Since the military junta seized power in a coup in Burma on 1st Feb 2021, over 1,500 civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.
Security forces are indiscriminately attacking and arbitrarily arresting, detaining and abducting civilians in cities and towns across the country.
Please act now to help support the people of Burma.
Please write to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney asking for action to be taken to support the Rohingya people in Burma’s Rakhine State and for those in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Burma Coup Watch
Altsean-Burma is providing weekly thematic updates on events in Burma since the military (Tatmadaw) staged a coup d’état on 1st February 2021.
The military’s brutality towards the protestors and civilians continues as the security forces indiscriminately attacks and arbitrarily arrests, detains and abducts civilians in cities and towns of each state and region in the country.
When the security forces fail to find anti-coup activists, family members are being arrested including the elderly and children as young as 5-years-old.
- Civil Society organizations reject UN Special Envoy’s proposal of “power sharing”
- Burma/Myanmar’s military junta year of brutality since their attempted illegal coup
- Joint Statement on Myanmar UN Security Council Open Briefing
- Joint Statement: CSOs of Myanmar & Cambodia Condemning Hun Sen’s Support of Myanmar’s military
- International Finance Institutions: repurpose unspent Myanmar funds to support COVID-19 relief
International action is needed!
You can write to elected representatives to ask EU leaders to impose targeted sanctions on Burma’s military companies.
