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Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party remains defiant after it won the election in November.
Prevented from taking their seats in the new parliament, democratically-elected politicians from the NLD have met anyway – a symbolic session surrounded by armed guards at a government guesthouse.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Chappelle reports.
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From Bangladesh
Kudos for taking a stand against the military!
Incredibly risky move. Expecting many arrests the incoming days.
I love Bangladesh
Okay…? What does that have to do with anything, jeez.
@Serenity who knows…. He might be from another country
Very irrelevant.
revoke Myanmar ASEAN mebership for one year, let these greedy generals feel the world’s anger
@KL CHAI those were the days, at least they have changed from bad to good, now their system works very well, if you will notice they have the best of everything, they are actually gifted 🙂 the technology we use today are from them we must be grateful for that, always bear that in your mind 🙂
this is exactly what china wants. they already have 2 lapdogs..NKorea and pakistan..any sanctions and suspensions will make myanmar the third lapdog further destroying world peace
@Eduardo Lombo believe me everytime US sanctioning some country
China be like : well look we got a new trade partner.
@KL CHAI west bad, east good? well, west exploitive, as u say, east conniving, manipulative .. independence is better
Their democracy led to genocide.
media at it’s best….❤️🇧🇩
Myanmar and Malaysia holding hands
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Thank you for your encouragement.♥️♥️♥️
military always equals misery
Mynamar will suffer 100%
@KL CHAI u wrote this??
@GOD #2 you know nothing so it’s best your shut up
@Unicorn Saw are u even from myanmar
@Unicorn Saw if u want proof min may sat pat pl kg lay ko nay yar mar ko nay
Sounds Promising Hope the People Resume
They are not elected. uec not yet declare their victory. Media make you blind.
our handsign is literally the one from hunger games! We will not allow the military to terrorise any of our races for political gain any longer. Drag these murderous generals to the ICJ, have them be arrested and executed for all the genocides and war crimes commited!
Does that race include rohingya too?
@Fiaz Abir in fact, Yes. We never supported the genocide. We were just silenced by the military that caused this genocide and manipulated the evidence to try and divide the 135 ethnic groups and ethnic armed forces. REST ASSURED. if we finally have full democracy and destroy the unfair powers the military have, we can finally do something about the grievances of all 135 races without fearing for assassinations and military coups like now
@Crewmate CantSleep I can respect that. Hopefully the army backs down from their tyranny.
@Fiaz Abir Thank you!
Democracy prevails.🇲🇲
Love from the Philippines.🇵🇭
Love you too 💞💞💞
Democracy system is very bad but Holy Quran system very nice thank you everybody
@Crewmate CantSleep If anyone who should be dragged to the ICJ, it should be Suu Kyi.
@PooperMoodie IsGay nope. It’s the military that caused the genocide in the first place.
@Crewmate CantSleep I am sure you are aware that she defended the actions of the military. She needs to be at least partly responsible for the bad things that happened to the Rohingyas. Let’s not forget that she faced worldwide criticism for not condemning the military actions.
@PooperMoodie IsGay She cannot speak out against the military because she had no power in the first place. Not only that, all key ministries like defense were under the military so it has been an absolute nightmare trying to open an investigation against the military. What would ended up happening if she spoke out too soon is the military will take over the NLD, assassinate or execute the democratic government over defamation charges. And if that happens, good luck getting anything done against the military because they aint giving no shits just like they giving no shits when the Karen genocide was happening till now ( I doubt u even know about the Karen genocide huh} . Speaking whatever u want is the luxury of the outside world with a constitution that protects your free speech. You do not have to bear the repercussions and consequences of falling into the traps made by the military. Even now, all 15 of UN key members condemn the military and wants the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the other leaders!
@Crewmate CantSleep Let’s me clear about 1 thing is that I think the coup is WRONG. While Suu Kyi is not an angel, she is still elected by the people(not sure about the alleged election fraud though).
What I am emphasizing is that she should have called out the military for their persecution of the Rohingyas. If she could not do that, at least DON’T defend the actions of the military! But doing that, myself and many others had totally lost respect and trust in her.
Islam is the religion of truth and justice 🕌💓☝☝☝💓
@Crewmate CantSleep fight till die. Its war. If just talk is nonsense.
Are you afraid to die? 😅
I respect all religions including ISLAM. I have many Muslim friends and teachers who are kind, who love truth and justice. Now we all are fighting for our truth, future, justice and freedom in Myanmar.
@Sailla Thaew revolution needs blood & death. Are you dare?
@ben descartes Why not?
@Sailla Thaew i’m waiting
democractic elected VS. military junta installed govt ….who do u think will WIN???
democratic. We never supported the genocide. We were just silenced by the military that caused this genocide and manipulated the evidence to try and divide the 135 ethnic groups and ethnic armed forces. REST ASSURED. if we finally have full democracy and destroy the unfair powers the military have, we can finally do something about the grievances of all 135 races, including rohingyas, without fearing for assassinations and military coups like now
@Crewmate CantSleep As much as I want the democratic side to win, it doesn’t seem like they will right now. If you want them to win, you gotta do it yourselves. Outside powers can at most put sanctions which I don’t think will work at all
@Kresna Anugrahayutya without China agreeing to go against military, the people cannot do much because China will just back them up with weapons and funds. Now that China finally agreed with UN, things are starting to look better for us ordinary citizens of Burma
Wow, just wow. I think they are trying to get world attention
Lol,Nobody can say that your option is wrong.
@Imperial Guardsman xD If it was going to work the military wouldn’t have seized the country to begin with. Literally just realised that 😅
@Win Htut 😅 I feel bad for the Burmese people but I don’t think other countries do much aside from invading which is clearly a bad choice and gives tatmadaw an excuse. Sanctions will only make the innocent people suffer and even if they rebel, tatmadaw has guns. Like Mao Said, Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun
Oh gee, you seem very smart. You must be a Harvard man 😅😂🤣
Stand up for what you believe is right,stand up for those you love,for those suffering from a leadership with nothing in consideration for the welfare of each individual and each family,people need something that no one can take from you all,give them Love and reassurance and tell them how important they are in your eyes.
Bold action. The military will likely arrest and penalize anyone trying to orchestrate an oppositional force against the new strengthened military rule, if the opposition gathering is seen as a threat. Zero tolerance is the name of the game.
You hit the nail on the head, a few people in my city have already been arrested for just banging pots in protest. However they can’t stop all of us.
Surely they can’t kill and jail over half the country’s population. Who will they rule in a country without people
When is democracy coming to qatar
does qatar has oil?
@Wanna Shein yup lots of it
@Wanna Shein it’s a US ally though
Anglo-Saxons’ des-truc-tion of the world, human beings, human civilization, etc. is a great tra-ge-dy of human history. Their culture has created their bru-tal , gree-d y , of-fen-sive, In-va-sive behavior like the most vicious cancer cells in human body penetrating everywhere in the world, Britain, ARMerica, Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc. are their l o o t s , they are not the native there originally, their e x t r e m e acts of p l u n-d e-r i n g des-troy-ed the harmony of the world and humans which originally maintained an ecological balance in nature, they I n v a d e d more than half of the world, hundreds of millions of human beings have been k i l l e d by them during their ag-gre-ssive behavior, the cultural relics of countries lo-ot-ed and des-troy-ed are countless, the exhibits in the Great Britain Museum in London illustrate all this, but that is only the tip of the iceberg.
Sadly, in the 21st century, this e x t r e m e l y u-gly human character is still prevailing and destroying the world and human being which represented and lead by the ARMerica government, it uses its powerful mi-li-ta-ry power, continue to obstruct the progress of the world and human civilization with extreme b r u t a l, s h a m e l e s s , most d I s g u s t I n g and greediest actions. It has become a major obstacle to human progress and peaceful coexistence. The Anglo-Saxons and today’s ARMerica government are useless except for op- pres-sing the world’s human right and civilization. The ARMerica government’s complete inability to deal with the current virus pandemic is an excellent proof that they are a paper tiger. They are so Incompetent, incapable in doing something good to human, they are shameless, good for nothing good except lying, rumors fabrication, demonize, blaming, pushing of responsibility to other nation or organization who is doing better than it , and all kinds of atrocities against humanity have reached the highest peak of humanity, and they are clamoring for freedom, democracy, and human rights, but the real fact is that their behavior which violation of human freedom, democracy, and human rights is the most intrusive in human history, their wanton killing of humans, extreme plundering and destruction of human civilization can no longer be repaired, and these behaviors are still continuing today. Who in the world can end this most inhumane behavior in human history? Stop it from continuing in harming the world and mankind? Yes, the rise of the great eastern civilized ancient nation will change all of this and the process and destiny of mankind, the west export only war, military power, weapon, mass slaughtering, day light killing and assassination, booming of other nation’s embassy, colonization, slave trade, demonizing, fabricating of lies and rumors, creating of fake video, blaming, organizing and leading the illegal violent activities in other country, support the illegal group of people against their nation, spying, looting and destroying of other nations’ historical and culture relics etc. etc…… , in fact, there is no end in writing out the bad things the western country did, and just opposite, the eastern great nation does not do all these things against human survival and improvement, great eastern country’s government exports only technology, construction, pandemic essential materials etc. only, and some more, it is so keen in improving the human living standard as a whole so that it planned and launch a super major project which unprecedented in human history—one belt one road, it is why it is qualified to be the biggest hi-tech entrepreneur and capitalist in the world, it is so easy to differentiate good and bad with just a simple compare. Chai from Malaysia
@KL CHAI yes, I support china withdraw from Mongol, xinjiang and tibet, also demolish the illegal man made islands in south sea and obey internal laws, stop interfering Taiwan and 尖閣諸島, in the end, stop wasting money on bri and help china people coming out of poverty.
Myanmar is a 3rd world country lol
I am a Myanmar Mark now because we have a lot of hardship. Please help us.
🇲🇲 Fight for your democracy Myanmar people. Support from Philippines. 🇵🇭
Saya yakin ada solusi yang terbaik untuk seluruh warga Myanmar 🇲🇲. Peace and love from Indonesia 🇮🇩
Ini channel internasional bro! Pakelah English biar bisa dimengerti viewers channel ini.
Jangan malu2in Indonesia bro!💚🇮🇩
dont worry most of us understand😀
All of the Rohingyas issues happened when Gas pipeline arrived from China(Part of Belt and Road) But the world didn’t dare to blame the mastermind.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Myanmar (as well as me) were accused of genocide because nobody dares to point out the Gas Pipeline of China. Only China-controlled Military committed not only the Rohingyas case but also spray bullets into the protestors of 1988 and 2007.
Yes,Do Western needs some chains the CHINA mastermind and plays.This Military dictatorships possibly to happened after Chinese foreign minister visited.Military have full responsible for Rohingyas cleansings not the people and government.
Sadly, Chinese RMB is too powerful and the millitary has the backing of the CCP. Only when ASEAN unites and collectively not recognize the millitary regime, then can justice prevails.
The only things that we hate about westerner is that they just read news then using their own perspective and their own values without knowing the true political conditions in myanmar
china wants myanmar, same as tibet, same as kashmir, same as taiwan, same as vladivostok, same as east vietnam sea, same as xinjiang, same as hong kong, same as north korea, watch out
How much are you paid by the CIA to spread lies?
NED- National Endowment For Democracy. Communism By The Back Door. Well, what do we think of the Soros State Department?
I hope all these politicians are hanged .they did nothing when rohingaya were getting soaughtered
Yes CHINA should help in the name of DEMOCRACY. ANNEX Them.
Karma is boomerang Rohingya
are u mullah ?
@lovely arunachal i am not sangi😂😂😂
@ஆக்கா பாக்கா srilankans are treating mullah in best ways
Chinese casino is still open in Myanmar
So what’s the USA doing? don’t they like Freedom and Democracy? why aren’t they helping?
Have you watched the news at all?
Do you want the US to interfere?
Banging pots and pans & blaring car horns are done not just in one place or in one township but all over the country at 8pm. Can u all believe the unity Myanmar people had against Military?
@Jam2014 The people of Myanmar are her power. Not guns wielding soldiers which are just a few of the population. Why do u think NLD won by 83% in 2020 election? She’s like a mother to Myanmar people & she sacrificed her life for us (even though she said it’s not a sacrifice, it’s a choice). It took a day to reply because our internet was cut off.
@Christopher Smith so who’s gonna protect the country incase if there’s external threat, invasion or terrorist activities?? if there’s no support on military and police.. you can’t call western country to protect your country. military and police are also people of myanmar so what’s the difference between the civilian and its soldier itself.. they are all citizen on that country and they have famliy also who is citizen of that country too.
@Christopher Smith so you`re telling me that soldiers and police are not people of myanmar they are foreigners meaning she`s fighting her own people too so what the differenc. they are all citizen of the country.
@Jam2014 It is true that they are people of Myanmar but they do what Min Aung Hlaing told them to, not Aung San Suu Kyi. Shouldn’t they protect Myanmar people (their brothers and sisters) from the coup which NLD won fair and square? Even soldiers and police vote for NLD (That’s why NLD won by 83%). Just wait for today’s news & u’ll see how much people are against the Military.
@Christopher Smith y they dont follow her because shes weak.. evry soldier will follow if she very strong.. like the general that you mention.
i doubt whether either Army or the NLD will be willing to repatriate the Rohingya refugees
when is democracy coming to qatar
I don’t know.. do something!
Very good and timely question. Aljazeera to respond it.
CCP regime behind this?
Undoubtedly,let know westerns.
No. US behind the smear campaign against ASSK so CCP cant get railway access in Myanmar
ofcourse
We stand with our national leader Daw Aung San Su Kyi, I really voted her party NLD. May trust prevail.
China evil
New year everyday
I support the citizens of Myanmar. PEOPLE POWER. MYANMAR MILITARY IS DISGUSTING LIKE DONALD TRUMP. GOD BLESSED THE PEOPLE OF DEMOCRACY.
Thank you. God bless you, too.
@Sailla Thaew thank you also. Military dictatorship needs to be stop. Speak up & save the oppressed & the innocent. God bless.
get rid of your millatary leaders the world community will
not do it for you santions wont change anything if the people of Myanmar elected these officials stand up for them or shut up nobody except people if Myanmar can change this reality
military in there should not interfere with the politics, the people should do some actions to stop this coup led the military in the soonest possible time
Democrocy only for ethnic burmese rohingya minorities get genocide
I’m from Myanmar.
Military generals’ religion is not Buddha. They believe their military equipments and guns.
DAW Aung San Suu kyi and NLD party is our genuinely elected government. They won an unfair election where military has taken 25% of seats in parliament.Military generals dare to aim gums to citizens with phones. How dare they!!!
In Myanmar the monks are for killings of Rohingyas .In Sri Lanka the monks responsible for killings of Tamil . What Buddhism teaching .
Aung San suu kyi defended the military when they were commiting genocide of Rohingiyas.
I’m not politian. But all the genuine citizens love Daw Aung San Suu Kyi definitely. Whatever the media misinterpret our leader we all know clearly what is happening in our country. There are a lot of real monks even bullet proof monks and more whom we can see one person at two place at same time. So this is not religious case. What i wanna say is She sacrifice her family her age her properties and everything for us, Myanmar. But she never said Sacrifice she always say ” I didn’t sacrifice myself. I chose. Instead of a life of a mother of two sons. She chose a mom of all citizens of deeply poor country. For rohingya case is all up to military and some media. Not even related to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. If she didn’t defend all the country will just think Myanmar is doing genocide but not military becoz other countries have respectful army but not us since 1950
@Alexis Cin I respect Democracy and Democratic values .There are some fake democratic form of Government . They never respect the values of Constitution and have their own agenda .
@Hippo pole yes, i get what u mean.
I wish only the best
Human rights violation should not exist. I hope an sung realises this when she was defending the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya
Thieves and robbers are on the chairs while the owners were forced to step down. You can take the chair but not the truth.
These Burmese have no clue what’s going on. They are influenced by their own anger and jealousy . I’ve lived in Yangon, Myanmar for about 2 years and one thing I can say is most Burmese are jealous of rich people and they just can’t mind their own business. They blame military just to justify their jealousy and hate on the people who are better than them . The south east Asia popular mindset “ only rich get richer “ is very popular in Myanmar as well.There is no much difference between democratic actions and Military actions in Myanmar. The country itself is dead due to its jealous low-minded citizens not like Singapore.
2 years isn’t as long as you think it is. In the scheme of things and in the context of your comment, 2 years is not long enough to give this hateful talk any credit
singapore has no soul, only avarice and greed for money, myanmar has soul and history, better than it’s temporary murdering military
Hand signs and banging pots and pans did nothing is Thailand. The Myanmar military does not care.
1:14 Can I have his name please for educational purposes.
Paing Takhon
It’s the returning to totalitarianism by the military. And it is so shocking for me, a Nepalese Canadian, to see China backing such a despot regime. Many Nepalis love China should realize China isn’t better than India or America.
China would be working with any government. There no interference policy is just that, no interference even if a government is killing its people, they will be happy to loan, earn interest, extract natural resources.
Why not just arrest everyone of those politician and shoot them in public as a warning.. and those who resist will be put in concentration camp.. myanmar military should learn from the north koreans..
Thank you Al-jazeera ❤️from 🇧🇩🇧🇩
Why bro?!! Are you pleased with the rohingya refugees!??🎂
If only banging pots and pans could drive out the EVIL dictatorship that has taken over the US government.
Do not follow Modi.
I thought the thumbnail is the mother of Christine Dacera lol
Very brave people.
In my opinion, no one cares about Myanmar people, and Myanmar owns businesses more than Myanmar people. Whether it is Western companies or
Eastern companies, they are all about the profit motive. Therefore, Myanmar companies must know how to dance with those giants and learn their strengths and weaknesses.
Respect for the people of Myanmar.
Keep the pressure on the military people of Myanmar 🇲🇲. Don’t give up!
Its all about war.
If they dare to die will fight to the end but pathetic
If their so called democracy is anything like the west good riddance politicians are just a class of corrupt nincompoops running a muck on taxpayers money that will sell you out for a paycheck
Now there is a major commotion and the people want to act now? When they just let all that genocide happen in front of their noses
They deserve this, now they feel how dangerous it is to be killed by the military, they stood silent when the govt under Aung San suu k were busy killing the rohingyas
@R Shak exactly they stand with protests now but back then they couldn’t care less just like USA when it didn’t impose any sanctions on them for genocide but now they want to place sanction after a coup
New north korea 2.0
We fight together for military coup in Myanmar
china bot
Continue ur session, and peaceful protest, let international community squeeze these old coup plotters and its Civilian collaborators
So ironic such an old tradition all around the world to bang pans and pots during protest 🤷♂️ But Burma it’s actually part of their culture and superstition 💯 That’s another level of encouragement
If they ever truly become free one day that would be a really cool holiday they could make for an Independence Day ☯️ Everyone bangs pots and pans for one day to remember when they defeated the dictatorship ✊
Support all of you Burma. Revolution refused and democracy respect. Love all of you from Thai people.
This is a treason to state by group of gun men call themself as a Military. We adult citizen will take the gun and ready to protect the country if US army or EU come and give us guns. We will fight for our freedom.
This is not going to be easy for the people of Myanmar especially after only 11 years of enjoying freedom & once again darkness has fallen upon them. Let’s hope at least the military doesn’t go back to the Burmese way to socialism type of governing. That would be a disaster.
All people deserves a government OF the people, not a government FOR SOME people. We must stand with the people of Myanmar, they deserve a life free from brutal forces. A bright future still lies within them, only if they make a stand. Be determined, people of Myanmar! Any people doesn’t deserve the lesser of two evils, but the best of two betters. Wishing your safety from Philippines. 🇵🇭
One thing they forgot, real power follows the money. Power goes to whoever controls the money. If you can control military funding you hold real power.
.. china controls military funding in myanmar
This is not about politicians who’s willing to serve Myanmar better, It about man power who want to stay in power, Even in a Western country because of power that people’s willing to committed an evils act against their own kind and politicians governments, Because of their brainwashed manipulated naive ignorance and narrow brains couldn’t thinks out side the box
The Hunger Games _did not_ invent the 3 finger salute/hand sign.
*Boy Scouts invented it a century ago*
The world knows India is behind the coup.
Definitely India is behind this.
ᜐᜈ ᜋᜉᜆᜎ̟ᜐ̊ᜃ̟ ᜀᜅ̟ ᜋ̊ᜎ̊ᜆᜇ̵̟
Continue fighting for democracy people of Myanmar.
Stand strong and united, and you will win this battle. Nobody wishes to live under military rule. How dare they took freedom from its citizen when they should be the ones protecting it. Sending prayers and hugs to all of you.
-from Philippines
Why this milatary in uniform still want to get involved in politics? Number 1 reason money and power
Stop the steal
Banging pots will not do the situation better. Burmese need to block the main highway. So that military vehicles cant mobilized. Let them see what is people’s power.
I would love to know what Myanmar soldier’s families think about all this. I mean, soldiers also have families and friends don’t they? Are they all agreeing with their actions? I think the best solution would be to make the military your friend instead of antagonizing them all. I bet lots of soldiers don’t like this situation at all and are just scared to not follow orders. Society should help them hide if they decide to join the people.
Ampun, bang jago
Sorry, bang jago
Abang jago
Yeah,..boom-boom-boom-boom-boom
💃🕺💃🎶🎵
Evil will win
When will Europe and usa impose some serious sanctions on ISRAEL for :
1 – killing palestians
2 – taking palestinian lands
3 – taking syrian lands
4 – treating israeli arabs as second degree citisens.
5 – …..
UNကိုတောင်စိုပါတယ်မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထုကိုကူညီပေကြပါလို့
Go Myanmar! Kick military out!
Aljazeera looks sympathised to Suu Kyi, who committed genocide to Rohingya muslim and forced to flee one million Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh. Aljazeera never published any documentary on Suu Kyi’s brutality on Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
CCP & Russia became the enemies of Myanmar, they were announced to support the military coup in Myanmar, Myanmar peoples will never forgets .
If someone can organize, a poster, to awaken police.
“Polices, soldier, please join our community”, Please make a positive poster, post everywhere, please.
They wont join , you were silent when Rohingyas were hounded from homes and killed. The same military is on your heads now.
Hay, police, please join our community, you are part of it, your parents are living so poor in our country, you also poor, even monthly payment is not enough, please participate for better changes, proud to be part of it, good history in your life, you can do farming, business, don’t afraid to lose your job, please join.
solidarity for Myanmar’s democracy
never let your corrupt military general takeover your government. 🇲🇲💪
I support General Min Aung Hlaing, he is patriotic leader, he won’t tolerate election fraud!
Evi the Miyanmar is a small country but respect paramilitary and democratic obligations of the members who are represented by the people .
Free su
Freedom Rohingya.