Democracy campaigners defying the military junta in Myanmar have pleaded with Australia to sanction the generals who engineered February’s coup and the businesses that sustain the military regime. “We 390 civil society organisations across Myanmar are shocked by Australia’s continued inaction on Myanmar, which emboldens the terrorist military junta,” the letter sent to Payne reads. “It is difficult for us to comprehend how Australia has come to draw such conclusions in this assessment. The US, UK, EU and Canada have sanctioned senior generals and military-controlled businesses in the wake of the 1 February coup. A civil society activist inside Myanmar, whose identity the Guardian has chosen not to reveal, said the citizens of Myanmar were risking their lives to oppose the junta.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2021 17:26 UTC