/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9644/all en /newsroom/erik-kuhonta Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:36:06 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 262076 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-military-forces-stages-coup-myanmar-328198 <p>Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including state counsellor and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule. (<a href="https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi-dda3d013897e14d5d0bd44d19eac9cd1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>) </p> <p>Here is an expert from ���ϲ����� University that can provide comment on this topic: </p> Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:07:19 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256582 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-violence-myanmar-270125 <p>“The United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, has appealed to Myanmar to end the violence that has led more than 120,000 Rohingya people to flee in the last two weeks, which he warned was ‘creating a situation that can destabilise the region’.” (<em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/05/more-than-120000-rohingya-flee-myanmar-violence-un-says">The Guardian</a></em>)</p> <div> <p><strong><a href="/politicalscience/faculty/kuhonta">Erik Kuhonta</a>, Political Science, ���ϲ����� University</strong></p></div> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:05:48 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32254 at /newsroom