While the media spotlight here in Australia has moved away from February’s military coup in Myanmar, the Burmese community here in Sydney are still gathering, as they did on Saturday, to bring attention to the ongoing self-installed dictatorship. About 150 expats and supporters turned up to Hyde Park North to hear speeches and observe a minute’s silence for the hundreds that have been killed since the coup, and the thousands that have been ‘disappeared’.
Australian companies are still involved in business dealings in Myanmar, despite calls to divest.
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