“Let’s not make the mistake that the government made on Burma in the past,” he says. Garnett Genuis, the Conservative MP who brought the petition forward, recalled Canada’s call to action against the Rohingya genocide more than one year after Prime Minister Trudeau’s Special Envoy to Myanmar published his 2018 report detailing multiple accounts of mass rape, killings, separation of families and torching of homes and villages. His petition was put to the House floor on April 14. “We have also urged the Tatmadaw leadership to provide immediate and unfettered access to Myanmar to the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy,” the statement read.Īung Naing Thein, who heads the Alberta Alliance for Myanmar Democracy, has also requested Canada’s government take more aggressive against Myanmar’s military. Global Affairs Canada reiterated that the federal government condemns “the coup and the violence being perpetrated against civilian protestors” in an emailed statement to Global News, adding that they have “demanded the restoration of the democratically-elected government and the release of all members of the civilian government, activists and civil society leaders.” Global News has also agreed to keep social media accounts run by Thet and other members of the country’s resistance movement anonymous to protect her identity. Global News has agreed to identify Thet by only her first name due to fear of reprisal from Myanmar’s military. “The city that I lived in and grew up in is no longer the city that I know anymore.”
“It feels like a dystopian world order,” she says during an interview conducted over Signal, an encrypted messaging service. Yangon, Thet’s home as well as the country’s largest city, “looks like a wasteland now.” If she were to look outside her window, Thet said some parts would resemble a ghost town, while others “look like battle zones.” Send this page to someone via email emailįor 25-year-old Thet, each morning in Myanmar brings a constant barrage of what sounds like gunshots, and, more recently, grenades.
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