{"id":4838,"date":"2021-04-01T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2021-04-01T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:02:30","slug":"us-ratchets-up-pressure-on-myanmars-military-after-its-bloodiest-weekend-since-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"US ratchets up pressure on Myanmar\u2019s military after its bloodiest weekend since the coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The Biden administration is stepping up its actions to punish Myanmar\u2019s ruling military junta in the wake of a bloody weekend targeting civilians protesting against the February military coup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, the military commemorated Armed Forces Day<\/a> by killing about 140 people<\/a> \u2014 including six children \u2014 in 44 cities and towns amid nationwide peaceful protests, according to local reports and activists. One of the children, 11-year-old Aye Myat Thu<\/a>, was buried with her drawings and toys as her family mourned beside her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands<\/a> of people also fled into neighboring Thailand to escape the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the largest number of people killed in a single day since the military ousted the country\u2019s democratic government in a February 1 coup<\/a>. Some 500 people have been killed in total<\/a> since the military seized control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pressure from the international community on Myanmar\u2019s military to relinquish control has been growing, with the United Nations special rapporteur for the country recently calling the junta\u2019s campaign \u201cmass murder<\/a>.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“On Monday, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai<\/a> announced that the Biden administration would \u201csuspend all US trade engagement\u201d with Myanmar that occurs under a 2013 bilateral trade agreement<\/a>. That won\u2019t stop all $1.4 billion<\/a> in trade between the two countries, but it will curb the trade relationship, namely by ending US support for initiatives that helped Myanmar integrate back into the world economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That may not seem like much, but experts on Myanmar\u2019s conflict like Cornell University\u2019s Darin Self say the move \u201cwill sting\u201d because \u201ccutting off trade is meaningful.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/3\/29\/22356860\/myanmar-usa-trade-deal-psaki-tai-coup-junta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Biden administration is stepping up its actions to punish Myanmar\u2019s ruling military junta in the wake of a bloody weekend targeting civilians protesting against the February military coup.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the military commemorated Armed Forces Day by killing about 140 people \u2014 including six children \u2014 in 44 cities and towns amid nationwide peaceful protests, according to local reports and activists. One of the children, 11-year-old Aye Myat Thu, was buried with her drawings and toys as her family mourned beside her.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people also fled into neighboring Thailand to escape the violence.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the largest number of people killed in a single day since the military ousted the country\u2019s democratic government in a February 1 coup. Some 500 people have been killed in total since the military seized control.<\/p>\n

Pressure from the international community on Myanmar\u2019s military to relinquish control has been growing, with the United Nations special rapporteur for the country recently calling the junta\u2019s campaign \u201cmass murder.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“On Monday, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the Biden administration would \u201csuspend all US trade engagement\u201d with Myanmar that occurs under a 2013 bilateral trade agreement. That won\u2019t stop all $1.4 billion in trade between the two countries, but it will curb the trade relationship, namely by ending US support for initiatives that helped Myanmar integrate back into the world economy.<\/p>\n

That may not seem like much, but experts on Myanmar\u2019s conflict like Cornell University\u2019s Darin Self say the move \u201cwill sting\u201d because \u201ccutting off trade is meaningful.\u201d”<\/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":[1240,660,272,355,314,972,1168,362,226,661,619],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-burma","tag-dictatorship","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-murder","tag-myanmar","tag-protests","tag-trade","tag-tyranny","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}