Myanmar’s junta appointed a new temporary head to replace Kyaw Zwar Minn in July 2021.
Myanmar’s former ambassador to the UK Kyaw Zwar Minn was ousted for opposing the February 2021 military coup.
Since his protest, praised by the UK government at the time, Kyaw Zwar Minn has stayed at the northwest London ambassador’s residence, a mansion surrounded by razor wire and CCTV cameras. He has refused to hand it back to the embassy which he says is now run by representatives of an illegitimate government.
“The ambassadorial residence remains the property of the Union of Myanmar, and my client has always maintained that he is more than happy to hand over the keys to a representative of the democratically elected government of Myanmar, should they ask him to do so,” Swift told Reuters. If charges are brought, the case risks becoming politically heated given the UK’s previous support of Kyaw Zwar Minn and the sanctions it has heaped on the junta since the coup, and a bloody crackdown on opponents that have triggered a resistance movement fighting the military on multiple fronts.
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