ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
The Asia Justice Coalition works as a collective to amplify our members’ initiatives and their
efforts to advance international justice and human rights in Asia. We, therefore, provide
aggregated and updated information and news on the Coalition’s projects, activities and events.
The Asia Justice Coalition works as a collective to amplify our members’ initiatives and their
efforts to advance international justice and human rights in Asia. We, therefore, provide
aggregated and updated information and news on the Coalition’s projects, activities and events.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
May 5, 2021
Radio Free Asia: ‘Myanmar Shadow Government Forms Militia to Oppose Military Junta’
Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) have formed an armed militia named the People’s Defense Force aimed at opposing the military junta that seized control of Myanmar on 1 February. The NUG stated that the force is necessary to prevent killings and other violent acts by the junta. Read more here.
Apr 24, 2021
Al Jazeera: ‘ASEAN Demands “Immediate Cessation of Violence” in Myanmar’
Following an ASEAN emergency summit in Jakarta on 24 April, ASEAN released a five-point statement on the crisis, demanding the ‘immediate cessation of violence’ and calling on all parties in the country to exercise ‘utmost restraint’.
Apr 13, 2021
United Nations: ‘Myanmar Heading Towards a “Full-Blown” Conflict, UN Human Rights Chief Warns’
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned that the ongoing repression of protests in Myanmar could spark a ‘full-blown’ conflict and that this situation ‘clearly echoes’ that of Syria in 2011. She urged States to take immediate action, and decisive and impactful measures to push the Myanmar military leadership to halt their campaign of violence.
Apr 2, 2021
CNN: ‘Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Charged with Violating State Secrets as Wireless Internet Shutdown Begins’
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer told CNN that she was charged on 25 March 2021 with violating the Official Secrets Act alongside several others. He added that he was only informed of this new charge on 30 May.
Mar 31, 2021
United Nations: ‘“Significant action” Needed by Security Council to Prevent “Bloodbath”’.
Ms. Christine Schraner Burgener, the UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, stated that ‘a bloodbath is imminent’ in Myanmar against the backdrop of a history of human rights violations and serious international crimes by the Myanmar military. She added: ‘this Council must consider potentially significant action that can reverse the course of events in Myanmar’.