Waiting for the Myanmar Junta to bow to its knees, invaded from all directions

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

After several coup since Myanmar Independent, the military junta remains powerful. Despite having invaded various international convictions and sanctions since the 1980s, the military junta has never knelt.

The ruthless record of the Myanmar military persecuted the people when the junta convened the civilian government on February 1. Despite condemnation and sanctions from the international community, the junta did not give in.

Myanmar’s military junta is known to be ignorant and immune from sanctions. Just look at how the various multinational sanctions from 1988 to the early 2000s did not weaken the military junta.

International Crisis Group at The report He even said that in the late 2000s, Western countries began to feel that the sanctions had no impact on the junta and instead made the people of Myanmar suffer even more.

When the military intensified the coup again, some were pessimistic because they thought history would repeat itself. However, there are also those who consider that the military junta is increasingly under pressure from inside and outside the country.

Global pressures

When it comes to global pressure, the names of China, Russia and Russia will immediately emerge as parties that are always willing to form a body to defend the rulers of Myanmar.

However, several observers are beginning to see a change in the maneuvers of the two countries. Russia, for example, has opened its voice for the first time on military violence against anti-coup protesters.

Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that although his country is closely related to Myanmar, that does not mean they will remain silent.

“This does not mean that we can accept the tragic events that are happening in this country. We are very concerned about the increase in the number of civilian casualties,” Peskov said while attending a military parade in Myanmar at the weekend.

Meanwhile, various observers have also started to see changes in China’s move to establish relations with Myanmar.

When the United Nations Security Council calls an emergency meeting to respond to the turmoil in Myanmar, China has indeed stepped up and emphasized that the sanctions will only make matters worse.

However, UK-based Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) researcher and CEO Kyaw Min continues to see a different movement than China in recent years.

“Now China has many interests in Myanmar and they know that these interests will not be safe simply by supporting the military,” Kyaw said. CNNIndonesia.com by phone on Thursday (1/4).

Kyaw later argued that the BHRN began to sniff out indications that China supported an alliance of ethnic armed militias in northern Myanmar known as the Northern Alliance, also known as the Northern Alliance.

“What we see is that China is also supporting ethnic militias in Myanmar, such as the very strong Northern Alliance. They are spreading everywhere and they are supported by China,” Kyaw said.

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The “closeness” between China and the Northern Alliance began to deteriorate from around 2016. At that time, the Northern Alliance launched a counterattack against the Myanmar military in Muse, a crossing area on the Chinese border with commercial value. of 4,000 million dollars. by year.

As reported TO FLYThen the Northern Alliance took over the city of Mong Ko for several weeks. They demanded that China be willing to mediate in the peace negotiation process.

Since China agreed, several high-ranking officials from the Northern Alliance have visited Beijing several times. The two sides reportedly began to establish good relations in their respective interests, although China has always denied this report.