Myanmar’s well-known rapper arrested for criticizing junta

Byu Har, Myanmar’s largest hip hop star has been arrested for criticizing the navy authorities, which can also be known as junta. On Tuesday evening, the rapper posted a video on Fb during which he criticized junta’s means of dealing with the facility outrages which have hit the nation prior to now months. Not solely this, he additionally referred to as the electrical energy minister, “a idiot” and “incompetent”. Earlier than the arrest, he acquired warnings from authorities for producing songs that had been crucial of the junta.

Because the 2021 coup, the Southeast nation has confronted shortages of provides for electrical energy vegetation, making lives tough for extraordinary residents. Myanmar’s crackdowns on critics have additionally affected the liberty of speech and expression of the residents and anybody who criticizes the junta is detained by the regime.

Byu Har’s detention is likely one of the a number of arbitrary detentions which have taken place in Naypyidaw for the reason that arrival of the navy authorities. He’s the son of Naing Myanmar, who is taken into account as some of the outstanding musician of the Southeast Asian nation.

Concerning the 2021 Myanmar coup

Myanmar has a protracted historical past of navy rule adopted by the victory of a democratically elected authorities in 2015 led by Aung San Suu Kyi. She campaigned to revive democracy in Myanmar and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Nevertheless, Myanmar’s transition to democracy was halted, when a coup d’état passed off within the nation in February 2021. This coup was led by Myanmar’s navy beneath the management of Basic Min Aung Hlaing.

Since then, the navy has been ruling the nation and has detained Aung San Suu Kyi together with different ministers and members of Parliament by levying baseless costs on them. It has additionally executed varied activists for his or her protests in opposition to the junta.

Atrocities by the junta on the individuals

Because the coup, Myanmar’s safety forces has killed a whole lot of individuals and attacked the ethnic minorities within the nation, which embrace the Rohingya. There have been stories of human proper violations and atrocities within the nation. All of the democratic processes have been suspended and jail sentences are introduced via secret trials.

Final yr, Kyaw Min Yu, a democracy activist was sentenced to demise by the junta. Indiscriminate airstrikes, village raids and burnings, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings, assaults on faculties have been reported from Naypyidaw prior to now two years. Organizations equivalent to Amnesty Worldwide and Human Rights Watch have condemned the junta for all these acts of violence.

After immense sufferings and ache, opposition activists have come collectively to kind Marketing campaign for Civil Disobedience (CDM) which frequently organizes protests and mass strikes in opposition to the navy authorities. Not solely this, the youth and pro- democracy activists have come collectively to kind an armed wing referred to as Folks’s Protection Forces (PDF) to struggle in opposition to the junta.

Myanmar’s navy authorities has acquired worldwide condemnation for his or her function in suppression of human rights. Varied international locations like US, European Union and UK have additionally imposed sanctions on the junta. UNSC has additionally handed a decision in opposition to the Southeast nation’s navy rule.

Regardless of all this worldwide condemnation, Myanmar’s junta has refused to surrender the facility and restore democratically elected authorities. It’s time for the worldwide group to be vocal in condemning navy’s atrocities and work collectively to convey again democracy in Myanmar.