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PEACE Info (March 5, 2021) PEACE Info (March 5, 2021) − Myanmar’s CRPH Calls for Halt in Tax Collection − BURMA INTERVENTION − One More Killed as Myanmar’s Military Continues to Escalate Violence Against Protesters − Another death in Myanmar as UN set to meet on crisis − More Than 600 Police Join Myanmar’s Anti-Regime Protest Movement − Myanmar Military Detains More Than 1,500 Since Coup − Criticized, Myanmar’s Influential Monk Close to Coup Leader Breaks Silence on Killing Protesters − Security Forces Exhume Body of Woman Slain in Myanmar Protests − Anger in Myanmar But Crisis Distant to Singaporeans − More Than 10 Myanmar Diplomats Refuse to Work for Military Regime − UN expert urges 'global arms embargo', on Myanmar − Civilian Death Count Rises Amid Conflict Between Rival EAOs − Tatmadaw Detains Civilians During Clashes With KIO/A − ဖက�ဒရယ� ဖ���စည��ပ�ံ�ပ��ပ�က��ရ� �က ���ပမ���န��က�င�� CRPH ��ပ� − မ� ��လ�မ�� ဆ���ပဖ���လ�စ�စ�� �သနတ�န��ပစ�လ��� တစ�ဦ� �သဆ�ံ� − မ� ��လ�ယ�နန�သခ���င��က မ�ကယ�စင�ရ�� အ�တ�ဂ� �ဖ�က�ထ�င��ခံရ − တ���င�ငံလ�ံ�တ�င� CDM �ပ�လ�ပ�သည�� ရ�ဝန�ထမ�� ၆၀၀ �က���အထ� ရ��လ� − စစ�က��င��တ��င��၌ �ပည�သ��အ�ပ�ခ��ပ��ရ�အဖ��� ၈၁ ရ�ခ��င���န�� ဖ���စည���ပ�� − ခ�င��မ��င�တ�င� �ရ����ပ�င��လ�ပ�သ��တ��င��ရင��သ���ပ�င��စ�ံမ� ���ဦ��တ��လ�န��ရ�ဆင���� − �ပည�ပရ�� �မန�မ�သံ��ံ�ဝန�ထမ��မ���၏ CDM လ�ပ�ရ���မ� စတင� − �ပည�တ�င���ပည�ပ က�မ�ဏ�မ��� စစ�အ�ဏ�သ�မ��မ�က�� ��တ�ခ� − စစ��က�င�စ���င�� �ဆ������ရန� �ပည�တ�င�� �ပည�ပ စ��ပ����ရ�အဖ���အစည��မ��� �ငင��ပယ� − အ�ဏ�သ�မ��စစ�အ�ပ�စ�က အ�မရ�ကန�ဘဏ�က�န �ဒ�လ� ၁ ဘ�လ�ယံက�� ထ�တ�ယ�ရန� �က ���ပမ��ခ��ဟ� ဆ�� − ပစ�ခတ�သတ��ဖတ�တ�� စစ�သ��န��ရ��တ� ���င�ငံတက�ဥပ�ဒအရ အ�ရ�ယ�ခံရ���င� − �မန�မ�လ�ထ�က�� R2P အရ က�က�ယ��ပ�ရန� က�လသမဂ�လ�ံ�ခ�ံ�ရ��က�င�စ�ထံ �တ�င��ဆ�� − �မန�မ� ��ပ��မင�သံ�က��ခ�န�နယ� ၅ ခ�က�� YouTube ဖယ�ရ��� − စစ��က�င�စ���င�� အပစ�ရပ�သည�� TNLA က�� တအန�� အရပ�ဘက�အဖ���အစည��မ��� ကန��က�က� − လ�����အန�� TNLA လ�ပ�ရ���မ� နယ���မစ���မ����ရ� �ဆ�င�ရ�က�တ��ဖစ�တယ�လ�����ပ� − ���င�ငံတက���င���ပ�င���ပ�� စစ�အ�ဏ�ရ�င��တ�က�� သ�တ�သင�ရ�င��လင��မယ�လ��� KNU ��ပ� − “စစ�သ����င��ရ�မ���” ဆ���ပ�ပည�သ�မ���က�� ����က�ယ�က���ခ�က�လ�န��ပ�က က�က�ယ��ပ�ရန� တ�ဝန�ရ����က�င�� KNU ��ပ�ဆ�� − စစ�အ�ဏ�ရ�င� ဆန��က�င��ရ�ဆ���ပမ� KNU နယ���မတ�င�� စ��ပ�င��သပ�တ�မ���ထ�က�လ�၊ ဆ���ပသ�မ���က�� KNLA တပ�ဖ���ဝင�မ��� ဝန��ရံ − KNU ထ�န��ခ��ပ�နယ���မတ�င��ဆ���ပပ�� တပ�ဖ����တ�န�� ဝန��ရံ�ပ�ခ�� − တပ�မ�တ�� ဖမ��သ����သ� ရ��သ��မ��� အဆက�အသ�ယ�မရ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 of 43 Myanmar’s CRPH Calls for Halt in Tax Collection By The Irrawaddy | 5 March 2021 The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a group of elected lawmakers who were prevented from taking their seats in Parliament by last month’s coup, said in a statement that Customs Department officials and employees of government ministries involved in tax collection must suspend all such activities until Sept. 30. The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is Myanmar’s Union Parliament. In its statement issued Thursday, signed by U Lwin Ko Latt, the CRPH-appointed minister for the President’s Office, it said, “The respective ministerial departments collecting various taxes must suspend taxation.” The CRPH announced on Wednesday that it, acting as the Union Parliament, had approved an amendment to the 2020 Union Taxation Law that requires the suspension of tax collection. The law was approved by Parliament in August for fiscal year 2020-21, which began in October last year and ends this September. Lawmakers elected in last year’s election held their own swearing-in ceremonies within a week of the coup. The CRPH also appointed four “acting ministers” to take charge of nine ministries this week, as the country’s President U Win Myint, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other ministers are being detained by the military. The CRPH said on Wednesday that the suspension of tax collection is aimed at deterring the regime’s governing council from misusing public money to fund its killing of peaceful protesters. Since the coup, millions of Myanmar citizens have taken to the streets to defy the military. More than 50 people, including peaceful young protesters and bystanders, have been killed by police and soldiers firing live rounds during nationwide crackdowns on anti-coup demonstrations. The CRPH said its amendment to the 2020 Union Taxation Law also aims to help domestic businesses, which are facing enormous losses during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Myanmar’s NLD government previously postponed payments of income tax and commercial tax for businesses, which have been hit hard by COVID-19 since March last year. The acting President’s Office minister also said that if any civil servants failed to uphold the amendment order and collect tax, “actions will be taken in accordance with the existing laws.” Civil servants working in such fields as health, education, energy, information and foreign affairs, as well as police, have joined the CDM against the military’s governing council. Many members of the public have voiced support for the plan and are urging others not to pay Page 2 of 43 their taxes until the restoration of the country’s democratically elected leaders. Some civil servants are still working for the military regime, however. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-crph-calls-halt-tax-collection.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BURMA INTERVENTION By SHAN - March 5, 2021 There has been a lot of debate about “intervention.” Will other countries intervene in Burma? The United States? If so, how? Can they even do it – do they have “legal” justification? Protest at LSO in milktea alliance day Countries can do what they want. In Burma, the ruling generals imprison and murder people. If another country wants to step in and stop it, of course they can do it. National sovereignty does not extend to crimes against humanity. Analysts have been missing one factor, though: The desire of the local population. What is the United States’ recent intervention experience? In the first Gulf War, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the U.S. stepped in to push them out. America did not get rid of Saddam Hussein. Nor did it ask the Iraqi people what they wanted. In the second Gulf War the U.S. did get rid of Saddam. But again, without asking the Iraqis first. The war was in fact based on a lie, about weapons of mass destruction. And the lie was just an excuse for George Bush (and Dick Cheney) to finish his father’s work. The result was a disaster. The people were happy to see Saddam gone, but they did not welcome the U.S. presence. They fought back, and it became a quagmire. Had America asked first, though, “would you like to be free of his tyranny,” the result could well have been different. For Syria, the country also had a long-standing dictatorship (the Assad family), but large swathes of territory were in the hands of ISIS (which grew out of the Iraq insurgency). The U.S. got involved militarily in a big way, to oppose ISIS (and for which it fought alongside the Free Syrian Army and then the Syrian Democratic Forces). And, when ISIS was for the most part defeated, in Syria and also from Iraq, the U.S. left (although some troops are still there). Even though the goal included to bring about democratic change, certainly to the Syrians, Washington did not follow through to Assad’s defeat. This was to the despair of the people, who fled to Turkey in huge numbers. And, not only did America not complete the job, it again failed to ask the local population if they wanted help. Page 3 of 43 So, in these three cases the U.S. intervened because of oil; a lie, as cover for personal ambition; and terrorism. A relevant question is, which is worse, ISIS or Burma’s military dictatorship? Which has killed more people? Answer: The generals, soldiers and police of the dictatorship, by at least an order of magnitude. I don’t know of any historical precedent where the people of an oppressed nation have shouted out for foreign intervention, as is happening now in Burma. There may be one, but nothing on this scale. For policy makers, this means there is no model to follow. And, their ingrained caution will argue against it. But the risk that such an involvement would turn sour is actually small, particularly since the regime would be defeated. Muse people says China not to help Junta at Sino Burma border The junta in Burma, notwithstanding its Chinese backing, is weak. It hasn’t even been able to defeat the Ethnic Armed Organizations. For a behemoth like the U.S. military, it would be a pushover, and – once vanquished – there would be no insurgency. The whole thing could probably be done with air power alone.
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