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ABC News' James Longman reports on the ongoing military coup in Myanmar that has detained the country's civilian government.

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Myanmar's democracy dreams at risk ABC News' James Longman reports on the ongoing military coup in Myanmar that has detained the country's civilian government. February 1, 2021.

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/myanmars-democracy-dreams-risk-75623558
Myanmar's democracy dreams at risk. ABC News' James Longman reports on the ongoing military coup in Myanmar that has detained the country's civilian government.

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Myanmar's army seized power in an apparent coup, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with members of her party and declaring a state of

https://giwps.georgetown.edu/a-glimpse-into-myanmars-struggle-for-democracy-zin-mar-aungs-visit-to-georgetown-university/
In the wake of the third anniversary of the February 2021 coup that shattered Myanmar's democratic dreams, there is still hope for change. At least, that's what Foreign Minister of Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG), Zin Mar Aung, was determined to convey during her visit to Washington, DC.Zin Mar Aung—a former political prisoner and a key figure in Myanmar's pro-democracy

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/01/ominous-moment-human-rights-groups-sound-alarm-military-coup-unfolds-myanmar
Feb 01, 2021. Long-simmering fears of a military-led subversion of Myanmar's recent steps toward democracy became reality early Monday as the nation's armed forces arrested civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and announced a one-year state of emergency that transfers power to Min Aung Hlaing, the Southeast Asian country's top general. In an

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The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/myanmar-military-rule-to-fragile-democracy
Myanmar's military seized power on Monday after detaining leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures in the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) in a series of early morning raids

https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/battle-democracy-myanmar
11/04/2021 - HR/VP Blog - The world is horrified by the bloody military coup in Myanmar, with reports of more than 80 people killed in Bago last Friday. We are pursuing a robust diplomatic

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The Coup And The Crisis In Myanmar. Myanmar, a nation whose young democracy began only a decade ago, is currently facing a threat it may not recover from. On February 1st of 2021, the military of Myanmar staged a coup d'état in the Southeast Asian country, overthrowing the democratic government and issuing a year-long state of emergency.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/myanmar-military-generals-power-democracy-1.5898023
Myanmar's military generals kept a hold on the country despite its claim to democracy, experts say. Myanmar citizens hold up a picture of leader Aung San Suu Kyi after the military seized power

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/protesters-myanmar-speak-out-doing-this-for-democracy
March 19, 2021. • 13 min read. Yangon, Myanmar — The military generals who throttled Myanmar's fledgling democratic experiment in the wee hours of February 1 may not have counted on a major

https://eias.org/publications/op-ed/myanmars-future-is-back-on-the-line-the-fight-for-democracy/
Myanmar's future is back on the line: The fight for democracy. 12/02/2021. In the early hours of 1 February 2021, in a series of raids, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, exponents of the National League for Democracy (NLD), activists and journalists were arrested in a military coup that is seriously endangering Myanmar

https://www.mei.edu/publications/myanmars-triple-crisis-impact-pro-democracy-movement
After ten years of tacit liberalization, Myanmar is back under military rule. On February 1, 2021, the country's military, known as the Tatmadaw, staged a coup to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) from assuming its second term in office.Without providing evidence, the Tatmadaw claimed that the NLD had rigged the November 2020 elections, which it had won in a

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/world/asia/myanmar-democracy-rohingya.html
Risk Factors. Myanmar appears to follow a pattern that Jack Snyder, a Columbia University political scientist, first articulated in the 1990s to explain why a rash of new democracies had collapsed

https://www.rescue.org/article/crisis-myanmar-what-know-and-how-help
In 2008, the IRC initiated an emergency response and early recovery efforts to aid communities affected by Cyclone Nargis. In the years since, the IRC has expanded its range of activities in Myanmar. We deliver programming focused on improving health, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene outcomes. Additionally, the IRC runs shelter

https://insightmyanmar.org/burmadhammablog/2022/8/4/a-true-fight-for-democracy
And rightly so. Yet their concerns continue to go largely unheeded. Put simply, if the NUG, the PDF, the EAO's, and the people as a whole continue to ignore or sweep crimes under the rug, they are jeopardising the revolution and Myanmar's dreams of democracy. First, the objectives of the revolution must not be forgotten.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3120917/every-day-nightmare-inside-myanmar-fears-and-shattered-dreams
It was in 2011, under the quasi-civilian Thein Sein government, that a series of political and economic reforms began. Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy, which had begun making inroads into

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/focus/2024/02/04/supporting-an-inclusive-and-democratic-future-for-myanmar
Working alongside our allies and partners, the US will continue to help realise these possibilities and help fulfil Myanmar's promise to become an inclusive, prosperous and democratic nation

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Myanmar's army seized power in an apparent coup, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with members of her party and declaring a state of

https://myanmar.un.org/en/265273-dreams-risk
The increasing use of landmines in Myanmar presents an alarming threat to the safety and well-being of children. Every explosion not only claims lives but also shatters dreams and robs children of their childhood innocence. It is imperative that all stakeholders, including all parties to the conflict, work to ensure the safety and protection of

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/myanmar-war-rebels.html
Hannah Beech, who has been covering Myanmar for nearly 20 years, recently spent a week reporting at a front line of the civil war. April 20, 2024. The night Ma Suu Kyi thought she would die of her

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UNICEF Myanmar/2024/Minzayar Oo. After stepping on a landmine while working on his family's rice farm, 15-year-old Aung lost his left leg below the knee, altering his dreams and future forever. With almost all states and regions of the country now reported to be contaminated by landmines, it is a particularly dire situation for Myanmar's

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1 of 4 | . FILE - Charred homes sit in piles of ash in Mwe Tone village of Pale township, in the Sagaing region, Myanmar, on Feb. 1, 2022. A report by a U.N. expert on human rights charges that Thai banks have become the main supplier of cross-border financial services for Myanmar's military government, enabling its purchases of goods and equipment used to carry out its increasingly bloody

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/myanmar-report-un-expert-spotlights-role-foreign-banks-facilitating-probable
GENEVA (26 June 2024) - Foreign banks are facilitating the Myanmar military junta's access to weapons and related materials that are sustaining its campaign of violence and brutality against the people of Myanmar, according to a new report released today by Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.