DawAung San Suu Kyi,sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi,is a Burmese politician,diplomat,author,and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.
The National League for Democracy is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victory in the 2015 general election but was overthrown in a military coup d'état in February 2021 following another landslide election victory in 2020.
The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State,Myanmar. Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017,when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh,an estimated 1.4 million Rohingya lived in Myanmar. Described by journalists and news outlets as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world,the Rohingya are denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law. There are also restrictions on their freedom of movement,access to state education and civil service jobs. The legal conditions faced by the Rohingya in Myanmar have been compared to apartheid by some academics,analysts and political figures,including Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu,a South African anti-apartheid activist. The most recent mass displacement of Rohingya in 2017 led the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity,and the International Court of Justice to investigate genocide.
The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland,Australia,and a state member of the Australian Greens. The party is currently represented in all three levels of government,by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate;Stephen Bates,Max Chandler-Mather,and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives;Michael Berkman and Amy MacMahon in the state Legislative Assembly;and Trina Massey and Seal Chong Wah in Brisbane City Council.
Honorary Canadian citizenship is an honour bestowed on foreigners of exceptional merit following a joint resolution by both Houses of the Parliament of Canada.
This is a list of members of the 52nd Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2009,as elected at the 2006 election held on 9 September 2006.
There is a history of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar that continues to the present day. Myanmar is a Buddhist majority country,with significant Christian and Muslim minorities. While Muslims served in the government of Prime Minister U Nu (1948–63),the situation changed with the 1962 Burmese coup d'état. While a few continued to serve,most Christians and Muslims were excluded from positions in the government and army. In 1982,the government introduced regulations that denied citizenship to anyone who could not prove Burmese ancestry from before 1823. This disenfranchised many Muslims in Myanmar,even though they had lived in Myanmar for several generations.
Indooroopilly was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1992 to 2017.
The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly,a unicameral parliament.
General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015,with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies,excluding seats appointed by the military,to select Members of Assembly to seats in both the upper house and the lower house of the Assembly of the Union,and State and Region Hluttaws. Ethnic Affairs Ministers were also elected by their designated electorates on the same day,although only select ethnic minorities in particular states and regions were entitled to vote for them.
The following lists events in the year 2017 in Myanmar.
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted of two phases to date:the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017,and the second has been occurring since August 2017. The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh,resulting in the creation of the world's largest refugee camp,while others escaped to India,Thailand,Malaysia,and other parts of South and Southeast Asia,where they continue to face persecution. Many other countries consider these events ethnic cleansing.
The Rohingya genocide is a term applied to the persecution—including mass killings,mass rapes,village-burnings,deprivations,ethnic cleansing,and internments—of the Rohingya people of western Myanmar.
Shwe Maung is a Rohingya rights activist in Myanmar and politician who served as a member of parliament in the House of Representatives for Buthidaung constituency from 2011 to 2016.
Maung Maung Soe is a Burmese military officer who is a major general in the Myanmar Army.
Events of 2019 in Myanmar xxx
The Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,commonly referred to as the Rohingya genocide case,is a case which is currently being heard by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The case was brought forward by the Republic of The Gambia,on behalf of 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2019.
General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2020. Voting occurred in all constituencies,excluding seats appointed by or reserved for the military,to elect members to both the upper house —the Amyotha Hluttaw and the lower house —the Pyithu Hluttaw of the Assembly of the Union,as well as State and Regional Hluttaws (legislatures). Ethnic Affairs Ministers were also elected by their designated electorates on the same day,although only select ethnic minorities in particular states and regions were entitled to vote for them. A total of 1,171 national,state,and regional seats were contested in the election,with polling having taken place in all townships,including areas considered conflict zones and self-administered regions.
Myanmar–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Myanmar and the United Kingdom. Myanmar has an embassy in Mayfair,London,whilst the United Kingdom operates an embassy in Yangon.
Events in the year 2022 in Myanmar.
