{"id":17285,"date":"2025-04-04T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ignoring-protests-thailand-opens-door-to-myanmars-military-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T08:28:27","slug":"ignoring-protests-thailand-opens-door-to-myanmars-military-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ignoring-protests-thailand-opens-door-to-myanmars-military-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring Protests, Thailand Opens Door to Myanmar\u2019s Military Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, Myanmar\u2019s army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has been treated like a pariah on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Min Aung Hlaing has made few overseas trips, other than to Russia and China, since he seized power in a coup in 2021. Long the subject of Western sanctions, he has been barred from attending meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of which Myanmar is a member, because of his military\u2019s failure to implement an agreed peace plan in the country\u2019s civil war. An <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/27\/world\/asia\/myanmar-junta-leader-rohingya.html\" title=\"\">arrest warrant<\/a> by the International Criminal Court last November accusing him of crimes against humanity was supposed to isolate him further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But on Friday, General Min Aung Hlaing began talks in Bangkok at a regional summit of a group of seven countries around the Bay of Bengal that also includes India and Thailand. He had planned to discuss ways that other countries could provide relief for the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar that killed over 3,000 people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the day of his arrival in Bangkok, his military launched multiple airstrikes in Kachin State, Karenni State and the Sagaing region in Myanmar despite his call for a cease-fire, according to a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army rebel group, an activist in Sagaing and an aid worker in Karenni.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Myanmar\u2019s military has come under fierce criticism for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/asia\/myanmar-quake-aid.html\" title=\"\">continuing its airstrikes<\/a> in the ongoing civil war and impeding the flow of aid in the days after the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the general, the Bangkok visit \u2014 his first to a Southeast Asian nation since April 2021 \u2014 will give his regime the international attention it has long desired. For the Thai government, which is already sheltering tens of thousands of refugees from Myanmar in camps along the border, stable relations with the military government could be aimed at trying to manage the flow of new arrivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But critics say the visit is the latest indication that Bangkok views human rights as irrelevant in foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey don\u2019t care,\u201d said Kasit Piromya, a former Thai foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s an insult to ASEAN \u2014 that\u2019s what it is all about,\u201d he said, referring to the 10-member Southeast Asian regional grouping by its acronym. \u201cIt\u2019s the fear of the Burmese army, the greed, and because all of them are not democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thailand has said little about General Min Aung Hlaing\u2019s visit beyond confirming that it was taking place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice for Myanmar, a watchdog group, and 318 other organizations called on Thailand to disinvite the general, saying he had no legitimacy to represent the people of Myanmar. When foreign governments and international organizations engage with the military junta, the organizations said in a statement, it \u201ccauses significant harm for the people of Myanmar\u201d by legitimizing the junta and assisting it in its war against its people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSenior General Min Aung Hlaing is grandstanding with Asian leaders in Bangkok following a devastating earthquake because he doesn\u2019t care about Myanmar\u2019s people,\u201d Elaine Pearson, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. \u201cWhat he cares about is garnering some legitimacy through high-level visits because ever since the February 2021 coup, he has been rightly ostracized by most of the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leaders of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal were scheduled to attend the summit, along with those of Thailand and Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, the Myanmar military <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/asia\/myanmar-quake-aid.html\" title=\"\">declared a 21-day cease-fire<\/a> to support relief and reconstruction efforts, a day after it fired on a Chinese Red Cross convoy trying to deliver food and medicine to desperate survivors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The military launched an airstrike in Karenni State on Thursday, according to David Eubank from the Free Burma Rangers, an aid organization in Myanmar. Soldiers targeted a checkpoint run by the Karenni rebels, killing one person and wounding four others, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Kachin State, the military dropped bombs with jet fighters. \u201cSince they are the ones attacking, we have no choice but to fight a defensive war,\u201d said Colonel Naw Bu, a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey claim that armed groups should not take political advantage, yet they are the ones exploiting the situation for their own gain,\u201d he added. \u201cThey are breaking the very rules that they set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later on Thursday night, the military used heavy artillery to shell the towns of Monywa and Chaung-U in Sagaing, near the epicenter of the earthquake, according to Ma May, an activist based in Sagaing. It also targeted Kani township in the Sagaing region with airstrikes, she said.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Min Aung Hlaing, a deeply unpopular leader, became even more disliked after he overthrew a democratically elected government led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in the coup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since then, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/world\/asia\/myanmar-civil-war-consequences.html\" title=\"\">the country has been at war<\/a>, with groups of armed protesters and powerful ethnic armies fighting the junta. In response, the military launched a scorched-earth campaign against its own citizens with multiple airstrikes, killing thousands of people. At least three million are displaced. Myanmar\u2019s economy has been wrecked following the coup, with millions of people thrown into extreme poverty, and criminality, such as the online scam centers that are flourishing in the country, has been exacerbated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Verena H\u00f6lzl<!-- --> contributed reporting. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/03\/world\/asia\/myanmar-general-earthquake.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Myanmar\u2019s army chief, Senior Gen. 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