Myanmar Coup: Army Messing With Hornet's Nests - The Guardian

Our tour begins with showing British newspapers from Myanmar, which has begun to witness a new reality that includes armed opposition in the political scene, and then we move to the American city of Houston, which witnessed the meeting of the International Oil Council, which raised concerns about the decline in investment in oil and gas Natural, and from it we move to Britain to review views on the possibility of imposing sanctions on those who refuse to receive Corona vaccines.

The Guardian newspaper published an article on the situation in Myanmar, which has passed since the military coup it witnessed and the overthrow of its elected government, about a year ago, highlighting the forms of opposition in the country to military rule, among the most important of which is the formation of armed opposition groups in the country.

The newspaper indicated that last Sunday, some pro-democracy protesters, carrying banners and flowers, gathered in the Kemindaeng district of Yangon, and the banners bore the words "The real prison is fear, and the real freedom is getting rid of fear," a phrase of the leader who was sacked by the army. She was sentenced to two years in prison, Aung San Suu Kyi. However, after large numbers of demonstrators gathered, a military vehicle rushed into the crowds, killing five people, while the authorities arrested the rest, bringing the number of detainees since the coup to 10,700.

The newspaper says that despite the passage of that period after the coup, the protests did not stop in its various forms, which include civil disobedience and the use of smart phone lights in peaceful protests, which are the patterns of the opposition that were joined in the recent period by street war attacks on the army and security forces in the country. Armed opposition groups in different parts of the country.

Young men fled to the forests to train in arms, and groups armed themselves to defend their areas, which sometimes happens in alliance with already existing resistance organizations that hail from ethnic groups that have a record of conflict with the army, according to the Guardian.

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“Six months ago, no one imagined the possibility of armed resistance emerging, but given the scale and spread of armed resistance across the country, it will become clear to us that there are many groups that mobilize" in the ranks of the armed resistance.

He added: "It was likely a surprise for the army to see this size of the opposition, and therefore the army must think about what kind of hornet's nest it is messing with? The army has fought armed ethnic organizations for decades, but now they are facing ordinary people who were not among them." One year before he accepted the idea of ​​military rebellion.

As stated by Sassa, a spokesman for the opposition Government of National Unity, "People have no choice but to defend themselves. The military not only destroy democracy and freedom, but they destroy our dignity every day as human beings. It's like a forced path they put us on."

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The Financial Times published an article dealing with the concerns that threaten the oil and natural gas sector, which were a common concern for most of the participants in the meeting of the World Petroleum Council in the US state of Houston.

Amin Al-Nasser, CEO of the oil giant Saudi Aramco, called on world leaders to choose between continuing to invest in fossil fuels in the coming years or surrendering to the risks that may result from sharp increases in the rate of inflation that herald social unrest that may force the countries of the world to Abandon emissions targets, according to the paper.

Al-Nasser added, while speaking before the Council, that "the hypothesis that the world's transition to clean fuels may happen overnight is not true at all."

I understand that publicly acknowledging that oil and gas will play a major role during the transition to clean fuels and beyond may be difficult for many to hear.

These statements came amid pressure from investors and society on fossil fuel companies to make their activities less harmful to the environment.

Al-Nasser believes that "the world is facing a chaotic transition to clean fuels based on unrealistic scenarios and assumptions about the future of energy."

The Financial Times said that the increasing fuel prices - which witnessed a sharp rise in the recent period coinciding with the beginning of the global economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis - put the world's governments in a race against time in order to achieve a balance between their pledges to reduce carbon emissions on the one hand and maintain Low fuel prices on the other hand.

US President Joe Biden - who pledged to lead the transition to clean energy and reduce dependence on oil - announced the release of 50 million barrels of strategic oil reserves in the United States last month with the aim of supporting the supply of oil that would lead to lower fuel prices.

The oil and natural gas sector took advantage of the sharp rise in the prices of energy products in the recent period to focus on the risks threatening energy security and the ability to quickly pay the bill to reduce dependence on traditional sources of energy, as the decline in investments in fossil fuel production was one of the common concerns in Houston meeting.

Nasser was not the only one who addressed these concerns. Jeff Miller, CEO of Halliburton Oilfield and Production Site Services, said that there has been a "sharp decline in investment in the sector over the past seven years," which he attributed to the pressures it is exposed to. The sector is for the sake of the climate and the lack of capital due to the sharp drop in sector revenues.

Al-Nasser confirmed that many companies and decision-makers in the sector agree that there are risks of a sharp decline in oil and natural gas investments, but they do not speak openly about this.

"They talk about it in secret, but they should do it in public as well," he said.

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Penalties for Vaccine Rejectors

In her article published in The Telegraph, Cheryl Jacobs addressed calls that have spread recently to impose penalties on those who refuse to take anti-coronavirus vaccines.

The author described the imposition of these penalties on those who object to the idea of ​​immunization with pandemic vaccines as "immoral and unjustified."

Sheryl began her article that sometimes the most convincing arguments are the wrong arguments, which is true of the current situation, which is witnessing increasing calls for sanctions against those who refuse to take vaccines, which are considered the last resort to escape from the epidemic.

The author refused to accept the theory that the unvaccinated are "the problem", suggesting that it is based on a narrow and distorted concept of the epidemic.

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She said that while unvaccinated people add to the challenges facing the UK, they cannot be seen as the only source of the country's suffering. Nor can it be certain that those who are fully immunized with anti-virus vaccines will completely eradicate the epidemic.

And she gave an example to support the validity of what she went to with the strict restrictions imposed by European countries, most notably the vaccine passports that limit the movement of citizens and their presence in public places such as restaurants and cafes, and what Austria went to in terms of more stringent measures represented in working to issue legislation that makes immunization Vaccines are compulsory, a vote that Germany is preparing to take one of the same.

The author gave these examples, stressing that these measures did not lead to the end of the epidemic.

And he went on to say that it is illogical to assign responsibility for the spread of the epidemic to non-vaccinated people, as their number is only about 11 percent of the population of England, which is not compatible with the 35 percent of the population who go to hospital emergency departments for treatment.

He added that there has been a recent increase in the number of those immunized with anti-vaccines who show symptoms of the virus, in exchange for a decline in the number of those who suffer from symptoms who are not immunized with it over time, which is considered a great challenge, just like the stubborn resistance to the idea of ​​​​vaccine among the unvaccinated.

The author raised several questions that she left unanswered about the extent to which measures can be taken to force people to take vaccines, which may happen by subjecting them to penalties if they do not take them, and the extent to which such punitive measures are compatible with human rights and personal freedoms.

I also wondered whether human rights should be adhered to absolutely in all circumstances, including the prevailing conditions amid the spread of the epidemic, and whether personal rights in this case conflict with personal responsibility for those who refuse immunization with anti-epidemic vaccines.