappear the country's high-profile civilian leader reveals the brutality that lesser-known political prisoners face.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The junta's barbarity and callous disregard for human life aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement, european Union member states, the United States, and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This horrific news was compounded by the junta's failure to notify the men's families, who learned about the executions through the junta's media reports.

– Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With the responsibility to protect life and properties of the people, The NUG... launched a people's defensive war against the military junta.

– Duwa Lashi La

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We strongly condemn the arbitrary conditions of their detention, which reflect the brutality with which the military junta treats journalists.

– Frontier Myanmar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It staggers the imagination as to what will be happening just really over the next few days, this thing is out of control, this is a complete catastrophe. The entire health care system is in shambles. The number of people being infected is just going through the roof, and no one trusts this junta to provide them with information or health care or vaccines that they need to confront this pandemic.

– Tom Andrews

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By targeting the gems and timber sectors, these measures are aimed at restricting the junta’s ability to profit from Myanmar’s natural resources, while being crafted so as to avoid undue harm to the people of Myanmar.

– The EU

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The [ junta has been ] accused of crimes against humanity. The more remote, the more abuses because no one is watching.

– Toe Zaw Latt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Lots of citizen journalists know that these kind of records are really important, the [ junta has been ] accused of crimes against humanity. The more remote, the more abuses because no one is watching.

– Toe Zaw Latt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

ASEAN needs to be careful if it is seen to be legitimating the junta even if it's not its intention, if ASEAN is seen to be siding with the junta, that would probably create more disquiet and unhappiness among all the other groups in Myanmar.

– Ja Ian Chong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

ASEAN must make it abundantly clear that he is not there as a representative of the Myanmar people, who totally reject his barbaric junta. min Aung Hlaing, who faces international sanctions for his role in military atrocities and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, should not be welcomed at an intergovernmental gathering to address a crisis he created.

– Human Rights Watch

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is an absurd move by the junta to try to legitimize their illegal power grab.

– Charles Santiago

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I don’t think anyone can say with any certainty what might happen over the next three days, what’s likely is that Myanmar’s veering towards its most acute constitutional crisis since the abolition of the old junta in 2010.

– Hkalam Samson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The junta government yearned for international acceptance after the coup...and formed a dark alliance with Malaysia, the only person who can issue these orders is Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

– Pannika Wanich

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people.

– Paul Chambers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Most of the sanctions programs were formulated during the junta years and the dynamics and the situation, for which there has been a lot of progress – although still a lot of problems – have changed since then, sanctions are an important tool, but its leverage is quite limited, and the scope of the previous sanctions would not provide much leverage in deterring military behavior currently. There is also the question of who you are punishing and unintended consequences.

– Erin Murphy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It will embolden junta leader Prayuth to think he has millions of Thais behind him and it will extend military control not for one or two years but 20 years.

– Sinai Phase

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Thai junta has sunk to a new low by charging an activist’s mother under the ‘insulting the monarchy’ law, which has been systematically abused to silence critics, prosecuting someone for her vague response to a Facebook message is just the junta’s latest outrageous twist of the lese majeste law.

– Brad Adams

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence.

– Brad Adams

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The junta is mobilizing state machinery and everything is being used to promote the draft constitution while people who oppose the draft are being targeted.

– Sunai Phasuk

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With legitimacy stretching thin and achievements falling flat, the junta feels the pressure to silence critics to maintain its power.

– Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to keep quiet and give the junta a chance.

– The Shinawatra family

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The junta is using the law as a tool for political purposes, what we did was to highlight graft and we will continue to do this as is our right - our purpose was not political.

– Anon Nampha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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