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Sep
30
2023
By GWLADYS FOUCHE
Nobel Peace Prize: who has won and who missed out?

Nobel Peace Prize: who has won and who missed out?

NEWS
THE winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners - and one person who did not but should have. MARTIN LUTHER KING The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence," according to the then chairman of the awarding body, Gunnar Jahn. "He is the first to make the message of brotherly love a reality in the course of his struggle, and he has brought this message to all men, to…
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Dec
07
2021
By The African Mirror
The trials of Aung San Suu Kyi, from heroine to villain to convict

The trials of Aung San Suu Kyi, from heroine to villain to convict

WORLD
PUT on trial by the generals who overthrew her elected government in a coup that cut short democratic reforms she had fought for decades to bring about, Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison. The 76-year-old's sentence was later reduced to two years' detention in an undisclosed location after she was convicted of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters in the first verdicts in more than a dozen criminal cases filed against her since the Feb. 1 military takeover. Just 14 months before the coup, she had…
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Dec
06
2021
By The African Mirror
U.N. rights boss Bachelet denounces Suu Kyi conviction in ‘sham trial’

U.N. rights boss Bachelet denounces Suu Kyi conviction in ‘sham trial’

WORLD
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has denounced a four-year jail term handed down to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a "sham trial" and called for her immediate release. The conviction of Suu Kyi "closes yet another door to political dialogue" in Myanmar, where the military took power on Feb. 1, and "will only deepen rejection of the coup", Bachelet said in a statement in Geneva. A court jailed Suu Kyi for four years on Monday on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions, said a source in a case that critics described as "farcical".…
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Jun
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi on trial, thanks people for birthday wishes

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi on trial, thanks people for birthday wishes

WORLD
MYANMAR’S deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has thanked people for birthday greetings, in a message she sent through her lawyer while standing trial accused of crimes that could see her jailed for up to 15 years. "They made birthday wishes for her and told her about the countrywide and worldwide birthday-wishing events for her," Suu Kyi's chief lawyer Khin Maung Zaw said in a text message, describing the defence team's meeting with her. "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told the lawyers to convey her thanks and share her wishes for the people," he said, using the Myanmar honorific. Suu…
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Jun
20
2021
By The African Mirror
United Nations calls for halt of weapons to Myanmar

United Nations calls for halt of weapons to Myanmar

WORLD
MICHELLE NICHOLS  THE United Nations General Assembly has called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The General Assembly adopted a resolution with the support of 119 countries several months after the military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in a February 1 coup. Belarus requested the text be put to a vote and was the only country to oppose it, while 36 abstained, including China and Russia. "The risk of a large-scale civil war is real,"…
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May
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels as armed resistance grows

Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels as armed resistance grows

WORLD
MYANMAR’S army battled local militia fighters in the northwestern town of Mindat yesterday, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in the Southeast Asian country in February. The fighting is some of the heaviest since the coup and underlines the growing chaos as the junta struggles to impose order in the face of daily protests, strikes and sabotage attacks after it overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "We are running for our lives," one resident told Reuters from Mindat, a hill town just over 100 km (60…
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May
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Some 200 rights groups push for U.N. arms embargo on Myanmar

Some 200 rights groups push for U.N. arms embargo on Myanmar

WORLD
MICHELLE NICHOLS MORE than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have called on the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help protect civilians peacefully protesting a military coup. Since the military seized power on February 1 and ousted an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar has seen daily protests and a surge of violence with security forces killing hundreds of civilians. "Imposing a global arms embargo on Myanmar is the minimum necessary step the Security Council should take in response to the military's escalating violence,"…
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Apr
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar seeks murder, treason charges against protest leader

Myanmar seeks murder, treason charges against protest leader

WORLD
MYANMAR authorities are seeking to file charges of murder and treason against one of the main leaders of the protest campaign against military rule, according to the state broadcaster. Wai Moe Naing was arrested on April 15 when security men rammed him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally in the central town of Monywa. Myanmar Television, in its main evening news bulletin, broadcast a list of charges being sought against him, including murder and treason, that it said had been filed with police. Wai Moe Naing, a 25-year-old Muslim, has emerged as one of the most…
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Apr
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar unity government says it must be part of any ASEAN bid to end crisis

Myanmar unity government says it must be part of any ASEAN bid to end crisis

WORLD
MYANMAR’S newly formed government of national unity urged neighbouring countries to not recognise the junta that seized power in February and to negotiate with it instead as part of any attempt to solve the crisis that began with the coup. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to find a way out of the bloody turmoil that has racked fellow member Myanmar since the military ousted an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1. The military has shown little willingness to engage with its neighbours and no sign of wanting…
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Apr
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar releases 23 184 prisoners for New Year

Myanmar releases 23 184 prisoners for New Year

WORLD
MYANMAR’S junta released 23,184 prisoners from jails across the country on yesterday, under a New Year amnesty, a Prisons Department spokesman said, though few if any democracy activists arrested since a February 1 coup were thought to be among them. Saturday is the first day of the traditional New Year in Myanmar and the last day of a five-day holiday that is usually celebrated with visits to Buddhist temples and rowdy water throwing and partying in the streets. Pro-democracy activists called for the cancellation of the festivities this year and instead for people to focus on a campaign to restore…
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