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Isabel Todd: Escalating junta violence causing regional refugee crisis. The international community must respond – Video

February 22, 2024

Isabel Todd, Coordinator at SAC-M, speaks with the DW news program about the international community’s failure to respond to escalating junta violence against civilians in Myanmar and ... Read more

Chris Sidoti: Australia should deny entry visas to crony-owned Myanmar football team

October 6, 2023

Chris Sidoti in ABC news Australia. Australian A-League team criticised for playing soccer game in war-torn Myanmar during AFC Cup   By Erin Handley 6 October 2023   An Australian... Read more

SAC-M: UN must end its failed approach in Myanmar

October 3, 2023

Myanmar Now covers SAC-M’s 3 October report: How the UN Is Failing Myanmar UN must end its ‘failed approach’ in Myanmar, report says Criticising the UN’s Myanmar Country Team for... Read more

Chris Sidoti: US-imposed banking isolation of the junta biting hard

September 15, 2023

Chris Sidoti in the Sydney Morning Herald.   Beer at gunpoint: Myanmar generals deal with local boycott Chris Barrett 15 September 2023  Myanmar’s military regime is reported... Read more

Yanghee Lee: ASEAN needs UN Security Council support to take action on Myanmar – Video

September 6, 2023

Yanghee Lee speaks with Al Jazeera’s news program about the need for ASEAN to request the UN Security Council to step in and take meaningful action to resolve the crisis in Myanmar. &n... Read more

Yanghee Lee: International community needs to wake up to Myanmar junta’s ‘decades-old trick’ amid Aung San Suu Kyi sentence reduction

August 2, 2023

Yanghee Lee speaks to Channel News Asia. International community needs to wake up to Myanmar junta’s ‘decades-old trick’ amid Aung San Suu Kyi pardon: Former UN expert Dr Yanghee Lee, ... Read more

Yanghee Lee: Partial reduction of Suu Kyi’s sentence not an act of contrition by Myanmar’s brutal generals – Video

August 1, 2023

Yanghee Lee speaks with Channel News Asia’s news program about the political motives behind the junta’s decision to partially reduce the sentence of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has bee... Read more

SAC-M: Mottama Holdings identified as supplying the Myanmar military’s weapon production

June 28, 2023

SAC-M’s 16 January KaPaSa report quoted by the Irrawaddy. Yang Ho: Myanmar Junta Arms Production’s Key Supplier 28 June 2023 Mottama Holdings has been involved in purchasing raw mate... Read more

SAC-M: Junta weaponising delivery of aid to cyclone Mocha affected communities

June 19, 2023

SAC-M appears in Foreign Policy Inside Myanmar’s Shadow Government in Washington Exiled officials are trying to keep the flame of democracy alive from afar.    By Mary Yang and Ro... Read more