On the day after its spectacular break with military power, the junta in Burma announced on Saturday February 27 the dismissal of its ambassador to the United Nations Kyaw Moe Tun. The day before, the latter had broken ranks and called, with emotion, to “put an end to the military coup”. “We need the strongest action of the international community to immediately end the military coup, end the oppression of the innocent people and restore state power to the people,” Kyaw said. Moe Tun at a special General Assembly session on Burma. The announcement comes at the end of a new day of repression and arrests of demonstrators as the country enters its fourth week of mobilization against the military coup.
In a few sentences in Burmese, he asked his “brothers and sisters” to continue the fight against the junta. “This revolution must win,” he said, finishing his speech of about twelve minutes to applause with three raised fingers, the rallying gesture of the demonstrators. On Saturday evening, state television MRTV announced that Kyaw Moe Tun was no longer Burma’s ambassador to the UN. He “did not follow the orders and the direction of the state, and betrayed the country,” she announced. “This is why he is dismissed from his post as of today”.
Violently repressed pro-democracy protests
Since the military coup to overthrow civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, the country has been rocked by a wave of pro-democracy protests. Authorities gradually intensified the use of force to disperse protesters, with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and sometimes live ammunition. In Yangon on Saturday, police used rubber bullets to disperse a protest at the Myaynigone crossroads, the scene of a long clash the day before. The demonstrators then dispersed into the surrounding streets where, many equipped with gas masks, helmets and makeshift shields, they erected barricades with trash cans and tables stacked to arrest the police.
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