Nearly 400 civil society organisations inside Myanmar have written an open letter to the foreign minister, Marise Payne, condemning Australia’s “shameful inaction” and urging it to impose new sanctions to de-legitimise the military regime and squeeze its sources of foreign funding.
Senator Janet Rice, the Australian Greens’ foreign affairs spokesperson will table the letter in the Senate when parliament resumes, and said It is unconscionable for Australia not to impose sanctions against the junta when that’s exactly what hundreds of organisations on the ground in Myanmar are calling for.