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Aung San Suu Kyi by Wendy Law-Yone review — how a saint became a pariah

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Jun 2023

In humanity’s long history of toppled heroes, shattered reputations and honour besmirched, it is difficult to think of a more extreme case than that of Aung San Suu Kyi ... Suu Kyi’s refusal ... Junta disbands Suu Kyi’s party before elections.

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Noeleen Heyzer, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.

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Another UN Myanmar envoy bites the dust

Asiatimes 02 Jun 2023

The knives will likely be out for Heyzer ... None of these angry denunciations should be dismissed or derided ... And what would “success” for an envoy entail? The SAC surrendering? Freeing Aung San Suu Kyi? Achieving what she always, consistently, called for – a cessation of hostilities and ending daily abuses against civilians? ... the SAC and the UN ... Photo.

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UN special envoy for Myanmar to step down: UN chief spokesman

Yahoo Daily News 01 Jun 2023

Heyzer, a Singaporean sociologist, was tasked with urging the Myanmar junta to engage in political dialogue with its opponents and end a bloody crackdown it launched after toppling the government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... but both times the military denied him visits with Suu Kyi.

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UN envoy for Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer to leave post in June

Yahoo Daily News 01 Jun 2023

She took on the job in October 2021 following the military coup in February of that year that ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and has led to widespread armed resistance ... and allow the imprisoned Suu Kyi to return home and to meet with her.

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Ex-UN Chief Ban Calls for More Diplomatic Pressure on Myanmar's Military Leaders

Voa News 01 Jun 2023

... following the military takeover in 2021 that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... Ban noted that the military leaders following his meetings released around 2,000 political prisoners, although they didn't include Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since 2021.

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Widespread Worry About Myanmar Rapper's Fate After Arrest

Voa News 01 Jun 2023

He was arrested at his residence in North Dagon, a suburb of Yangon, on May 24. In the video posted on Facebook, Byuhar praised the ousted civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi for providing "24 hours of electricity, not only that, but the electricity bill was also going down during her five years in office." ... Two days later, they did just that.

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Myanmar court convicts journalist injured by army on 2nd charge, extending jail term to 13 years

Federal News Radio 01 Jun 2023

READ MORE ... The conviction of Hmue Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun, a video journalist for the online Myanmar Pressphoto Agency, is the latest move against press freedom by the country’s ruling military, which has cracked down on independent media since seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021 ... Register today! ... Read more.

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Ex-UN head Ban calls for more diplomatic pressure on Myanmar’s military leaders

Wtop 31 May 2023

... following the military takeover in 2021 that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... Ban noted that the military leaders following his meetings released around 2,000 political prisoners, although they didn’t include Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since 2021.

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Ex-UN head Ban calls for more diplomatic pressure on Myanmar's military leaders

Yahoo Daily News 31 May 2023

... following the military takeover in 2021 that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... Ban noted that the military leaders following his meetings released around 2,000 political prisoners, although they didn’t include Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since 2021.

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'Asian Women Artists' reference book of year

Hickory Record 31 May 2023

Listen now and subscribe ... Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi ... .

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Myanmar dispatch: ‘Our voices are getting killed’

Jurist 31 May 2023

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Don’t say it. Don’t do it. Don’t show it. Don’t post it. Don’t speak about it. Don’t show any expressions. Don’t take a picture. Don’t go there. Don’t share it ... .

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Burmese Military Committing Atrocities In Myanmar

OWP 28 May 2023

Fortify Rights, an advocacy group, filed a complaint with the German Office of the Federal Prosecutor last week, accusing the Myanmar military of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes ... This was done in response to election results, which showed a landslide victory for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy ... ....

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Concern rising in Myanmar that supplies needed for recovery from Cyclone Mocha are coming too slowly

The Lawton Constitution 22 May 2023

Mocha hit the coastline of Bangladesh and Myanmar on May 14 with winds of up to 209 kilometers (130 miles) per hour ... The U.N ... "We don’t even have tarpaulins to make shelters ... Chin state is deeply involved in the armed struggle against military rule that began when the army seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... .

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No capacity for dialogue

Dawn 21 May 2023

IN the ongoing political crisis, Pakistan’s power elites have squandered the little space that was left for reconciliation. Another cruel phase of political engineering is in the offing ... In Egypt, the military eventually crushed the Ikhwan, and the military junta relegated Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to the margins in Myanmar ... .

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Myanmar officials: death toll from cyclone at least 145

The Mercury News 20 May 2023

By Grant Peck . Associated Press ... Their ramshackle housing on low-lying land was battered Sunday by a storm surge ... State media carried extensive coverage this week of domestic efforts to provide disaster relief by the current military government, which seized power in 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi ... .