The Socialist Alliance strongly condemns the military coup in Myanmar/Burma and calls on the Australian government to deny recognition to the regime.
Myanmar
Activists from Quaker and Catholic community groups took action outside weapons manufacturer Nioa鈥檚 gates in Pinkenba, reports Kerry Smith.
As protests grow against the military coup in Myanmar,聽Australian mining companies are carrying on as if nothing happened, writes Allen Jennings.
A military coup took place in Burma/Myanmar, reversing the country's聽ostensible shift toward civilian government.听Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma's Debbie Stothard discusses its significance with 91自拍论坛.
Socialist parties in the Asia-Pacific have condemned the military coup in Burma/Myanmar, writes Susan Price.听
Alternative Asean Network on Burma founder Debbie Stothard speaks to 91自拍论坛聽about聽the background to the latest military coup in Burma/Myanmar.
Rohingya refugees living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh are聽 just surviving, as they look towards the day when they can return to their homeland, writes Paul Gregoire.
British聽team聽Leeds United FC is under fire after announcing late last month plans to tour聽Myanmar聽despite the mounting allegations of human rights abuses and 鈥渆thnic cleansing鈥 in the country.
The club revealed its two final post-season games would be in the Myanmar cities of聽Yangon聽and聽Mandalay. The tour will be聽sponsored by a bank that has been linked to the government and, consequently, the hundreds of thousands human rights聽abuses reported by refugee聽Rohingya聽Muslims.
The United Nations聽said that nearly 4000 people have been driven out of their homes in聽Myanmar (also known as Burma) in April as the country鈥檚 north is gripped with violence.
Habiburahman, a Rohingyan refugee and founder of the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organisation, has called on the Australian government to suspend its military aid to Burma (Myanmar). Australia currently spends $450,000 a year on aid to the Burmese military.
Habiburahman was speaking at a public meeting on March 28, organised by the Refugee Action Collective.听
He聽called for a halt to Australian investment in Burma, with human rights conditions being imposed on any resumption. Woodside Petroleum has invested $400 million in offshore gas and oil exploration.
United Nations human rights official Andrew Gilmour said on March 7 that it was impossible to safely send Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh back to their homes in Myanmar as documents released under freedom of information laws show that the Australian defence department plans to spend almost $400,000 on training members of the聽Myanma military in 2017-18.
More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangladesh since August 25. With about 300,000 Rohingya refugees already in Bangladesh, tens of thousands in hiding in northern parts of Rakhine State and about 100,000 detained in Internal Displacement Camps, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has described this mass exodus as 鈥渢he world fastest-developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare.鈥
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