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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

SAC-M: Myanmar junta’s steel industry aided by secretive Italian firm Danieli

June 16, 2023

SAC-M quoted by Myanmar Now Myanmar junta’s steel industry aided by secretive Italian firm Danieli By Sally Kantar and Htoo Aung June 16, 2023 During a recent visit to a newly recommissi... Read more

SAC-M: Myanmar military no longer in effective control of the country

May 3, 2023

SAC-M Briefing Paper ‘Effective Control in Myanmar’ cited by Kim Jolliffe for the Diplomat. Myanmar’s Military Is No Longer in Effective Control of the Country The country’s... Read more

Chris Sidoti: International support for Myanmar must move beyond words and rhetoric

April 27, 2023

A Q&A with Chris Sidoti and Voice of America. Q&A: Ban Ki-moon’s Unannounced Myanmar Peace Trip Draws Questions  By Ingyin Naing 27 April 2023 This week former United Nations Secr... Read more