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Cyclone Mocha<\/strong><\/a>, which made landfall along the country\u2019s western coast on Sunday afternoon, is yet to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, rescuers evacuated around 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 metres deep. Hundreds were injured and communications cut off in one of Asia\u2019s least developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>Several injuries were also reported in neighbouring Bangladesh, which was spared the predicted direct hit.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7600278,7596708\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//12//generally-frustrating-climate-experts-verdict-on-what-has-and-hasnt-changed-since-cop27/">/u2018Generally frustrating\u2019: Climate experts\u2019 verdict on what has - and hasn\u2019t - changed since COP27 <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//12//theres-a-90-chance-el-nino-will-hit-this-summer-what-does-it-mean-for-extreme-weather/"> There\u2019s a 90% chance El Ni\u00f1o will hit this summer. What does it mean for extreme weather?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Was Cyclone Mocha caused by climate change?<\/h2><p>Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly, in part because of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//12//15//from-droughts-to-floods-a-look-back-at-the-year-when-extreme-weather-became-the-norm-in-eu/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Climate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days. Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as oceans are warm and winds are favourable, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//09//20//cyclones-could-soon-devastate-europe-warns-storm-chaser-climate-scientist/">cyclones will retain their intensity for a longer period,\u201d Koll said.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical cyclones, which are called <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//09//30//hurricane-ian-climate-change-could-increase-intensity-of-storms-say-environmental-experts/">hurricanes or typhoons in other regions, are among the world\u2019s most devastating natural disasters when they hit densely populated coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away.<\/p>\n<h2>Cyclone Mocha forced residents to higher ground in Myanmar<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6656\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//81//46//808x539_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg/" alt=\"AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/384x256_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/640x426_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/750x499_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/828x551_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1080x719_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1200x799_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1920x1278_cmsv2_24a83cb6-113f-5147-b0c6-196c59da494f-7608146.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A local man rides a motorbike past damaged buildings after Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine state on Sunday afternoon, sending <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//27//the-impact-of-rising-sea-levels-is-being-underestimated-scientists-warn/">seawater racing into more than 10 low-lying wards near the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Winds blew up to 209 kilometres per hour near Sittwe township, Myanmar\u2019s Meteorological Department said.<\/p>\n<p>To escape the storm surge and ferocious winds, residents fled to higher floors and roofs.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20,000 people took shelter in sturdier buildings on the highlands, such as monasteries, pagodas and schools.\u00a0700 of them were injured, according to a leader of the Rakhine Youths Philanthropic Association in Sittwe, who asked not to be named due to fear of reprisals from the authorities in the military-run country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 4pm yesterday, the storm weakened a bit, but the water did not fall back. Most of them sat on the roof and at the high places of their houses the whole night. The wind blew all night,\u201d the rescue group leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Water was still about 1.5 metres high in flooded areas later on Monday, but rescues were being made as the wind calmed and the sun rose in the sky. He asked civil society organisations and authorities to send aid and help evacuate residents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3361290322580646\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//81//46//808x1077_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg/" alt=\"AP/Satellite image/Maxar Technologies\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/384x513_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/640x855_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/750x1002_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/828x1106_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1080x1443_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1200x1603_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1920x2565_cmsv2_63cc9669-0ff9-5e80-8e0e-81ef1fc1a927-7608146.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Photos taken on 17 February and 15 May show the site of a lighthouse in Sittwe, Myanmar, before and after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine state.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP/Satellite image/Maxar Technologies<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>High winds crumpled cell phone towers, but in videos collected by local media before communications were lost, deep water raced through streets and wind blew off roofs.<\/h3><p>Myanmar\u2019s military information office said the storm had <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////services.euronews.com//green//2022//07//13//these-5-countries-alone-inflicted-nearly-6-trillion-in-climate-damage-on-the-rest-of-the-w/">damaged houses and electrical transformers in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships. It said roofs were torn off buildings on the Coco Islands, about 425 kilometres southwest of the country\u2019s largest city, Yangon.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers previously said shelters in Sittwe did not have enough food after more people arrived there seeking help.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7591302,7583346\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//07//diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste/">/u2018Diseases, mosquitoes, filth\u2019: India\u2019s urban centres are choking on sewage and waste<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//09//water-gaps-where-in-europe-is-most-at-risk-of-water-shortages-and-what-can-be-done-about-i/">Water gaps: Where in Europe is most at risk of water shortages and what can be done about it?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What damage has Cyclone Mocha caused in Bangladesh?<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//81//46//808x608_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg/" alt=\"Al-emrun Garjon/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/384x288_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/640x480_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/750x563_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/828x621_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1080x810_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1200x900_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/81\/46\/1920x1440_cmsv2_bdcce54f-9744-5564-bb06-386ba756e5a5-7608146.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman surveys the damage caused to her home by Cyclone Mocha at Saint Martin island in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 15 May 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Al-emrun Garjon/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mocha largely spared the Bangladeshi city of Cox\u2019s Bazar, which initially had been in the storm\u2019s predicted path. Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the cyclone veered east.<\/p>\n<p>A Bangladesh government official, Enamur Rahman, said the damage was still being assessed, but that about 2,000 homes had been destroyed and 10,000 others were damaged on Saint Martin\u2019s Island and Teknaf in Cox\u2019s Bazar district.<\/p>\n<p>He said no deaths were reported.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen people were injured on Saint Martin\u2019s Island, the Prothom Alo newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>UN agencies and aid workers in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//09//21//denmark-becomes-first-country-to-pay-for-loss-and-damage-from-climate-change/">Bangladesh had prepositioned tonnes of dry food and dozens of ambulances in the refugee camps that house more than one million Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in 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dead, hundreds injured as Myanmar bears the brunt of Cyclone Mocha","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Five dead, hundreds injured as Myanmar hit by Cyclone Mocha","titleListing2":"Five dead, hundreds injured as Myanmar bears the brunt of Cyclone Mocha","leadin":"At least five people have been killed and hundreds injured after Cyclone Mocha swept into Myanmar on Sunday. The tropical storm also hit Bangladesh, but spared the world's largest refugee camp.","summary":"At least five people have been killed and hundreds injured after Cyclone Mocha swept into Myanmar on Sunday. The tropical storm also hit Bangladesh, but spared the world's largest refugee camp.","url":"five-dead-hundreds-injured-as-myanmar-bears-the-brunt-of-cyclone-mocha","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Rescuers in Myanmar and Bangladesh are working to evacuate people from flooded coastal areas battered by Cyclone Mocha. \n\nIn Myanmar, they saved about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 metres deep. \n\nAt least five deaths have been reported in Myanmar, but the true impact was not yet clear in one of Asia's least developed countries. \n\nStrong winds injured more than 700 of about 20,000 people who were sheltering in sturdier buildings on the highlands of Sittwe township such as monasteries, pagodas and schools, according to a leader of the Rakhine Youths Philanthropic Association in Sittwe. He asked not to be named due to fear of reprisals from the authorities in the military-run country. \n\nSeawater raced into more than 10 low-lying wards near the shore as Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine state Sunday afternoon, he said. Residents moved to roofs and higher floors, while the wind and storm surge prevented immediate rescue. \n\n\"After 4 p.m. yesterday, the storm weakened a bit, but the water did not fall back. Most of them sat on the roof and at the high places of their houses the whole night. The wind blew all night,\" the rescue group leader said. \n\nWater was still about 1.5 metres (5 feet) high in flooded areas Monday morning, but rescues were being made as the wind calmed and the sun rose in the sky. He asked civil society organisations and authorities to send aid and help evacuate residents. \n\nSeveral injuries were reported in neighbouring Bangladesh, which was spared the predicted direct hit. \n\nMocha made landfall near Sittwe township with winds blowing up to 209 kilometres per hour, Myanmar's Meteorological Department said. By Monday morning, it was downgraded from its severe status and was steadily weakening over land, according to the India Meteorological Department. \n\nThe State Administration Council issued disaster declarations for 17 townships in Rakhine state. \n\nHigh winds crumpled cell phone towers, but in videos collected by local media before communications were lost, deep water raced through streets and wind blew off roofs. \n\nMyanmar's military information office said the storm had damaged houses and electrical transformers in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships. It said roofs were torn off buildings on the Coco Islands, about 425 kilometres southwest of the country's largest city, Yangon. \n\nVolunteers previously said shelters in Sittwe did not have enough food after more people arrived there seeking help. \n\nMocha largely spared the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar, which initially had been in the storm's predicted path. Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the cyclone veered east. \n\nAbout a dozen people were injured on Saint Martin's Island, while some 300 homes were either destroyed or damaged, leading Bengali-language daily Prothom Alo reported. \n\nUN agencies and aid workers in Bangladesh had prerequistioned tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances in the refugee camps that house more than one million Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar. \n\nIn May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away. \n\nRoxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly, in part because of climate change. \n\nClimate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days. Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation. \n\n\"As long as oceans are warm and winds are favourable, cyclones will retain their intensity for a longer period,\" Koll said. \n\nTropical cyclones, which are called hurricanes or typhoons in other regions, are among the world's most devastating natural disasters when they hit densely populated coastal areas. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rescuers in Myanmar and Bangladesh are working to evacuate people from flooded coastal areas battered by Cyclone Mocha.<\/p>\n<p>In Myanmar, they saved about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 metres deep.<\/p>\n<p>At least five deaths have been reported in Myanmar, but the true impact was not yet clear in one of Asia's least developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds injured more than 700 of about 20,000 people who were sheltering in sturdier buildings on the highlands of Sittwe township such as monasteries, pagodas and schools, according to a leader of the Rakhine Youths Philanthropic Association in Sittwe. He asked not to be named due to fear of reprisals from the authorities in the military-run country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//40//70//808x539_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg/" alt=\"AP/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/384x256_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/640x427_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/750x500_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/828x552_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1080x720_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1200x800_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4ec86406-25d3-55b8-a060-b0b6ea1c3971-7604070.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">In this photo provided by Myanmar Military True News Information Team on Sunday, May 14, 2023, buildings damaged by Cyclone Mocha is seen in Kyauk Phyu township, Rakhine State<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Seawater raced into more than 10 low-lying wards near the shore as Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine state Sunday afternoon, he said. Residents moved to roofs and higher floors, while the wind and storm surge prevented immediate rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\"After 4 p.m. yesterday, the storm weakened a bit, but the water did not fall back. Most of them sat on the roof and at the high places of their houses the whole night. The wind blew all night,\" the rescue group leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Water was still about 1.5 metres (5 feet) high in flooded areas Monday morning, but rescues were being made as the wind calmed and the sun rose in the sky. He asked civil society organisations and authorities to send aid and help evacuate residents.<\/p>\n<p>Several injuries were reported in neighbouring Bangladesh, which was spared the predicted direct hit.<\/p>\n<p>Mocha made landfall near Sittwe township with winds blowing up to 209 kilometres per hour, Myanmar's Meteorological Department said. By Monday morning, it was downgraded from its severe status and was steadily weakening over land, according to the India Meteorological Department.<\/p>\n<p>The State Administration Council issued disaster declarations for 17 townships in Rakhine state.<\/p>\n<p>High winds crumpled cell phone towers, but in videos collected by local media before communications were lost, deep water raced through streets and wind blew off roofs.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar's military information office said the storm had damaged houses and electrical transformers in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships. It said roofs were torn off buildings on the Coco Islands, about 425 kilometres southwest of the country's largest city, Yangon.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers previously said shelters in Sittwe did not have enough food after more people arrived there seeking help.<\/p>\n<p>Mocha largely spared the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar, which initially had been in the storm's predicted path. Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the cyclone veered east.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen people were injured on Saint Martin's Island, while some 300 homes were either destroyed or damaged, leading Bengali-language daily Prothom Alo reported.<\/p>\n<p>UN agencies and aid workers in Bangladesh had prerequistioned tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances in the refugee camps that house more than one million Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.69140625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//40//70//808x557_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg/" alt=\"Al-emrun Garjon/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/384x266_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/640x443_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/750x519_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/828x572_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1080x747_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1200x830_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/40\/70\/1920x1328_cmsv2_a202f06a-d6dd-5134-b0ac-e8bbe92f5a9d-7604070.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rescue workers and locals react as they try to remove the fallen tress after a storm in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 14, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Al-emrun Garjon/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River delta. 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and Myanmar are braced for extreme weather as Cyclone Mocha set to make landfall","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Cyclone Mocha expected to hit Bangladesh and Myanmar","titleListing2":"Bangladesh, Myanmar are braced for extreme weather as Cyclone Mocha is set to make landfall","leadin":"Cyclone Mocha is expected to hit Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday with meteorologists warning it will bring extreme weather as it comes in from the sea.","summary":"Cyclone Mocha is expected to hit Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday with meteorologists warning it will bring extreme weather as it comes in from the sea.","url":"bangladesh-and-myanmar-are-braced-for-extreme-weather-as-cyclone-mocha-set-to-make-landfal","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Bangladesh and Myanmar are braced for an extremely severe cyclone which has started to hit coastal areas with authorities urging thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter. \n\nThe outermost band of Cyclone Mocha reached the coast of Myanmar's Rakhine state on Sunday morning, and by afternoon the centre of the storm was expected to make landfall near Sittwe township, which was under the highest weather alert, Myanmar's Meteorological Department said Sunday. \n\nMore than 4,000 of Sittwe's 300,000 residents have been evacuated to other cities since Friday and more than 20,000 people are sheltering in sturdy buildings such as monasteries, pagodas and schools located on the city's highlands, said Tin Nyein Oo, who is helping people in shelters in Sittwe. \n\nMany local residents live in areas more than three metres above sea level, places where residents believe the storm surge cannot reach, he added. \n\nStrong winds of 40 to 48 kilometres per hour were blowing in the city, Tin Nyein Oo said on Sunday morning. \n\n\"The storm has not yet entered, so we don't have much difficulty. However, there are too many people in the shelters and not enough toilets,\" he added. \n\nLin Lin, the chairman of a local charitable foundation, said earlier there was not enough food in the shelters in Sittwe after more people arrived than expected. \n\nIn Bangladesh, weather in most areas remained sunny and humid on Sunday morning. \n\nUN agencies and aid workers in Bangladesh have prepared for the worst with tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances with mobile medical teams in sprawling refugee camps housing more than one million Rohingya who fled persecution in Myanmar. \n\nBangladesh issued the highest danger signal for Cox's Bazar, home to the camps. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department warned the cyclone could cause severe damage to lives and property in eight coastal districts. \n\nNo heavy rainfall had been reported in Cox's Bazar as of Sunday morning. \n\nBangladesh, with more than 160 million people, has prepared more than 1,500 cyclone shelters. The navy said it's keeping ready 21 ships, maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters for rescue and relief operations. \n\nAuthorities in Bangladesh said heavy rains from the cyclone could trigger landslides in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar and three other hilly districts \u2014 Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari. \n\nIn May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River Delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away. \n\nRoxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly, in part because of climate change. \n\nClimate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days. Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation. \n\n\"As long as oceans are warm and winds are favourable, cyclones will retain their intensity for a longer period,\" Koll said. \n\nCyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters in the world, especially if they affect densely populated coastal regions in South Asia. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Bangladesh and Myanmar are braced for an extremely severe cyclone which has started to hit coastal areas with authorities urging thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.<\/p>\n<p>The outermost band of Cyclone Mocha reached the coast of Myanmar's Rakhine state on Sunday morning, and by afternoon the centre of the storm was expected to make landfall near Sittwe township, which was under the highest weather alert, Myanmar's Meteorological Department said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 of Sittwe's 300,000 residents have been evacuated to other cities since Friday and more than 20,000 people are sheltering in sturdy buildings such as monasteries, pagodas and schools located on the city's highlands, said Tin Nyein Oo, who is helping people in shelters in Sittwe.<\/p>\n<p>Many local residents live in areas more than three metres above sea level, places where residents believe the storm surge cannot reach, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds of 40 to 48 kilometres per hour were blowing in the city, Tin Nyein Oo said on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\"The storm has not yet entered, so we don't have much difficulty. However, there are too many people in the shelters and not enough toilets,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lin Lin, the chairman of a local charitable foundation, said earlier there was not enough food in the shelters in Sittwe after more people arrived than expected.<\/p>\n<p>In Bangladesh, weather in most areas remained sunny and humid on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>UN agencies and aid workers in Bangladesh have prepared for the worst with tons of dry food and dozens of ambulances with mobile medical teams in sprawling refugee camps housing more than one million Rohingya who fled persecution in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh issued the highest danger signal for Cox's Bazar, home to the camps. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department warned the cyclone could cause severe damage to lives and property in eight coastal districts.<\/p>\n<p>No heavy rainfall had been reported in Cox's Bazar as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh, with more than 160 million people, has prepared more than 1,500 cyclone shelters. The navy said it's keeping ready 21 ships, maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters for rescue and relief operations.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Bangladesh said heavy rains from the cyclone could trigger landslides in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar and three other hilly districts \u2014 Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated populated areas around the Irrawaddy River Delta. At least 138,000 people died and tens of thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away.<\/p>\n<p>Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones in the Bay of Bengal are becoming more intense more quickly, in part because of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Climate scientists say cyclones can now retain their energy for many days. Cyclone Amphan in eastern India in 2020 continued to travel over land as a strong cyclone and caused extensive devastation.<\/p>\n<p>\"As long as oceans are warm and winds are favourable, cyclones will retain their intensity for a longer period,\" Koll said.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters in the world, especially if they affect densely populated coastal regions in South Asia.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1684015983,"publishedAt":1684046907,"updatedAt":1684051205,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/14\/bangladesh-and-myanmar-are-braced-for-extreme-weather-as-cyclone-mocha-set-to-make-landfal","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/19\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_266732dd-1499-54c4-805d-b1ea0d914b15-7601928.jpg","altText":"This satellite image provided by India Meteorological Department shows storm Mocha intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm. 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Independence Army (KIA), media reported, citing witnesses who said three planes carried out the attack. \n\nWhile BBC Burmese has put the death toll at no less than 50 people, news site Irrawaddy's estimate was of around 100. \n\n\nThe attack has been condemned by the United Nations and western embassies, with the UN in Myanmar stating that it was \"deeply concerned and saddened\" by the reports and offering its condolences to the families of those affected. \n\n\"What would appear to be excessive and disproportionate use of force by security forces against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and those responsible must be held to account,\" it said in a press release. \n\nKIA spokesperson Naw Bu said the attack targeted celebrations of the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Kachin army's political wing, the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). \n\n\"This is quite a wicked act that can be also considered war crimes,\" he stated. \n\nMyanmar has been afflicted by open conflict since the army overthrew an elected government early last year. Resistance movements, some armed, have emerged across the country, which the military has fought with lethal force. \n\n\nSince the coup, fighting has resumed between the Myanmar army and the KIA, which has been fighting on and off for six decades to obtain greater autonomy for the Kachin people. 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Resistance movements, some armed, have emerged across the country, which the military has fought with lethal force. <\/p>\n<p>Since the coup, fighting has resumed between the Myanmar army and the KIA, which has been fighting on and off for six decades to obtain greater autonomy for the Kachin people. The KIA has voiced support for the anti-junta resistance.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the junta could not immediately be reached for comment on the airstrike and state television made no mention of the incident in its nightly news bulletin on Monday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1666644917,"publishedAt":1666648282,"updatedAt":1666648284,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/10\/24\/at-least-50-killed-in-myanmar-airstrike","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/15\/41\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ce22c70b-93ff-5554-af0b-bf8b3f4ad3a8-7154190.jpg","altText":"A Kachin Independence Army (KIA) rebel. 17 March 2018.","caption":"A Kachin Independence Army (KIA) rebel. 17 March 2018.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Esther Htusan\/Copyright 2018 The AP. 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More than 2,200 civilians have been killed and nearly 15,000 arrested, according to local NGOs . \n\nSuu Kyi had already been sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, violating COVID-19 restrictions, sedition, and five counts of corruption.\u00a0All her trials have been held in closed courts. \n\nMany top members of her party and government also have been jailed, while others are in hiding or have fled abroad. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say all the charges against her are politically motivated and an attempt to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power. \n\nOusted President Win Myint and the former minister of the president\u2019s office Min Thu -- both co-defendants in the election fraud case -- each received sentences of three years. Lawyers will file appeals in the coming days. \n\nIn separate proceedings, Suu Kyi is also being tried for allegedly violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and seven counts of corruption charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 15 years each. \n\nIn another trial on Friday, the\u00a0former British ambassador to Myanmar and her husband were each sentenced to one year in prison. \n\nVicky Bowman, who served at the embassy between 2002 and 2006, and her Myanmar husband, a former political prisoner, were convicted for breaking immigration laws. \n\nBowman had been detained since last week for failing to provide her address, which was different from the one registered with military authorities. \n\nHer husband -- artist Htein Lin -- was reportedly prosecuted for helping his wife reside at a different address. They had both faced up to five years in prison. \n\nThe UK Foreign said, \u201cWe will continue to support Ms Bowman and her family until their case is resolved.\u201d","htmlText":"<p>A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional three years imprisonment for alleged election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old has already been jailed by the military junta government for 17 years on various charges.<\/p>\n<p>The latest verdict also carries potentially significant political consequences for Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy party.\u00a0Myanmar's military has frequently threatened to dissolve the party before a new election may be called in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s party won the 2020 general election in a landslide victory, but the army seized power in February 2021 and kept her from a second five-year term in office.<\/p>\n<p>The junta claims that it acted due to widespread fraud in the polls, even though independent election observers did not find any major irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>The military-appointed commission claimed it has found more than 11 million irregularities in voter lists that could have let voters cast multiple ballots or commit other fraud.<\/p>\n<p>But a spokesperson for the Bangkok-based Asian Network for Free Elections reiterated on Friday that they did not observe any election fraud in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6545206,6335744,5554974\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//03//15//myanmar-s-message-to-the-eu-amid-ukraine-crisis-don-t-forget-about-us/">Myanmar's message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget about us'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//04//14//myanmar-could-spiral-into-full-blown-conflict-similar-to-syria-un-rights-chief-warns/">Myanmar could spiral into 'full-blown conflict' similar to Syria, UN rights chief warns<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The military\u2019s seizure of power prompted widespread peaceful protests that were quashed with lethal force, triggering armed resistance that some UN experts now class as civil war. More than 2,200 civilians have been killed and nearly 15,000 arrested, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////aappb.org///">according to local NGOs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi had already been sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, violating COVID-19 restrictions, sedition, and five counts of corruption.\u00a0All her trials have been held in closed courts.<\/p>\n<p>Many top members of her party and government also have been jailed, while others are in hiding or have fled abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say all the charges against her are politically motivated and an attempt to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power.<\/p>\n<p>Ousted President Win Myint and the former minister of the president\u2019s office Min Thu -- both co-defendants in the election fraud case -- each received sentences of three years. Lawyers will file appeals in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>In separate proceedings, Suu Kyi is also being tried for allegedly violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and seven counts of corruption charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 15 years each.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6945412,6661898,6176768\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//10//26//myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-trial-seriously-abridges-free-and-fair-standards-says-hrw/">Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's trial seriously abridges free and fair standards, says HRW<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//08//15//myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-six-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption/">Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to six more years in prison for corruption<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//04//27//myanmar-s-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-five-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption/">Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five more years in prison for corruption<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In another trial on Friday, the\u00a0former British ambassador to Myanmar and her husband were each sentenced to one year in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Vicky Bowman, who served at the embassy between 2002 and 2006, and her Myanmar husband, a former political prisoner, were convicted for breaking immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman had been detained since last week for failing to provide her address, which was different from the one registered with military authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband -- artist Htein Lin -- was reportedly prosecuted for helping his wife reside at a different address. They had both faced up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign said, \u201cWe will continue to support Ms Bowman and her family until their case is resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1662124953,"publishedAt":1662130303,"updatedAt":1662130319,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/09\/02\/myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-jailed-for-three-more-years-for-election-fraud","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/65\/85\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b2ac6eab-3693-583b-8e81-65d6465c39e4-6658550.jpg","altText":"Aung San Suu Kyi is still facing several corruption charges.","caption":"Aung San Suu Kyi is still facing several corruption charges.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Gemunu Amarasinghe, 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Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to six more years in prison for corruption","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to six more years in prison for corruption","titleListing2":"Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to six more years in prison for corruption.","leadin":"Analysts say the charges are an attempt to legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power.","summary":"Analysts say the charges are an attempt to legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-six-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to six more years in prison on corruption charges. \n\nShe was found guilty by a military-ruled court of abuse of power by allegedly renting land below market value and building a resident with charitable donations.\u00a0 \n\nSuu Kyi denied all the charges, and her lawyers are expected to appeal Monday's verdict. \n\nThe 77-year-old deposed leader has already been\u00a0sentenced to 11 years in prison on sedition, corruption and other charges. \n\nSuu Kyi was first detained in February 2021 after the army ousted her elected government, which had secured a landslide victory in the\u00a0November 2020 general election. \n\nAnalysts say the numerous charges against her and her allies are an attempt to legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power and eliminate Suu Kyi from next year's planned election. \n\nThe Assistance Association for Political Prisoners says more than 12,000 people -- including other members of the elected National League for Democracy party -- are currently in detention. More than 2,100\u00a0pro-democracy activists and other civilians have been killed, it said. \n\nMyanmar's military said it seized power due to massive voting fraud in the election, but independent observers did not find any major irregularities. \n\nThe army\u2019s takeover sparked peaceful nationwide street protests that security forces have quashed with lethal force, triggering armed resistance that some UN experts now characterize as a civil war. \n\nThe military government has been accused of human rights abuses including arbitrary arrests and killings, torture, and the burning of entire villages. \n\nThe European Union\u2019s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has reiterated calls for Suu Kyi\u2019s immediate release. \n\n\u201cI condemn the unjust sentence of Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional six years of detention, and call on the regime in Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally release her, as well as all political prisoners, and respect the will of the people,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \n\nIn total, the ousted leader has\u00a0been charged with a total of 11 counts under the Anti-Corruption Act, with each count punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine. \n\nSuu Kyi has previously spent nearly 15 years under house arrest in Yangon under a military government.","htmlText":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to six more years in prison on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>She was found guilty by a military-ruled court of abuse of power by allegedly renting land below market value and building a resident with charitable donations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi denied all the charges, and her lawyers are expected to appeal Monday's verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old deposed leader has already been\u00a0sentenced to 11 years in prison on sedition, corruption and other charges.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6795594,6443624\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//06//23//aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-to-prison-from-house-arrest-says-myanmar-military-junta/">Aung San Suu Kyi moved to prison from house arrest, says Myanmar military junta<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//02//01//one-year-since-military-takeover-myanmar-opposition-holds-silent-strike/">One year since military takeover, Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike'<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Suu Kyi was first detained in February 2021 after the army ousted her elected government, which had secured a landslide victory in the\u00a0November 2020 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the numerous charges against her and her allies are an attempt to legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power and eliminate Suu Kyi from next year's planned election.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////aappb.org///">Assistance Association for Political Prisoners<\/strong><\/a> says more than 12,000 people -- including other members of the elected National League for Democracy party -- are currently in detention. More than 2,100\u00a0pro-democracy activists and other civilians have been killed, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar's military said it seized power due to massive voting fraud in the election, but independent observers did not find any major irregularities.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"5554974,6335744,6545206\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//03//15//myanmar-s-message-to-the-eu-amid-ukraine-crisis-don-t-forget-about-us/">Myanmar's message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget about us'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//04//14//myanmar-could-spiral-into-full-blown-conflict-similar-to-syria-un-rights-chief-warns/">Myanmar could spiral into 'full-blown conflict' similar to Syria, UN rights chief warns<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The army\u2019s takeover sparked peaceful nationwide street protests that security forces have quashed with lethal force, triggering armed resistance that some UN experts now characterize as a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The military government has been accused of human rights abuses including arbitrary arrests and killings, torture, and the burning of entire villages.<\/p>\n<p>The 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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists amid international outcry","leadin":"The hangings are believed to be the first executions in the country for more than 30 years.","summary":"The hangings are believed to be the first executions in the country for more than 30 years.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-amid-international-outcry","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Myanmar ruling junta has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years with the hangings of a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's military takeover last year. \n\nThe executions announced Monday were carried out despite worldwide pleas for clemency for the four political detainees. \n\nThe Mirror Daily state newspaper said the four planned, directed and organized \"the violent and inhuman accomplice acts of terrorist killings.\u201d \n\nThe paper said they were hanged according to prison procedures but did not say when the executions occurred. \n\nPhyo Zeya Thaw was a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, and had been a hip-hop musician before becoming a member of the Generation Wave political movement formed in 2007.\u00a0 \n\nKyaw Min Yu was a 53-year-old democracy activist and one of the leaders of the 88 Generation Students Group, veterans of a failed 1988 popular uprising against military rule.\u00a0He already had spent more than a dozen years behind bars for political activism before his arrest in Yangon last October.\u00a0 \n\nThe other two men, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw, were convicted of torturing and killing a woman in March 2021 whom they believed was a military informer. \n\nCondemnation from international community and human rights groups \n\nWestern governments, rights groups and United Nations experts strongly criticised the decision to hang the men.\u00a0 \n\n\u201cThe illegitimate military junta is providing the international community with further evidence of its disregard for human rights as it prepares to hang pro-democracy activists,\u201d two UN experts , Thomas Andrews, special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, and Morris Tidball-Binz, special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, said earlier. \n\nThe US Embassy in Yangon also issued a statement saying the \"condemn the military regime's execution of pro-democracy leaders and elected officials for exercising their fundamental freedoms.\"\u00a0 \n\nCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had earlier urged Myanmar to reconsider and suggested their executions would draw strong condemnation and complicate efforts to restore peace. \n\nHun Sen has a special interest in Myanmar because Cambodia this year chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has sought to end the violence in Myanmar and provide humanitarian assistance. Myanmar is a member of ASEAN but has failed to cooperate with the bloc's plans. \n\nMyanmar\u2019s Foreign Ministry rejected criticism of the decision to proceed with the executions, declaring that Myanmar's judicial system is fair and that Phyo Zeya Thaw and Kyaw Min Yu were \u201cproven to be masterminds of orchestrating full-scale terrorist attacks against innocent civilians to instill fear and disrupt peace and stability.\u201d \n\nMyanmar's latest military coup explained \n\nMyanmar\u2019s military seized power from Suu Kyi\u2019s elected government in February 2021, triggering peaceful protests that soon escalated to armed resistance and then to widespread fighting that some UN experts characterize as a civil war. \n\nSome resistance groups have engaged in assassinations, drive-by shootings and bombings in urban areas. Mainstream opposition organizations generally disavow such activities, while supporting armed resistance in rural areas that are more often subject to brutal military attacks. \n\nAccording to Myanmar law, executions must be approved by the head of the government. The last judicial execution to be carried out in Myanmar is generally believed to have been of another political offender, student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, in 1976 under a previous military government led by dictator Ne Win. \n\nIn 2014, the sentences of prisoners on death row were commuted to life imprisonment, but several dozen convicts received death sentences between then and last year\u2019s takeover. \n\nThe Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization that tracks killing and arrests, said Friday that 2,114 civilians have been killed by security forces since the military takeover. It said 115 other people had been sentenced to death.","htmlText":"<p>Myanmar ruling junta has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years with the hangings of a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's military takeover last year.<\/p>\n<p>The executions announced Monday were carried out despite worldwide pleas for clemency for the four political detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The Mirror Daily state newspaper said the four planned, directed and organized \"the violent and inhuman accomplice acts of terrorist killings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper said they were hanged according to prison procedures but did not say when the executions occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Phyo Zeya Thaw was a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s party, and had been a hip-hop musician before becoming a member of the Generation Wave political movement formed in 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kyaw Min Yu was a 53-year-old democracy activist and one of the leaders of the 88 Generation Students Group, veterans of a failed 1988 popular uprising against military rule.\u00a0He already had spent more than a dozen years behind bars for political activism before his arrest in Yangon last October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other two men, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw, were convicted of torturing and killing a woman in March 2021 whom they believed was a military informer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//87//81//14//808x539_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg/" alt=\"Aung Shine Oo / The Associated Press\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/87\/81\/14\/1920x1281_cmsv2_f91830f1-9b8f-5048-a7ca-a148d5d60269-6878114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aung Shine Oo / The Associated Press<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Condemnation from international community and human rights groups<\/h2><p>Western governments, rights groups and United Nations experts strongly criticised the decision to hang the men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe illegitimate military junta is providing the international community with further evidence of its disregard for human rights as it prepares to hang pro-democracy activists,\u201d <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//UNHumanRights/">two UN experts<\/a>, Thomas Andrews, special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, and Morris Tidball-Binz, special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy in Yangon also issued a statement saying the \"condemn the military regime's execution of pro-democracy leaders and elected officials for exercising their fundamental freedoms.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1551486948866306048\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had earlier urged Myanmar to reconsider and suggested their executions would draw strong condemnation and complicate efforts to restore peace.<\/p>\n<p>Hun Sen has a special interest in Myanmar because Cambodia this year chairs the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has sought to end the violence in Myanmar and provide humanitarian assistance. Myanmar is a member of ASEAN but has failed to cooperate with the bloc's plans.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s Foreign Ministry rejected criticism of the decision to proceed with the executions, declaring that Myanmar's judicial system is fair and that Phyo Zeya Thaw and Kyaw Min Yu were \u201cproven to be masterminds of orchestrating full-scale terrorist attacks against innocent civilians to instill fear and disrupt peace and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Myanmar's latest military coup explained<\/h2><p>Myanmar\u2019s military seized power from Suu Kyi\u2019s elected government in February 2021, triggering peaceful protests that soon escalated to armed resistance and then to widespread fighting that some UN experts characterize as a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Some resistance groups have engaged in assassinations, drive-by shootings and bombings in urban areas. Mainstream opposition organizations generally disavow such activities, while supporting armed resistance in rural areas that are more often subject to brutal military attacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Myanmar law, executions must be approved by the head of the government. The last judicial execution to be carried out in Myanmar is generally believed to have been of another political offender, student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, in 1976 under a previous military government led by dictator Ne Win.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the sentences of prisoners on death row were commuted to life imprisonment, but several dozen convicts received death sentences between then and last year\u2019s takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization that tracks killing and arrests, said Friday that 2,114 civilians have been killed by security forces since the military takeover. 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San Suu Kyi moved to prison from house arrest, says Myanmar military junta","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Aung San Suu Kyi moved to prison, says Myanmar military junta","titleListing2":"Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to prison from house arrest, according to the military junta in Myanmar.","leadin":"Human rights experts have accused the army of creating a \"digital dictatorship\" through internet shutdowns and surveillance since last year's coup.","summary":"Human rights experts have accused the army of creating a \"digital dictatorship\" through internet shutdowns and surveillance since last year's coup.","keySentence":null,"url":"aung-san-suu-kyi-moved-to-prison-from-house-arrest-says-myanmar-military-junta","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to prison from house arrest, the military junta confirmed on Thursday. \n\nSuu Kyi is now reportedly being held in a prison compound in the capital Naypyitaw, separate from other detainees. \n\nThe elected leader was arrested on February 1 last year\u00a0when the army seized power from her\u00a0National League for Democracy government. \n\nShe was initially held at her residence in Naypyitaw but was later moved to an undisclosed location, generally believed to be on a military base. \n\nA spokesperson for the ruling military council told reporters that Suu Kyi was moved on Wednesday to the main prison in Naypyitaw in accordance with the law and that she is being held in \u201cwell-kept\u201d circumstances. \n\nThe 77-year-old is being tried on multiple charges, including corruption, and\u00a0has already been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on various charges . \n\nHer supporters say the charges are politically motivated to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power. \n\nSuu Kyi's upcoming trials are now expected to be held in the Naypyitaw prison facility. She faces\u00a011 counts of corruption, each of which carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years, and an election fraud charge, which carries a maximum sentence of three years. \n\nWhat's happening in Myanmar? \n\nThe military takeover in Myanmar has triggered\u00a0peaceful nationwide protests that security forces have cracked down on with lethal force. \n\nAccording to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners ,\u00a0more than 2,000 civilians have been killed and around 11,000 others detained by the army since February 2021. \n\nThe army claimed it seized power because the November 2020 election \u2014 won by Suu Kyi's party \u2014 was marred by widespread fraud. The allegations were not corroborated by independent election observers. \n\nThe ruling military council has now said it plans to hold new elections around the middle of next year, but critics have expressed concern that such polls are unlikely to be free and fair. \n\nTom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said that the military has been working hard to \u201ccreate an impression of legitimacy\u201d after ousting Suu Kyi\u2019s government. \n\n\u201cAny suggestion that there could be any possibility of a free and fair election in Myanmar in 2023 is frankly preposterous,\u201d he told at a news conference on Thursday. \n\nSuu Kyi has previously spent nearly 15 years under house arrest in Yangon under a military government. \n\nA 'digital dictatorship' \n\nSince the start of the coup, military authorities have also used internet shutdowns to block information from being communicated within Myanmar and beyond. \n\nMore recently, the junta has also shut down the internet in localised areas to target\u00a0pockets of resistance in a certain town or region. \n\n\"Over time, the junta has experimented in different ways to enforce their dictatorship through the digital sphere,\" said Alp Toker, the founder of Netblocks. \n\n\"They have tried every conceivable method to keep people from communicating amongst themselves and to the outside world. \n\n\"These internet shutdowns, whether localised or national, are closely associated with military raids, forced disappearances and are driven into people's minds as a form of fear and control.\" \n\nPhil Robertson, the Deputy Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, told Euronews that the junta has carried out a\u00a0\"systematic plan\" to restrict people's online movements \n\n\"This is all about trying to hide the atrocities, such as burning down villages, shooting people, mass arrests, and abuses in custody,\" he said. \n\n\"It certainly makes it more difficult for the research and investigations that we want to do.\" \n\nMajor social media platforms, such as Facebook or Telegram, have become\u00a0vital tools of communication for civilians in Myanmar, but have also been used to spread online misinformation, and facilitate violence. \n\nPro-military vigilante groups have appeared online, targeting regime opponents by sharing their personal information and contact details. \n\n\"What we're seeing is targeted surveillance against people considered to be activists,\" Robertson said. \n\nOne such account on Telegram \u2014\u00a0which has over 50,000 followers \u2014 has contributed to the arrest and even murders of high-profile regime opponents after posting their addresses online. \n\nMeta\u00a0banned the Myanmar military shortly after the coup began and has also removed Facebook accounts representing military-controlled businesses . \n\nBut analysts say the company has failed to prevent \"hate speech\" targeting anti-military protesters. \n\n\"Social media platforms haven't done enough so far in terms of having staff who understand the language and local crises, and can really get involved in complaints or abuse, harassment, and torture,\" Toker told Euronews. \n\n'Suffering in silence' \n\nIn February, the European Union sanctioned several top officials in Myanmar, as well as a lucrative state-owned oil and gas company that has helped fund the military takeover. \n\nThe bloc has said that it is \"deeply concerned\u00a0by the continuing escalation of violence in Myanmar and the evolution towards a protracted conflict with regional implications\". \n\nBut a recent UN press release has accused the international community of \"standing quietly by\" and urged countries to impose more targeted sanctions. \n\n\"The reality is that Myanmar is among the worst of the worst across the globe,\" Robertson told Euronews. \n\n\"We need sanctions restricting the sale or supply of dual-use surveillance technology, the things that the junta are using to try and track down various political activists.\" \n\n\"There should be a lot more pressure on companies that are selling things to the Myanmar military that they can use against their own people.\" \n\nNetblocks, which has been documenting internet disruptions in Myanmar since the start of the coup, is also calling for more action. \n\n\"Attention has been somewhat divided internationally with the Ukraine war, and that means that Myanmar has suffered in silence in the last few months,\" said Toker. \n\n\"We need to find ways to reconnect people in Myanmar and let those voices be heard.\"","htmlText":"<p>Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to prison from house arrest, the military junta confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi is now reportedly being held in a prison compound in the capital Naypyitaw, separate from other detainees.<\/p>\n<p>The elected leader was arrested on February 1 last year\u00a0when the army seized power from her\u00a0National League for Democracy government.<\/p>\n<p>She was initially held at her residence in Naypyitaw but was later moved to an undisclosed location, generally believed to be on a military base.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the ruling military council told reporters that Suu Kyi was moved on Wednesday to the main prison in Naypyitaw in accordance with the law and that she is being held in \u201cwell-kept\u201d circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old is being tried on multiple charges, including corruption, and\u00a0has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//04//27//myanmar-s-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-five-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption/">already been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment on various charges<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her supporters say the charges are politically motivated to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi's upcoming trials are now expected to be held in the Naypyitaw prison facility. She faces\u00a011 counts of corruption, each of which carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years, and an election fraud charge, which carries a maximum sentence of three years.<\/p>\n<h2>What's happening in Myanmar?<\/h2><p>The military takeover in Myanmar has triggered\u00a0peaceful nationwide protests that security forces have cracked down on with lethal force.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////aappb.org///">Assistance Association for Political Prisoners<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0more than 2,000 civilians have been killed and around 11,000 others detained by the army since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The army claimed it seized power because the November 2020 election \u2014 won by Suu Kyi's party \u2014 was marred by widespread fraud. The allegations were not corroborated by independent election observers.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling military council has now said it plans to hold new elections around the middle of next year, but critics have expressed concern that such polls are unlikely to be free and fair.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6335744,6184420\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//10//29//myanmar-s-military-systematically-torture-its-detainees-ap/">Myanmar's military systematically torture its detainees: AP<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said that the military has been working hard to \u201ccreate an impression of legitimacy\u201d after ousting Suu Kyi\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny suggestion that there could be any possibility of a free and fair election in Myanmar in 2023 is frankly preposterous,\u201d he told at a news conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi has previously spent nearly 15 years under house arrest in Yangon under a military government.<\/p>\n<h2>A 'digital dictatorship'<\/h2><p>Since the start of the coup, military authorities have also used internet shutdowns to block information from being communicated within Myanmar and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the junta has also shut down the internet in localised areas to target\u00a0pockets of resistance in a certain town or region.<\/p>\n<p>\"Over time, the junta has experimented in different ways to enforce their dictatorship through the digital sphere,\" said Alp Toker, the founder of Netblocks.<\/p>\n<p>\"They have tried every conceivable method to keep people from communicating amongst themselves and to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>\"These internet shutdowns, whether localised or national, are closely associated with military raids, forced disappearances and are driven into people's minds as a form of fear and control.\"<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6443624\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a 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online, targeting regime opponents by sharing their personal information and contact details.<\/p>\n<p>\"What we're seeing is targeted surveillance against people considered to be activists,\" Robertson said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5545286506469501\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//79//55//94//808x449_cmsv2_e707a652-e8f6-57f2-aa1a-6d1c7fabb8af-6795594.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews via Telegram\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/79\/55\/94\/384x213_cmsv2_e707a652-e8f6-57f2-aa1a-6d1c7fabb8af-6795594.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Pro-military vigilantes have used social media to identify political opponents in Myanmar.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews via Telegram<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One such account on Telegram \u2014\u00a0which has over 50,000 followers \u2014 has contributed to the arrest and even murders of high-profile regime opponents after posting their addresses online.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u00a0banned the Myanmar military shortly after the coup began and has also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////about.fb.com//news//2021//02//an-update-on-myanmar///">removed Facebook accounts representing military-controlled businesses<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts say the company has failed to prevent \"hate speech\" targeting anti-military protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\"Social media platforms haven't done enough so far in terms of having staff who understand the language and local crises, and can really get involved in complaints or abuse, harassment, and torture,\" Toker told Euronews.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6545206,5554974\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//03//15//myanmar-s-message-to-the-eu-amid-ukraine-crisis-don-t-forget-about-us/">Myanmar's message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget about us'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//04//14//myanmar-could-spiral-into-full-blown-conflict-similar-to-syria-un-rights-chief-warns/">Myanmar could spiral into 'full-blown conflict' similar to Syria, UN rights chief warns<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>'Suffering in silence'<\/h2><p>In February, the European Union sanctioned several top officials in Myanmar, as well as a lucrative state-owned oil and gas company that has helped fund the military takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc has said that it is \"deeply concerned\u00a0by the continuing escalation of violence in Myanmar and the evolution towards a protracted conflict with regional implications\".<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.ohchr.org//en//press-releases//2022//06//myanmar-un-experts-condemn-militarys-digital-dictatorship/">recent UN press release<\/strong><\/a> has accused the international community of \"standing quietly by\" and urged countries to impose more targeted sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\"The reality is that Myanmar is among the worst of the worst across the globe,\" Robertson told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need sanctions restricting the sale or supply of dual-use surveillance 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Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five more years in prison for corruption","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to further five years in prison","titleListing2":"Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five more years in prison for corruption.","leadin":"Analysts say the conviction is an unjust move to legitimise the military junta\u2019s seizure of power in 2021.","summary":"Analysts say the conviction is an unjust move to legitimise the military junta\u2019s seizure of power in 2021.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-s-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-five-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption. \n\nSuu Kyi was found guilty of accepting gold bars and large sums of money given to her as a bribe by a top political colleague. The former State Counsellor of Myanmar had denied the allegations. \n\nHer supporters say the conviction is an unjust move to discredit Suu Kyi and legitimise the military junta\u2019s seizure of power in 2021. \n\nIndependent legal experts have also stated that the sentence will prevent the 76-year-old from returning to an active role in politics. \n\nThe elected leader has already been sentenced to six years\u2019 imprisonment in other cases and faces 10 more corruption charges. Further convictions could bring her total sentence to more than 100 years in prison. \n\nThe European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has denounced the sentence as \"politically motivated\" and \"another flagrant violation of human rights in Myanmar\". \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy party won a landslide victory in the 2020 general election, but lawmakers were not allowed to take their seats when the army seized power on 1 February 2021. The elected leader and many of her senior colleagues in government and the party were arrested. \n\nMyanmar's army claimed it acted because there had been massive electoral fraud, despite no evidence being reported by independent election observers. \n\nThe takeover was met with large nonviolent protests nationwide, which security forces quashed with lethal force. \n\nAccording to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, almost 1,800 civilians have died in Myanmar since the coup. \n\nSuu Kyi became a public figure in 1988 during a failed uprising against a previous military government when she helped found the National League for Democracy. \n\nShe spent 15 of the next 21 years under house arrest for leading a nonviolent struggle for democracy that earned her the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. \n\nSuu Kyi has not been seen or allowed to speak in public since she was detained and is being held in an undisclosed location. \n\nAt last week\u2019s final hearing in the case, she appeared to be in good health and asked her supporters to \u201cstay united.\u201d \n\nHer trial in the capital Naypyitaw was closed to the media, diplomats and spectators, and her lawyers were barred from speaking to the press. \n\n\u201cThe days of Aung San Suu Kyi as a free woman are effectively over,\" said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. \n\n\"Myanmar\u2019s junta and the country\u2019s kangaroo courts are walking in lockstep to put Aung San Suu Kyi away for what could ultimately be the equivalent of a life sentence, given her advanced age.\" \n\n\"Destroying popular democracy in Myanmar also means getting rid of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the junta is leaving nothing to chance.\"","htmlText":"<p>Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi was found guilty of accepting gold bars and large sums of money given to her as a bribe by a top political colleague. The former State Counsellor of Myanmar had denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Her supporters say the conviction is an unjust move to discredit Suu Kyi and legitimise the military junta\u2019s seizure of power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Independent legal experts have also stated that the sentence will prevent the 76-year-old from returning to an active role in politics.<\/p>\n<p>The elected leader has already been sentenced to six years\u2019 imprisonment in other cases and faces 10 more corruption charges. Further convictions could bring her total sentence to more than 100 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has denounced the sentence as \"politically motivated\" and \"another flagrant violation of human rights in Myanmar\".<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6361096,6176768\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//10//26//myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-trial-seriously-abridges-free-and-fair-standards-says-hrw/">Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's trial seriously abridges free and fair standards, says HRW<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//01//10//aung-san-suu-kyi-ousted-leader-sentenced-to-four-more-years-in-jail-in-myanmar/">Aung San Suu Kyi: Ousted leader 'sentenced to four more years in jail' in Myanmar<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s National League for Democracy party won a landslide victory in the 2020 general election, but lawmakers were not allowed to take their seats when the army seized power on 1 February 2021. The elected leader and many of her senior colleagues in government and the party were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar's army claimed it acted because there had been massive electoral fraud, despite no evidence being reported by independent election observers.<\/p>\n<p>The takeover was met with large nonviolent protests nationwide, which security forces quashed with lethal force.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, almost 1,800 civilians have died in Myanmar since the coup.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6443624,6545206\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a 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undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s final hearing in the case, she appeared to be in good health and asked her supporters to \u201cstay united.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her trial in the capital Naypyitaw was closed to the media, diplomats and spectators, and her lawyers were barred from speaking to the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days of Aung San Suu Kyi as a free woman are effectively over,\" said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>\"Myanmar\u2019s junta and the country\u2019s kangaroo courts are walking in lockstep to put Aung San Suu Kyi away for what could ultimately be the equivalent of a life sentence, given her advanced age.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Destroying popular democracy in Myanmar also means getting rid of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the junta is leaving nothing to chance.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1651072149,"publishedAt":1651075160,"updatedAt":1651085070,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/04\/27\/myanmar-s-aung-san-suu-kyi-sentenced-to-five-more-years-in-prison-for-corruption","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/66\/18\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_55d52952-8c86-54c8-af32-fe2a3af5e330-6661898.jpg","altText":"Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted as Myanmar's leader last year by a military junta.","caption":"Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted as Myanmar's leader last year by a military junta.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Peter Dejong, 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message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget about us'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar's message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget us\"","titleListing2":"Myanmar's message to the EU amid Ukraine crisis: 'Don't forget about us'","leadin":"Activists and exiles urge European leaders to keep up the pressure on the military junta even as the conflict in Ukraine dominates headlines.","summary":"Activists and exiles urge European leaders to keep up the pressure on the military junta even as the conflict in Ukraine dominates headlines.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-s-message-to-the-eu-amid-ukraine-crisis-don-t-forget-about-us","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On February 21, the European Union imposed its fourth round of sanctions on the military junta that ousted Myanmar\u2019s democratically-elected government in 2021. \n\nGoing further than the US, Brussels sanctioned the country\u2019s state-run oil and gas behemoth, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, a major revenue earner for the junta. \n\nThree days later, Russia invaded Ukraine. \n\nAs respresentative of Myanmar's exiled National Unity Government (NUG) in the Czech Republic, Linn Thant is concerned that the war in Ukraine will distract Europe's attention from the situation in Myanmar. \n\nA former political prisoner who spent 20 years in jail in Myanmar for his role as student leader during the 1988 uprising against a previous military government, Thant directs anti-junta activism across Europe from his small apartment in Prague. He, like everyone in Myanmar, is watching events in Ukraine closely. \n\nMore than a year on since the coup, which overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the junta is struggling to make gains, despite jailing its political opponents and launching scorched-earth tactics against rebel communities. More than 1,600 civilians have now been killed by security forces since the putsch, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent Thailand-based activist group. \n\nLarge swathes of the country have resisted military control. Several ethnic insurgent groups have joined the fight against the junta, some cooperating with the civilian militia, the people\u2019s defense forces, who took up arms last year after the NUG called for a \u201cpeople's revolution\u201d. \n\nAs many Burmese continue with their resistance against a military regime \u2014 which counts Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, as a loyal ally \u2014 \u201cthey stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and are praying for the people of Ukraine,\u201d said Thant. \u201cEven in our most trying times, we are sustaining our sense of humanity.\u201d \n\nBut he appealed to the EU not to \u201cforget the people of Myanmar who are suffering and facing brutal violence everyday\u201d, directed by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, \u201cPutin's puppet\u201d in Asia. \n\nThis week, the European Parliament passed a resolution reaffirming its position on the Myanmar crisis. On March 10, the European Commission\u2019s vice-president for values and transparency, V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, addressed the chamber on behalf of Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief. \n\n\u201cWe should not lose sight of this horrifying situation\u201d in Myanmar, she stated, adding that \u201cthe crisis in Ukraine does not mean we forget the acute suffering of the people of Myanmar.\u201d \n\n\u201cThe European Union keeps all policy options under review, with the aim of supporting the people of Myanmar and bringing the country back to a path towards democracy,\u201d Jourov\u00e1 stated. \n\nSome tangibles were announced. The EU has provided an additional \u20ac1m to the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, a group setup by the UN Human Rights Council in 2018 to collect evidence on human rights violations. Jourov\u00e1 said the EU has allocated \u20ac65m for aid to Myanmar, of which \u20ac23m was provided in 2021. \n\nShe also announced that the EU will present a resolution to the Human Rights Council to ensure the \u201chuman rights situation in Myanmar remains high on the agenda of the international community.\u201d \n\nOne key recent development was the appointment of Igor Driesmans, the EU\u2019s ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc, as the new EU special envoy on Myanmar on February 22. \u201cThe EU stands more than ever unequivocally with the people of Myanmar, continuing to strive for a return to democracy,\u201d he told Euronews. \n\nThis has been welcomed by Myanmar\u2019s anti-junta groups. \u201cWe are hoping that the envoy will play an active role in reminding the governments of the EU about the crisis in Myanmar and atrocities committed by the military junta on its own people,\u201d said Zin Mar Aung, the NUG-appointed foreign minister. \n\nSince his appointment to this new post last month, Driesmans says he has \u201cstepped up diplomatic engagement with all stakeholders\u201d. Last week he visited Cambodia, the current chair of the ASEAN bloc, and he said that he will visit more Southeast Asia capitals over the coming weeks. \n\nHe has also been in contact with the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, and other actors outside the country, he said. Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has meanwhile maintained contact with different foreign ministers in Asia. \n\nBut questions remain as to what more Brussels is willing to do. Although there is pressure on the EU to impose yet more sanctions on the junta, it is by no means clear the EU will do so anytime soon. The latest round came eight months after Brussels imposed its previous tranche. \n\nBrussels seemingly unprepared to change its position on how the crisis can be solved. It and Washignton have trusted ASEAN members with mediating between the rival parties in Myanmar, despite the bloc lacking any real experience of this and most of its members disinterested in involving themselves in the affairs of another country. \n\nNeither the EU, nor the US and Britain appear willing to throw its support behind Myanmar's shadow government, the NUG, despite calls for it to do so. \u201cThe EU can recognize NUG as a legal government of Myanmar and can announce Burmese military as a terrorist organization,\u201d said Thant, the shadow\u2019s governments de-facto envoy in Europe. The NUG wasn\u2019t mentioned by Jourov\u00e1 in her speech to the European Parliament on Thursday. \n\nHeidi Hautala, a Green MEP from Finland and a vice-president of the European Parliament, said the legislative \u201cwill continue to cooperate and engage with legitimate Myanmar actors\u201d. She recommended that a delegation of MEPs should soon visit Southeast Asia, adding that \u201cwe need a better understanding of the situation with humanitarian assistance and how people can access it.\u201d \n\n\u201cThe European Parliament will continue to engage with the ASEAN and signal that the situation in Myanmar is taken very seriously. It is crucial that journalists keep covering Myanmar and maintain it on the public agenda,\u201d Hautala said. \n\nZin Mar Aung, the NUG\u2019s foreign minister, said she understood \u201cUkraine is important for the European and Western governments due to its geographical position\u201d. \n\nThere are major differences in these two crises aside from geography. The coup in Naypyidaw sparked a major refugee emergency, and more 440,000 Burmese people have now been displaced, according to a recent UN estimate. But so far the crisis hasn\u2019t spilled over into neighboring countries. \n\nRussia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, by comparison, has so far seen more than 2.2 million people flee into central European states, and the localized war could quickly deteriorate into a global conflict. Russia, after all, is a nuclear power. \n\nThe Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has become a hero in western capitals for his leadership since the invasion. Suu Kyi, Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader, was once the darling of European liberals, but she fell out of favor after she was perceived as defending the military-led genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya population that began in 2016. \n\n'Enabled by Russia' \n\nUkraine is a major supplier of food to Europe and a key conduit for energy links, with EU-Ukraine trade worth around \u20ac43 billion in 2019, according to European Commission data. Myanmar\u2019s bilateral trade with the EU was worth a trifling, by comparison, \u20ac3.1 billion in 2020. \n\nSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe has undergone a military \u201crevolution\u201d led by Germany, which will now commit an extra \u20ac100 billion to defense spending, potentially soon making it the largest military power in Europe. NATO, the western defensive alliance, no longer appears the morbund grouping it did just months ago.\u00a0 \n\nThe coordinated sanctions on Russia have been far more severe and effective than many pundits predicted. The ruble is collapsing, hundreds of Western brands have shut up their stores in the country, and Russians are \n\nBy comparison, western sanctions on the Myanmar military and its associated businesses now appear limp. The EU has frozen the assets and imposed travel bans on 65 Burmese officials and 10 entities. There is also the sense that the US and EU did not exert as much effort pressuring their allies in Asia to join in the international sanctions on Myanmar as they did to garner a quick response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, analysts say. European partners in the region, including Japan, South Korea and Singapore, have imposed sanctions on Russia but not on Myanmar's military junta. \n\nBut Yadanar Maung, a spokesperson for research activist group Justice For Myanmar, said it is \u201cpositive\u201d that Western states and their Asian allies acted so swiftly to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u201cWe call on them to take a similar stand against the Myanmar military junta, a terrorist organization that flagrantly violates international law,\u201d said Maung. \n\n\u201cIn the last week, the Myanmar military has continued its campaign of terror, staging indiscriminate attacks across Myanmar, enabled by the flow of Russian arms,\u201d she added. \n\nRussia has been one of the main providers of weapons to Myanmar\u2019s military since 2018, according to a recently published report by Tom Andrews, the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar. Euronews understands that Belarus, a Russian ally in its war on Ukraine, has recently provided military hardware and material for printing banknotes to the Myanmar junta, although this cannot be independently verified. \n\nAs well as the moral imperative, the US and EU shouldn\u2019t overlook the geopolitical importance of events playing out in Myanmar, advises Hunter Marston of the Australian National University, noting that the country lies at the faultline of rivalries between China and India, and is located in the fastest growing economic region in the world. \n\n\u201cDue to our geographical location, it can be more difficult to end the dictatorship and restore democracy in Myanmar,\u201d Aung told Euronews. \u201cTherefore, we ask the governments of the EU and West to resolutely and effectively stand behind Myanmar\u2019s people's revolution.\u201d","htmlText":"<p>On February 21, the European Union imposed its fourth round of sanctions on the military junta that ousted Myanmar\u2019s democratically-elected government in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Going further than the US, Brussels sanctioned the country\u2019s state-run oil and gas behemoth, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, a major revenue earner for the junta.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As respresentative of Myanmar's exiled National Unity Government (NUG) in the Czech Republic, Linn Thant is concerned that the war in Ukraine will distract Europe's attention from the situation in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>A former political prisoner who spent 20 years in jail in Myanmar for his role as student leader during the 1988 uprising against a previous military government, Thant directs anti-junta activism across Europe from his small apartment in Prague. He, like everyone in Myanmar, is watching events in Ukraine closely.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year on since the coup, which overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the junta is struggling to make gains, despite jailing its political opponents and launching scorched-earth tactics against rebel communities. More than 1,600 civilians have now been killed by security forces since the putsch, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent Thailand-based activist group.<\/p>\n<p>Large swathes of the country have resisted military control. Several ethnic insurgent groups have joined the fight against the junta, some cooperating with the civilian militia, the people\u2019s defense forces, who took up arms last year after the NUG called for a \u201cpeople's revolution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As many Burmese continue with their resistance against a military regime \u2014 which counts Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, as a loyal ally \u2014 \u201cthey stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and are praying for the people of Ukraine,\u201d said Thant. \u201cEven in our most trying times, we are sustaining our sense of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6335744,6443624,6404088\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//02//01//one-year-since-military-takeover-myanmar-opposition-holds-silent-strike/">One year since military takeover, Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//01//21//energy-giants-total-and-chevron-leave-myanmar-over-human-rights-abuses/">Energy giants Total and Chevron leave Myanmar over human rights abuses<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But he appealed to the EU not to \u201cforget the people of Myanmar who are suffering and facing brutal violence everyday\u201d, directed by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, \u201cPutin's puppet\u201d in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the European Parliament passed a resolution reaffirming its position on the Myanmar crisis. On March 10, the European Commission\u2019s vice-president for values and transparency, V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, addressed the chamber on behalf of Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not lose sight of this horrifying situation\u201d in Myanmar, she stated, adding that \u201cthe crisis in Ukraine does not mean we forget the acute suffering of the people of Myanmar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Union keeps all policy options under review, with the aim of supporting the people of Myanmar and bringing the country back to a path towards democracy,\u201d Jourov\u00e1 stated.<\/p>\n<p>Some tangibles were announced. The EU has provided an additional \u20ac1m to the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, a group setup by the UN Human Rights Council in 2018 to collect evidence on human rights violations. Jourov\u00e1 said the EU has allocated \u20ac65m for aid to Myanmar, of which \u20ac23m was provided in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She also announced that the EU will present a resolution to the Human Rights Council to ensure the \u201chuman rights situation in Myanmar remains high on the agenda of the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One key recent development was the appointment of Igor Driesmans, the EU\u2019s ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc, as the new EU special envoy on Myanmar on February 22. \u201cThe EU stands more than ever unequivocally with the people of Myanmar, continuing to strive for a return to democracy,\u201d he told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>This has been welcomed by Myanmar\u2019s anti-junta groups. \u201cWe are hoping that the envoy will play an active role in reminding the governments of the EU about the crisis in Myanmar and atrocities committed by the military junta on its own people,\u201d said Zin Mar Aung, the NUG-appointed foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>Since his appointment to this new post last month, Driesmans says he has \u201cstepped up diplomatic engagement with all stakeholders\u201d. Last week he visited Cambodia, the current chair of the ASEAN bloc, and he said that he will visit more Southeast Asia capitals over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been in contact with the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, and other actors outside the country, he said. Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has meanwhile maintained contact with different foreign ministers in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>But questions remain as to what more Brussels is willing to do. Although there is pressure on the EU to impose yet more sanctions on the junta, it is by no means clear the EU will do so anytime soon. The latest round came eight months after Brussels imposed its previous tranche.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels seemingly unprepared to change its position on how the crisis can be solved. It and Washignton have trusted ASEAN members with mediating between the rival parties in Myanmar, despite the bloc lacking any real experience of this and most of its members disinterested in involving themselves in the affairs of another country.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the EU, nor the US and Britain appear willing to throw its support behind Myanmar's shadow government, the NUG, despite calls for it to do so. \u201cThe EU can recognize NUG as a legal government of Myanmar and can announce Burmese military as a terrorist organization,\u201d said Thant, the shadow\u2019s governments de-facto envoy in Europe. The NUG wasn\u2019t mentioned by Jourov\u00e1 in her speech to the European Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Hautala, a Green MEP from Finland and a vice-president of the European Parliament, said the legislative \u201cwill continue to cooperate and engage with legitimate Myanmar actors\u201d. She recommended that a delegation of MEPs should soon visit Southeast Asia, adding that \u201cwe need a better understanding of the situation with humanitarian assistance and how people can access it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Parliament will continue to engage with the ASEAN and signal that the situation in Myanmar is taken very seriously. It is crucial that journalists keep covering Myanmar and maintain it on the public agenda,\u201d Hautala said.<\/p>\n<p>Zin Mar Aung, the NUG\u2019s foreign minister, said she understood \u201cUkraine is important for the European and Western governments due to its geographical position\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.559\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//54//52//06//808x451_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg/" alt=\"AP/Free Burma Rangers\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/384x215_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/640x358_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/750x419_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/828x463_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/1080x604_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/1200x671_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/54\/52\/06\/1920x1073_cmsv2_f10cb0e5-9f48-5ec5-94c8-9f6fefbfb65f-6545206.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">In this image taken from video provided by Free Burma Rangers, a Myanmar military helicopter fires rockets west of Loikaw in Kayah State, Myanmar on Feb. 21, 2022.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP/Free Burma Rangers<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There are major differences in these two crises aside from geography. The coup in Naypyidaw sparked a major refugee emergency, and more 440,000 Burmese people have now been displaced, according to a recent UN estimate. But so far the crisis hasn\u2019t spilled over into neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, by comparison, has so far seen more than 2.2 million people flee into central European states, and the localized war could quickly deteriorate into a global conflict. Russia, after all, is a nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has become a hero in western capitals for his leadership since the invasion. Suu Kyi, Myanmar\u2019s ousted leader, was once the darling of European liberals, but she fell out of favor after she was perceived as defending the military-led genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya population that began in 2016.<\/p>\n<h2>'Enabled by Russia'<\/h2><p>Ukraine is a major supplier of food to Europe and a key conduit for energy links, with EU-Ukraine trade worth around \u20ac43 billion in 2019, according to European Commission data. Myanmar\u2019s bilateral trade with the EU was worth a trifling, by comparison, \u20ac3.1 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe has undergone a military \u201crevolution\u201d led by Germany, which will now commit an extra \u20ac100 billion to defense spending, potentially soon making it the largest military power in Europe. NATO, the western defensive alliance, no longer appears the morbund grouping it did just months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coordinated sanctions on Russia have been far more severe and effective than many pundits predicted. The ruble is collapsing, hundreds of Western brands have shut up their stores in the country, and Russians are<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, western sanctions on the Myanmar military and its associated businesses now appear limp. The EU has frozen the assets and imposed travel bans on 65 Burmese officials and 10 entities. There is also the sense that the US and EU did not exert as much effort pressuring their allies in Asia to join in the international sanctions on Myanmar as they did to garner a quick response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, analysts say. European partners in the region, including Japan, South Korea and Singapore, have imposed sanctions on Russia but not on Myanmar's military junta.<\/p>\n<p>But Yadanar Maung, a spokesperson for research activist group Justice For Myanmar, said it is \u201cpositive\u201d that Western states and their Asian allies acted so swiftly to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\u201cWe call on them to take a similar stand against the Myanmar military junta, a terrorist organization that flagrantly violates international law,\u201d said Maung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last week, the Myanmar military has continued its campaign of terror, staging indiscriminate attacks across Myanmar, enabled by the flow of Russian arms,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been one of the main providers of weapons to Myanmar\u2019s military since 2018, according to a recently published report by Tom Andrews, the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar. Euronews understands that Belarus, a Russian ally in its war on Ukraine, has recently provided military hardware and material for printing banknotes to the Myanmar junta, although this cannot be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the moral imperative, the US and EU shouldn\u2019t overlook the geopolitical importance of events playing out in Myanmar, advises Hunter Marston of the Australian National University, noting that the country lies at the faultline of rivalries between China and India, and is located in the fastest growing economic region in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to our geographical location, it can be more difficult to end the dictatorship and restore democracy in Myanmar,\u201d Aung told Euronews. \u201cTherefore, we ask the governments of the EU and West to resolutely and effectively stand behind Myanmar\u2019s people's 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junta releases hundreds of prisoners on country's Unity Day","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar junta releases hundreds of prisoners on country's Unity Day","titleListing2":"In a customary gesture for national holidays, the country's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing announced an amnesty for more than 860 prisoners.","leadin":"In a customary gesture for national holidays, the country's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing also announced an amnesty for more than 860 prisoners, state-run newspapers reported.","summary":"In a customary gesture for national holidays, the country's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing also announced an amnesty for more than 860 prisoners, state-run newspapers reported.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-junta-releases-hundreds-of-prisoners-on-country-s-unity-day","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On the 75th anniversary of Union Day in Myanmar, its military junta announced that it would release over 800 prisoners from its jails on Saturday. \n\nAs of Friday, the government was keeping 9,087 people under detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.\u00a0 \n\nIn a customary gesture for national holidays, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing -- head of the military council that seized power last year -- announced an amnesty for the prisoners, but it was unclear how many political detainees were among those freed. \n\n\nCrowds gathered outside one detention centre in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, to see if any of their loved ones were being released as two buses full of people left the facility.\u00a0 \n\nOne of the people present at the scene, Daw Lwin Lwin Moe, said she was waiting for her 19-year-old daughter, arrested for incitement against the military last year.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, it is still unclear whether political activists and prisoners are among those being released. \n\n\nMyanmar has been in political turmoil since February 2021, when the military seized control after a general election which saw Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party win by a landslide. The army had backed the opposition.\u00a0 \n\nThe coup created protests, internal conflict and violent crackdowns, with many describing it as a civil war. \n\nAbout 1,500 civilians have been killed but the government has been unable to suppress opposition. \n\n\nMatthew Saltmarsh, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, says that currently, \"security is deteriorating rapidly across the country as fighting and armed conflict intensifies with no sign of abating\". \n\nThe UNHCR forecasts that there will be an acceleration in displacements in the coming weeks and months. \n\nThe head of Myanmar\u2019s military government appealed Saturday for national unity among the country\u2019s restive ethnic minorities as he presided over a parade marking the 75th anniversary of a historic agreement that has failed to ensure harmony. \n\n\nIn a prepared statement released Saturday,\u00a0Min Aung Hlaing acknowledged that the conflicts with the minorities have yet to be resolved, saying that had slowed the country's development. \n\nHe later oversaw the parade in the capital Naypyitaw with members of the armed forces and government ministries marching past. It also included dozens of elaborate colourful floats representing the country\u2019s regions where the minorities predominantly live. \n\n\"The patriotic spirit is defined as adoring the own country, national races, language, literature and culture and having a feeling against the encroachment on the nation and the national races,\u201d he said. \u201cThe weak patriotic spirit can bring terrible danger to the national and the national races.\u201d","htmlText":"<p>On the 75th anniversary of Union Day in Myanmar, its military junta announced that it would release over 800 prisoners from its jails on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the government was keeping 9,087 people under detention, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a customary gesture for national holidays, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing -- head of the military council that seized power last year -- announced an amnesty for the prisoners, but it was unclear how many political detainees were among those freed. <\/p>\n<p>Crowds gathered outside one detention centre in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, to see if any of their loved ones were being released as two buses full of people left the facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the people present at the scene, Daw Lwin Lwin Moe, said she was waiting for her 19-year-old daughter, arrested for incitement against the military last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, it is still unclear whether political activists and prisoners are among those being released. <\/p>\n<p>Myanmar has been in political turmoil since February 2021, when the military seized control after a general election which saw Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party win by a landslide. The army had backed the opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coup created protests, internal conflict and violent crackdowns, with many describing it as a civil war.<\/p>\n<p>About 1,500 civilians have been killed but the government has been unable to suppress opposition. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6443624,6335744\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//02//01//one-year-since-military-takeover-myanmar-opposition-holds-silent-strike/">One year since military takeover, Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike'<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Matthew Saltmarsh, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, says that currently, \"security is deteriorating rapidly across the country as fighting and armed conflict intensifies with no sign of abating\".<\/p>\n<p>The UNHCR forecasts that there will be an acceleration in displacements in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Myanmar\u2019s military government appealed Saturday for national unity among the country\u2019s restive ethnic minorities as he presided over a parade marking the 75th anniversary of a historic agreement that has failed to ensure harmony. <\/p>\n<p>In a prepared statement released Saturday,\u00a0Min Aung Hlaing acknowledged that the conflicts with the minorities have yet to be resolved, saying that had slowed the country's development.<\/p>\n<p>He later oversaw the parade in the capital Naypyitaw with members of the armed forces and government ministries marching past. It also included dozens of elaborate colourful floats representing the country\u2019s regions where the minorities predominantly live.<\/p>\n<p>\"The patriotic spirit is defined as adoring the own country, national races, language, literature and culture and having a feeling against the encroachment on the nation and the national races,\u201d he said. \u201cThe weak patriotic spirit can bring terrible danger to the national and the national 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year since military takeover, Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike' to mark one year since coup","titleListing2":"One year since military takeover, Myanmar opposition holds 'silent strike'","leadin":"The new U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says violence has intensified since the military took power a year ago and sparked a resistance movement in the country.","summary":"The new U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says violence has intensified since the military took power a year ago and sparked a resistance movement in the country.","keySentence":null,"url":"one-year-since-military-takeover-myanmar-opposition-holds-silent-strike","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Opponents of military rule in Myanmar marked the one-year anniversary of the army\u2019s seizure of power with a nationwide strike Tuesday to show their strength and solidarity amid concern about what has become an increasingly violent contention for power. \n\nThe \u201csilent strike\u201d sought to empty the streets of Myanmar\u2019s cities and towns by having people stay home and businesses shut their doors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. \n\nIn Yangon, the country\u2019s largest city, and elsewhere, photos on social media showed normally busy streets were almost empty. \n\nThe anniversary has also attracted international attention, especially from Western nations critical of the military takeover, such as the United States. \n\nPresident Joe Biden in a statement called for the military to reverse its actions, free the country\u2019s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees and engage in meaningful dialogue to return Myanmar on a path to democracy. \n\nThe military\u2019s takeover on Feb. 1, 2021, ousted the elected government of Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy party was about to begin a second five-year term in office after winning a landslide victory in the previous year\u2019s November election. The military said it acted because there was widespread voter fraud in the polls \u2014 an allegation that independent election observers have said they\u2019ve seen no serious evidence for. \n\nWidespread nonviolent demonstrations followed the army\u2019s takeover initially, but armed resistance arose after protests were put down with lethal force. About 1,500 civilians have been killed but the government has been unable to suppress the insurgency, which some U.N. experts now characterize as a civil war. \n\nThe U.S. on Monday imposed new sanctions on Myanmar officials, adding to those already applied to top military officers. They freeze any assets that those targeted may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with them. Britain and Canada announced similar measures. \n\nA statement from the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres highlighted \u201can intensification in violence, a deepening of the human rights and humanitarian crises and a rapid rise of poverty in Myanmar,\u201d which it said required an urgent response. \n\nPeople in Myanmar rushed before the start of Tuesday\u2019s strike to buy essentials, and in Yangon appeared to have done their shopping on Monday. \n\nPro-democracy flash mob marches were held in several places before the start of the strike in the early morning hours, when clashes with police and soldiers are less likely. \n\nLocal media reported ongoing violence on Monday, with at least six bombings believed to have been carried out by resistance forces in Yangon, and another at a police station in Myitkyina in northern Kachin state. The opposition carries out daily guerrilla actions, while the military engages in larger-scale assaults in rural areas, including air strikes, which are blamed for many civilian casualties. \n\nDespite tight security in cities including Yangon, Mandalay and Sagaing, young protesters including Buddhist monks held spirited but peaceful protests at dawn, carrying banners and chanting anti-military slogans. \n\nMany also held up three fingers, the resistance salute adopted from \u201cthe Hunger Games\u201d movie that has also been used by pro-democracy demonstrators in neighboring Thailand. \n\nShopkeepers has been threatened with arrest by the authorities; consequently some were open for business Tuesday, but appeared to have few if any customers. \n\nSince last week, the government had issued official warnings in state-run media that anyone taking part in the strike could be prosecuted, including under the Counter-Terrorism Law with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and the possible confiscation of their property. \n\nDozens of business owners who had announced they planned to be closed were arrested, according to reports in the state-run newspaper Myanma Alinn Daily. \n\nThe detainees, from areas around the country, included shopkeepers, restaurant owners, medical workers, a monk, a make-up artist, a mobile phone repair shop owner and an astrologer. \n\nThe military-installed government initiated other measures to try to undercut the strike. In Yangon and Mandalay, city administrators scheduled special events, including a cycling contest, to try to draw crowds. City workers in Yangon were told to attend during strike hours, according to leaked documents posted on social media. \n\nSeveral pro-military demonstrations, widely believed to have been organized by the authorities, were also held. \n\nLeaders of the opposing sides also broadcast speeches marking the anniversary. \n\nDuwa Lashi La, acting president of the opposition's National Unity Government, said the group is understood by the people as the guiding force of the revolution, and it promises to do its utmost to make the revolution a success. The NUG, established by elected lawmakers, considers itself the country\u2019s legitimate administrative body and has won the loyalty of many citizens. The military has branded it a \u201cterrorist\u201d organization. \n\nSenior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the military-installed government, reviewed its performance since taking power in an hourlong speech. He pledged a \u201cgenuine and disciplined multiparty democratic system,\u201d calling for cooperation \u201cso as to achieve a better future for the country and people.\u201d","htmlText":"<p>Opponents of military rule in Myanmar marked the one-year anniversary of the army\u2019s seizure of power with a nationwide strike Tuesday to show their strength and solidarity amid concern about what has become an increasingly violent contention for power.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csilent strike\u201d sought to empty the streets of Myanmar\u2019s cities and towns by having people stay home and businesses shut their doors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In Yangon, the country\u2019s largest city, and elsewhere, photos on social media showed normally busy streets were almost empty.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary has also attracted international attention, especially from Western nations critical of the military takeover, such as the United States.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden in a statement called for the military to reverse its actions, free the country\u2019s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees and engage in meaningful dialogue to return Myanmar on a path to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s takeover on Feb. 1, 2021, ousted the elected government of Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy party was about to begin a second five-year term in office after winning a landslide victory in the previous year\u2019s November election. The military said it acted because there was widespread voter fraud in the polls \u2014 an allegation that independent election observers have said they\u2019ve seen no serious evidence for.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread nonviolent demonstrations followed the army\u2019s takeover initially, but armed resistance arose after protests were put down with lethal force. About 1,500 civilians have been killed but the government has been unable to suppress the insurgency, which some U.N. experts now characterize as a civil war.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6335744,6361096,6327978\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//01//10//aung-san-suu-kyi-ousted-leader-sentenced-to-four-more-years-in-jail-in-myanmar/">Aung San Suu Kyi: Ousted leader 'sentenced to four more years in jail' in Myanmar<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//30//we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say/">'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//25//people-flee-into-thailand-amid-myanmar-fighting/">People flee into Thailand amid Myanmar fighting<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The U.S. on Monday imposed new sanctions on Myanmar officials, adding to those already applied to top military officers. They freeze any assets that those targeted may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with them. Britain and Canada announced similar measures.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres highlighted \u201can intensification in violence, a deepening of the human rights and humanitarian crises and a rapid rise of poverty in Myanmar,\u201d which it said required an urgent response.<\/p>\n<p>People in Myanmar rushed before the start of Tuesday\u2019s strike to buy essentials, and in Yangon appeared to have done their shopping on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-democracy flash mob marches were held in several places before the start of the strike in the early morning hours, when clashes with police and soldiers are less likely.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported ongoing violence on Monday, with at least six bombings believed to have been carried out by resistance forces in Yangon, and another at a police station in Myitkyina in northern Kachin state. The opposition carries out daily guerrilla actions, while the military engages in larger-scale assaults in rural areas, including air strikes, which are blamed for many civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Despite tight security in cities including Yangon, Mandalay and Sagaing, young protesters including Buddhist monks held spirited but peaceful protests at dawn, carrying banners and chanting anti-military slogans.<\/p>\n<p>Many also held up three fingers, the resistance salute adopted from \u201cthe Hunger Games\u201d movie that has also been used by pro-democracy demonstrators in neighboring Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Shopkeepers has been threatened with arrest by the authorities; consequently some were open for business Tuesday, but appeared to have few if any customers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//hvveghc_gT8/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since last week, the government had issued official warnings in state-run media that anyone taking part in the strike could be prosecuted, including under the Counter-Terrorism Law with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and the possible confiscation of their property.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of business owners who had announced they planned to be closed were arrested, according to reports in the state-run newspaper Myanma Alinn Daily.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees, from areas around the country, included shopkeepers, restaurant owners, medical workers, a monk, a make-up artist, a mobile phone repair shop owner and an astrologer.<\/p>\n<p>The military-installed government initiated other measures to try to undercut the strike. In Yangon and Mandalay, city administrators scheduled special events, including a cycling contest, to try to draw crowds. City workers in Yangon were told to attend during strike hours, according to leaked documents posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Several pro-military demonstrations, widely believed to have been organized by the authorities, were also held.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the opposing sides also broadcast speeches marking the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Duwa Lashi La, acting president of the opposition's National Unity Government, said the group is understood by the people as the guiding force of the revolution, and it promises to do its utmost to make the revolution a success. The NUG, established by elected lawmakers, considers itself the country\u2019s legitimate administrative body and has won the loyalty of many citizens. The military has branded it a \u201cterrorist\u201d organization.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, leader of the military-installed government, reviewed its performance since taking power in an hourlong speech. He pledged a \u201cgenuine and disciplined multiparty democratic system,\u201d calling for cooperation \u201cso as to achieve a better future for the country and people.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1643697504,"publishedAt":1643697706,"updatedAt":1643729658,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/02\/01\/one-year-since-military-takeover-myanmar-opposition-holds-silent-strike","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/44\/36\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_10849fc9-e893-5614-b25b-6af8b1153f7c-6443624.jpg","altText":"A Buddhist monk raises his clenched fist while marching during an anti-military government protest rally on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Mandalay, Myanmar.","caption":"A Buddhist monk raises his clenched fist while marching during an anti-military government protest rally on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Mandalay, 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giants Total and Chevron leave Myanmar over human rights abuses","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Energy giants Total and Chevron leave Myanmar over human rights abuses","titleListing2":"TotalEnergies and Chevron, two of the world's largest energy conglomerates, said on Friday they were stopping all operations in Myanmar.","leadin":"Total and Chevron said that the abuses had worsened since the military overthrew the civilian government in a coup last February.","summary":"Total and Chevron said that the abuses had worsened since the military overthrew the civilian government in a coup last February.","keySentence":null,"url":"energy-giants-total-and-chevron-leave-myanmar-over-human-rights-abuses","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"TotalEnergies and Chevron, two of the world's largest energy conglomerates, said on Friday they were stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and deteriorating rule of law since the country's military overthrew the elected government. \n\nThe announcement came just as Total called for international sanctions against Myanmar's oil and gas sector, which remains one of the military government's primary sources of funding. \n\nThe sanctions would target the state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), which is a joint venture partner in all offshore gas projects in Myanmar, including Yadana with Total, Chevron, and Thailand\u2019s PTT Exploration & Production. \n\nTotal has a majority stake in the venture and runs its daily operations, while MOGE collects revenues on behalf of the government. \n\n\u201cSince the Feb. 1 coup, we have seen the evolution of the country and it is clearly not favourable: The situation of rule of law and human rights in Myanmar has clearly deteriorated over months and despite the civil disobedience movements, the junta has kept power and our analysis is that it's unfortunately for the long term,\u201d Total said. \n\nSince the takeover, the military has cracked down brutally against dissent, abducting young men and boys, killing health care workers, and torturing prisoners. \n\nA former Total employee in Myanmar who has campaigned against the company\u2019s ties to the military government said she was shocked and pleased by the decision, though she acknowledged that it would be difficult to find work elsewhere. \n\n\u201cFor the employees who still work for Total, it\u2019s bad news even if they oppose the dictatorship or fight against the military. But for me as an ordinary person and not as an employee, I will say it is great news,\u201d she told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisal from the government. \n\nTotal said it would withdraw without financial compensation and hand over its interests to the other stakeholders. \n\nAbout half of Myanmar\u2019s foreign currency comes from natural gas revenues, and it is expected to earn 1.3 billion euros from offshore and pipeline projects in 2021-2022, according to a Myanmar government forecast. Prior rounds of U.S. and European sanctions against the Myanmar military have excluded oil and gas. \n\nIn a statement released shortly after Total\u2019s announcement, Chevron said it too was planning to leave \u201cin light of circumstances.\u201d The company has condemned the human rights abuses and said it would comply with any international sanctions. There was no firm time frame for Chevron's exit, but Total said it expected its departure to be finalised within six months. \n\nThe Myanmar-based human rights group Blood Money Campaign called on the companies to ensure that future payments are made into accounts inaccessible to the military and \"stop treating the criminal junta as a legitimate government.\u201d \n\nHuman Rights Watch welcomed the decision. \n\n\"The next step is to ensure that gas revenues don\u2019t continue to fund those atrocities,\u201d said Ken Roth, executive director of the organisation. \n\nPTT Exploration & Production, the Thai company, said it was examining its options \u201cputting the utmost importance for the energy security of Thailand and Myanmar and preventing impacts on energy demand to the livelihood of people in both countries.\" \n\nThe Yadana field is expected to be exhausted in the next several years and was nearing the end of its operations. The two companies had earlier halted dividend payments for the Myanmar project. But that decision had a limited impact on any revenue going to the state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise or the military-controlled government.","htmlText":"<p>TotalEnergies and Chevron, two of the world's largest energy conglomerates, said on Friday they were stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and deteriorating rule of law since the country's military overthrew the elected government.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just as Total called for international sanctions against Myanmar's oil and gas sector, which remains one of the military government's primary sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions would target the state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), which is a joint venture partner in all offshore gas projects in Myanmar, including Yadana with Total, Chevron, and Thailand\u2019s PTT Exploration & Production.<\/p>\n<p>Total has a majority stake in the venture and runs its daily operations, while MOGE collects revenues on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Feb. 1 coup, we have seen the evolution of the country and it is clearly not favourable: The situation of rule of law and human rights in Myanmar has clearly deteriorated over months and despite the civil disobedience movements, the junta has kept power and our analysis is that it's unfortunately for the long term,\u201d Total said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the takeover, the military has cracked down brutally against dissent, abducting young men and boys, killing health care workers, and torturing prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>A former Total employee in Myanmar who has campaigned against the company\u2019s ties to the military government said she was shocked and pleased by the decision, though she acknowledged that it would be difficult to find work elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the employees who still work for Total, it\u2019s bad news even if they oppose the dictatorship or fight against the military. But for me as an ordinary person and not as an employee, I will say it is great news,\u201d she told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisal from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Total said it would withdraw without financial compensation and hand over its interests to the other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>About half of Myanmar\u2019s foreign currency comes from natural gas revenues, and it is expected to earn 1.3 billion euros from offshore and pipeline projects in 2021-2022, according to a Myanmar government forecast. Prior rounds of U.S. and European sanctions against the Myanmar military have excluded oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released shortly after Total\u2019s announcement, Chevron said it too was planning to leave \u201cin light of circumstances.\u201d The company has condemned the human rights abuses and said it would comply with any international sanctions. There was no firm time frame for Chevron's exit, but Total said it expected its departure to be finalised within six months.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar-based human rights group Blood Money Campaign called on the companies to ensure that future payments are made into accounts inaccessible to the military and \"stop treating the criminal junta as a legitimate government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch welcomed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\"The next step is to ensure that gas revenues don\u2019t continue to fund those atrocities,\u201d said Ken Roth, executive director of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>PTT Exploration & Production, the Thai company, said it was examining its options \u201cputting the utmost importance for the energy security of Thailand and Myanmar and preventing impacts on energy demand to the livelihood of people in both countries.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Yadana field is expected to be exhausted in the next several years and was nearing the end of its operations. The two companies had earlier halted dividend payments for the Myanmar project. 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San Suu Kyi: Ousted leader 'sentenced to four more years in jail' in Myanmar","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Aung San Suu Kyi: Ousted leader 'sentenced to four more years in jail'","titleListing2":"Aung San Suu Kyi: Ousted leader 'sentenced to four more years in jail' in Myanmar","leadin":"A legal official speaking anonymously said the court found Suu Kyi guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions.","summary":"A legal official speaking anonymously said the court found Suu Kyi guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions.","keySentence":null,"url":"aung-san-suu-kyi-ousted-leader-sentenced-to-four-more-years-in-jail-in-myanmar","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said. \n\nSuu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges and given a four-year prison sentence, which was then halved by the head of the military-installed government. \n\nThe cases are among about a dozen brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power last February, ousting her elected government and arresting top members of her National League for Democracy party. \n\nIf found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say the charges against her are contrived to legitimize the military\u2019s seizure of power and prevent her from returning to politics. \n\nMonday's verdict in the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, was conveyed by a legal official who insisted on anonymity for fear of being punished by the authorities, who have restricted the release of information about Suu Kyi\u2019s trials. \n\nHe said she was sentenced to two years in prison under the Export-Import Law for importing the walkie-talkies and one year under the Telecommunications Law for possessing them. The sentences are to be served concurrently. She also received a two-year sentence under the Natural Disaster Management Law for allegedly violating coronavirus rules while campaigning. \n\nSuu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges \u2014 incitement and breaching COVID-19 restrictions \u2014 and sentenced to four years\u2019 imprisonment. Hours after that sentence was issued, the head of the military-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, reduced it by half. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s party won a landslide victory in a 2020 general election, but the military claimed there was widespread electoral fraud, an assertion that independent poll watchers doubt. \n\nSince her first guilty verdict, Suu Kyi has been attending court hearings in prison clothes \u2014 a white top and a brown longyi skirt provided by the authorities. She is being held by the military at an unknown location, where state television reported last month she would serve her sentence. \n\nThe hearings are closed to the media and spectators and the prosecutors do not comment. Her lawyers, who had been a source of information on the proceedings, were served with gag orders in October. \n\nThe military-installed government has not allowed any outside party to meet with Suu Kyi since it seized power, despite international pressure for talks including her that could ease the country\u2019s violent political crisis. \n\nThe military\u2019s seizure of power was quickly met by nonviolent nationwide demonstrations, which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing over 1,400 civilians, according to a detailed list compiled by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. \n\nPeaceful protests have continued, but amid the severe crackdown, an armed resistance has also grown, to the point that U.N. experts have warned the country could be sliding into civil war.","htmlText":"<p>A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges and given a four-year prison sentence, which was then halved by the head of the military-installed government.<\/p>\n<p>The cases are among about a dozen brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power last February, ousting her elected government and arresting top members of her National League for Democracy party.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty of all the charges, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say the charges against her are contrived to legitimize the military\u2019s seizure of power and prevent her from returning to politics.<\/p>\n<p>Monday's verdict in the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, was conveyed by a legal official who insisted on anonymity for fear of being punished by the authorities, who have restricted the release of information about Suu Kyi\u2019s trials.<\/p>\n<p>He said she was sentenced to two years in prison under the Export-Import Law for importing the walkie-talkies and one year under the Telecommunications Law for possessing them. The sentences are to be served concurrently. She also received a two-year sentence under the Natural Disaster Management Law for allegedly violating coronavirus rules while campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges \u2014 incitement and breaching COVID-19 restrictions \u2014 and sentenced to four years\u2019 imprisonment. Hours after that sentence was issued, the head of the military-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, reduced it by half.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s party won a landslide victory in a 2020 general election, but the military claimed there was widespread electoral fraud, an assertion that independent poll watchers doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Since her first guilty verdict, Suu Kyi has been attending court hearings in prison clothes \u2014 a white top and a brown longyi skirt provided by the authorities. She is being held by the military at an unknown location, where state television reported last month she would serve her sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings are closed to the media and spectators and the prosecutors do not comment. Her lawyers, who had been a source of information on the proceedings, were served with gag orders in October.<\/p>\n<p>The military-installed government has not allowed any outside party to meet with Suu Kyi since it seized power, despite international pressure for talks including her that could ease the country\u2019s violent political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s seizure of power was quickly met by nonviolent nationwide demonstrations, which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing over 1,400 civilians, according to a detailed list compiled by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful protests have continued, but amid the severe crackdown, an armed resistance has also grown, to the point that U.N. experts have warned the country could be sliding into civil war.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1641792784,"publishedAt":1641793484,"updatedAt":1641814153,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/01\/10\/aung-san-suu-kyi-ousted-leader-sentenced-to-four-more-years-in-jail-in-myanmar","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/36\/10\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_01d1ca6f-5575-5beb-b1ae-629704758a57-6361096.jpg","altText":" Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the International Court of Justice after the first day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Dec. 10, 2019.","caption":" Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the International Court of Justice after the first day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Dec. 10, 2019.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Peter Dejong, 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live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"In Myanmar, the military launches another bloody crackdown on dissent","titleListing2":"'We live in fear': Myanmar's military uses murder, burnings as weapon of war, witnesses say","leadin":"An AP investigation has uncovered evidence of a spate of murders in both Muslim and Buddhist areas of the country.","summary":"An AP investigation has uncovered evidence of a spate of murders in both Muslim and Buddhist areas of the country.","keySentence":null,"url":"we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. \n\nThe Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on December 7, he told the AP, with about 50 soldiers hunting people on foot, killing 10 people including five teenagers. A photo taken by his friend shows the charred remains of a victim lying face down, holding his head up, suggesting he was burned alive. \n\n\u201cI am very upset, it is unacceptable,\u201d said the 19-year-old, who like others interviewed by the AP asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal. \n\nThe carnage at Done Taw is just one of the most recent signs that the Myanmar military is reverting to a strategy of massacres as a weapon of war, according to an AP investigation based on interviews with 40 witnesses, social media, satellite imagery and data on deaths. \n\nThe massacres and scorched-earth tactics \u2014 such as the razing of entire villages \u2014 represent the latest escalation in the military\u2019s violence against both civilians and the growing opposition. Since the military seized power in February, it has cracked down ever more brutally, abducting young men and boys, killing health care workers and torturing prisoners. \n\nThey also signal a return to practices that the military has long used against ethnic minorities such as the Muslim Rohingya, thousands of whom were killed in 2017. The military is accused of killing at least 35 people on Christmas Eve in the village of Mo So, an ethnic Karenni region. \n\nBut this time, the military is also using the same methods against people and villages of its own Buddhist Bamar ethnic majority. The focus of most of the latest killings has been in the northwest, including in a Bamar heartland where support for the opposition is strong. \n\nMore than 80 people have died in killings of three or more in the Sagaing region alone, including those in Done Taw, since August, according to data from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, or AAPP, a group that monitors verified arrests and deaths in Myanmar. \n\nThe military is also reprising a hallmark tactic of destroying entire villages where there may be support for the opposition. Satellite imagery the AP obtained from Maxar Technologies shows that more than 580 buildings have been burned in the northwestern town of Thantlang alone since September. \n\n\u201cThere are similar cases taking place across the country at this point, especially in the northwest of Myanmar,\u201d Kyaw Moe Tun, who refused to leave his position as Myanmar\u2019s United Nations envoy after the military seized power, told the AP. \u201cLook at the pattern, look at the way it\u2019s happened\u2026.it is systematic and widespread.\u201d \n\nThe military, known as the Tatmadaw, did not respond to several requests by phone and by email for comment. Three days after the Done Taw attack, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper dismissed reports of the slayings as \u201cfake news,\u201d accusing unidentified countries of \u201cwishing to disintegrate Myanmar\u201d by inciting bloodshed. \n\nSince the military seized power in February, more than 1,375 people have been killed by soldiers and police, and more than 11,200 arrested, according to the AAPP. \n\nIn May, the opposition National Unity Government announced a new military wing, the People\u2019s Defense Force, and in September declared a \u201cdefensive war.\u201d Loose-knit guerrilla groups calling themselves PDF have since emerged across the country, with varying degrees of allegiance to the NUG. \n\n\n\u201cWe all live in fear\u201d \n\nAn early example of the military unleashing its battle-tested tactics on majority Buddhist areas came just 23 miles up the river from Done Taw in Kani township. In July, images circulated of massacres in four small villages that Myanmar\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations called \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d\u00a0 \n\nFour witnesses told the AP that soldiers killed 43 people in four incidents and discarded their bodies in the jungle. \n\n\u201cWe all live in fear,\u201d said a woman whose brother was killed, who like the other villagers asked to remain anonymous for safety. \n\nThe army\u2019s attacks in Sagaing are thought to be the opening salvo in a campaign to stamp out resistance in Myanmar\u2019s northwest, and recent troop movements suggest violence could soon pick up. \n\nTwo military convoys of more than 80 trucks each with troops and supplies from Sagaing have made it to neighboring Chin state, according to an opposition group.\u00a0 \n\nAnd a former military captain, who deserted in March, told the AP that soldiers in Chin State were resupplied and reinforced in October, and the army is now stockpiling munition, fuel and rations in Sagaing. \n\n\u201cWe\u2019re talking about the Bamar heartland that basically should be the core foundation of this military,\u201d said Manny Maung, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. \u201cIt\u2019s telling how worried the military is of its own people.\u201d \n\nAs fresh soldiers have flowed into Chin state, residents have reported troops putting down protests with live rounds and brutal beatings. \n\nA teacher in the town of Mindat said the military fired artillery into the town so the \u201chouses would shake like an earthquake,\u201d she said. She fled to India in October after her cousin, a member of the PDF, was killed by a sniper. \n\nA half-day\u2019s drive west from Mindat lies Matupi, a town with two military camps that is now bereft of its young people, according to a college student who fled with her two teenage brothers in October. She said the military had locked people into houses and set them alight, hid bombs in churches and schools, killed three protest leaders she knew and left bodies in the middle of roads to terrorize people. \n\nThantlang, a town near the Indian border, has also been emptied of its people after four months of heavy fighting, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization. Drone footage shot by the group in October and December and seen by the AP shows fires raging inside buildings and charred churches, collapsed schools and ruined homes. The footage matches fires detected by satellites and interviews with villagers. \n\nStill, there are growing signs the military's strategy of intimidation may be steeling people's resistance rather than leaving them cowed. \n\n\u201cInstead of dying fleeing, I will use my life for a purpose,\" said one Kani survivor. \n\nLikewise, the farmhand who told the AP about the Done Taw massacre is now defiant, vowing to take up with the PDF. \n\n\u201cI have just decided to fight until the end for them,\u201d he said. \u201cI will do whatever I can until I die or until I am arrested.\u201d","htmlText":"<p>When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on December 7, he told the AP, with about 50 soldiers hunting people on foot, killing 10 people including five teenagers. A photo taken by his friend shows the charred remains of a victim lying face down, holding his head up, suggesting he was burned alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very upset, it is unacceptable,\u201d said the 19-year-old, who like others interviewed by the AP asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n<p>The carnage at Done Taw is just one of the most recent signs that the Myanmar military is reverting to a strategy of massacres as a weapon of war, according to an AP investigation based on interviews with 40 witnesses, social media, satellite imagery and data on deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The massacres and scorched-earth tactics \u2014 such as the razing of entire villages \u2014 represent the latest escalation in the military\u2019s violence against both civilians and the growing opposition. Since the military seized power in February, it has cracked down ever more brutally, abducting young men and boys, killing health care workers and torturing prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>They also signal a return to practices that the military has long used against ethnic minorities such as the Muslim Rohingya, thousands of whom were killed in 2017. The military is accused of killing at least 35 people on Christmas Eve in the village of Mo So, an ethnic Karenni region.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6331228,6327978,6327852,6321122\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//25//people-flee-into-thailand-amid-myanmar-fighting/">People flee into Thailand amid Myanmar fighting<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//25//women-and-children-among-those-killed-in-myanmar-reports-and-witnesses-claim/">Save the Children staff missing after military executed villagers in Myanmar, reports claim<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//27//myanmar-court-postpones-verdicts-in-2nd-case-against-suu-kyi/">Myanmar court postpones verdicts in 2nd case against Suu Kyi<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//22//at-least-one-dead-and-70-missing-after-a-landslide-in-myanmar-jade-mine/">At least one dead and 70 missing after a landslide in Myanmar jade mine<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But this time, the military is also using the same methods against people and villages of its own Buddhist Bamar ethnic majority. The focus of most of the latest killings has been in the northwest, including in a Bamar heartland where support for the opposition is strong.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 people have died in killings of three or more in the Sagaing region alone, including those in Done Taw, since August, according to data from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, or AAPP, a group that monitors verified arrests and deaths in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>The military is also reprising a hallmark tactic of destroying entire villages where there may be support for the opposition. Satellite imagery the AP obtained from Maxar Technologies shows that more than 580 buildings have been burned in the northwestern town of Thantlang alone since September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are similar cases taking place across the country at this point, especially in the northwest of Myanmar,\u201d Kyaw Moe Tun, who refused to leave his position as Myanmar\u2019s United Nations envoy after the military seized power, told the AP. \u201cLook at the pattern, look at the way it\u2019s happened\u2026.it is systematic and widespread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military, known as the Tatmadaw, did not respond to several requests by phone and by email for comment. Three days after the Done Taw attack, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper dismissed reports of the slayings as \u201cfake news,\u201d accusing unidentified countries of \u201cwishing to disintegrate Myanmar\u201d by inciting bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Since the military seized power in February, more than 1,375 people have been killed by soldiers and police, and more than 11,200 arrested, according to the AAPP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//33//57//44//808x539_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg/" alt=\"AP/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/384x256_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/640x427_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/750x500_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/828x552_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1080x720_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1200x800_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1920x1281_cmsv2_11b97795-00a1-5a0a-a425-1986657218fc-6335744.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">In this Oct. 14, 2021, aerial photo released by the Chin Human Rights Organization, a military convoy approaches Thantlang in Chin State in northwest Myanmar.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In May, the opposition National Unity Government announced a new military wing, the People\u2019s Defense Force, and in September declared a \u201cdefensive war.\u201d Loose-knit guerrilla groups calling themselves PDF have since emerged across the country, with varying degrees of allegiance to the NUG. <\/p>\n<h2>\u201cWe all live in fear\u201d<\/h2><p>An early example of the military unleashing its battle-tested tactics on majority Buddhist areas came just 23 miles up the river from Done Taw in Kani township. In July, images circulated of massacres in four small villages that Myanmar\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations called \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four witnesses told the AP that soldiers killed 43 people in four incidents and discarded their bodies in the jungle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all live in fear,\u201d said a woman whose brother was killed, who like the other villagers asked to remain anonymous for safety.<\/p>\n<p>The army\u2019s attacks in Sagaing are thought to be the opening salvo in a campaign to stamp out resistance in Myanmar\u2019s northwest, and recent troop movements suggest violence could soon pick up.<\/p>\n<p>Two military convoys of more than 80 trucks each with troops and supplies from Sagaing have made it to neighboring Chin state, according to an opposition group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And a former military captain, who deserted in March, told the AP that soldiers in Chin State were resupplied and reinforced in October, and the army is now stockpiling munition, fuel and rations in Sagaing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//33//57//44//808x539_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg/" alt=\"Manish Swarup/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/384x256_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/640x427_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/750x500_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/828x552_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1080x720_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1200x800_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/1920x1281_cmsv2_9f5ececd-3f75-5859-b5c9-6615dcc9f775-6335744.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Myanmar refugees who have fled from violence in Chin state, northwestern Myanmar, watch photos and videos of the violence at an undisclosed location, in India<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manish Swarup/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about the Bamar heartland that basically should be the core foundation of this military,\u201d said Manny Maung, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. \u201cIt\u2019s telling how worried the military is of its own people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As fresh soldiers have flowed into Chin state, residents have reported troops putting down protests with live rounds and brutal beatings.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher in the town of Mindat said the military fired artillery into the town so the \u201chouses would shake like an earthquake,\u201d she said. She fled to India in October after her cousin, a member of the PDF, was killed by a sniper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">'I will do whatever I can until I die or until I am arrested.'<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n A Myanmar villager\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A half-day\u2019s drive west from Mindat lies Matupi, a town with two military camps that is now bereft of its young people, according to a college student who fled with her two teenage brothers in October. She said the military had locked people into houses and set them alight, hid bombs in churches and schools, killed three protest leaders she knew and left bodies in the middle of roads to terrorize people.<\/p>\n<p>Thantlang, a town near the Indian border, has also been emptied of its people after four months of heavy fighting, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization. Drone footage shot by the group in October and December and seen by the AP shows fires raging inside buildings and charred churches, collapsed schools and ruined homes. The footage matches fires detected by satellites and interviews with villagers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are growing signs the military's strategy of intimidation may be steeling people's resistance rather than leaving them cowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of dying fleeing, I will use my life for a purpose,\" said one Kani survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the farmhand who told the AP about the Done Taw massacre is now defiant, vowing to take up with the PDF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have just decided to fight until the end for them,\u201d he said. \u201cI will do whatever I can until I die or until I am arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1640841144,"publishedAt":1640841879,"updatedAt":1640841882,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2021\/12\/30\/we-live-in-fear-myanmar-s-military-uses-murder-burnings-as-weapon-of-war-witnesses-say","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/33\/57\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5a6b6acf-07a5-5186-a07c-85009079a220-6335744.jpg","altText":"A Myanmar refugee, 26, who fled during the violence in the town of Mindat in Chin state, northwestern Myanmar, talks to the Associated Press at an undisclosed location.","caption":"A Myanmar refugee, 26, who fled during the violence in the town of Mindat in Chin state, northwestern Myanmar, talks to the Associated Press at an undisclosed location.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Manish Swarup\/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. 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court postpones verdicts in 2nd case against Suu Kyi","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar court postpones verdicts in 2nd case against Suu Kyi","titleListing2":"The case in the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, is among many brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power on Feb. 1.","leadin":"The court gave no reason for delaying the verdicts until Jan. 10, according to the legal official.","summary":"The court gave no reason for delaying the verdicts until Jan. 10, according to the legal official.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-court-postpones-verdicts-in-2nd-case-against-suu-kyi","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A court in military-ruled Myanmar postponed its verdicts Monday on two charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in which she is accused of importing and possessing walkie-talkies without following official procedures, a legal official familiar with the case said. \n\nThe case in the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, is among many brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power on Feb. 1, ousting her elected government and arresting top members of her National League for Democracy party. \n\nThe court gave no reason for delaying the verdicts until Jan. 10, according to the legal official, who insisted on anonymity for fear of being punished by the authorities, who have restricted the release of information about Suu Kyi\u2019s trials. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s party won a landslide victory in last year\u2019s general election, but the military said there was widespread electoral fraud, an assertion that independent poll watchers doubt. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say all the charges against her are politically motivated and an attempt to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power while keeping her from returning to politics. If found guilty of all the charges she faces, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. \n\nSuu Kyi was convicted on Dec. 6 on two other charges \u2014 incitement and breaching COVID-19 restrictions \u2014 and sentenced to four years\u2019 imprisonment. Hours after the sentence was issued, the head of the military-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, reduced it by half. She is being held by the military at an unknown location and state television reported that she would serve her sentence there. \n\nSuu Kyi has been attending court hearings in prison clothes \u2014 a white top and a brown longyi skirt provided by the authorities. The hearings are closed to the media and spectators and the prosecutors do not comment. Her lawyers, who had been a source of information on the proceedings, were served with gag orders in October. \n\nA charge under the Export-Import Law of having improperly imported the walkies-talkies was the first filed against Suu Kyi and served as the initial justification for her continued detention. A second charge of illegally possessing the radios was filed the following month. \n\nThe radios were seized from the gate of her residence and the barracks of her bodyguards during a search on Feb. 1, the day she was arrested. \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s lawyers argued that the radios were not in her personal possession and were legitimately used to help provide for her security, but the court declined to dismiss the charges. \n\nThe court on Monday also heard video testimony from the vice-chairman of Suu Kyi's party, Zaw Myint Maung, in another case against her involving alleged violation of COVID-19 restrictions during last year's election campaign, the legal official said. \n\nZaw Myint Maung, who had been unable to appear in court earlier for health reasons, testified that people had gathered to see her when she visited Shwe Kyar Pin Ward during the campaign because they respect her, and it wasn't a violation of virus restrictions, the official said. \n\nThe offense falls under the Natural Disaster Management Law and the maximum penalty is three years in prison and a fine. \n\nShe is also being tried in the same court on five counts of corruption. The maximum penalty for each count is 15 years in prison and a fine. A sixth corruption charge, in which Suu Kyi and ousted President Win Myint are accused of granting permits to rent and buy a helicopter, has not yet gone to trial. \n\nIn separate proceedings, she is accused of violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum term of 14 years. \n\nAdditional charges were also added by Myanmar\u2019s election commission against Suu Kyi and 15 other politicians in November for alleged fraud in last year\u2019s election. The charges by the military-controlled Union Election Commission could result in Suu Kyi\u2019s party being dissolved and unable to participate in a new election the military has promised will take place within two years of its takeover. \n\nThe military's seizure of power was met by nonviolent nationwide demonstrations, which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing nearly 1,400 civilians, according to a detailed list compiled by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. \n\nPeaceful protests have continued, but amid the severe crackdown, an armed resistance has also grown, to the point that U.N. experts have warned the country could be sliding into civil war.","htmlText":"<p>A court in military-ruled Myanmar postponed its verdicts Monday on two charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in which she is accused of importing and possessing walkie-talkies without following official procedures, a legal official familiar with the case said.<\/p>\n<p>The case in the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, is among many brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power on Feb. 1, ousting her elected government and arresting top members of her National League for Democracy party.<\/p>\n<p>The court gave no reason for delaying the verdicts until Jan. 10, according to the legal official, who insisted on anonymity for fear of being punished by the authorities, who have restricted the release of information about Suu Kyi\u2019s trials.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s party won a landslide victory in last year\u2019s general election, but the military said there was widespread electoral fraud, an assertion that independent poll watchers doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s supporters and independent analysts say all the charges against her are politically motivated and an attempt to discredit her and legitimise the military\u2019s seizure of power while keeping her from returning to politics. If found guilty of all the charges she faces, she could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6283598\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//12//06//myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-jailed-for-four-years-for-inciting-unrest/">Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi jail sentence for 'inciting unrest' reduced to two years<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Suu Kyi was convicted on Dec. 6 on two other charges \u2014 incitement and breaching COVID-19 restrictions \u2014 and sentenced to four years\u2019 imprisonment. Hours after the sentence was issued, the head of the military-installed government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, reduced it by half. She is being held by the military at an unknown location and state television reported that she would serve her sentence there.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi has been attending court hearings in prison clothes \u2014 a white top and a brown longyi skirt provided by the authorities. The hearings are closed to the media and spectators and the prosecutors do not comment. Her lawyers, who had been a source of information on the proceedings, were served with gag orders in October.<\/p>\n<p>A charge under the Export-Import Law of having improperly imported the walkies-talkies was the first filed against Suu Kyi and served as the initial justification for her continued detention. A second charge of illegally possessing the radios was filed the following month.<\/p>\n<p>The radios were seized from the gate of her residence and the barracks of her bodyguards during a search on Feb. 1, the day she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi\u2019s lawyers argued that the radios were not in her personal possession and were legitimately used to help provide for her security, but the court declined to dismiss the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The court on Monday also heard video testimony from the vice-chairman of Suu Kyi's party, Zaw Myint Maung, in another case against her involving alleged violation of COVID-19 restrictions during last year's election campaign, the legal official said.<\/p>\n<p>Zaw Myint Maung, who had been unable to appear in court earlier for health reasons, testified that people had gathered to see her when she visited Shwe Kyar Pin Ward during the campaign because they respect her, and it wasn't a violation of virus restrictions, the official said.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6176768\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2021//10//26//myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-trial-seriously-abridges-free-and-fair-standards-says-hrw/">Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's trial seriously abridges free and fair standards, says HRW<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The offense falls under the Natural Disaster Management Law and the maximum penalty is three years in prison and a fine.<\/p>\n<p>She is also being tried in the same court on five counts of corruption. The maximum penalty for each count is 15 years in prison and a fine. A sixth corruption charge, in which Suu Kyi and ousted President Win Myint are accused of granting permits to rent and buy a helicopter, has not yet gone to trial.<\/p>\n<p>In separate proceedings, she is accused of violating the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum term of 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Additional charges were also added by Myanmar\u2019s election commission against Suu Kyi and 15 other politicians in November for alleged fraud in last year\u2019s election. The charges by the military-controlled Union Election Commission could result in Suu Kyi\u2019s party being dissolved and unable to participate in a new election the military has promised will take place within two years of its takeover.<\/p>\n<p>The military's seizure of power was met by nonviolent nationwide demonstrations, which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing nearly 1,400 civilians, according to a detailed list compiled by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful protests have continued, but amid the severe crackdown, an armed resistance has also grown, to the point that U.N. experts have warned the country could be sliding into civil 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believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and burned the bodies, according to a witness and other reports. \n\nThe purported photos of the aftermath of the Christmas Eve massacre in eastern Mo So village, just outside Phruso township where refugees were sheltering from an army offensive, spread on social media in the country, fuelling outrage against the military that took power in February. \n\nThe accounts could not be independently verified. The photos showed the charred bodies of over 30 people in three burned-out vehicles. \n\nA villager who said he went to the scene told AP that the victims had fled the fighting between armed resistance groups and Myanmar\u2019s army near Koi Ngan village, which is just beside Mo So, on Friday. \n\nHe said they were killed after they were arrested by troops while heading to refugee camps in the western part of the township. \n\nThe government has not commented on the allegations, but a report in the state-run Myanma Alinn daily newspaper on Saturday said that the fighting near Mo So broke out on Friday when members of ethnic guerrilla forces, known as the Karenni National Progressive Party, and those opposed to the military drove in \u201csuspicious\u201d vehicles and attacked security forces after refusing to stop. \n\nThe newspaper report said they included new members who were going to attend training to fight the army, and that the seven vehicles they were traveling in were destroyed in a fire. It gave no further details about the killings. \n\nThe witness who spoke to AP said the remains were burned beyond recognition, and children's and women's clothes were found together with medical supplies and food. \n\n\u201cThe bodies were tied with ropes before being set on fire,\u201d said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety. \n\nHe did not see the moment they were killed but said he believed some of them were Mo So villagers who reportedly got arrested by troops on Friday. \n\nHe denied that those captured were members of locally organized militia groups. \n\nMyanmar's independent media reported on Friday that 10 Mo So villagers including children were arrested by the army and four members of the local paramilitary Border Guard Forces who went to negotiate for their release were reportedly tied up and shot in the head by the military. \n\nThe witness said the villagers and anti-government militia groups left the bodies as military troops arrived near Mo So while the bodies were being prepared for cremation. The fighting was still intense near the village. \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s a heinous crime and the worst incident during Christmas. We strongly condemn that massacre as a crime against humanity,\u201d said Banyar Khun Aung, director of the Karenni Human Rights Group. \n\nEarlier this month, government troops were also accused of rounding up villagers, some believed to be children, tying them up, and slaughtering them. \n\nAn opposition leader, Dr. Sasa, who uses only one name, said the civilians were burned alive. \n\nA video of the aftermath of the 7 December assault \u2014 apparently retaliation for an attack on a military convoy \u2014 showed the charred bodies of 11 people lying in a circle amid what appeared to be the remains of a hut. \n\nFighting meanwhile resumed Saturday in a neighbouring state on the border with Thailand, where thousands of people have fled to seek shelter. \n\nLocal officials said Myanmar\u2019s military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery on Lay Kay Kaw, a small town controlled by ethnic Karen guerrillas, since Friday. \n\nThe military\u2019s action prompted multiple Western governments including the U.S. Embassy to issue a joint statement condemning \u201cserious human rights violations committed by the military regime across the country.\" \n\n\u201cWe call on the regime to immediately cease its indiscriminate attacks in Karen state and throughout the country, and to ensure the safety of all civilians in line with international law,\u201d the joint statement said.","htmlText":"<p>Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children were missing Saturday after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 30 and burned the bodies, according to a witness and other reports.<\/p>\n<p>The purported photos of the aftermath of the Christmas Eve massacre in eastern Mo So village, just outside Phruso township where refugees were sheltering from an army offensive, spread on social media in the country, fuelling outrage against the military that took power in February.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts could not be independently verified. The photos showed the charred bodies of over 30 people in three burned-out vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A villager who said he went to the scene told AP that the victims had fled the fighting between armed resistance groups and Myanmar\u2019s army near Koi Ngan village, which is just beside Mo So, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were killed after they were arrested by troops while heading to refugee camps in the western part of the township.<\/p>\n<p>The government has not commented on the allegations, but a report in the state-run Myanma Alinn daily newspaper on Saturday said that the fighting near Mo So broke out on Friday when members of ethnic guerrilla forces, known as the Karenni National Progressive Party, and those opposed to the military drove in \u201csuspicious\u201d vehicles and attacked security forces after refusing to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper report said they included new members who were going to attend training to fight the army, and that the seven vehicles they were traveling in were destroyed in a fire. It gave no further details about the killings.<\/p>\n<p>The witness who spoke to AP said the remains were burned beyond recognition, and children's and women's clothes were found together with medical supplies and food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bodies were tied with ropes before being set on fire,\u201d said the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>He did not see the moment they were killed but said he believed some of them were Mo So villagers who reportedly got arrested by troops on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He denied that those captured were members of locally organized militia groups.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar's independent media reported on Friday that 10 Mo So villagers including children were arrested by the army and four members of the local paramilitary Border Guard Forces who went to negotiate for their release were reportedly tied up and shot in the head by the military.<\/p>\n<p>The witness said the villagers and anti-government militia groups left the bodies as military troops arrived near Mo So while the bodies were being prepared for cremation. The fighting was still intense near the village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a heinous crime and the worst incident during Christmas. We strongly condemn that massacre as a crime against humanity,\u201d said Banyar Khun Aung, director of the Karenni Human Rights Group.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, government troops were also accused of rounding up villagers, some believed to be children, tying them up, and slaughtering them.<\/p>\n<p>An opposition leader, Dr. Sasa, who uses only one name, said the civilians were burned alive.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the aftermath of the 7 December assault \u2014 apparently retaliation for an attack on a military convoy \u2014 showed the charred bodies of 11 people lying in a circle amid what appeared to be the remains of a hut.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting meanwhile resumed Saturday in a neighbouring state on the border with Thailand, where thousands of people have fled to seek shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said Myanmar\u2019s military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery on Lay Kay Kaw, a small town controlled by ethnic Karen guerrillas, since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s action 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state, rescuer Ko Ny, said. \n\n\"We sent 25 injured to hospital while we found one dead,\" he added. \n\nAbout 200 rescue workers are involved in the search, some in boats trying to recover bodies from a lake, he added. \n\nThe Myanmar Fire Services Department said on Facebook that fire stations in Hpakant and neighbouring city, Lone Khin as well as the Lone Khin Regional fire department were involved in the rescue operations. \n\nDozens of miners in Myanmar die each year working in dangerous conditions in jade quarries, an opaque and poorly regulated industry. \n\nLandslides are common in this poor and inaccessible region, which looks like a moonscape because it has been so badly altered by large mining companies, with little regard for the environment. \n\nFollowing a moratorium in 2016, many large mines have closed and are no longer monitored, allowing the return of many independent miners. These come from disadvantaged ethnic communities and operate almost clandestinely in sites left abandoned by companies. \n\nHeavy monsoon rains in 2020 caused the worst disaster of its kind, with 300 miners buried after a landslide in the Hpakant massif, the heart of the industry, near the Chinese border. \n\nMyanmar derives significant revenue from the massive presence in its subsoil of the precious stone, which is particularly prized in China. \n\nThe February coup d'\u00e9tat destroyed any chance of reforming the industry under Aung San Suu Kyi, watchdog Global Witness said in a report published in 2021.","htmlText":"<p>At least one person has died and dozens are still missing after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, an emergency official has said.<\/p>\n<p>\"About 70 to 100 people are missing in a landslide that occurred around 4am\" at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kayah state, rescuer Ko Ny, said.<\/p>\n<p>\"We sent 25 injured to hospital while we found one dead,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 rescue workers are involved in the search, some in boats trying to recover bodies from a lake, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Myanmar Fire Services Department <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//fsd.gov.mm//posts//3309191102554273/">said on Facebook<\/a> that fire stations in Hpakant and neighbouring city, Lone Khin as well as the Lone Khin Regional fire department were involved in the rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of miners in Myanmar die each year working in dangerous conditions in jade quarries, an opaque and poorly regulated industry.<\/p>\n<p>Landslides are common in this poor and inaccessible region, which looks like a moonscape because it has been so badly altered by large mining companies, with little regard for the environment.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"4783384\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2020//07//02//more-than-100-miners-die-smothered-in-mud-in-myanmar-landslide/">More than 100 miners die 'smothered in mud' in Myanmar landslide<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Following a moratorium in 2016, many large mines have closed and are no longer monitored, allowing the return of many independent miners. 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Aung San Suu Kyi jail sentence for 'inciting unrest' reduced to two years","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi jail sentence reduced to two years","titleListing2":"Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi jail sentence for 'inciting unrest' reduced to two years","leadin":"Myanmar's military seized power on February 1, arresting Suu Kyi and scores of others, and plunging Myanmar into turmoil.","summary":"Myanmar's military seized power on February 1, arresting Suu Kyi and scores of others, and plunging Myanmar into turmoil.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-jailed-for-four-years-for-inciting-unrest","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Myanmar court on Monday sentenced the former head of the civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison for inciting public unrest and violating health rules related to COVID-19. \n\nThe military later said her sentence was reduced to two years. \n\nThe Nobel Peace Prize winner's National League for Democracy party won a landslide election victory just a year ago. \n\nThe win put her and her party back in office for a second consecutive five-year term after decades of army-dominated rule. \n\nThe military seized back power on 1 February, arresting Suu Kyi and scores of others, and plunging Myanmar into turmoil after a brief period of stability and promises of more democracy. \n\n\" The European Union strongly condemns this politically motivated verdict, which constitutes another major setback for democracy in Myanmar since the military coup on 1 February 2021,\" said Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign affairs chief. \n\n\"The military\u2019s actions show complete contempt for the will of the people, expressed clearly in the November 2020 elections.\" \n\nThe European Union has called for the release of political prisoners as well as those detained during the coup. \n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International condemned the \"court\u2019s farcical and corrupt decision.\" \n\n\"The harsh sentences handed down to Aung San Suu Kyi on these bogus charges are the latest example of the military\u2019s determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar,\" said Amnesty's deputy regional director for campaigns Ming Yu Hah. \n\n\"The court\u2019s farcical and corrupt decision is part of a devastating pattern of arbitrary punishment that has seen more than 1,300 people killed and thousands arrested since the military coup in February.\" \n\nHighs and lows \n\nSuu Kyi\u2019s career has been marked by highs \u2014 winning the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 and lows \u2014 spending 15 years in house arrest under a previous military government. \n\nHer father was Aung San, the country\u2019s independence hero. His assassination in 1947 just months before Myanmar \u2014 then called Burma \u2014 was freed from British colonial rule prefigured the country's extended turbulence. \n\nSuu Kyi in early adulthood led an expatriate\u2019s life after marrying Oxford University scholar Michael Aris, with whom she had two sons. \n\nShe plunged into her country's politics in 1988 when she returned to her homeland to take care of her dying mother as large protests were breaking out against the military dictatorship of Ne Win. She helped found the National League for Democracy, but paid a price in 1989 when she was put under house arrest, where she would spend 15 of the following 22 years. \n\nHer fame spread in 1991 when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but it took 21 years until she won a seat in a parliamentary by-election. \n\nA landslide victory in a 2015 general election put her party in power. Barred from becoming president under constitutional rules drafted by the military, the post of state counsellor was created to allow her to become the country\u2019s leader. \n\nInternational admirers of her struggle for democracy dropped away after she went to the International Court of Justice in December 2019 to defend the army's brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign against the Muslim Rohingya minority in the western Rakhine state. \n\nIn the November 2020 general election, her party won even more seats than it did five years earlier. But the military disputed the vote and forced her from power. \n\nWatch the full interview with Human Rights Watch's deputy director of the Asia Division, Phil Robertson, in the video player above.","htmlText":"<p>A Myanmar court on Monday sentenced the former head of the civilian government Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison for inciting public unrest and violating health rules related to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The military later said her sentence was reduced to two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Peace Prize winner's National League for Democracy party won a landslide election victory just a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The win put her and her party back in office for a second consecutive five-year term after decades of army-dominated rule.<\/p>\n<p>The military seized back power on 1 February, arresting Suu Kyi and scores of others, and plunging Myanmar into turmoil after a brief period of stability and promises of more democracy.<\/p>\n<p>**\"**The European Union strongly condemns this politically motivated verdict, which constitutes another major setback for democracy in Myanmar since the military coup on 1 February 2021,\" said Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign affairs chief.<\/p>\n<p>\"The military\u2019s actions show complete contempt for the will of the people, expressed clearly in the November 2020 elections.\"<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has called for the release of political prisoners as well as those detained during the coup.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights group Amnesty International condemned the \"court\u2019s farcical and corrupt decision.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The harsh sentences handed down to Aung San Suu Kyi on these bogus charges are the latest example of the military\u2019s determination to eliminate all opposition and suffocate freedoms in Myanmar,\" said Amnesty's deputy regional director for campaigns Ming Yu Hah.<\/p>\n<p>\"The court\u2019s farcical and corrupt decision is part of a devastating pattern of arbitrary punishment that has seen more than 1,300 people killed and thousands arrested since the military coup in February.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Highs and lows<\/h2><p>Suu Kyi\u2019s career has been marked by highs \u2014 winning the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 and lows \u2014 spending 15 years in house arrest under a previous military government.<\/p>\n<p>Her father was Aung San, the country\u2019s independence hero. His assassination in 1947 just months before Myanmar \u2014 then called Burma \u2014 was freed from British colonial rule prefigured the country's extended turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi in early adulthood led an expatriate\u2019s life after marrying Oxford University scholar Michael Aris, with whom she had two sons.<\/p>\n<p>She plunged into her country's politics in 1988 when she returned to her homeland to take care of her dying mother as large protests were breaking out against the military dictatorship of Ne Win. She helped found the National League for Democracy, but paid a price in 1989 when she was put under house arrest, where she would spend 15 of the following 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>Her fame spread in 1991 when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but it took 21 years until she won a seat in a parliamentary by-election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//28//35//98//808x539_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg/" alt=\"Aung Shine Oo/Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/384x256_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/640x427_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/750x500_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/828x552_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/1080x720_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/1200x800_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/1920x1281_cmsv2_7841d911-60d1-5cd5-aa83-718dd65e62e8-6283598.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Aung San Suu Kyi, left, Myanmar's foreign minister and de facto leader, walks with Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, right, commander-in-chief in the airport of capital Naypyitaw,<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aung Shine Oo/Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A landslide victory in a 2015 general election put her party in power. Barred from becoming president under constitutional rules drafted by the military, the post of state counsellor was created to allow her to become the country\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p>International admirers of her struggle for democracy dropped away after she went to the International Court of Justice in December 2019 to defend the army's brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign against the Muslim Rohingya minority in the western Rakhine state.<\/p>\n<p>In the November 2020 general election, her party won even more seats than it did five years earlier. But the military disputed the vote and forced her from power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//6q_HeUoo0K8/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Watch the full interview with Human Rights Watch's deputy director of the Asia Division, Phil Robertson, in the video player above.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1638773107,"publishedAt":1638773250,"updatedAt":1638820994,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2021\/12\/06\/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-jailed-for-four-years-for-inciting-unrest","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/28\/35\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9583dabf-e42e-527b-ae8e-2694d6359657-6283598.jpg","altText":"Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to her supporters during her election campaign in Myeik, Myanmar on March 24, 2012.","caption":"Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to her supporters during her election campaign in Myeik, Myanmar on March 24, 2012.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Khin Maung Win\/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. 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court postpones verdict for ousted leader Suu Kyi","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Myanmar court postpones verdict for ousted leader Suu Kyi","titleListing2":"A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.","leadin":"A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.","summary":"A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.","keySentence":null,"url":"myanmar-court-postpones-verdict-for-ousted-leader-suu-kyi","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness, a senior member of her political party. \n\nThe court agreed with a defence motion that it allow Zaw Myint Maung, who had previously been unable to come to court for health reasons, to add his testimony, a legal official said. \n\nThe court had been scheduled to deliver a verdict on Tuesday on charges of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions. \n\nThe verdict would have been the first for the 76-year-old Nobel laureate since the army seized power on Feb. 1, arresting her and blocking her National League for Democracy party from starting a second term in office. \n\nShe also is being tried on a series of other charges, including corruption, that could send her to prison for dozens of years if convicted. \n\nThe judge adjourned the proceedings until Dec. 6, when Zaw Myint Maung is scheduled to testify, said the legal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has restricted the release of information about the trial. It was unclear when a verdict will be issued. \n\nThe cases are widely seen as contrived to discredit Suu Kyi and keep her from running in the next election. The constitution bars anyone sentenced to prison from holding high office or becoming a lawmaker. \n\nZaw Myint Maung, who was chief minister of the Mandalay region, a major state-level post, was also detained when the army took over. He is vice chairman of Suu Kyi\u2019s party and a medical doctor, and like her faces several criminal charges, including corruption. He is 69 years old and reportedly suffers from leukaemia. \n\nHe accompanied Suu Kyi during campaigning for last year\u2019s election, including in Naypyitaw, where her presence was the basis for one of the charges of violating coronavirus restrictions. \n\nSuu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in last year's polls. The army, whose allied party lost many seats, claimed there was massive voting fraud, but independent election observers did not detect any major irregularities. \n\nSuu Kyi remains widely popular and a symbol of the struggle against military rule. \n\nThe army\u2019s takeover was met by nationwide nonviolent demonstrations which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing nearly 1,300 civilians, according to a tally by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. \n\nWith severe restrictions on nonviolent protest, armed resistance has grown in the cities and the countryside to the point where UN experts have warned the country is sliding into civil war. \n\nSuu Kyi, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent struggle for democracy, has not been seen in public since being taken into custody on the day of the military\u2019s takeover. She has appeared in court at several of her trials, which are closed to the media and spectators. \n\nIn October, Suu Kyi\u2019s lawyers, who had been the sole source of information on the legal proceedings, were served with gag orders forbidding them from releasing information.","htmlText":"<p>A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow testimony from an additional witness, a senior member of her political party.<\/p>\n<p>The court agreed with a defence motion that it allow Zaw Myint Maung, who had previously been unable to come to court for health reasons, to add his testimony, a legal official said.<\/p>\n<p>The court had been scheduled to deliver a verdict on Tuesday on charges of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict would have been the first for the 76-year-old Nobel laureate since the army seized power on Feb. 1, arresting her and blocking her National League for Democracy party from starting a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>She also is being tried on a series of other charges, including corruption, that could send her to prison for dozens of years if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The judge adjourned the proceedings until Dec. 6, when Zaw Myint Maung is scheduled to testify, said the legal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has restricted the release of information about the trial. It was unclear when a verdict will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>The cases are widely seen as contrived to discredit Suu Kyi and keep her from running in the next election. The constitution bars anyone sentenced to prison from holding high office or becoming a lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Zaw Myint Maung, who was chief minister of the Mandalay region, a major state-level post, was also detained when the army took over. He is vice chairman of Suu Kyi\u2019s party and a medical doctor, and like her faces several criminal charges, including corruption. He is 69 years old and reportedly suffers from leukaemia.<\/p>\n<p>He accompanied Suu Kyi during campaigning for last year\u2019s election, including in Naypyitaw, where her presence was the basis for one of the charges of violating coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in last year's polls. The army, whose allied party lost many seats, claimed there was massive voting fraud, but independent election observers did not detect any major irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi remains widely popular and a symbol of the struggle against military rule.<\/p>\n<p>The army\u2019s takeover was met by nationwide nonviolent demonstrations which security forces quashed with deadly force, killing nearly 1,300 civilians, according to a tally by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>With severe restrictions on nonviolent protest, armed resistance has grown in the cities and the countryside to the point where UN experts have warned the country is sliding into civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent struggle for democracy, has not been seen in public since being taken into custody on the day of the military\u2019s takeover. She has appeared in court at several of her trials, which are closed to the media and spectators.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Suu Kyi\u2019s lawyers, who had been the sole source of information on the legal proceedings, were served with gag orders forbidding them from releasing information.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1638260046,"publishedAt":1638260582,"updatedAt":1638260586,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2021\/11\/30\/myanmar-court-postpones-verdict-for-ousted-leader-suu-kyi","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/27\/29\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f6728a41-fa17-5c5d-a655-30775280a341-6272962.jpg","altText":"FILE - Protesters hold portraits of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an anti-coup demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar on March 5, 2021.","caption":"FILE - Protesters hold portraits of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an anti-coup demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar on March 5, 2021.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/27\/29\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_05940522-0c0f-518e-a7f4-998527e117d6-6272962.jpg","altText":"FILE - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands.","caption":"FILE - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Peter Dejong\/AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":5000,"height":3333}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7740,"slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi","urlSafeValue":"aung-san-suu-kyi","title":"Aung San Suu Kyi","titleRaw":"Aung San Suu Kyi"},{"id":203,"slug":"myanmar","urlSafeValue":"myanmar","title":"Myanmar","titleRaw":"Myanmar"},{"id":10565,"slug":"myanmar-politics","urlSafeValue":"myanmar-politics","title":"Myanmar politics","titleRaw":"Myanmar politics"}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"widgets":[],"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":{"quotation":null,"description":null,"author":null},"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":null,"contentType":null,"displayOverlay":0},"displayType":"default","video":0,"videos":[],"externalPartners":[],"liveStream":[],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"AP","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"isDfp":0,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":203,"urlSafeValue":"myanmar","title":"Myanmar","url":"\/news\/asia\/myanmar"},"town":[],"versions":[],"path":"\/2021\/11\/30\/myanmar-court-postpones-verdict-for-ousted-leader-suu-kyi","lastModified":1638260586}]"
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