The measure passed by 398 to 14, with one voting “present.” All of the “no” and “present” votes came from Republicans.
14 House Republicans voted against a resolution condemning the military coup in Myanmar, per @kristin__wilson:
Lauren Boebert
Andy Biggs
Matt Gaetz
Tom Massie
Ken Buck
Mary Miller
Chip Roy
Jodey Hice
Alex Mooney
Scott Perry
Andy Harris
Ted Budd
Barry Moore
Marjorie Taylor Greene— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 19, 2021
In areas of Myanmar where martial law has been declared, "police and soldiers are opening fire randomly in residential areas and at individual residences, clearing areas street by street, and beating and arresting all suspects." Thousands have fled. https://t.co/NOCvWVijJY pic.twitter.com/PTBUueU9oc
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) March 19, 2021
On February 10, the military regime’s governing body, the State Administration Council, dissolved the office Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposed civilian government established to negotiate peace with ethnic armed organisations and announced the formation of its own negotiation team.
But many ethnic armed groups, including the 10 signatories to a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, have refused to engage with the SAC; some have even announced their support for the anti-coup protest movement and the people’s right to protest.
Kachin State on Myanmar’s northern border with China, where the Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/A), one of the country’s most prominent armed groups, has been fighting for self-determination since 1961, is rapidly emerging as a new front in the crisis.
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On March 14, the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a parallel government set up to carry out the duties of the deposed elected government, issued a statement informing the people of their right to self-defence from violence according to the law.
Three days later, it said ethnic armed organisations would no longer be considered “terrorist” or “unlawful” organisations.
“The Committee sincerely recognises, records and congratulates all ethnic armed revolutionary organisations which are making efforts together in the mindset of brothers and sisters with the strong commitment to the building of [a] federal democratic union,” the CRPH said in a statement.
On Thursday, the CRPH also issued a statement expressing its intent to work with the Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team towards shared goals including the establishment of a federal democratic union.
The military government on March 11 removed the “terrorist” designation of the Rakhine-based Arakan Army, among the country’s most formidable armed groups. But the Unlawful Association Act designation of other ethnic armed organisations, including the KIO/A still remains.
A Kachin youth in Myitkyina told Al Jazeera he believed now was the “right time” for armed resistance for the country, and that it was “the time for the KIO/A to stand with the people.” “If we don’t want to live under military dictatorship, we all have to fight against it,” he said.
Notable that the two Q Congresspeople are on here.
The remaining, diehard QAnon forums love the Myanmar coup for no other discernible political reason than "it was an authoritarian coup, and they got away with it." https://t.co/A0QiG2X3Ma
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 19, 2021
Several times over the past three days, a small group of far-right Republicans have joined together to vote against legislation that otherwise gets around 400 votes in the House.
Now entertaining names for this emerging caucus. https://t.co/mPERLjgcQq
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 19, 2021
Why has this guy not been indicted for helping to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection? https://t.co/heSG0P5sg0
— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) March 19, 2021
