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National elections in 2020 reelected the NLD to head the government of Burma.
The day the new Parliament was to convene, in February 2021, the military arrested NLD leaders.
The military announced its own government.
The Burmese formed a new government, without the military, called the National Unity Government (NUG).
Suu Kyi holds the position of State Counselor with the NUG.
The president is U Win Myint.
The military expelled much of the Rohingya population. They live in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
The NUG recognises the Rohingya as citizens of Burma and their rights as such.
The NUG recognises the right of the Rohingya to return to Burma.
Military stage coup d'etat
Junta arrests Aung San Suu Kyi, suspends parliament
1 February 2021
Burmese oppose junta
Form a new government, the National Unity Government (NUG)
NUG recognises rights of the Rohingya as Burmese citizens
NUG nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Many killed since the Junta coup d etat on 1 Feb. 2021
Figures vary from 2,000 to 20,000
Some sources:
https://myanmarcouptracker.eu/
Aung San Suu Kyi held in solitary confinement in a prison in the Burmese capital.
Russian and Chinese governments in cahoots with the Burmese junta.
More than 2,100 killed since the junta coup in February 2021.
Junta leader visits Moscow in July 2022
Russian foreign minister visits Burma in August 2022.
Junta leader barred from ASEAN meeting in Cambodia in August 2022.
Sean Turnell, Australian professor, former adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, detained in Rangoon in February 2021, sentenced
to three years in prison on 30 September 2022.
Inside Myanmar: The Hidden War
In the Karen, Karenni and Shan States
Uploaded on 19 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLBU7PEwjto
A Rebel Victory in Burma
James Ker-Lindsay
Review and update
2 December 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwHICNXVMk
Several ethnic armies are attacking the Burmese junta
The Burmese military is retreating
Background
First Post / New Delhi
29 January 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIIC3RPOmU
Burmese Junta facing increasing resistance
Phil Robertson, Deputy Director, Asia section, Human Rights Watch
Al Jazeera
1 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUsg0sqre8
Three years of military dictatorship
Radio Free Asia
31 January / 1 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbg9qnHScs
Myanmar coup, three years on
A timeline of key developments
Otelli Edwards
CNA / Singapore
1 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnvn0bEezW4
Christopher Lamb, former Australian ambassador to Burma
Increasing battlefield setbacks on multiple fronts
and growing civil resistance are likely to cause
the collapse of the junta.
CNA
1 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYuscfH0Gqo&t=208s
Myanmar's Military is Losing
What Happens Next?
TLDR News Global
6 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_nTtJs4XyE
A reporter snuck into Burma, followed a rebel commander, and filmed the war against the junta
FRANCE 24
Feb. 16, 2024
25-minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz7yu3oc5sQ
Burma and the Revolution
Documentary from the programme INSIGHT
20 February 2024
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Armed resistance groups formed after the junta ' s coup
03:58 Operation 1027 - turning the tide of war
05:51 Ethnic makeup of Burma
10:31 Ethnic Armed Organisations / EAOs and the NUG
15:35 Junta forces are deserting and defecting
18:01 Funding the war
20:02 China's influence in Burma
23:31 Military junta conducts airstrikes against EAOs
26:18 Refugee crisis
34:50 Ceasefire in the new year
38:13 ASEAN role
41:41 The NLD reformed as the NUG
The NUG has recognised the rights of the Rohingya as citizens of Burma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfo_5Cnf4A0
Burmese Junta surrenders Myawaddy
KAREN NATIONAL UNION CLAIMS MYAWADDY
11 April 2024
Thousands of civilians flee into Mae Sod, Thailand
200 Burmese soldiers, now in civvies, wait for permission from Thailand to enter
Al Jazeera
11 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLL5EuibQIc
TRT World
11 April
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1POOYiCOyo
CNA
11 April 2024
Karen have 1,000 Burmese POWs in Myawaddy
2,000 civilians displaced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUaRxt4kSJw
100,000 civilians might have to flee to Thailand
CNN
Footage
11 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN1gjaWBLPc
Myawaddy a deserted town
Karen control this key border crossing town
Junta planes bomb Karen in Myawaddy
Radio Free Asia
11 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg8F0-2WvG8
Karen take Myawaddy
Karen lead an Alliance of ethnic and local defence armies
Karen National Union / Karen National Liberation Army
Fear of Junta bombing causes exodus to Thailand
DW News
13 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jm_zf8VnVk
The Alliance - Karen and anti-junta People ' s Defense Forces (PDFs)
Palki Sharma / India
12 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqoLwTkMbc
Reports of Alliance attacks in the Burmese capital, Nay Pyi Taw
Reports of the injury or capture of the Junta Number 2 by the Alliance
BURMA
PEOPLE'S DEFENCE FORCE / PDF
TV Documentary
Arte
19 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLBNCfXC34
Junta Recaptures Myawaddy
Junta loses outpost in Kachin State
Palki Sharma
25 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdFKr6I7Nc
FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND MYAWADDY
20 April 2024
Radio Free Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn-SQSw7U18
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GENOCIDE IN BURMA
PERSECUTION OF THE ROHINGYA
HARN YAUNGHWE
Son of Sao Shwe Thaike, first President of Burma
Berlin Conference
2018
Arakan Times Rohingya News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKInYY6r9NA
Rohingya refugees from Burma and Bangladesh in Indonesia
WION
19 December 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNpll1erA30
Locals in Indonesia oppose Rohingya refugees
Al Jazeera
10 December 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws5gHm8lTvM
Rohingya in Aceh
Channel News Asia / CNA
17 December 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO0sEAWtO0k
ROHINGYA
Life in Arakan and in refugee camps in Bangladesh
There is increasing violence in Rakhine state, home of the Rohingya.
The Arakan Army is killing Rohingya.
45,000 Rohingya have been forced from their homes by fighting in the towns of Buthidaung and Maungdaw. Many have fled
to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
A fire destroyed hundreds of makeshift structures at a camp of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.
Al Jazeera
24 May 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NsN9ZT6GQ
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BURMA'S LOST ROYALS
2017
In 1885, the British army invaded Burma and deposed its King, ending a thousand years of monarchy. He died in exile, in
India, in 1916.
British documentary with Soe Win, Burmese civil servant, great-grandson of King Thibaw, the last king of Burma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgk6H2e62k
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Objective, Burma!
Errol Flynn
1945
Part 1.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8iv607
Part 2.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ivyob
Part 3.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ix07j
Manila and Rangoon
Japanese Surrender
Pathe Gazette
1945
General Browning accepts surrender
Rangoon
28 August 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLEwkMV8iE
https://www.facebook.com/historyphils/videos/japanese-surrenders-in-manila-philippines-and-yangon-burma-1945/1145802062575759/
BEYOND RANGOON
Patricia Arquette
1995
https://www.facebook.com/yinnyeinshwemayotaw/videos/beyond-rangoon-1995/2957751504443537/
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Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon in 1945.
Suu Kyi ' s father, Aung San, was a Burman.
According to some sources, Aung San had Chin ancestry and he was related to the last king of Burma, Thibaw.
Suu Kyi 's mother, Khin Kyi, had Karen ancestry. Suu Kyi speaks Karen.
Suu Kyi married an Englishman, Michael Aris (1946 - 1999), a Tibetologist at Oxford, in 1972.
Michael Aris was the son of a British civil servant, John Aris, who was the British consul in Havana, Cuba at the time
of Michael's birth.
Michael Aris
Husband of Aung San Suu Kyi
Accepts an honorary degree on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi from Melbourne University in Australia
Melbourne, Australia
5 September 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FHgIYeo04
Michael Aris and Suu Kyi had two sons, Alexander and Kim.
Alexander Aris
Oldest of the two sons of Michael Aris and Aung San Suu Kyi
Born in London in 1973
Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Suu Kyi was prevented by the junta from receiving the prize.
Suu Kyi ' s sons, Alexander and Kim Aris, accepted the prize on their mother ' s behalf
Excerpt of the acceptance speech by Alexander Aris
Oslo, Norway
10 December 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFfGFfQi0T0
The political party of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma is the National League for Democracy (NLD). It is by far the dominant
political party in Burma.
Suu Kyi was arrested on 1 February 2021 and held in solitary confinement in Nay Pyi Daw Prison since June 2022.
On Monday night, 24 July, a member of the NLD announced that Suu Kyi had been transferred from Nay Pyi Daw Prison to a
government building - a VIP or high venue compound reserved for deputy ministers - in the Burmese capital, Nay Pyi Daw.
Suu Kyi met the Speaker of the Lower House, Ti Khun Myat, and a visiting representative of the government of China, Deng
Xijuan, China Special Envoy for Asian Affairs.
FRANCE 24 English
28 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdk5AvRFQQ8
FRANCE 24
28 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u13ujbxm5SQ
Suu Kyi is to be transferred from Naypyitaw Prison to house arrest by 1 August / Buddhist Lent
CNA
26 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjklwL3ZWCE
WION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97kvIU9O2ls
SUU KYI REQUIRES MEDICAL CARE
Reuters
6 September 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoswjdnMxgs
Kim Aris
Aris has just received a direct communication from his mother, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aris received a handwritten letter from his mother - the first letter in three years.
Sky News
1 February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgvWirq09_Y
KIM ARIS
Aug San Suu Kyi is in solitary confinement
Radio Free Aisa
13 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kMv7cN5-4
Edited 19 April
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kMv7cN5-4
Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint transferred from prison
Location unclear
CNA / Singapore
19 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZSrk4J5WSQ
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