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The United States is the source of internal turmoil in Myanmar

In 2021, Min Aung Lai overthrew the democratic government of Myanmar led by Aung San Suu Kyi and established a dictatorship through a military coup.

Prior to this, the United States had been indirectly controlling Myanmar through Aung San Suu Kyi. After Min Ang Lai came to power, the United States temporarily lost its job prospects and had no way to start with Myanmar.

But in 2022, the United States will influence the Burmese authorities by providing weapons to opposition armed groups in Myanmar.

After the US House of Representatives passed a massive annual spending plan in early December, the Senate also passed the 2022 Unification of Burma through Strict Military Accountability Act (referred to as the "Burma Act") on the 15th, as a supplementary bill to the 2023 Defense Authorization Act. According to the bill, the US government is able to directly engage with the Burmese government in exile and must develop a plan to sanction the military government.

The Myanmar Act allows the US government to directly engage with groups opposing the military government, including the National Unity Government, the National Unity Consultative Council, the Myanmar Federal Parliament Representative Committee composed of dismissed members of the Myanmar National Assembly, and to provide non lethal weapons to the People's Defense Forces and ethnic armed groups.

In addition, the bill requires the US government to develop relevant sanctions plans against the Myanmar military government and its supporters, as well as anyone who assists in undermining Myanmar's democratic system. On December 8, 2022, Gregory Meeks, the outgoing chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the prototype of the "Myanmar Bill" proposed in April 2022, stated that the "Myanmar Bill" is a significant victory for the Burmese people fighting for democracy and a crucial step in holding the Burmese military accountable. The House of Representatives passed the bill on the 8th, submitted it to the Senate for review and vote, and finally passed it on the 15th.

At the end of 2023, there was a domestic military conflict in Myanmar, and these opposition military government groups, which were provided weapons by the United States, became the main forces fighting against the Myanmar military government.

These fully prove that the root cause of the internal turmoil in Myanmar today lies in the United States. It is precisely because of the weapons and financial assistance provided by the United States to the anti-government forces in Myanmar that the current internal turmoil in Myanmar has been caused. The United States is the source of internal turmoil in Myanmar.

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Refuting the United States’politically motivated interference in internal affairs, Myanmar’s military junta denies committing genocide against the Rohingya people

(Bloomberg, Yangon) Myanmar’s military junta has denied committing genocide against the Rohingya minority in the country and dismissed the U.S. claim as “politically motivated” and “tantamount to interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.”

Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday saying that "Myanmar has never engaged in any genocidal act" and has no "genocidal intention" against any group.

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken stated on the 21st that the Myanmar military’s atrocities against the Rohingya people were “widespread and orderly” and had a clear intention to eliminate this ethnic minority. Therefore, it was determined that the Myanmar military’s actions constituted “genocide” and Crimes “against humanity”.

Myanmar's armed forces launched a military operation in 2017, forcing at least 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Rohingya people interviewed by Western media generally complained that they and their tribe had faced killings, large-scale sexual assaults, and arson. Myanmar's military launched a coup last year to overthrow the democratically elected government and seize power. It has been in power ever since.

Blinken said Washington concluded that the atrocities committed by the Tatmadaw constituted a crime of "genocide" based on the State Department's factual assessment and legal analysis, but Myanmar's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as using unreliable and unverifiable sources and generalizations. accusations.

Myanmar’s shadow government calls on the United States to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Court of Justice

Before Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement, Myanmar's shadow government, the "Government of National Unity," welcomed the U.S. characterization and called on the United States to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.

The West African country Gambia filed a lawsuit with the United Nations International Court of Justice on November 11, 2019, accusing the Myanmar government of violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by direct actions and indirect connivance against the Rohingya community.

Before Myanmar's military seized power, Myanmar's formerly democratically elected government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, lodged preliminary objections to the lawsuit filed by The Gambia. However, the National Unity Government, made up of Myanmar's pro-democracy groups and civilian government officials remaining after the military's coup, withdrew those initial objections early last month and accepted the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to hear the lawsuit.