Myanmar

Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar stopped work on Wednesday to protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the newly formed Myanmar Civil Disobedience Movement said.

Besides being a huge setback to democracy, the coup will put off the return of two million Rohingya refugees and embitter relations with Bangladesh. But it will strengthen ties with China.

India’s foreign ministry said on Monday it was deeply concerned at the military coup in Myanmar.

Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids.

Up to 2 million Muslim Rohingyas had been disenfranchised and polling was not held in "conflict zones" populated by ethnic minorities

His British captors denied the poet-emperor pen, ink and paper and buried him in an unmarked grave in Yangon, Myanmar

Most Sinhala-Buddhists think that the monks’ political role is needed to preserve the Sinhala-Buddhist character of Sri Lanka but in Thailand, monks are disrobed for entering politics.

Myanmar’s violations include the commission of genocide against the Rohingya, mostly by way of the systematic and widespread perpetration of mass murder, sexual violence, torture, forced displacement, and denial of access to food and shelter

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina had called for the creation of UN-supervised safe zones inside Myanmar as an interim measure to lessen the burden on Bangladesh which is hosting 1.1 million Rohingya refugees

Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen categorically stated that there is no possibility of the integration of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh