The Human Rights Council of the United Nations discussed the humanitarian efforts and the humanitarian situation in Myanmar itself. Well, Myanmar is an ancient country, in some ways. During some of its colonial time, it was also known as Burma. Of course, right now it is known as Myanmar, and it has struggled politically. The Government is struggling to support the people. They want the same thing as all the rest of us. Want freedom, the right to think what you want to think, and the right to choose what you want to choose. We do want to talk about Myanmar itself in the past few years that have led to what we see today, with the political unrest and unbalance that we see there today that is leading the United made United Nations Human Rights Council to be taking a strong look at it, and to have a special repertoire to come and discuss what is happening in Miramar today. So let’s go back to February 1 2021. The day parliament was set to convene, the Myanmar military detained Su Kale and other members of the ruling party. The military handed power to the chief, and declared a state of emergency for one year, closing the borders, restricting travel and electronic communications nationwide. The military announced it would replace the existing Election Commission with a new one, and the military media outlet indicated new elections would be held in about one year through the military avoiding making any official commitment to that, the military expelled the in LD party, members of the parliament from the capital, and by the 15th of March 2021 the military leadership continued to extend the martial law into more parts of a gun, while security forces killed 38 people in a single day of violence. By the second day, 1000s of protesters were marching in the streets protests erupted nationwide, largely hailing commerce and trans and transportation, despite the military’s arrests, killings of protesters the first few weeks of the coup found a growing public participation in including of the civil civil servants, teachers, students, workers, monks and religious leaders even normally disinfect infected ethnic minorities. The coup was immediately condemned by the United Nations. The US threatened sanctions and military action, and its leaders, including a freeze of $1 billion in assets from the US, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, The Philippines, China retained, criticising the military coup. And let’s put it this way, basically, the whole world was against this military coup that happened. The Outsiders, looking in international development partners and non government and government, hinted the suspension of partnerships with Miramar banks were closed and social media communication platforms including Facebook, Twitter, blah, blah, blah, the protesters appeared in Myanmar embassies in foreign countries, a national unity government then declared the formation of a armed wing by the fifth of May 2021, a date often cited to starting a full scale Civil War, and ever since then, Myanmar has Been in some state of violence or civil war. So now we need to know what is happening with human rights, and what other countries are doing to help the people themselves get back to normality, get back to what it is that they would prefer doing, rather than protesting and having military violence running up and down their streets. Where we are today, and why we’re we have a special repertoire from the United Nations speaking about what is happening in Myanmar.
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