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Chris Sidoti: Australia must recognise NUG as rightful govt of Myanmar

December 3, 2021

Chris Sidoti quoted by ABC News Australia Myanmar junta cancels passports of high-profile opponents and shadow government figures, documents show 3 December, 2021 By Stephen Dziedzic Myanmar... Read more

SAC-M: Junta deliberately starving the people of Myanmar

November 28, 2021

Coverage of SAC-M’s 26 November statement in the Arab News Myanmar’s army is weaponizing starvation against its own people 28 November, 2021 Dr Azeem Ibrahim The Myanmar army, ... Read more

SAC-M: Junta brings people in Myanmar to brink of starvation

November 27, 2021

Coverage of SAC-M’s November 26 statement in the Guardian Myanmar junta accused of forcing people to brink of starvation Advisory group say military has destroyed supplies, killed live... Read more

Chris Sidoti: Cooperation needed to enable cross-border flow of aid into Myanmar

November 18, 2021

Chris Sidoti quoted in The Australian  Aussie aid funds bypass Myanmar junta 18 November, 2021 The federal government has hit back at claims that aid earmarked for Myanmar has been “froze... Read more

Yanghee Lee: I’ve called for Myanmar’s military leaders to be brought to justice for years – finally, this is our chance

November 15, 2021

Yanghee Lee writes in the Independent that for the first time the ICC Prosecutor can investigate  war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by the Myanmar military up a... Read more

MARZUKI DARUSMAN: ASEAN has shut out Myanmar’s junta leader: he must remain that way

October 25, 2021

Marzuki Darusman writes in the Straits Times that the exclusion of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing from the ASEAN summit only makes sense if it is a norm-setting exercise, not just a whim of th... Read more

Yanghee Lee: Junta committing unilateral violence against the Myanmar people

October 3, 2021

Yanghee Lee quoted in SBS News Australia ‘The world has ignored us’: Myanmar resistance leader urges more support from Australia Eight months after the military coup in Myanmar, ... Read more

SAC-M: Junta atrocities resemble those committed by nascent Islamic State

October 2, 2021

SAC-M statement quoted in the South China Morning Post Tortured, executed, shot: a junta’s way of death in post-coup Myanmar As the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warns the window f... Read more

SAC-M: UN should declare junta a terrorist organisation

September 28, 2021

SAC-M statement quoted by the Irrawaddy Int’l Rights Experts Urge UN to Declare Myanmar Junta ‘Terrorist’ Organization 28 Sept, 2021 An independent group of prominent former UN human... Read more