Five members of a satirical poetry troupe in Myanmar have been jailed for making fun of the country’s military. The group, Peacock Generation, was arrested in April over their “thangyat” – a traditional art form that combines spoken word poetry, comedy and dance. The performers were found guilty of undermining …
BANGKOK — The biggest obstacle to releasing two imprisoned Reuters reporters in Myanmar was not the country’s military, diplomats and others say, but its de facto civilian leader: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and former political prisoner herself who once declared, “Please use your liberty to promote …
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar youth activist and television host Thinzar Shun Lei Yi would once have called herself one of Aung San Suu Kyi’s greatest fans. Now, she is one of her most vocal critics. FILE PHOTO:Myanmar press freedom advocates and youth activists hold a demonstration demanding the release of …
Amnesty International is stripping Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. The politician and Nobel peace prize winner received the honour in 2009, when she was living under house arrest. The rights group said it was profoundly dismayed at her …
Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingya minority in her country. Ms Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her efforts …
FILE – In this May 6, 2016, file photo, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s foreign minister and de facto leader, left walks with senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s commander-in-chief, right, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s government looks as if it’s under siege from an international community concerned …
The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military’s violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein told the BBC the Nobel Peace prize winner’s attempts to excuse it were “deeply regrettable”. His comments …
Aung San Suu Kyi’s cult of personality is continuously projected within Myanmar even while it expires internationally. The Western world is inexorably witnessing the destruction of an international positive image: a cult of personality through which Aung San Suu Kyi achieved worldwide fame and acclamation. She had become known as the …
Win Myint, newly elected president of Myanmar, waves to media outside the parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday elected Win Myint, a loyalist of Aung San Suu Kyi, as new president, while Suu Kyi retained her executive …
Yangon, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s president, a close friend of leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said Wednesday that he was retiring, a move that puts a representative of the country’s already powerful military at least temporarily in a position of executive power. An announcement posted on the Facebook page of …
STATE Counsellor of Burma (Myanmar) Aung San Suu Kyi could be guilty of crimes against humanity for her failure to prevent atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, a former United Nations Special Envoy has said. Professor Yanghee Lee – who is now barred from entering the country after public criticism of Suu …
FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2018, file photo, Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, centre, is welcomed by his wife and daughter upon arrival at the court for their trial on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. BANGKOK (AP) — When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decadelong prison terms for …