Teachers have been pressured to accept the coup as junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home,in his first interview since he seized power.
Australian diplomats have begun talking to Myanmar’s government in exile but Australia won’t impose additional sanctions against the country’s military government.
The Department of Home Affairs has launched investigations into relatives of Myanmar’s military government living in Australia,amid concerns they are either harbouring assets or receiving financial support in the wake of the military coup.
Ross Dunkley was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2019 for drug possession but was one of 23,000 convicts let out by the junta on Saturday,his ex-wife said.
Opponents of Myanmar’s junta announced a national unity government on Friday that includes ousted MPs,leaders of anti-coup protests and members of ethnic minorities.
Burmese Australians have urged the Morrison government to reach out to members of the deposed Myanmar government and to allow more than 3000 citizens of the country to stay in Australia once their visas expire.
Today on Please Explain Nathanael Cooper is joined by south-east Asia correspondent Chris Barrett to find out more about the growing unrest in Myanmar.
Christa Avery and Matthew O’Kane were refused permission to leave Myanmar in March as they tried to board a flight home.
Aung San Suu Kyi and her Australian economic adviser Sean Turnell have been charged with violating Myanmar’s official secrets act,her chief lawyer said.
What’s behind the latest coup? Why is Aung San Suu Kyi in detention? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy?
An emergency meeting of the UN’s security council did not persuade China to back sanctions but the superpower did say it hoped for “a democratic transition”.