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ACTION NOW NEEDED FOR MYANMAR
ABC Radio 16 April 2021
On Mornings with Rebecca Levingston

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Nay Myo Steven Han is president of the Myanmar Students’ Association Australia.

Photo Journalist Jacques Maudy is interested in societies on the cusp of change and has visited Myanmar several times.

Both want the Australian Government to take action against the military Junta to restaure the rule of law and democracy in Myanmar

They spoke to the ABC’s Rebecca Levingston about the current situation Myanmar. Duration: 17min 23sec Broadcast: Friday 17 April 2021, 8:30am

Myanmar is a country with more than twice our population. Yet it’s political history is far more complex.
Having gained its independence from Britain in 1948, the country formerly known as Burma came under military rule from 1962 until 2011 when Aung San Suu Kyi was elected its leader after spending a total of 15 years previously in house detention or in prison.
However, on the first of February this year, after winning the nation’s latest election in a landslide, Suu Kyi was back in prison, detained along with hundreds of party members, when the military junta again seized control, killing over 750 people to date including 47 children, using live ammunition and war planes and sparking mass protests, a national Civil Disobedience Movement. and unifying the whole country against them. The Australian Government stays inexplicably silent. Senator Robert Hill called the inaction of the Department of Foreign Affairs “constipation” and wondered when “Marise Payne the Foreign Affairs Minister would start doing her job”.




MARTIAL LAW IN MYANMAR
ABC Radio 16 March 2021
On Mornings with Rebecca Levingston
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Myanmar is a country with more than twice our population. Yet it’s political history is far more complex.
Having gained its independence from Britain in 1948, the country formerly known as Burma came under military rule from 1962 until 2011 when Aung San Suu Kyi was elected its leader after spending a total of 15 years previously in house detention or in prison.
However, on the first of February this year, after winning the nation’s latest election in a landslide, Suu Kyi was back in prison, detained along with hundreds of party members, when the military junta again seized control, declaring a year-long state of emergency and sparking mass protests.
Photographer Jacques Maudy is interested in societies on the cusp of change and has visited Myanmar several times and wants Queenslanders to speak up on behalf of our northern neighbours.
He spoke to the ABC’s Rebecca Levingston about his time in Myanmar.Duration: 17min 41secBroadcast: Tue 16 Mar 2021, 8:30am
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/programs/mornings/jacques-maudy/13253038

A Pain That Does Not Kill You Doesn’t last for ever. Cuba 2021
ABC Coast FM May 2021
Interview with Annie Gaffney

In 2021, Raul Castro announced that Cubans would be allowed to buy and sell cars and property, set up small restaurants and bed and breakfasts departing from the strict communist ideology promoted by the regime until then.