Myanmar: Ongoing Updates

14 March

Regarding the monks, the International Crisis Group has issued a thorough retrospective here:

There is a great deal of frustration with the monks in the US. Most are not lifting a finger. But some monasteries are serving as gathering places for events and/or fundraisers such as when the NUG Human Rights Minister Aung Myo Min addressed the Burmese community in Southern California.

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16 March 2023

I’m going over my notes re Pencilo. I’m not sure if I re-stated what happened in those opening days and the first even warrants. I’ll expand or delete this comment in a few hours.

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What justice options are there for people who have been tortured in Myanmar?

Not as many as there could have been had the country signed the international conventions. Here’s a view from the summer before the coup into how the NLD, many of whose members were themselves tortured, had handled prevented it.

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