{"id":4422,"date":"2021-02-11T15:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:36:25","slug":"biden-announces-sanctions-on-myanmars-military-in-response-to-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces sanctions on Myanmar\u2019s military in response to the coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President Joe Biden has announced that the United States is imposing sanctions on Myanmar\u2019s military<\/a> following its overthrow of the country\u2019s civilian leadership in a coup<\/a> last week.
…
“Biden detailed a three-pronged response his administration would be pursuing. The first is an executive order that imposes sanctions on the military leaders who organized and launched the coup, as well as their business interests and close family members.”
…
“The Biden administration will also block the regime from accessing its roughly $1 billion held in the US, though American funding for civil society groups and the most vulnerable will continue. And it will impose new export controls and freeze unnamed assets that could benefit Myanmar\u2019s military-led government.”
…
“For Biden to end these reprimands, he said the military should relinquish the power it seized and allow Myanmar to go back to the more democratic government it overthrew.”
…
“Myanmar has toggled between military and civilian leadership since 1948<\/a>, though the Tatmadaw, as the country\u2019s armed forces are formally known, has remained the most powerful institution the entire time. The US and other nations thus placed sanctions on Myanmar for decades<\/a>, hoping those punishments would compel the generals to enact pro-democracy reforms and stop abusing human rights.
 They worked, at least for a time. Suu Kyi, under house arrest since 1989<\/a> for leading a pro-democracy movement against the military, was finally released in 2010<\/a>. Then the junta gave up some of its control in 2011 and governed alongside Suu Kyi\u2019s NLD.
That arrangement was quasi-democratic at best”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“the NLD grew popular, trouncing the military\u2019s political arm during the 2015<\/a> legislative election \u2014 leading the US to lift sanctions the following year<\/a> \u2014 and then again in 2020<\/a>. It proved Suu Kyi and her pro-democracy party were not only popular, but also had a mandate to strip the military of its autocratic authorities. It helped that the US and other countries lifted the sanctions due to Suu Kyi\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That in part led her to seek bolder reforms. In March 2020, for example, Suu Kyi <\/a>proposed reducing the number of allocated seats for military officers in Parliament. She received majority support for the measure in the legislature \u2014 but the Tatmadaw vetoed the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Suu Kyi\u2019s growing influence and threat to the military\u2019s hold on power led the Tatmadaw to launch a coup, hours before a new NLD-led Parliament was scheduled to sit for the first time.”
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/2\/10\/22276525\/biden-myanmar-burma-sanctions-suu-kyi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Joe Biden has announced that the United States is imposing sanctions on Myanmar\u2019s military following its overthrow of the country\u2019s civilian leadership in a coup last week.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Biden detailed a three-pronged response his administration would be pursuing. The first is an executive order that imposes sanctions on the military leaders who organized and launched the coup, as well as their business interests and close family members.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The Biden administration will also block the regime from accessing its roughly $1 billion held in the US, though American funding for civil society groups and the most vulnerable will continue. And it will impose new export controls and freeze unnamed assets that could benefit Myanmar\u2019s military-led government.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“For Biden to end these reprimands, he said the military should relinquish the power it seized and allow Myanmar to go back to the more democratic government it overthrew.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Myanmar has toggled between military and civilian leadership since 1948, though the Tatmadaw, as the country\u2019s armed forces are formally known, has remained the most powerful institution the entire time. The US and other nations thus placed sanctions on Myanmar for decades, hoping those punishments would compel the generals to enact pro-democracy reforms and stop abusing human rights.<\/p>\n

They worked, at least for a time. Suu Kyi, under house arrest since 1989 for leading a pro-democracy movement against the military, was finally released in 2010. Then the junta gave up some of its control in 2011 and governed alongside Suu Kyi\u2019s NLD.<\/p>\n

That arrangement was quasi-democratic at best” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the NLD grew popular, trouncing the military\u2019s political arm during the 2015 legislative election \u2014 leading the US to lift sanctions the following year \u2014 and then again in 2020. It proved Suu Kyi and her pro-democracy party were not only popular, but also had a mandate to strip the military of its autocratic authorities. It helped that the US and other countries lifted the sanctions due to Suu Kyi\u2019s leadership.
\nThat in part led her to seek bolder reforms. In March 2020, for example, Suu Kyi proposed reducing the number of allocated seats for military officers in Parliament. She received majority support for the measure in the legislature \u2014 but the Tatmadaw vetoed the move.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Suu Kyi\u2019s growing influence and threat to the military\u2019s hold on power led the Tatmadaw to launch a coup, hours before a new NLD-led Parliament was scheduled to sit for the first time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1123,431,1168,1001],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-myanmar","tag-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}