COLAP strongly condemns Military coup in Myanmar COLAP strongly condemns the February 1st, 2021 Coup by the Myanmar military and the detention of National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi and its members.
Myanmar’s constitution allows the military officers to occupy 25% of the parliament seats; the NLD has been trying to amend this constitution. The coup’s background is that the military felt threatened by the NLD’s overwhelming victory in the general election in November 2020. Overturn of the election results by violence is a grave challenge against […]
STOP THE KILLINGS OF LAWYERS AND JUDGES IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Confederation of Lawyers in Asia and the Pacific COLAP strongly condemns the worsening attacks against lawyers and judges in the Philippines. There have been at least 54 lawyers and judges who have become victims of extrajudicial killings and violent crimes since 2016 under the Duterte administration. These attacks were made with brazen impunity and […]
The Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific-COLAP condemns the South Korean government’s illegal and unreasonable detention of Kim Ryon-hee, a Pyongyang citizen, and we convey our request as follows.
1. The South Korean government does not connive and prolong the pain and misfortune of Pyongyang Citizen Kim Ryon-hee, who is forced to break up with their North Korean families and North Korean restaurant employees who were kidnapped. We urge the South Korean government to engage in inter-Korean dialogues to resolve the repatriation issue as soon […]
Washington’s interference in Seoul’s internal affairs should be stopped
1. The US has been politically and financially supporting organizations that distribute anti-Pyeongyang leaflets. The US State Department has developed the ‘Annual Program for Human Rights, Accountability, and Access to Information in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’ to support the influx of information into North Korea and promote information leakage from it. With the […]
Immediately stop the nuclear war exercise against North Korea and withdraw the US troops, which is the root of all evil!
The frequency of the maneuvering nuclear war against North Korea has increased since the Biden administration. Recently, the major U.S. military reconnaissance assets have been deployed around the Korean Peninsula. According to the military authorities on the 16th, The RC-135S Cobra Ball, a US Air Force special reconnaissance aircraft, appeared in the West Sea on February 3rd. The […]