Myanmar's UN ambassador appeals to world body to use it to get rid of military coup
27 February, 2021
Myanmar's UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, speaking for the country's elected civilian government ousted in a military coup on Feb 1, appealed to the United Nations on Friday (Feb 26) "to work with any means essential to do something against the Myanmar military" to revive democracy to the Southeast Asian country.
He addressed the 193-member UN Basic Assembly after Secretary-Standard Antonio Guterres' particular envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, warned that no country should recognise or legitimise the Myanmar junta and all efforts must be designed to restore democracy.
"We need further strongest likely action from the overseas community to immediately end the military coup, to stop oppressing the innocent persons, to come back the state capacity to the people and restore the democracy," Kyaw Moe Tun thought to applause and praise from Western and Islamic counterparts.
Schraner Burgener pushed for a good collective "clear signal in support of democracy" as she sounded the alarm over the coup, urging "influential" countries to force the military to permit an unbiased assessment of the problem.
Myanmar has been around turmoil because the army seized ability and detained civilian government leader Aung San Suu Kyi and far of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party after the military complained of fraud found in a November election.
"Regrettably, the existing regime has up to now asked me to postpone any check out. It seems they want to continue producing large-scale arrests and also have been coercing people to testify against the NLD Government. This is cruel and inhumane," Schraner Burgener said.
The united states has been generally paralysed by weeks of protests and a civil disobedience campaign of strikes against the military. While military chief Standard Min Aung Hlaing says authorities are using minimal force during the protests, three protesters and one policeman have already been killed.
"When there is any escalation when it comes to military crackdown - and sadly just as we've seen this before found in Myanmar - against persons exercising their primary rights, why don't we act swiftly and collectively," Schraner Burgener said.
The army has promised an election, but has not given a date. It offers imposed a one-year express of emergency.
The question of an election reaches the guts of a diplomatic effort by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Myanmar is a member. Indonesia has taken the lead, but coup opponents fear the work will confer legitimacy on the junta.
"It is crucial the international community will not lend legitimacy or recognition to this regime," Schraner Burgener said. "The consequence of the election of November 2020 was clear with 82 per cent of the votes for the NLD."
Guterres has pledged to mobilise enough international pressure "to be sure that this coup fails." The Security Council offers voiced concern over the talk about of emergency, but stopped short of condemning the coup.
Schraner Burgener expressed concern for the Rohingya Muslims and various other minorities.
A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine Condition sent a lot more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they remain stranded. Guterres and Western claims include accused the Myanmar army of ethnic cleaning, which it denies.
"We must ask, how do we count on a military regime when the same led the security businesses leading to the human being rights violations and pressured displacement of Rohingya persons and others from their homes?" Schraner Burgener stated.
Source: