
Exiled Physician Fighting for a Better Myanmar
Voice of America
BANGKOK - A minister of Myanmar’s shadow government says the United Nations has an “obligation” to recognize what the people want ahead of the 76th General Assembly that began Tuesday in New York.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since February’s military coup, during which the military ousted the democratically elected government and followed it with an ongoing violent crackdown on opposing demonstrators.
The annual assembly, which concludes on September 30, will see a nine-member credentials committee discuss who will take the nation’s U.N. seat, with the choice down to either members of the military junta or representative of the former government.
Dr. Sasa, the minister of International Cooperation for Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), the shadow government formed in the wake of the coup, which includes ousted legislators and ethnic minority leaders, says the people have spoken.

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