Interview on ARD-alpha with Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer
Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer was interviewed in the ARD programme alpha-nachgehakt about the situation in Myanmar after the military coup in February 2021.
According to Beyer, the population continues to be strongly repressed by the military, which makes effective mass protests by the civil disobedience movement against the military junta impossible. Also, due to the lack of international support for the Burmese people, the military can act freely in the country. Beyer considers the elections in 2023, postponed by Min Aung Hlaing, to be unrealistic; if elections are allowed, they will not be fair and free. She also reports on the situation of the Rohingya in partly illegal refugee camps in Bangladesh and the deportation of people from the overcrowded camps. Possible actions for international actors are the provision of concrete humanitarian aid and the reform of the asylum system to enable stateless people to move across borders and find a place in the system through identification documents.
Get to the interview with Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer [in German]
Get to the full programme: alpha-nachgehakt: Myanmar nach dem Militärputsch [Interview with Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer from minute 3:40]