Islam by percentage. Ripper Locations Then/Now. Juwes are not To be blamed … ..not the men To be blamed for Nothing.

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By percentage Islamization of population: here’s what happens when Islam is allowed into your nation.

Islamic imposition -Jack The Ripper Location: Then and Now

Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

Dr. Peter Hammond with foreword by Rev Flip Benham, 8/12/2010

FrontPageMagazine.com Can a Good Muslim Be a Good American?”, Monday, April 21, 2008:

What Islam Isn’t!

By: Dr. Peter Hammond
_______________________________

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

Here’s how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around, or under, 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens.

This is the case in:

United States—Muslim 0.6%
Australia—Muslim 1.5%
Canada—Muslim 1.9%
China—Muslim 1.8%
Italy—Muslim 1.5%
Norway—Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark—Muslim 2%
Germany—Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom—Muslim 2.7%
Spain—Muslim 4%
Thailand—Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves—along with threats for failure to comply.

This is occurring in:

France—Muslim 8%
Philippines—5%
Sweden—Muslim 5%
Switzerland—Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands—Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago—Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam,  with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily,  particularly in Muslim sections in:

Guyana—Muslim 10%
India—Muslim 13.4%
Israel—Muslim 16%
Kenya—Muslim 10%
Russia—Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia—Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia—Muslim 40%
Chad—Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon—Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania—Muslim 70%
Malaysia—Muslim 60.4%
Qatar—Muslim 77.5%
Sudan—Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation, violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh—Muslim 83%
Egypt—Muslim 90%
Gaza—Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia—Muslim 86.1%
Iran—Muslim 98%
Iraq—Muslim 97%
Jordan—Muslim 92%
Morocco—Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan—Muslim 97%
Palestine—Muslim 99%
Syria—Muslim 90%
Tajikistan—Muslim 90%
Turkey—Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates—Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’—the Islamic House of Peace. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, the Koran the only word, as in:

Afghanistan—Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia—Muslim 100%
Somalia—Muslim 100%
Yemen—Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

16%  – Islamic tipping point of no return:

Expert warns: The Islamisation of a country can no longer be stopped if
Muslim population reaches 16%

According to a Harvard University study, the Islamisation of a country
cannot be stopped once the Muslim population reaches 16 percent of the total
population. This is what Islam expert, Nikoletta Incze, said on 22 June, on
Hungarian public television.

Incze is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Political Islam, a
foundation of American Islam critic Bill Warner, which is active in several
countries. The interview with the Islam expert was broadcasted as part of a morning magazine report that focuses on the spread of Islam in Europe and bears the title “Islamic Advance – Already 44 Million Believers in Europe.”

At the beginning of the conversation, Nikoletta Incze points out that many
countries that are Islamic today were originally Christian, for example
Turkey, Egypt and Syria.

In other countries as well, Islam supplanted the previous religion: Pakistan
was Hindu, Afghanistan was Buddhist, Iran was dominated by Zoroastrianism.

Mohamed and his successors subjugated these countries militarily and
Islamised them. Islamisation was a process that took centuries.

The question arises at what point it was decided that Islam would prevail in these
countries. Nikoletta Incze cites a study by Harvard University. According to her, the Islamisation of a country is already inevitable, when the proportion of Muslims of the population is about 16 percent. It will take another 100 to 150 years before the Islamisation is complete.

Currently, Nikoletta Incze sees an Islamisation of Europe. However, there is
a big difference with the Islamic expansion in the Middle Ages: at that time
one would have resisted.

Today, Muslims are treated with tolerance and acceptance instead. Treat
Islam as an equal religion ignoring political ideology

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The paper suggests that if migration continues at the same rate but refugee
movement stops, the UK will have the highest overall population of Muslims
in the EU, at 13m, making up 16.7 per cent of the population.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/29/muslim-population-uk-could-triple-13m-following-record-influx/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.legal/8JXXBNiAn5Y

Ripper Locations Then & Now

Deleted Youtube vid, salvaged from Wayback Machine 20 Nov 2020.

At 1:40 you see the site of the Mary Ann Nichols’ murder on what was then Buck’s Row, London; the image fades to the present day where, by moment 2:05, you see a Muslim woman wearing a burka and emerging from the precise spot of the ripper’s crime.

..somehow, it seems about as spooky.

…an Islamic apparition emerging from the shadows of the place of death..

Muslim woman, as if an apparition, emerges from exact place of Mary Ann Nichols grizzly death.

“The Juwes are not the men To be blamed for nothing”

…chalked on a Goulston Street wall near the Eddows murder.

…a bloody garment also found nearby is alleged to have DNA links to Kosminski and Eddows.

Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, who led the Ripper investigation, named the man as “Kosminski” in notes handwritten in the margin of his presentation copy of Anderson’s memoirs. He is said to have had no doubt that Kosminski was the Ripper.

A Scotland Yard re-investigation in the 1980s concurred.

A panel of experts gathered for a 1988 production agreed that Kosminski was most likely to have been Jack the Ripper:

The secret identity of Jack the Ripper

And 2014 examination of DNA evidence deepened support for the identity of Jack The Ripper as Aaron Kosminksi:

On 7 September 2014, Dr. Jari Louhelainen, an expert in historic DNA analysis, announced that he had been commissioned by British author Russell Edwards to study a shawl supposedly found with victim Catherine Eddowes and that he had extracted mitochondrial DNA that matches female line descendants of Eddowes, and mitochondrial DNA that matches female line descendants of Kosminski’s sister from the shawl. Louhelainen stated that “The first strand of DNA showed a 99.2 percent match, as the analysis instrument could not determine the sequence of the missing 0.8 percent fragment of DNA. On testing the second strand, we achieved a perfect 100 percent match.”

Bitchute has this segment of a documentary which focuses on Kosminski as the Ripper.

(((Aaron Kosminski's Grave)))

Muslim apparition in Britain…

For several reasons, Britain has long been the “sick man” of European Nationalism. Aside from the British National Party’s string of local and European election victories prior to its spectacular electoral collapse of 2010, the story of British ethno-populism has, even in its earliest incarnations, largely been one of under-performance. Setting aside my own arguments and theories as to why this has been the case, one is astounded and horrified at the transformation that Britain is being subjected to. The Office for National Statistics has documented that between 2001 and 2009 the non-indigenous population of England and Wales increased by 37.4%. The mixed-race population increased in same period by nearly 50%. As of 2014, the non-indigenous population of Britain accounts for 80% of its population growth, with White births accounting for just 16.5% of the total in West Birmingham. White decline in Britain, as in much of the West, is not a putative future event — it is a contemporary crisis, an extinction in progress.

Despite media silence, Britain faces several existential threats. The character of the nation is currently under severe threat from Muslim immigration. The UK Muslim population is increasing rapidly and Britons are concerned. In 2003 a British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey highlighted that 48 per cent of the native British were concerned that an increase in the Muslim population would weaken Britain’s national identity. By 2013 that figure had risen to 62 per cent. Before and since the latest survey, the country has been rocked by the side effects of this population increase — Islamic terror, Muslim grooming gangs that have subjected thousands of indigenous British girls to rape and violence, the ‘Trojan Horse’ phenomenon where Muslim hardliners attempted to take over city schools, and the fact that a 2011 study showed that 21.3% of Muslims living in Britain have never worked. Muslims, together with Britain’s other ethnic minorities consume a disproportionate amount of welfare and tax credits, even relative to their swelling population. – From TOO

Anne Marie Waters ambushed by Antifa in London when about a White Chapel Ripper tour.

Catherine Eddows mutilated body discovered in Mitre square, along with her bloody shawl and cryptic message nearby: "The Juwes are not the men To be blamed for nothing" ...this was the second murder attributed to Jack the Ripper on 30 September 1888, the night of "the double event" - Elizabeth Stride was first and only spared a less grizzly end, as the Ripper was apparently scared away before he could finish his blood lust, which he sated with the Eddows murder and Lusk letter.

From Hell

Letter from Hell

The letter reads:[11]

From hell.

Mr Lusk,
Sor
I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif[e] that took it out if you only wate a whil[e] longer
signed

Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk


The original letter and the kidney which accompanied it have been lost, along with other contents that were contained in the Ripper police files. The image shown here is from a photograph.[11]

 

The “From Hell” letter (also known as the “Lusk letter“)[1][2] was a letter sent alongside half of a preserved human kidney to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance CommitteeGeorge Lusk, in October 1888.[3] The author of this letter claimed to be the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who had murdered and mutilated at least four women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London in the two months prior to Lusk receiving this letter, and whose vigilance committee Lusk led in community efforts to assist police in efforts to identify and apprehend the perpetrator.[2]

The letter was postmarked on 15 October 1888 and was received by Lusk the following day.[4] An examination of the kidney revealed the individual from whom the organ originated had suffered from Bright’s disease.[5] The author of this letter claimed to have fried and eaten the other half.[6]

Police, press, and public alike received many letters claiming to be from the Whitechapel Murderer, with investigators at one stage having to deal with an estimated 1,000 letters related to the case. However, the “From Hell” letter is one of the few articles of correspondence that has received serious consideration as to actually being genuine

Elizabeth Stride's shawl

A contemporary sketch of Jack/Aaron, from Israel Schwartz’s description, the only eyewitness who got a good look at a man who may have been Jack The Ripper.  When brought to the Seaside Policemen’s Retirement Home(away from the public and observation by the press), Israel immediately identified Aaron as the man he saw with Liz Stride immediately before her murder.

Aaron Kosminski was Jack The Ripper and Scotland Yard Knew it at the time.

 
To quote the two top American FBI profilers, John Douglas and Roy Hazelwood, if it wasn’t Aaron Kosminski, then it was someone exactly like him.   http://www.casebook.org/  

Polly, Mary Anne Nichols, Jack the Ripper’s first victim

The murder happened in Dutfield’s Yard, in the alley under the wagon wheel mounted on a building which housed a Jewish Socialist Social Club, which was quite popular in the neighborhood. In the next building down, the first two-story building, lived tailor Woolf/Wolf Abrahams, his wife Betsy and their children—-and his brother in law Aaron Kosminski.
The scene of Mary Anne "Polly" Nichols Murder, The Board School(1876) looms in the background and is still standing behind the spot of her murder today.
Mary Ann Nichols death photo eath photo is from the morgue.
Backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel, where Annie Chapman was murdered.
47 year old Annie Chapman from a photo taken by the coroner in the Morgue.
Liz Stride (née Gustafsdotter) (27 November 1843 – 30 September 1888) as a young girl in her native Sweden, she was well educated and spoke two languages fluently. She had once run a successful coffeehouse with her English husband John Stride, but then turned to drink.
In death, after meeting Aaron Kosminski, witnessed by Israel Schwartz and identified as the man talking to Liz minutes before her murder. Israel said he saw the man push Liz and moments later heard three cries for help(very common in Whitechapel) from the woman he saw.

Police inundated Whitechapel with officers after the first murders, but Jack struck again, coincidentally at a place that Aaron knew well, within a few feet of the home of his sister, Betsy and her husband Wolf/Woolf Abrahams, a tailor, with whom Aaron lived. It was Wolf who helped commit him in 1888. When ticketed for walking his dog without a leash/muzzle, Aaron gave his name to the officer as Abrahams. Casebook Jack the Ripper:

 http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=7074

The relevant portion of this court docket reported in the paper, the only time Aaron’s name ever appears in the press:
 

Aaron Kosminski was summoned for a similar office/offense. Police Constable Bower said he saw the defendant with an unmuzzled dog and when asked his name gave that of Aaron Kosminski which his brother said was wrong—as his name was Abrahams. Defendant said the dog was not his, and his brother said it was found more convenient  here to go by the name Abrahams, but his name was Kosminski. Sir Polydore de Keyser imposed a fine of 10s(shillings) and costs, which the defendant would not pay as it was the Jewish Sunday(Saturday?), and it was not right to pay money on Sunday. He was given until Monday to pay.

Catherine Eddowes Shawl was found in Mitre Square in the City of London on the night of September 29,1888, after her murder was discovered, according to the family of Sargeant Amos Simpson, badge number 4911(1846-1919). Amos was on duty that night, as were all Metropolitan Police. His normal assignment was Islington.  He indicated that he was assigned to surveillance near an alley in Whitechapel, near Mitre Square. Family folklore indicates that he picked up the shawl after coming to the scene of the crime in response to the police whistle blown by night watchman and former police officer, George Morris, then security guard of Kearly and Tonge’s warehouse on Mitre Square, after being alerted by Police Officer Watkins whose beat included Mitre Square. Supposition is that the shawl was thrown off the body by Jack or dropped by Catherine in the first moments of the attack.

Catherine Eddowes shawl found in Mitre Square contained traces of her blood and semen from Jack the Ripper. DNA matches blood on the shawl to Catherine Eddowes and mitochondrial DNA in the semen to Aaron Kosminski of Whitechapel. Who had once lived less than a hundred yards, at Sion Square, from the scene of the first murder of prostitute Annie Chapman. He’d later live at two other addresses, each address could be tied closely to the location of one of Jack’s murders.

Aaron Kosminski Was Jack the Ripper

Aaron Kosminski's Birth Certificate 1865 from Poland then a part of the Russian Empire

Swanson note establishes Kosminski as the suspect as being Jack the Ripper

Which leads to Aaron Kosminski, who if the recent DNA tests are to be believed, was Jack the Ripper. He was insane, though I dislike Inspector Anderson’s logic that this was due to the solitary vices(masturbation). As the prejudice against gays, led to the suspicion of Quack Francis Tumblety, a prejudice against self-abuse is no reason to suspect Aaron, though his escalating insanity would be.

When he was later determined to be a paranoid schizophrenic in a clinical setting, at the Colney Hatch Insane Asylum, a much better, more justifiable case can be made as to his guilt.  And he apparently caught Syphillis from a prostitute when he was only 15-years-old, which probably caused him to hate prostitutes as a class. The only witness who got a good look at Jack talking to one of his victims, Israel Schwartz would prove pivotal in the final chapter of the real story.

Schwartz’s statement was taken on September 30th, the day of the murder, by Chief Inspector Donald Swanson:

12.45 a.m. 30th. Israel Schwartz of 22 Helen Street, Backchurch Lane, stated that at this hour, on turning into Berner Street from Commercial Street and having got as far as the gateway where the murder was committed, he saw a man stop and speak to a woman, who was standing in the gateway. The man tried to pull the woman into the street, but he turned her round and threw her down on the footway and the woman screamed three times, but not loudly. On crossing to the opposite side of the street, he saw a second man standing lighting his pipe. The man who threw the woman down called out, apparently to the man on the oppos- ite side of the road, ‘Lipski’, and then Schwartz walked away, but finding that he was followed by the second man, ran so far as the railway arch, but the man didn’t follow so far.

Schwartz cannot say whether the two men were together or known to each other. Upon being taken to the Mortuary Schwartz ident- ified the body as that of the woman he had seen. He thus describes the first man, who threw the woman down:- age, about 30; ht, 5 ft 5 in; comp., fair; hair, dark; small brown moustache, full face, broad shouldered; dress, dark jacket and trousers, black cap with peak, and nothing in his hands.

Second man: age, 35; ht., 5 ft 11in; comp., fresh; hair, light brown; dress, dark overcoat, old black hard felt hat, wide brim; had a clay pipe in his hand.

If Schwartz is to be believed, and the police report of his statement casts no doubt on it, it follows … the man Schwartz saw and described is more probable of the two to be the murderer.

As reported in Casebook: Jack The Ripper Forum; The Jack the Ripper A-Z, 1996. (pg 385-386)

Israel Schwartz, a Hungarian, apparently of Jewish descent, in 1888 claimed to have witnessed an assault on a London woman that is believed to be tied to the Jack the Ripper slayings.

Schwartz told police that, shortly after midnight on September 30, he was walking down a street when he saw a man stop and speak to a woman who was standing in a gateway. Schwartz stated that the man then threw the woman to the ground. Schwartz crossed the street and began walking away when the attacker saw him. The attacker called out the name “Lipski” — apparently an Anti-Semitic insult related to Israel Lipski’s murder of a woman the year before. Schwartz reported seeing a man smoking a pipe nearby at the time, and the other man started walking towards Schwartz, possibly following him. Schwartz ran away.

Shortly after the time Schwartz reported witnessing this incident, the body of Elizabeth Stride was found in the same location. That same day Schwartz identified Stride’s body as that of the woman he had seen attacked and gave testimony to the police about what he had seen. He was able to give descriptions of both men but was unable to say whether they knew each other or had been working together.

Several years after the crimes, Commissioner Robert Anderson claimed in his autobiography The Lighter Side of My Official Life that the Ripper had been identified by “the only person who ever had a good view of the murderer.” Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, in marginalia found in his personal copy of Anderson’s book, stated that the witness in question was Jewish. Some Ripperologists have concluded that Schwartz was most likely the man being referred to, although a number of other people, primarily Joseph Lawende, have been suggested as well. Some authors dispute Anderson’s claims of there having been a witness identifying the Ripper as being a self-serving distortion of events to try to cover up Scotland Yard’s failure to catch the killer.

Anderson’s assertion that a Jewish witness identified a Jewish suspect can hardly be true. Schwartz was sent on his way with the anti-Semitic insult “Lipski”, which suggests that the man he saw attacking Stride was an anti-Jewish gentile. Lawende, the only other Jewish witness, told Swanson that he doubted if he would again recognize the man he saw with a woman who might have been Catharine Eddowes, ten minutes before her body was found. Swanson (in his “marginalia”) said that Anderson’s suspect was identified in secret at a police convalescent home that he referred to as “the seaside home” and he named him as “Kosminski”, thought to be Aaron Kosminski. He said that Kosminski was taken back to his brother’s home in Whitechapel but kept under surveillance until he was taken to a workhouse infirmary, from which he was quickly sent on to the Colney Hatch asylum. Records of the Mile End Old Town workhouse infirmary showed that Kosminski was taken there and transferred to Colney Hatch in February 1891. That was over two clear years from Lawende’s sighting of the man with Eddowes and if Lawende doubted then that he would recognize that man if he saw him again, he was hardly likely to have “unhesitatingly have identified him the moment he was confronted with him” as Anderson said in his book.

Wikipedia

One private note of my own, the use of a slur, would indicate that the person was betraying a Jew, which would logically justify one Jew referring to another with that epitaph.

As Inspector Swanson and Anderson indicate, Israel Schwartz was taken to the police retirement home, The Seaside Home, where he immediately identified Aaron Kosminski as the man he had seen with Liz Stride. But indicated to them, as a Jew, he could not testify in court in any proceeding to which the death penalty was attached. They had their man, but no proof which could be used in court. From that moment on, Kosminski, though released from Police Custody, was under constant observation, until his family committed him to the insane asylum.

Inspector Anderson and Swanson’s recorded remarks about Aaron Kosminski ring true. Israel Schwartz apparently did identify him as the perpetrator.

I am now convinced that the plethora of suspects mentioned by various police officials, each appearing to have his own favorite, was a deliberate effort to mislead, an act of misinformation. As Sir Charles Warren wiped away the most tantalizing clue, he offered the best logical reason for what happened afterwards. The wave of Jewish immigrants to White Chapel had created a lot of friction with the denizens of neighborhood. What would finding out that Jack the Ripper was a Jew from Poland have done? No telling, but the risk of a pogrom like happened in the Russian Pale was real. No intelligent person could discount it.

So my conclusion is, that Tumblety, Druitt and the others mentioned at the time as suspects were simply to “keep a lid” on the story. Druitt, a totally inappropriate suspect for a variety of reasons(no one can see what happened to Mary Jane Kelly and not know the perpetrator was totally insane) deserves an apology or at least his family does.

But the main thing to come out of all this, is that the Police were much better at this investigation than they have been credited having been. And the useful fiction that they employed, in hindsight is excusable under the circumstances. Hats off, to Sir Charles, Inspectors Anderson, Swanson and Abberline for a Job well done.

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  1. San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi, who is apparently in the ethnonationalist position, has been ousted from power in Mayanmar by military coup.  Aung San Suu Kyi has stood against Islamic imperialism.

    BBC, 2 April 2021

    Myanmar coup: More than 40 children killed by military, rights group says

    Protesters with cover their mouths and eyes in a “silent strike” on 24 March 2021, to protest the military shooting dead a sevem-year-old girl

    Protesters held a “silent strike” in Yangon after a seven year old was shot dead in Mandalay

    At least 43 children have been killed by armed forces in Myanmar since February’s military coup, according to rights organisation Save the Children.

    The group said the South East Asian country was in a “nightmare situation”, with the youngest known victim just six years old.

    A local monitoring group puts the overall death toll at 536.

    Meanwhile, ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with violating the country’s official secrets act.

    Ms Suu Kyi, along with four of her allies, were charged last week, but the alleged crime – which carries a prison term of up to 14 years – has only now come to light.

    The new charge against Ms Suu Kyi is in addition to earlier charges of possessing illegal walkie-talkies, violating Covid-19 restrictions during last year’s election campaign, and publishing information that may “cause fear or alarm”.

    The victims of Myanmar’s deadliest day

    Myanmar coup: What is happening and why?

    The UN’s envoy to Myanmar has warned of the risk of an “imminent bloodbath” as the crackdown against pro-democracy protests in the country intensifies.

    The warning follows a flare-up in fighting between the army and ethnic minority militia in border areas.

    The UN has become the latest organisation to urge the families of its workers to leave, but has said that some staff will remain in the country.

    The unrest in Myanmar began two months ago, when the military seized control of the country after an election which Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.

    When tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide to protest against the coup, the military used water cannon to attempt to disperse them. After a week, the response escalated, and rubber bullets and live ammunition were used.

    The deadliest day of the conflict so far came on Saturday, when more than 100 people were killed.

    Who is Aung San Suu Kyi?

    Lawyers representing Ms Suu Kyi said on Thursday that it was unclear whether their client was aware of how events were unfolding across the country.

    “We couldn’t say whether [Ms Suu Kyi] knows about outside situations or not – she may or may not know,” lawyer Min Min Soe told Reuters news agency, adding that the ousted leader “seems to be in good health”.

    The violence has sparked an international outcry, with various countries – including the US and UK – announcing sanctions against the coup leaders and military-linked companies.

    On Thursday, the UK announced further measures against the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), a conglomerate that has provided funds to the Myanmar military.

    “The Myanmar military has sunk to a new low with the wanton killing of innocent people, including children,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said. “The UK’s latest actions target one of the military’s key funding streams and impose a further cost on them for their violations of human rights.”

    When Ms Suu Kyi was ousted, military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing took power.

    Myanmar coup: How did we get here?

    Myanmar profile

    Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent from Britain in 1948. For much of its modern history it has been under military rule

    Restrictions began loosening from 2010 onwards, leading to free elections in 2015 and the installation of a government headed by veteran opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the following year

    In 2017, Myanmar’s army responded to attacks on police by Rohingya militants with a deadly crackdown, driving more than half a million Rohingya Muslims across the border into Bangladesh in what the UN later called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”

    BBC:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56600292

    The Rohingya crisis

    Since becoming Myanmar’s state counsellor, her leadership has been partly defined by the treatment of the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.

    In 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh due to an army crackdown sparked by deadly attacks on police stations in Rakhine state.

    Myanmar now faces a lawsuit accusing it of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), while the International Criminal Court is investigating the country for crimes against humanity.

    Ms Suu Kyi’s former international supporters accused her of doing nothing to stop rape, murder and possible genocide by refusing to condemn the still powerful military or acknowledge accounts of atrocities.

    A few initially argued that she was a pragmatic politician, trying to govern a multi-ethnic country with a complex history.

    But her personal defence of the army’s actions at the ICJ hearing in the Hague was seen as a new turning point for her international reputation.

    At home, however, “the Lady”, as Ms Suu Kyi is known, remains wildly popular among the Buddhist majority who hold little sympathy for the Rohingya.

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