The US government has on Wednesday denounced the extension of the state of emergency imposed by the military junta that governs Burma since the coup d'état carried out two years ago.
"The United States strongly opposes the decision of Myanmar's military regime to extend the state of emergency, prolonging the illegitimate rule of the military and the suffering it inflicts on the country," State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
In addition, the US spokesman has reaffirmed, "in the third year since the unjust and destabilizing coup", the commitment of the North American country to support the Burmese people in achieving "their aspirations for an inclusive and democratic Burma", as stated in a statement from the Department.
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Price has assured that Washington will continue "working with allies and partners to support the efforts of the pro-democracy movement" in the country, as well as "deny international credibility to the regime", two years after the coup d'état.
He has also pledged to pressure the military junta to fulfill its commitments to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to implement without delay the peace plan designed by the body as the main international mediator.
The regime has agreed hours before that the current state of emergency remains in force for at least six more months, which opens the door to maintain a repression that became especially evident in the weeks after the coup against the Government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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In these two years, some 2,940 people have lost their lives as victims of this repression, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP), an NGO that updates daily data on abuses by the authorities. The organization estimates that more than 13,700 people remain detained for opposing the junta.
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