Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Articles on this category from the collections of Burmanet News
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Burmanet News
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2016-02-29
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Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Reports (text and video), international standards.... "Children in Myanmar have been widely used in armed conflict by both state armed forces and non-state armed groups. Despite a minimum age of 18 for military recruitment, over the years many hundreds of boys have been recruited, often forcibly into the national army (Tatmadaw Kyi) and deployed to areas where state forces have been fighting armed opposition groups. Border guard forces, composed of former members of armed opposition groups and formally under the command of the Myanmar military, also have under-18s in their ranks.
In June 2012, after protracted negotiations with the UN, the Myanmar government signed up to an action plan under which it has committed to release all under-18s present from Tatmadaw Kyi and border guard forces.
Child recruitment and use by armed opposition groups is also reported. These include: the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA), Karenni National Progressive Party/Karenni Army (KNPP/KA), Shan State Army South (SSA-S), United Wa State Army (UWSA). The KNU/KNLA and KNPP/KA have sought to conclude action plans on child soldiers with the UN, but the UN has been prevented from doing so by the Government of Myanmar.
"Our current work in Myanmar aims to:
Identify legal, policy and practical measures needed to end child recruitment and use by Tatmadaw Kyi and border guard forces, and to advocate for full and effective implementation of the action plan.
Seek tangible progress on armed opposition groups? compliance with international standards on child soldiers..."
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Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-04
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children and armed conflict, Children
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English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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The state party reports, CRC Concluding Observations, Summary Records etc.
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United Nations
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2004-02-14
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52 results (December 2009) from a search for "Children" in the drop-down menu of Database Search under Advanced Search -- KHRG home page
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Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of entry/update:
2009-12-15
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The most substantial material on the site is in the Media Centre, and includes: a pdf document in Burmese: "Questions and Answers on HIV and AIDS"... "The State of the World's Children 2005 - Children under threat" in English, (and in the same box a link to what should be a Burmese version, but since this is 56 pages rather than the 164 of the English, I have doubts)... "Progress For Children
A Child Survival Report Card" in English, with The Foreword, Child Survival, and the East Asia and Pacific sections in Burmese... a "Myanmar Reporter's Manual" (65 pages)in English and Burmese versions:
"This manual provides instruction on international-standard reporting skills, child-focused reporting and ethics for Myanmar journalists in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child." then there is a glossy, 28-page "UNICEF in Myanmar - Protecting Lives, Nurturing Dreams" in English.....In the For Children and Youth section is an illustrated and simplified aticle-by-article version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and a couple of illustrated online books for young children and their families in English and Burmese. Under Youth Web Links there English language animations (I suppose) called "Top 10 Cartoons for Children's Rights" but I could not get them to work. Also links to several other UNICEF and UN young people's sites. The "Activities" and "Real Lives" sections deal with UNICEF's activities in the country.
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UNICEF
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, UN agencies
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These results are for 2015. Change search options in column on the left...Search for Myanmar. 464 results (November 2001). 819 in May 2005, 1749 in 2015. Images and substantial documents.
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United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF)
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-04
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, UN agencies
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Press Releases, UN reports and actions and other documents and updates from 2003 on children and armed conflict in Myanmar...includes links to Security Council material
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Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
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2013-05-01
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-04
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Children and armed conflict, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Six are critically injured after being struck by shrapnel in a monastery compound, locals said.
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"A drone test by pro-junta militia injured 13 children in Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia.
Regime soldiers working in collaboration with the Pyu Saw Htee militia are responsible for a weapons accident that occurred on Saturday, locals said. The militia is made up of pro-junta supporters, veterans and Buddhist nationalists.
The drone, carrying several bombs, flew over Sagaing region’s Kale township, close to the Chin state border. Soldiers are permanently stationed in Kale township’s Aung Myin Thar village, leading them to believe the attack was an accident, they added.
A resident who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons told RFA on Tuesday that a drone mounted with explosives flew over a nearby monastery compound when it suddenly crashed and exploded. Thirteen children playing in the monastery’s soccer field were injured when the bombs detonated.
“The military junta gave weapons to the Pyu Saw Htee members and they were testing them to carry out bombardments with drones that evening. The bombs fell on the soccer field where the children were playing,” he said. “Six of the children were critically injured. Some of them were hit in their faces and eyes. Some had to have their limbs amputated.”
The children who are critically injured are being treated at Kale city’s military hospital, while the remaining seven are being treated at Kale General Hospital in the township’s capital, he added. All victims are between the ages of eight and 15 years old, but identifying information is not known at this time.
The junta’s Ministry of Information released a statement on Tuesday saying that the accident was fake news, reporting that the blasts in Aung Myin Thar village were due to landmines planted by terrorists.
RFA contacted Sagaing region’s junta spokesperson Sai Naing Naing Kyaw for more details, but did not receive an answer.
According to data compiled by RFA, 1,429 civilians have been killed and 2,641 were injured by junta airstrikes and heavy artillery from the Feb. 1, 2021 coup until Jan. 31, 2024..."
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"Radio Free Asia" (USA)
Date of publication:
2024-02-21
Date of entry/update:
2024-02-21
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Politics and Government - global and regional - general studies, strategies, theory, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians
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“UNICEF is appalled by the deaths of four school children and two teachers as the result of an air strike on two schools in Kayah state, eastern My
“The children who died were aged between 12 and 14. Many more were injured. More than 100 children were in school at the time of the strikes.
“UNICEF strongly condemns any strikes against schools and places of learning, which must always be safe spaces for children.
“Attacks against schools are a grave violation of children’s rights and international humanitarian law.”
Media contacts
Simon Ingram UNICEF Brussels Tel: +32 491 90 5118
Email: [email protected]
Sara Alhattab UNICEF New York Tel: +1 917 957 6536
Email: [email protected]..."
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UN Children's Fund (New York) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2024-02-07
Date of entry/update:
2024-02-07
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights and international relations
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"An airstrike by the Myanmar military on a school in Daw Si Ei village in Kayah State on 5 February left 4 children dead and 10 injured. The school teaches children aged 5-14 years of age. The air strike destroyed 90% of the school building.
On the International Day to Protect Education from Attack in 2023, the UN listed Myanmar among Ukraine and Burkina Faso as the three countries with the largest number of attacks against education..."
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European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Date of publication:
2024-02-06
Date of entry/update:
2024-02-06
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Education in Burma/Myanmar - general, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights and international relations
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"Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) says it will cooperate with Thai authorities to arrest a National League for Democracy (NLD) member accused of raping a Myanmar child in Thailand’s Mae Sot.
“We are working to open a case and issue an arrest warrant for the suspect,” NUG spokesman Nay Phone Latt told The Irrawaddy.
The suspect has been identified as U Aung Min, secretary of the executive committee of the NLD chapter in Yangon’s Twante Township. He is accused of raping the five-year-old daughter of a striking education officer who took refuge in Mae Sot after fleeing Myanmar for fear of junta reprisals.
Family members of the victim filed a complaint with the NUG against U Aung Min on May 2. The suspect remains at large.
Family members accuse him of sexually abusing the girl, citing her accounts. The accused, the family of the alleged victim and other families lived together in a rented compound in Mae Sot after fleeing Myanmar.
The alleged victim was examined by a striking nurse on May 1. The nurse said she found evidence of molestation and penetration. The mother asked for a sexual assault forensic examination at a Mae Sot hospital the following day but had not yet obtained the result when the complaint was filed with the NUG.
The NUG will cooperate with local police and law enforcement in line with international procedures to arrest and interrogate the suspect, said U Nay Phone Latt.
“We will inform Thai authorities about it. We don’t know yet how Thai authorities will respond,” he said.
The NUG’s Women, Youth and Children Affairs Ministry has relocated the victim and her mother and is providing counseling, according to the NUG.
NLD central executive committee member U Kyaw Htwe said: “I support taking legal action against him if he really committed [this crime]. The party will also take harsh disciplinary action against him. But if he is innocent, justice must be served for him too.”
The NUG said its court will also punish the suspect if he is found guilty, without providing details of what punishment would be imposed for the sexual abuse of a child.
Political activists say the NUG’s judicial system is not yet properly functional, and has been unable to handle the majority of previous allegations of crimes committed by resistance forces. Only when the NUG acts promptly and solves less complicated crimes like rape, will its justice system win the trust of Myanmar people, said activists.
A political activist said: “People have filed complaints with the NUG. But many complaints including [rights] violations by armed [resistance] groups have not yet been dealt with. Whenever a crime happens, the NUG will issue statements vowing punitive action. But I haven’t seen the NUG administer a fitting punishment in any case so far.”
The 2021 coup and violent junta crackdown triggered the civil disobedience movement that has seen a mass exodus of civil servants, politicians and political activists to neighboring countries. The majority have sought refuge in Thailand..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2023-05-10
Date of entry/update:
2023-05-10
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"Five million children in Myanmar need humanitarian assistance amid armed conflicts across the country, according to a report by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Jan. 30.
Three out of 10 children under 5 in Myanmar are stunted due to a lack of proper nutrition. This affects not only their physical growth but also their overall health and future. Moreover, 300,000 children in Myanmar are at risk of preventable diseases due to lack of vaccination, added the UN agency.
Over 1.5 million in Myanmar people have been displaced, with children forced to flee their homes and communities.
Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, Minister of Women, Youths and Children Affairs in the parallel National Unity Government, recently talked to The Irrawaddy about the plight of children displaced by fighting.
What kind of help do the five million children need in Myanmar? Health, education or nutrition, what is the priority?
Myanmar is already a poor country with lots of needs. And the government can’t deliver public services in full. The situation has become worse since (the coup in) February 2021, especially for children. According to the UN report, 5 million children are in dire need of support.
They are malnourished and they need to be vaccinated, and they also need schooling. And their lives are especially at risk because of junta raids.
According to the records of our ministry, over 300 children (under 18s) have been arrested. Nineteen children have been jailed, and 289 others were killed by the military. Therefore, the security of children and their rights are the most important requirement.
What does the future hold for children in a country where armed conflicts are escalating?
Their morale will be negatively affected, and so will their health. And their schooling will also be hampered. These are the very children who will lead the country one day. And it will be difficult for them to lead the country if they grow up deprived. [In this case,] the country can’t have a good future.
What must be done for children to get the assistance they need?
On my trips to Karen and Karenni (Kayah) states), I discovered many children in displacement camps. Civilian leaders open schools and provide food for them. But it is not enough. And there have been child casualties every day due to the regime’s deliberate attacks on displacement camps.
So we must stop the junta’s brutality if we are to protect the children. The first thing we must do is stop it from targeting schools and hospitals so as to provide mental security for children. Then we must provide them with access to health care services and education and also carry out programs for their development and leadership.
What will happen to them if they don’t get the assistance in time?
The international community should not ignore this problem. They must help to make sure assistance reaches those children. If it does not, millions of children are at risk of losing their lives. Even if they survive, they will be both mentally and physically deprived and the future of the country will not be good..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2023-02-20
Date of entry/update:
2023-02-20
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Politics and Government - global and regional - general studies, strategies, theory, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"A 12-year-old girl was killed and her brother injured in Myanmar regime shelling in Katha Township, Sagaing Region, on Thursday.
A junta base at Aung Myay Tharsi monastery opened fire on adjacent Kyaut Htone Gyi village although no clashes had been reported in the area.
The girl was killed instantly by a shell and her 13-year-old brother was injured in the hand and leg.
Angella of the Moe Tar People’s Defense Force told The Irrawaddy: “The junta targets civilians. Ground troops seize civilians as human shields and there is frequent shelling.”
She urged civilians to avoid regime forces where possible.
In late October, a 12-year-old girl in Katha Township was killed by regime artillery while another child was seriously injured.
Clashes have broken out around Moe Tar in Katha Township, according to resistance groups.
Regime troops reportedly torched Nan Sam village houses on Saturday morning after fighting with resistance groups.
“There were clashes for two days and 15 Nan Sam houses were burned,” Angella told The Irrawaddy.
Nam Sam had more than 200 houses and all the villagers have fled.
Katha Township borders Kachin State, where the Kachin Independence Army and its resistance allies are fighting the junta..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2023-01-28
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2023-01-28
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians
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အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာကလေးများနေ့နှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလ (၂၀) ရက်နေ့သည် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာကလေးများနေ့ ဖြစ်သကဲ့သို့ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံ သဘောတူစာချုပ် နှစ်ပတ်လည်နေ့လည်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ယနေ့ကျရောက်သော အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ကလေးများနေ့ကို ဂုဏ်ပြုသောအားဖြင့် ကမ္ဘာတဝှမ်း သက်ဆိုင်ရာ လူမျိုး၊ ဘာသာနှင့် ဓလေ့ထုံးစံများ ပါဝင်သည့် ပျော်ပွဲရွှင်ပွဲများ ကျင်းပပြီး ကလေးများပါဝင်ခွင့်နှင့် ပျော်ရွှင်ခွင့်ရအောင် နှစ်စဉ်ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ကြပါသည်။
၂။အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ကလေးများနေ့ ကျင်းပရခြင်း ၏ အဓိက ရည်ရွယ်ချက်မှာ ကလေးများအတွက် ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံသောနေရာ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရရှိခွင့်၊ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ခွင့်နှင့် ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်များ ရရှိအောင် ကလေးပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်သူများမှ မူဝါဒရေးဆွဲသူများအထိ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေး အတွက် ပိုမိုအလေးထားဆောင်ရွက်ပေးနိုင်ရေး အတွက် အသိပေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ် တစ်ခုအနေဖြင့်ပါ ရည်ရွယ်ပြီး ဆောင်ရွက်ကြပါသည်။
၃။ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လူမဆန်သော သတ်ဖြတ် ဖမ်းဆီးမှုများ၊ လေကြောင်းမှ ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ကြောင့် ကလေးသူငယ် ပေါင်း (၂၄၂) ဦးကျော် သေကြေပျက်စီးခဲ့ရပြီး ကလေး ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ ထိခိုက် နှစ်နာမှုများရှိနေပါသည်။
၄။ ကလေးငယ်ပေါင်း (၃၇၂) ဦး ကျော် ကို မတရား ဖမ်းဆီးထားပြီး ယနေ့အချိန်အထိ ကလေး (၃၀၃) ဦးခန့် မှာ ဆိုးရွားသော အချုပ်စခန်းများ၊ အကျဉ်းထောင်များတွင် ခက်ခဲကြမ်းတမ်းစွာ နေထိုင် ဖြတ်သန်းနေရလျက်ရှိသည်။
၅။ ယနေ့ကျရောက်သော ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထွေထွေညီလာခံ သဘောတူစာချုပ် နှစ်ပတ်လည်နေ့နှင့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ကလေးသူငယ်များနေ့တွင် ကလေးတိုင်းအတွက် မိသားစုနှင့် လုံခြုံစွာ နေထိုင်ခွင့်၊ ပျော်ရွှင်စွာ စာသင်ကြားခွင့်နှင့်အတူ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများ ပြန်လည်ရရှိစေရန်အတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအပါအဝင် ကလေးသူငယ် အရေး လုပ်ကိုင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေသူများအားလုံး တက်ညီလက်ညီဖြင့် ဝိုင်းဝန်းလုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်ရန် တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်အပ်ပါသည်။
၆။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ အမျိုးသမီး လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှနေ၍ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာကလေးများနေ့ ရည်မှန်းချက်နှင့်အညီ မိမိတို့ ကလေးသူငယ်များအတွက် လုံခြုံစိတ်ချခွင့်၊ ဖွံဖြိုးတိုးတက်ခွင့်၊ ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်နှင့် လွတ်လပ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ စာသင်ကြားခွင့်များ များမကြာမှီ ပြန်လည်ရရှိနိုင်ရန် ပြည်သူများအားလုံး နှင့် အတူ အထူးကြိုးပမ်းလုပ်ဆောင်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ကြော်ငြာအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights
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2022-11-20
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2022-11-20
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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့နယ် ဂြိတ်ချောင်းကျေးရွာတွင်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်မှ ပစ်ခတ်သည့် လက်နက်ကြီးများကျရောက်လာမှုကြောင့် ကလေးငယ်များနှင့် ရွာသားများသေဆုံးမှုအပေါ် ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလ (၁၆) ရက်နေ့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ ကြိမ်ချောင်း (၂၄) ဂိတ်၊ နခခ (၇) တည်ရှိသည့် နေရာမှ ပစ်ခတ်လိုက်သည့် လက်နက်ကြီးကျည်ထိမှန်၍ မောင်တောမြို့နယ် ဂြိတ်ချောင်း ကျေးရွာတွင် ကလေးသူငယ် (၄) ဦး၊ အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၁၁) ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီး (၂၇) ဦးထိခိုက် ဒဏ်ရာရရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။
၂။ အလားတူ ကျောက်တော်မြို့နယ် ချောင်းတူ ကျေးရွာတွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ လက်နက်ကြီး ပစ်ခတ်ခဲ့မှုကြောင့် အမျိုးသမီး (၂) ဦး ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရပြီး အမျိုးသား (၄) ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထိုနေ့ တရက်ထဲ၌ပင် ကလေးငယ် (၄) ဦးအပါအဝင် အရပ်သားပြည်သူ (၁၅)ဦး၊ စုစုပေါင်း (၁၉) ဦးသေဆုံးပြီး ဒဏ်ရာရသူ (၂၉) ဦးရှိပါသည်။
၃။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောအပါအဝင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံအပြားတွင် လက်နက်ကြီးဖြင့် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုလုပ်ရပ်သည် စစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် ကလေး သူငယ်များနှင့် အရပ်သားများအပေါ် လက်နက်ကိုင် ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်း လူသားချင်းစာနာမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပြစ်မှုကို ဖောက်ဖျက်ကျူးလွန်ခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ယခုအကြမ်းဖက်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုသည် ဂျီနီဗာကွန်ဗန်းရှင်း သဘောတူညီချက်များကို ကျူးလွန် ချိုးဖောက်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။
၄။ UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/54/263 အရ လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခ အခြေအနေ များတွင် ကလေးငယ်များအား ပစ်မှတ်ထားတိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေအရ အကာအကွယ်ပေးထားသော အရာများကိုတိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းများကို ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့် အာဆီယံအပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတကာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများမှ အားလုံးပူးပေါင်းပြီး ရှုံ့ချရန်နှင့်အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီအား လက်နက်များ ဖြန့်ဖြူးရောင်းချပြုလုပ်လျက်ရှိသည့် ကုမ္ပဏီများကို ပိတ်ဆို့ အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်နိုင် ရန်အလေးအနက်ထားပြီး တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။
၅။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို မျက်ကွယ်ပြုခြင်းသည် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်ကျူးလွန်ရန် အားပေးရာရောက်သည်ဖြစ်၍အားပေးထောက်ခံသည့် အပြုအမူမှန်သမျှကို မပြုလုပ်ကြရန် မိမိတို့အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာကို အလေးအနက်တောင်းဆိုသည်။ ထို့ပြင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက ကျူးလွန်နေသည့် နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ အမြန်ဆုံး ရပ်တန့်ရန်နှင့် တရားမျှတမှုဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ နှင့်အတူ တကွ အရေးတကြီး ပံ့ပိုးဆောင်ရွက်ပေးကြပါရန် တိုက်တွန်း တောင်းဆိုအပ်ပါသည်။
၆။ အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့သည် သက်ဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနများနှင့် ပူးပေါင်း၍ ယခုကဲ့သို့သော ကြီးလေးသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို မှတ်တမ်းရယူသကဲ့သို့ လူအခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်ခံရမှုအား ကာကွယ်ရေး၊ ပြန်လည်ကုစားရေးနှင့် တရားမျှတမှု ရှာဖွေရေး၊ ကျူးလွန်သူများအား တရားဥပဒေနည်းလမ်းတကျ အပြစ်ပေး အရေးယူနိုင်ရေးကို တစိုက်မတ်မတ် ဆက်လက် ဆောင်ရွက် သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2022-11-20
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2022-11-20
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"Two six-year-old boys in Chin State and one 14-year-old girl in Rakhine State have been killed by Myanmar junta shells, according to residents.
Regime troops based at a hill in Yay Soe Chaung village in Rathedaung Township, Rakhine State, shelled Pyain Taw village yesterday morning and Ma Nyein Nyein San, 14, was killed at her house, residents said.
A villager said four shells were fired at the village although there had been no fighting nearby.
“Three shells landed outside the village. The frightened villagers ran from their houses, including the girl. The last shell killed her,” he said.
Pyain Taw villagers said Arakan Army (AA) troops were closing routes to the Yay Soe Chaung outpost, prompting troops to fire shells at random every day.
Villagers were not able to hold a funeral for Ma Nyein Nyein San because they fear more shelling if junta troops see a crowd in the village, said residents.
A shell also hit Bon Lun village in Hakha Township, Chin State, on Wednesday afternoon.
James Siang Za Uk and Henry Bawi Za Lian, both six, were coming home from school when they were killed by a shell and a six-year-old girl was injured, according to a village pastor.
“The injured child is in Hakha hospital in critical condition. There was no fighting and no armed groups around the village,” the pastor told The Irrawaddy.
Fighting with the AA is escalating in Rakhine State and regime troops in Minbya Township in the state were reportedly continuously shelling villages this week..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2022-10-20
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2022-10-20
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"On this International Day of the Girl Child, we bring your attention to the difficulties faced by girls in Kawthoolei (Karen State, Southeast Burma). Obstacles to growing up in peace, to securing food, to obtaining education, to accessing healthcare, and to attaining justice. The challenge for girls in Burma to remain children; sheltered in a safe environment where they can develop in a wholesome manner. On this 11th October, the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO) and the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) call the international community to take concrete action to end violence in Burma, which is harming all girl children in the country.
Violations of girls’ rights
Since the 2021 military coup, over 350,000 people have been displaced by the violence and military attacks committed by the State Administrative Council (SAC; or Burma Army) in Kawthoolei. Displacement disproportionately impacts women and children: almost half of all displaced people are children and half of those are girls. Both KHRG and KWO have received numerous reports of women fleeing while pregnant, or right after giving birth. While displaced, people must live in very poor conditions, moving suddenly and often, escaping SAC soldiers and their weapons, constantly at risk of injury or death from landmines, air strikes, and artillery shelling. There is little access to clean water and food, to education, sanitary facilities, and health services, including maternal and paediatric health care.[1]
Women and girls who remain in their villages are also particularly vulnerable to threats and attacks from Burma Army soldiers since many local men are forced to flee to escape systematic arrest and torture by the junta. In one case reported to KHRG, SAC soldiers tortured the wife and child of a villager in order to obtain information about his whereabouts following a nearby bomb explosion.[2] Gross human rights violations are being committed by the military junta against girls in Burma, including forced labour, use of human shields, air strikes and shelling, trafficking in human beings, and sexual violence. Girls’ basic rights are being violated in Karen State every minute of every day, including today.
Protection challenges and justice
Under previous military regimes, violence against women and girls (VAWG), including sexual violence and gang rape, committed by Burma Army soldiers was taking place on a wide scale, particularly in conjunction with forced portering.[3] These military leaders and soldiers enjoyed total impunity for their crimes, and still do to this day. Lack of jurisdiction over Burma Army personnel by the civilian justice systems remains one of the biggest challenges in combatting sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the country. Since the 2021 military coup, villagers in Karen State have reported sending young women and girls to hiding sites to protect them whenever the Burma military enters their village or sets up nearby camps.[4]
Crimes of sexual nature committed by the Burma Army soldiers do not get reported, as impunity prevails. Since the coup, SGBV crimes reported in Karen areas are those perpetrated by community and family members, which are prosecuted through local community procedures which are still functioning, albeit with even fewer resources and less security. The current situation of conflict hinders the legislation and justice mechanisms in place, that already fell short of ensuring adequate protection for survivors. Stigma placed by the community on survivors of SGBV diminish reporting, justice-seeking processes, and the welfare of women and girls. Girl victims of sexual violence do not expect to get justice; it is not something we can celebrate today.
Call to action
In the current situation in the country, girls in Southeast Burma are increasingly exposed to violence and insecurity. KWO and KHRG urge the international community to:
Put pressure on the military junta and its army to stop killing and injuring children, and eradicate all violence against girl children. Stop selling weapons, ammunition, aircrafts, and jet fuel to the military junta, and sanction those companies and individuals responsible for arms deals. Make violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, a stand-alone designation criterion for sanctions where possible, and include it as a criterion in more sanction regimes. Direct funding earmarked for protection services for victims of SGBV and other forms of violence to local existing CSO/CBOs (in Burma and neighbouring countries) already operating on the ground so that they can expand and develop support programmes and services, including child protection services. Prioritise and strengthen methods of humanitarian aid delivery that are cross border and organised by local CSO/CBOs and ethnic service providers that have the networks for local implementation of support programmes. Do not act in any way to legitimise the SAC. Do not collaborate with the SAC to implement any development or humanitarian programs. Take immediate action to bring military leaders in Burma who permitted and perpetuated systematic and widespread child abuse, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) to justice in international courts and tribunals..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group
Date of publication:
2022-10-11
Date of entry/update:
2022-10-11
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"ယနေ့ကျရောက်သော နိုင်ငံတကာမိန်းကလေးများနေ့တွင် မြန်မာပြည်အရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်းရှိ အမျိုသမီး ငယ်လေးများ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသော အခက်အခဲများကို မီးမောင်းထိုးပြလိုပါသည်။ ၎င်းတို့အတွက် ငြိမ်း ချမ်းစွာ အသက်ရှင်နေထိုင်နိုင်ရန်၊ အစားအစာလုံလောက်ရန်၊ ပညာသင်ယူခွင့် ရရှိရန်၊ ကျန်းမာရေး လက်လှမ်းမီနိုင်ရန် နှင့် တရားမျှတမှုရရှိရန် အခက်အခဲများစွာ ရှိပါသည်။ ၎င်းတို့မှ ကလေးသူငယ် များကဲ့သို့ အသက်ရှင်ပြီး လုံခြုံသည့်ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်တွင်ကြီးထွားလာရန် အခက်အခဲများစွာရှိနေပါ သည်။ ယနေ့ အောက်တိုဘာလ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကျရောက်သော နိုင်ငံတကာ မိန်းကလေးများနေ့တွင် ကရင်လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအဖွဲ့နှင့် ကရင်အမျိုးသမီးအစည်းအရုံးတို့မှ မိန်းကလေးများအား အကြပ်အ တည်းထဲသို့ တွန်းပို့စေသည့် မြန်မာပြည်အတွင်းဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသော အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကိုရပ်တန့်နိုင်ရန် အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား လုပ်ဆောင်သင့်သည့် အရာများကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ရန် တိုက်တွန်းလိုပါသည်။
မိန်းကလေးများအပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း စစ်ကောင်စီ၏အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများနှင့် ထိုးစစ်ဆင်မှုများ ကြောင့် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ရသူ ၃၅၀၀၀၀ ကျော်ရှိလာသည်။ အမျိုးသမီး များသည် နေရပ်ရွှေ့ပြောင်းနေထိုင်ရမှုများကို မတူကွဲပြားစွာ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရပြီး ထွက်ပြေး တိမ်းရှောင် နေရသူထက်ဝက်သည် ကလေးသူငယ်များဖြစ်နေပါသည်။ ထိုကလေးငယ်များ ထက်ဝက် သည် မိန်းကလေးများဖြစ်ကြသည်။ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရသူများသည် ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာ ရရှိမှု၊ မြေမြှုပ် မိုင်းပေါက်ကွဲမှု၊ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုနှင့် လက်နက်ကြီး အန္တရာယ်များကို ရင်ဆိုင်ကြရသည်။ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်နေရချိန်တွင်လည်း ဆင်းရဲကြမ်းတမ်းမှုများအတွင်း နေထိုင်ကြရပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီ စစ်သားများနှင့် ၎င်းတို့၏ ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကို ရှောင်ရှားရန် မကြာခဏနှင့် အလျှင်အမြန်ရှောင် တိမ်း ကြရသည်။ ၎င်းတို့သည် သောက်ရေသန့်၊ အစားအစာ၊ ပညာရေး၊ ရေဆိုးစနစ်နှင့် မိခင်နှင့်က လေးကျန်းမာရေး ကဲ့သို့သော ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှု စသည်များကို လက်လှမ်းမီနိုင်ခြင်း မရှိကြ ပါ။[1]
စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ဖမ်းဆီးမှုနှင့် ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုများကို အမျိုးသားများမှ ရှောင်ရှားနေချိန်တွင် ကျေး ရွာများအတွင်း ရှိနေသေးသော အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် မိန်းကလေးငယ်များသည် စစ်ကောင်စီ စစ်သား များ၏ ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုနှင့် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုအန္တရာယ်များကို ရင်ဆိုင်ကြရသည်။ ကရင်လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အဖွဲ၏ အစီရင်ခံစာတစ်ခုထဲတွင် ဗုံးပေါက်ကွဲမှုဖြစ်ပွားပြီးနောက် သံသယရှိသူ အမျိုးသား၏ အ ကြောင်းကိုသိရှိရန် စစ်ကောင်စီစစ်သားများမှ ထိုအမျိုးသား၏ ဇနီးနှင့် ကလေးကို ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက် ခဲ့ပါသည်။[2] မြန်မာပြည်အတွင်း မိန်းကလေးများအပေါ် အဓ္ဓမခိုင်းစေမှု၊ လူသားဒိုင်း အဖြစ်အသုံးပြုမှု၊ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုနှင့် လက်နက်ကြီးပစ်ခတ်မှု၊ လူကုန်ကူးမှု၊နှင့် လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်မှု စသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှု အများကို စစ်ကောင်စီမှ ချိုးဖောက်နေပါသည်။ ကရင်ပြည်နယ် အတွင်းတွင် မိန်းကလေးငယ်များ၏ အခွင့်အရေးများသည် နေ့စဉ်နှင့်အမျှ ချိုးဖောက်ခံနေရပါသည်။
အကာအကွယ်ရရှိမှုဆိုင်ရာ စိန်ခေါ်မှုများနှင့် တရားမျှတမှု
လွန်ခဲ့သည့်စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်မှုများ အောက်တွင် အထူးသဖြင့် ပေါ်တာထမ်းခိုင်းမှုများနှင့်ဆက်စပ်ပြီး စစ် သားများသည် အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် မိန်းကလေးများအပေါ် လိင်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ၊ အုပ်စုလိုက် မုဒိန်း ကျင့်မှုများကို ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့်ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ထိုကျူးလွန်သူစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များနှင့် စစ် သားများသည် ၎င်းတို့ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သောပြစ်မှုများအတွက် ပြစ်ဒဏ်ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့် အပြည့်အဝ ရရှိခဲ့ကြ သည်။ မြန်မာပြည်၏ အရပ်သားတရားရေးစနစ်မှ စစ်တပ်အပေါ် လွမ်းမိုးနိုင်မှုမရှိခြင်းသည် ကျား၊မ အခြေပြု အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို ကာကွယ်တားဆီးရန် အဓိကစိန်ခေါ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်cခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၂၁ခုနှစ် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုဖြစ်စဉ် ပြီးနောက်ပိုင်းတွင် ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းရှိရွာသားများသည် စစ်ကောင်စီ စစ်သားများ ရွာအတွင်း သို့မဟုတ် ရွာအနီးတွင်စခန်းချသောအခါ အမျိုးသမီးငယ်များကို ပုန်းခိုသည့် နေရာများသို့ပို့ ဆောင်ကြကြောင်းတင်ပြခဲ့ကြပါသည်။
စစ်ကောင်စီစစ်သားများကျူးလွန်သော လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့်ဆက်စပ်သည့် ပြစ်မှုများသည် ပြစ်ဒဏ် ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့် အလေ့အထ ရှိနေသောကြောင့် ကျူးလွန်ခံရသူများအနေဖြင့် တိုင်ကြားခြင်းမပြုကြပါ။ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းကတည်းက ကရင်ဒေသအတွင်း တိုင်ကြားခဲ့ကြသော ကျား၊မ အခြေပြုလိင်အကြမ်း ဖက်မှုများသည် လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအတွင်းနှင့် မိသားစုဝင်များ ကျူးလွန်သော ပြစ်မှုများသာ ဖြစ်ကြ သည်။ ဒေသတွင်းရှိနေသော တရားရေးစနစ်များသည် အရင်းအမြစ်နှင့် လုံခြုံရေး အားနည်းသော် လည်း ထိုပြစ်မှုများကို ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းပေးနေကြရသည်။ ယခုဖြစ်ပွားနေသော ပဋိပက္ခများသည် ဥပဒေပြုရေးနှင့် တရားမျှတမှုယန္တရားများကို နှောင့်နှေးစေပါသည်။ လူမှုအသိုက်အဝန်းမှ လိင်အ ကြမ်းဖက်မှု ကျူးလွန်ခံရသူများအား အပြစ်တင်ဝေဖန်မှုပြုခြင်းသည်လည်း လိင်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် တိုင်ကြားမှု၊ တရားမျှတမှုဆိုင်ရာ ရှာဖွေရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များနှင့် ကျူးလွန်ခံရသူများ၏ ကိုယ်စိတ်ကျန်းမာရေး နှင့်လုံခြုံရေးများကို ထိခိုက်စေပါသည်။ လိင်အကြမ်းဖက်မှု ကျူးလွန်ခံရသည့် မိန်းကလေးငယ်များသည် ယခုလက်ရှိအချိန်တွင် တရားမျှတမှုရရှိရန် မျှော်လင့်ချက် နည်းနေသေး သောကြောင့် ဤနေ့သည်ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အတွက် လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းအဖက်မှုအတွက် တရားမျှတမှု ရရှိနိုင်သည့်နေ့တစ်နေ့မဟုတ်သေးပါ။
လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်ဖိတ်ခေါ်ခြင်း
မြန်မာပြည်၏လက်ရှိအခြေအနေတွင် မြန်မာပြည်အရှေ့တောင်ပိုင်းရှိ မိန်းကလေးငယ်များသည် အ ကြမ်းဖက်မှုနှင့် မလုံခြုံမှုများကိုပို၍ ရင်ဆိုင်လာရပါသည်။ ကရင်အမျိုးသမီးအစည်းအရုံးနှင့် ကရင်လူ့ အခွင့်အရေးအဖွဲ့တို့မှ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကိုအောက်ပါအတိုင်းတိုက်တွန်းလိုပါသည်။
မိန်းကလေးများကို သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းများ၊ ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရစေခြင်းများနှင့် မိန်းကလေးများ အ ပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ ရပ်တန့်သွားစေရန် စစ်ကောင်စီအပေါ် ဖိအားများ ပေးရန်။ စစ်ကောင်စီအား စစ်လက်နက်၊ လက်နက်ခဲယမ်းများ၊ လေယဉ်များနှင့် လေယဉ်ဆီများ ရောင်းချခြင်းများကို ရပ်တန့်ပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီအား လက်နက်ရောင်းချရာတွင်ပါဝင်သည့် ကုမ္ပဏီများနှင့် လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များကို စီးပွားရေးပိတ်ဆို့မှုများ ပြုလုပ်ရန်။ လိင်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုအပါအဝင် အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် မိန်းကလေးငယ်များအပေါ်ကျူးလွန်သည့် အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကို ဖြစ်နိုင်လျှင် ပိတ်ဆို့အရေးယူမှုအတွက် သတ်မှတ်ချက်တစ်ခုအဖြစ် ထားရှိပြီး နောက်ထပ်ပြုလုပ်မည့် ပိတ်ဆို့အရေးယူမှုများတွင်ထည့်သွင်းသွားရန်။ ကျား၊မ အခြေပြုလိ င်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုကျူးလွန်ခံရသူများအား အကာအကွယ်ပေး နိုင်ရန်အ တွက် ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့မှုများထားရှိပြီး မြေပြင်တွင်လှုပ်ရှားလုပ်ကိုင်နေသော အရပ်ဖက်နှင့် လူထုအခြေပြုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများသို့ ထောက်ပံ့မှုများအားတိုက်ရိုက်ပေးသွားရန်။ သို့မှသာလျှင် ၎င်းတို့မှ ကလေးသူငယ်များအတွက် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေး ဝန်ဆောင်မှုအပါအဝင် ထောက် ပံ့မှုအစီအစဉ်များနှင့် ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများကို ချဲ့ထွင်လုပ်ဆောင် နိုင်မည်။ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုများပေးဆောင်ရာတွင် ဒေသခံများနှင့်ပုံမှန်ထိတွေ့မှုရှိပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏ ယုံကြည်မှုကို ရရှိထားသော စွမ်းရည်နှင့်ကွန်ယက်ရှိပြီးသား ဒေသခံ CSO/CBO များနှင့် ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေး သည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားအဖွဲ့အစည်းများကို ဦးစားပေးရန်နှင့် ထိုအစုအဖွဲ့များ၏ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေး သည့် နည်းလမ်းများကို အားဖြည့်လုပ်ဆောင်ပေးရန်။ စစ်ကောင်စီကို အသိအမှတ်ပြုစေမည့်အရာများကို မပြုလုပ်ရန်။ စစ်ကောင်စီနှင့်ပူးပေါင်းပြီး မည့်သည့်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုလုပ်ငန်းများကို မပြုလုပ်ရ။ ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ် ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုများနှင့် ကျား၊မအခြေပြု လိင်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ အား ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး စနစ်တကျကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သော စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်များကို နိုင်ငံတကာ ခုံရုံးများတွင် အရေးယူလုပ်ဆောင်မှုများ ချက်ချင်းလုပ်ဆောင်ရန်။..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group
Date of publication:
2022-10-11
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2022-10-11
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"[Warning Graphic] ...
According to local news media, on the morning of the 23 May 2022, while families were having breakfast, the military attacked M’dat (မဒပ်) village with artillery shells. A 10-year-old boy and his mother were seriously injured. The child was reportedly in a critical condition, and lost a limb...News sources claimed that the military base of the 274th Light Infantry Battalion in Mindat Town (မင်းတပ်), Mindat Township (မင်းတပ်မိနယ်) was responsible for firing heavy artillery shells at civilian areas that morning...
Myanmar Witness collected and analysed open-source footage relating to the incident and made the following conclusions:
1. Myanmar Witness was not able to fully verify the footage of the injured child as being taken in M’dat village. However, possible locations in M’dat village and Mindat Township which are consistent with footage of where a heavily wounded child was taken for medical care were identified...2. There was no verifiable footage of the attack itself to verify how the child’s wounds were incurred, but Myanmar Witness was able to verify the location at which the child was allegedly hit, with what appears to be blood stains on the wall and floor outside of a structure claimed to be the child's home...3. Footage of ammunition reportedly found in M’dat village after the attack are consistent with locally produced 120mm mortar rounds known to be used by the Myanmar military...4. Myanmar Witness verified the presence of a military base within firing range of the village and identified a mortar present at the base, although it was not possible to verify whether it was a model capable of firing these particular rounds...This incident is one of many monitored and analysed by Myanmar Witness, which documents alleged indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas since the coup. Attacks on villages like this are of particular concern as many villages do not have sufficient medical facilities.
To read the full report and gain an insight into the techniques used by OSINT investigators, download the full report..."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Witness
Date of publication:
2022-09-27
Date of entry/update:
2022-09-27
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Politics and Government - global and regional - general studies, strategies, theory, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, Military History
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"The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar is collecting evidence concerning the recent sustained attack on a school located in Let Yet Kone village, Sagaing Region, to assess criminal responsibility. At least 12 people are reported to have been killed, including several children.
Multiple reports indicate that the school, located in the compound of a monastery, came under attack by Tatmadaw forces for several hours on 16 September – first from helicopters firing rockets and machine-guns, followed by an infantry attack.
Armed attacks that target civilians are prohibited by international laws of war and can be punished as war crimes or crimes against humanity.
Tatmadaw spokesperson, Major General Zaw Min Htun, has claimed that the attack on Let Yet Kone did not target civilians but rather Kachin Independence Army and People’s Defence Force soldiers thought to be present at the school. However, even if this was the case and the armed attack had a military objective, it is prohibited according to the laws of war if it is expected to result in civilian injuries or deaths that are excessive in relation to the expected direct military advantage achieved by the attack.
Commanders who decide to launch a military attack in proximity to civilians have three specific obligations under international law. They must do everything possible to verify the existence of the military objectives; take all practicable precautions in the choice of methods and means of warfare to avoid or minimize harm to civilians; and must not launch attacks which may be expected to cause disproportionate civilian casualties or civilian property damage.
Commanders who intentionally or recklessly disregard these obligations in ordering or launching an attack may be criminally liable, as would be any soldiers or pilots who follow orders to carry out what they must know, given the circumstances, to be a disproportionate attack.
Schools are places where civilians – including children – are typically present in large numbers. Commanders must therefore take special care to confirm the existence and nature of any possible military target, assess the number of civilians in the area, and adopt means and methods to minimize the risk of harm to them.
Information on how to communicate securely with the Mechanism about this or other serious international crimes that may have been committed in Myanmar can be found at iimm.un.org/contact-us/. Please avoid taking unnecessary risks that may compromise safety, and only communicate with us via secure channels.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM or Mechanism) was created by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018 to collect and analyse evidence of the most serious international crimes and other violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011. It aims to facilitate justice and accountability by preserving and organizing this evidence and preparing case files for use in future prosecutions of those responsible in national, regional and international courts..."
Source/publisher:
Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
Date of publication:
2022-09-27
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2022-09-27
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Education rights: reports of violations in Burma, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"On 16th September at around 1 pm, the terrorist military used its MI35 helicopter and Light Infantry 368 to fire upon a school within the grounds of a monastery in Lat Yat Kone Village in Depayin Township, Sagaing Region.The Attack lasted for about an hour. The army refused to hand over the bodies of six children who were killed and instead carried them away in jute bags. In addition, another child died later in Ye-Oo Hospital.
Six innocent civilians also died in the incident whose bodies were handed over the families. In total thirteen innocent civilians died, including seven children. Another twenty-one civilians, including school children, teachers, were taken away as ransom. Junta forces then torched the homes and buildings including animals in Lat Yat Kone Village and continued with the armed assault on nearby settlements. In so doing eighteen civilians from Nyaung Hla, Thit Tone, Moo Sone, Moo Khan, Nyaungyi Kone, Innpin and Lat Yat Kone villages within Depayin Township were injured. This has resulted in the eastern part of Depayin Township sinking into a renewed state of emergency, forcing tens of thousands of villagers to abandon this area of conflict.
Data from National Unity Government’s Ministry of Women, Youth & Children’s Affairs has shown that from the start of the coup d’etat on 1st February 2021 to date, the terrorist military council has killed 234 youths under 18 years of age, 363 youths have been illegally detained.
Since it illegally stole power, in a period of just over a year, the terrorist military council is found to have committed the following mass slaughter according to the available data souces.
• In July 2021, 40 people were killed in Taung Paut Village, Kyat Chaung Taw Taight village, Yin village, Kone Thar village in Kani Township, Sagaing Region.
• On December 7, 2021, 10 local people, including four children between the ages of 14 and 17, were killed in DonTaw Village, Sar Lingyi Township.
• On December 24, 2021, 49 people, including a child and two employees of Save the Children, were burned to death in Moso Village, Phruso Township
• On January 6, 2022, 11 people, including a journalist and a child, were abducted and killed in Mutupi Township, Chin State.
• On April 19, 2022, 9 men were burned to death Southern in the village of Peyin Taung, Southern Shan State
• On May 12, 2022, 28 people were burned to death in Mon Tine Pin Village, Ye U Township.
The National Unity Government has been systematically recording and gathering the evidence of every atrocious act that the terrorist military council has been committing, identifying those who have lost their lives and has been reporting this to international legal organisations and professional bodies in order to bring justice for victims in the future.
The relevant ministries of the National Unity Government have also been assuring the welfare of the families of those killed and the safety and security of eyewitnesses involved in these incidents. The NUG is in the process of urgently planning and drawing up a legal treatise so that those who were responsible and who took part in these brazen atrocious acts and killings face appropriate legal penalty and punishment its convicted. The NUG with its allies, the Ethnic Communities, together are urgently drawing up legal processes so that those who have broken the law and committed crimes can be issued with warrants, arrested, and brought before the courts of law in liberated areas.
The United Nations and the international community are urged to take prompt, effective and serious measures regarding Myanmar to stop the brutality of the terrorist military led by Min Aung Hlaing, which is threatening peace, democracy and the human rights of every human race around the world..."
Source/publisher:
National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2022-09-26
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2022-09-26
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"1. The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) is deeply saddened by the
death of at least (13) civilians, including (7) children, on September 16 as a
result of the heinous air and ground attacks and killings by the militaryjunta
on residents of a self-supporting school in Let Yet Kone village in Depayin
township in Sagaing region. In addition, approximately (20) injured students
and teachers have been arbitrarily arrested.
2. Children are the country's future; it is completely unacceptable that
the military terrorist group is killing, torturing, and arresting our children in
cold blood for their own benefit This is not the first time the military junta
committed atrocities. The military junta is an inhumane and ferocious
mercenary army that has targeted and murdered all religions and ethnicities
that opposed them, including children, s ince Myanmar gained independence,
through more than (70) years of civil war.
3. This is because the law grants them total impunity from all the injustices
they have committed.
4. Therefore, the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) would like to make
the following request to the entire public and all the revolutionary forces:
(a) The entire public should rise up and continue to resist where it is able to
in order to prevent the injustices from continuing.
(b) With the common aim of achieving a Myanmar free from military
dictatorship, revolutionary forces should maintain its strong unity and
continue resisting together in the revolution.
(c) The international community should support the process of seeking
accountability of the military junta that has blatantly violated
international humanitarian law; it should bring justice for victims
through international legal mechanisms and help end impunity.
(d) Enforce a comprehensive arms embargo, including on the supply of jet
fuel.
(e) The international community should provide humanitarian aid.
5. The National Unity Consultative Council is deeply Condemned this brutal
attack and will continue in its efforts to ensure that all the above-mentioned
actions are implemented..."
Source/publisher:
National Unity Consultative Council
Date of publication:
2022-09-23
Date of entry/update:
2022-09-23
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National Unity Consultative Council
Date of publication:
2022-09-23
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2022-09-23
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"Eleven children were killed in junta air strikes in Let Yet Kone Village in Tabayin Township, Sagaing Region on Friday, after which junta soldiers cremated most of their bodies in Ye-U, about 11 km away, in an attempt to remove any trace of the killings, according to local sources.
Two regime Mi-35 helicopters attacked a monastic school in Let Yet Kone Village at 1 p.m. on Friday. Seven children were killed immediately, and 17 other people—three teachers and 14 students—were injured. Two more children died when ground troops raided the village.
Regime forces took the bodies of the seven children who were killed in the initial airstrike, and those who were injured, to a traditional medicine hospital in Ye-U overnight, and cremated their bodies at Ye-U cemetery the following day. They cremated two more bodies at the cemetery around 4 p.m. that day. Locals suggested those two might have been among the students taken for medical treatment at Ye-U traditional medicine hospital.
“Some of the children taken with the vehicle had their lower body parts or limbs severed. A [dismembered] child was wrapped and put in a bamboo basket [used as backpacks by Myanmar military troops]. There were pools of blood inside the school. Pieces of flesh were scattered all over the place, on fans, on the walls and on the ceiling,” said a villager who went to see the monastic school after the air strikes.
Another resident of Let Yet Kone said: “Parents of two children came to search for their children, but all that was left was the clothes of their children. The junta soldiers did not leave a single body part, so parents could not hold funerals.”
The bodies of four boys and two girls, along with a sack of body parts believed to be those of another victim, were cremated at Ye-U cemetery at around 6 a.m. on Saturday, and two more boys were cremated at 4 p.m., according to the Ye-U Township People’s Defense Force (PDF).
Junta troops forced a Let Yet Kone villager to drive the three injured teachers and 14 injured children as well as the bodies of the dead children to Ye-U on Friday evening.
A Ye-U resident who is familiar with the matter said: “The regime forces returned to Ye-U, carrying both the dead and injured children in a vehicle that they forcibly took from Let Yet Kone. The driver thought the bodies were of soldiers. He was shocked when he opened the sacks and found children.”
The injured people are being kept at the traditional medicine hospital in Ye-U, where junta troops have made their base in the town. Some children were seriously injured and had lost limbs.
It is not clear which battalions are responsible for the killings, but local resistance groups believe they belong to Light Infantry Battalion 701 based in Yangon’s Hmawbi, which is under Yangon Command, and Division 33 based in Sagaing.
Apart from the young children, seven other villagers including two teenagers aged 13 and 16 were killed. The five other victims included a woman and were aged 22, 31, 34, 37 and 49.
Junta troops carried out the air raid alleging that resistance fighters were at the village monastery, residents said.
The junta’s Myawady TV said in a newscast on Saturday, “The Myanmar military made checks in response to a tip-off that the Kachin Independence Army [KIA] and PDFs were planning to transport weapons via Let Yet Kone, and the village monastery was a hideout for National League for Democracy supporters and PDF members who extort money from locals and travelers.”
It added: “Civilians were killed as the KIA and PDFs used them as human shields in the exchange of fire.” However, local residents said it was a one-sided attack by junta soldiers.
Similar incidents involving child casualties occurred on Thursday and Saturday. Two displaced sisters aged 7 and 12 taking shelter at a monastery in Moebye on the Shan-Kayah border were killed in a junta artillery strike on the monastery on Thursday.
A 5-year-old boy was shot dead by junta soldiers in Kantbalu Township in Sagaing Region on Saturday..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2022-09-19
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2022-09-19
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"1.On September 16, 2022, six children were killed and many were injured because of a military terrorist airstrike on a self-supporting school of local residents in Lat Yat Kone village, Tabayin township, Sagaing region.
2.Following the airstrike, ground troops of military terrorist arrested approximately 20 students and teachers who were trapped in the school, including the injured children, and sent them to Ye Oo township.
3.Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs of the National Unity Government strongly condemn the targeted attacks on the schools, which is an inhuman and brutal war crime. The arrested children and teachers need to be released without any harms.
4.The National Unity Government has been meticulously documenting the serious human rights violations and maintaining its consistent effort to bring justice in various ways.
5.The international community has responsibility to support the effort of bringing justice for war crimes, such as gross violations of children's "Right to Education" and heinous targeted attacks on schools..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2022-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2022-09-18
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ဒီပဲယင်းမြို့နယ်၊ လက်ယက်ကုန်းကျေးရွာတွင် ဒေသခံများ ဖွင့်လှစ်ထားသော ကိုယ်ထူကိုယ်ထ စာသင်ကျောင်းတစ်ကျောင်းကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက လေကြောင်းမှ တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရာ ပညာသင်ကြားနေသည့် ကလေးသူငယ် ၆ ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီး၊ ကလေးသူငယ်အများအပြား အပြင်းအထန် ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရခဲ့သည်။
၂။ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်ပြီးနောက်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စု၏ မြေပြင်တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များသည် ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရခဲ့ကြသည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များအပါအဝင် ကျောင်းတွင်ပိတ်မိနေသော ကျောင်းသား/ကျောင်းသူများနှင့် ဆရာ/ဆရာမ ၂၀ ဦးခန့်ကို ဖမ်းဆီး၍ ရေဦးမြို့နယ်သို့ ပို့ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်ဟု သိရှိရပါသည်။
၃။ စာသင်ကျောင်းများကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားတိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်းသည် လူမဆန်သည့်၊ ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုကျူးလွန်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနများမှ အပြင်းအထန် ရှုတ်ချသည်။ ဖမ်းဆီးထားသည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များနှင့် ဆရာ/ဆရာမများကို မည်သည့်အန္တရာယ်မှ ကျရောက်စေခြင်းမရှိပဲ အမြန်ဆုံးပြန်လွှတ်ရန် လိုအပ်သည်။
၄။ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် ဆိုးရွားသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို အသေးစိတ်မှတ်တမ်းတင်လျက် တရားမျှတမှုကို နည်းလမ်းအမျိုးမျိုးဖြင့် ဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်ရန် တစိုက်မတ်မတ် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိသည်။
၅။ နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအနေဖြင့်လည်း ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ ပညာရေးအခွင့်အရေး (Right to Education) ကို ဆိုးရွားစွာ ချိုးဖောက်ရမှု၊ စာသင်ကျောင်းများကို ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်စွာ ပစ်မှတ်ထား တိုက်ခိုက်သည့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများအတွက် တရားမျှတမှု ဖော်ဆောင်ရေးတွင် အားဖြည့်ပံ့ပိုးရန် တာဝန်ရှိသည်။..."
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Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2022-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2022-09-18
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"CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is fundamental to the normal growth and development of each child to its full potential.
Malnutrition is responsible for about half (45%) of all under five deaths each year. In Myanmar, under five mortality is 45/1,000 livebirths which is the highest national rate in the region.
Globally, 149 million under five children were malnourished in 2019. In Myanmar, 1.3 million under five children are stunted and at risk of not growing or developing to their full potential and more than 300,000 under-five children are wasted. Stunting has a major negative impact on under five mortality, learning, production and sports. It contributes to almost 15% of child deaths each year. A 10% increase in the prevalence of stunting results in the proportion of children reaching the final grade in school falling by 8%. Adults affected by malnutrition in infancy and childhood earn on average 20% less than adults not affected by malnutrition. Low performance in sports is well visible.
In Myanmar, children who are not breastfed are at significantly increased risk of stunting. Annual inadequate breastfeeding in Myanmar results in more than 4,000 child deaths and more than 1 million cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia. In addition, families have to use more than 182 million US$ to purchase infant formula and government have to use more than 2 million US$ for treatment of their illness.
The best and most cost-effective interventions to reduce under-five mortality and stunting is Infant and Young Child Feeding. Breastfeeding is the single most effective intervention to save children’s lives; 823 000 child deaths could be prevented each year through scaling up recommended breastfeeding practices globally. About half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of respiratory infections (major killers resulting in the loss of 2 million young lives each year) could be avoided through breastfeeding. Appropriate complementary feeding could prevent another 6% of deaths.
In emergencies, infants and young children are more vulnerable, the younger the age, the higher the risk of mortality and malnutrition. If poor IYCF practices, weak policy and legislation and low awareness and knowledge are present in pre-emergency, it is sure to become worse in emergency situation. The following factors lead children to have poorer IYCF practices and malnutrition resulting in increasing morbidity and mortality.
Myths and misconceptions
Exhaustion
Severe stress and trauma
Lack of resources and supports
Lack of privacy
BMS donations and blanket distributions
Lack of safe water and poor hygiene, sanitation
Lack of access to complementary food..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children and UN Children's Fund via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2022-08-07
Date of entry/update:
2022-08-07
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Public Health, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Statement by Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations at the UN Security Council Open Debate on “Children and Armed Conflict” (New York, 19 July 2022)
Mr. President,
At the outset, I would like to thank the presidency of Brazil for convening today’s high-level open debate on children and armed conflict. We welcome this year’s focus on protection of displaced children, abduction and their reintegration. I also appreciate all the briefers for their insightful briefings. I particularly thank the Secretary General and his special representative Ms. Gamba for this year report on children and armed conflicts.
Mr. President,
The situation of children in armed conflict continues to be a great concern to all of us. The number of grave violations against children remains high with 22,645 violations committed in 2021 alone. Myanmar expresses its deep sympathy for over 19,000 children affected by those violations in conflict situations. We are saddened by the tragic loss of over 8,000 children lives as the result of the killing and maiming. On the other hand, we are encouraged by the release of over 12,000 children from armed groups as the result of the UN’s engagement with parties to the conflicts.
We are particularly alarmed by the trends of increased impact of improvised explosive devices and mines on children, attacks on schools, the military use of schools and the significant rise in abduction of girls. As the Secretary-General rightly pointed out in the report, while the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the vulnerabilities of children, the military coups have worsened their situation including in Myanmar.
Mr. President,
In Myanmar, the elected civilian Government strengthened the legal framework for child protection despite the constitutional constraint with regard to the armed conflicts. A new Child Rights Law was enacted. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 were ratified. The Government established an inter-ministerial committee for the prevention of the six grave violations during armed conflicts. The Government fully cooperated with the United Nations entities including the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
While supporting the UN led monitoring and reporting mechanism, the National Unity Government of Myanmar is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of the child, and is cooperating with relevant UN entities in this regard. NUG developed a set of guidelines on prevention and protection of children affected in armed conflict in Myanmar and an implementation plan in accordance with international laws and relevant UN Security Council resolutions. NUG submitted in March this year to the UN the report on the efforts of the NUG for promoting and protecting the rights of the child especially in situation in armed conflict, as well as the guidelines on CAAC.
Mr. President,
After the military perpetrated the illegal coup in February 2021 in Myanmar, the illegal military effectively destroyed the rule of law by lawlessly arresting, torturing and killing civilians including children in cold blood. Even with the elected civilian government and parliament in place, the military was the main perpetrator of grave violations against children. After the coup, no legal protection in place was able to prevent Myanmar children from the violence by the military which has no regard for domestic and international law.
The impact of conflict on children in Myanmar is indeed severe and deeply disturbing and heart breaking. In this year report, the United Nations verified 503 grave violations against 462 Myanmar children, most of which were committed by the military. The military killed and maimed 75 children, recruited and used 222, detained 87, raped 1 and abducted 10 children. They attacked schools and hospitals 17 times, used 52 schools and hospitals for military purposes and denied humanitarian access. These verified accounts in the report do not necessarily represent the full scale of attacks and violations by the military against the children. Since the coup, over 1,400 children have been arbitrarily arrested. Over 270 children remained in the military detention as of May this year. The military took children hostage to force their parents to surrender. Nearly 7.8 million children remain out of school. 250,000 out of over 1 million internal displaced persons in Myanmar are children.
Children retaining safe and access to quality education is another important matter. There is no doubt that attacks on schools and hospitals have destructive effects on children and societies in every way. To this end, the military has deliberately deprived children of their basic human rights to health, education, and development.
Mr. President,
In addition to the displacement of children within the country, many children together with their parents escaped from Myanmar to neighbouring countries to seek refuge. We are greatly concerned that they are now at high risk of becoming victims of human trafficking. Therefore, we are seeking UNHCR protection for them. Many of them are still awaiting effective actions from UNHCR. I hereby appeal to the international community to look into this matter seriously and timely and help them. Children must be protected under every circumstance. Every child deserves a future.
In conclusion, Mr. President, as we speak, the war that Myanmar military has waged on their own citizens including children continues. Unless the international community takes concrete action to protect Myanmar children from ongoing grave violations, we risk having a lost generation of children due to the coup-inflicted consequences.
Needless to say, the key root cause of the children’s sufferings in Myanmar is the military junta’s brutal attempt to do anything to assert control over the population who resoundingly continues to resist their illegal coup. With their culture of impunity, the military forces have proven that they are not reluctant to go to extreme length including by blatantly violating both domestic child rights law and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. In this situation, the international community needs to protect children in Myanmar who have been victims of the military junta’s widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population.
Here I wish to urge the UN Security Council to take swift and decisive action, in accordance with its Charter responsibilities and children and armed conflict resolutions, to end military violence against children, stop military use of schools and hospitals and release all arbitrarily detained children. The Council must also do everything it can to bring the perpetrators of grave violations against children to justice and help aid workers get safe and unimpeded humanitarian access to children in need, especially those displaced by conflicts not only in Myanmar but also in other conflict situations. The Council must act now.
I thank you..."
Source/publisher:
Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations (New York)
Date of publication:
2022-07-19
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2022-07-20
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"ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအနေနှင့် ပဋိညာဉ်စာတမ်းပါ တာဝန်ဝတ္တရားများနှင့်အညီ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်၏ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များမှ ကလေးငယ်များနှင့် ပြည်သူများအား ကာကွယ်ပေးရေးအတွက် ချက်ချင်းအရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်ရန် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းမှ အလေးထားတိုက်တွန်းခဲ့ (နယူးယောက်မြို့၊ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၉ ရက်)
၁။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းသည် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ၏ “ကလေးများနှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခ” ခေါင်းစဉ်ဖြင့် ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်သည့် တံခါးဖွင့်အစည်းအဝေးသို့ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ မိန့်ခွန်းပြောကြားခဲ့ပါသည်။ သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း၏ မိန့်ခွန်း၌ အောက်ပါအဓိကအချက်များ ပါဝင်ပါသည် -
(က) လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်း ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ အခြေအနေနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ မိမိတို့အနေနှင့် များစွာစိုးရိမ်နေရဆဲဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ကလေးများအပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ဆိုးဝါးသည့် အကြမ်းဖက် လုပ်ရပ်အရေအတွက်သည် (၂၂,၆၄၅) အထိ ရှိခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ ပဋိပက္ခများကြောင့် ကလေးသူငယ် (၁၉,၀၀၀) ဦး ကျော်အပေါ် အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှုရှိခဲ့ရာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနေဖြင့် များစွာ စိတ်မကောင်းဖြစ်ရကြောင်း၊
(ခ) ထို့ပြင် ကလေး (၈၀၀၀) ဦးကျော်နီးပါး အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးရမှုနှင့် သေရာပါဒဏ်ရာရရှိမှုတို့အပေါ် များစွာဝမ်းနည်းကြေကွဲရကြောင်း၊ တစ်ဖက်တွင်လည်း ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်း ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်သည့် အဖွဲ့များနှင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ စေ့စပ်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုဖြင့် ကလေး (၁၂,၀၀၀) ဦးကျော် လွှတ်ပေးနိုင်ခဲ့မှုအပေါ် အားတက်ရကြောင်း၊ သို့ရာတွင် ဖောက်ခွဲရေး ကိရိယာများနှင့် မိုင်းဗုံးများ၏ ကလေးများအပေါ် ဆိုးဝါးသည့် အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှု၊ စာသင်ကျောင်းများအား တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း၊ ကလေးသူငယ်များအား စစ်ရေးအရ အသုံးပြုခြင်း၊ မိန်းကလေးငယ်များအား အဓမ္မသွေးဆောင်ခေါ်ဆောင်ခြင်းတို့ မြင့်တက်လာခြင်းအပေါ် အထူးစိုးရိမ်မိကြောင်း၊ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကြောင့် ကလေးများအပေါ် ထိခိုက်လွယ်မှု ပိုမိုမြင့်တက်လာနိုင်သည့် အချိန်တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်ဖြစ်ပွားမှုအပါအဝင် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုများကြောင့် အခြေအနေကို ပိုမိုဆိုးရွာစေသည်ကို ကုလသမဂ္ဂအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်က ၎င်း၏ အစီရင်ခံစာတွင် ထောက်ပြထားကြောင်း၊
(ဂ) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ရွေးကောက်ခံအရပ်သားအစိုးရသည် လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ အကန့်အသတ်များကြားမှ ကလေးသူငယ်ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်းသည့် ဥပဒေမူဘောင်ကိုချမှတ်ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေသစ်တစ်ရပ်ကို ပြဋ္ဌာန်းခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ ထို့ပြင် လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်း ကလေးသူငယ်များ ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်မှုနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ ကလေးသူငယ်များ အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ နောက်ဆက်တွဲအခြေပြစာချုပ်နှင့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ အလုပ်သမားအဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ အလုပ်လုပ်ခွင့်ပြုသည့် အနိမ့်ဆုံးအသက်အရွယ်သတ်မှတ်ချက်ဆိုင်ရာ သဘော တူညီချက်တို့အား အတည်ပြုလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးခဲ့ကြောင်း၊
(ဃ) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဦးဆောင်သည့် ယန္တရားလုပ်ငန်းများကို အားပေးထောက်ခံ၍ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများ ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရေးနှင့် ယင်းကိစ္စနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ သက်ဆိုင်ရာကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ ထို့ပြင် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ၏ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်မူကြမ်းများနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများနှင့်အညီ ကလေးသူငယ်ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်ရေးစီမံကိန်းနှင့် လမ်းညွှန်ချက်များကို ချမှတ်ထားကြောင်း၊ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရသည် ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်မြှင့်တင်ရေးနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ ကြိုးပမ်း ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် အစီရင်ခံစာနှင့် လမ်းညွှန်ချက်တို့ကို ကုလသမဂ္ဂသို့ ယခုနှစ်မတ်လက တင်သွင်းခဲ့ကြောင်း၊
(င) ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလက မတရားစစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုပြီးနောက် တရားမဝင်စစ်တပ်သည် တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးရေးကိုဖျက်ဆီး၍ ကလေးသူငယ်များအပါအဝင် မြန်မာပြည်သူများအား သွေးအေးအေး ဖြင့် သတ်ဖြတ်၊ ဖမ်းဆီး၊ နှိပ်စက်နေကြောင်း၊ ရွေးကောက်ခံအရပ်သားအစိုးရနှင့် ရွေးကောက်ခံ အရပ်သားလွှတ်တော်တို့ တာဝန်ယူသည့် အချိန်ကပင်လျှင် စစ်တပ်သည် ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ် ဆိုးဝါးသည့် အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များ အဓိကကျူးလွန်သူဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုပြီးနောက် မြန်မာကလေးသူငယ်များအား အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များမှ တားဆီးပေးနိုင်မည့် ဥပဒေကာကွယ်မှုမရှိတော့ဘဲ စစ်တပ်သည် ပြည်တွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများကို လေးစားလိုက်နာခြင်းမရှိကြောင်း၊
(စ) ယခုနှစ် အတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်၏ အစီရင်ခံစာ၌ မြန်မာကလေးသူငယ် (၄၆၂) ဦး အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ဆိုးဝါးသော လုပ်ရပ် (၅၀၃) ခုကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ဖော်ပြထားပြီး၊ ယင်းအကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်အများစုကို စစ်တပ်မှကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ စစ်တပ်သည် ကလေးသူငယ် (၇၇) ဦး ကို သတ်ဖြတ်၍ သေရာပါဒဏ်ရာရရှိအောင် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့၍ (၂၂၂) ဦး ကို စစ်သားသစ်အဖြစ် စုဆောင်းအသုံးပြုခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ ထို့ပြင် ကလေးသူငယ်(၈၇) ဦး ကို ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခဲ့ပြီး၊ စာသင်ကျောင်းနှင့် ဆေးရုံ (၅၂) ခုတို့ကို စစ်ရေးအရ အသုံးပြုခဲ့ကြောင်း၊
(ဆ) အာဏာသိမ်းသည့်အချိန်မှစ၍ ကလေးသူငယ် (၁,၄၀၀) ဦး ကျော်ကို စစ်တပ်မှ အဓမ္မ ထိန်းသိမ်းဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ စစ်တပ်သည် မိဘများအား လာရောက်အဖမ်းခံစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်၍ ၎င်းတို့၏ ကလေးများကို ဓားစာခံအဖြစ် ဖမ်းဆီးခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ကလေးငယ် (၇.၈) သန်း နီးပါးသည် ပညာဆက်လက်သင်ယူနိုင်ခြင်း မရှိတော့ကြောင်း၊ ပြည်တွင်းနေရပ်စွန့်ခွာသူ (၁) သန်းကျော်အနက် (၂၅၀,၀၀၀) ဦး သည် ကလေးသူငယ်များဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊
(ဇ) မြန်မာကလေးငယ်များသည် ၎င်းတို့၏ မိဘများနှင့်အတူ လုံခြုံမည်ဟုယူဆသည့် အိမ်နီးချင်း နိုင်ငံများသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ကြရကြောင်း၊ ၎င်းတို့သည် ယခုအခါ လူကုန်ကူးမှုအန္တရာယ်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ရနိုင်သည့်အတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ အေဂျင်စီမှ ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်မှုပေးရန် တောင်းဆိုထားကြောင်း၊ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ အေဂျင်စီ၏ ထိရောက်သည့် အရေးယူ ဆောင်ရွက်မှုကို ရရှိရန် စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေသူအများအပြားရှိကြောင်း၊ အခုကိစ္စအပေါ် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုက်အဝန်း အနေဖြင့် ပိုမိုအလေးအနက်ထား ထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစား၍ အချိန်မီကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ရန် တိုက်တွန်းကြောင်း၊ မည်သည့်အခြေအနေမျိုး၌မဆို ကလေးငယ်များကို ကာကွယ်မှုပေးရမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ကလေးတိုင်းသည် အနာဂတ်နှင့် ထိုက်တန်ကြောင်း၊
(ဈ) ယခုပြောကြားနေသည့်အချိန်၌တွင်ပင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ကလေးသူငယ်များ အပါအဝင် အပြစ်မဲ့ပြည်သူများအပေါ် အကြမ်းဖက်တိုက်ခိုက်နေသည့် စစ်တပ်၏ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ပွဲသည် ဆက်လက် ဖြစ်ပွားနေဆဲဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုက်အဝန်းမှ မြန်မာကလေးများအား အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များမှ ကာကွယ်တားဆီးရန် ထိရောက်ခိုင်မာသည့် အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်မှု ချမှတ်အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ခြင်း မရှိပါက၊ စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု၏ အကျိုးရလဒ်အဖြစ် ကလေးငယ်မျိုးဆက်သစ်တစ်ခု ဆုံးရှုံးမည့် အန္တရာယ်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ကျသင့်မခံရသည့် စစ်တပ်၏အစဉ်အလာသည် စွဲမြဲနေပြီး၊ စစ်တပ်သည် ပြည်တွင်းကလေးအခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေနှင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂကလေးသူငယ် အခွင့်အရေးများ ဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီချက်များကို ဗြောင်ကျကျချိုးဖောက်၍ အစွမ်းကုန် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည့် လုပ်ရပ်များ ကျူးလွန်ရန် တုံ့ဆိုင်းခြင်း ရှိမည်မဟုတ်ကြောင်း၊ ယင်းအခြေအနေတွင် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုက်အဝန်းသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကလေးငယ်များကို ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှာက်ရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊
(ည) ကုလသမဂ္ဂပဋိညာဉ်စာတမ်းနှင့် လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခဆိုင်ရာ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်မူကြမ်းများတွင် ဖော်ပြသည့် တာဝန်ဝတ္တရားများနှင့်အညီ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ် အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များ ကျူးလွန်လျက်ရှိသော စစ်တပ်၏ လုပ်ရပ်များကို ရပ်တန့်ရန်၊ ကျောင်းနှင့် ဆေးရုံများကို စစ်တပ်က အလွဲသုံးစားမှုများကို ရပ်တန့်ရန်၊ ထိန်းသိမ်းခံထားရသည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ လွတ်မြောက်စေရန် ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအနေနှင့် ခိုင်မာပြတ်သားစွာ ချက်ချင်းအရေးယူ ဆောင်ရွက်ရန် လိုအပ်နေကြောင်း၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌သာမက အခြားပဋိပက္ခအခြေအနေများ၌ပါ ကလေးငယ် များကို ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရန်နှင့် ပြစ်မှုကျူးလွန်သူအားလုံး ပြစ်ဒဏ်ကျသင့်ရေး၊ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီများ လိုအပ်သည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များထံ အတားအဆီးမရှိ ရောက်ရှိစေရေးအတွက် လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီသည် ဖြစ်နိုင်သည့် နည်းလမ်းပေါင်းစုံဖြင့် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်ရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် ချက်ချင်းအရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း။..."
Source/publisher:
Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations (New York)
Date of publication:
2022-07-19
Date of entry/update:
2022-07-20
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"Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes.
MYANMAR’S MILITARY USING SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY TO MAINTAIN POWER
Myanmar’s (Burma) military – the Tatmadaw – is planning to install surveillance camera systems with facial recognition capabilities in cities across all of the country’s seven states and seven regions, according to an 11 July report by Reuters. The military claims the projects will help maintain security and foster civil peace. However, recent reporting indicates that the military will increasingly rely upon surveillance technology in an attempt to strengthen its hold on power and oppose resistance efforts. This poses heightened safety risks for activists and resistance groups, including by making it easier for the military to track their movements.
Prior to the February 2021 military coup, some surveillance camera systems were already installed or planned in several major cities, including Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw. Local authorities have initiated new camera surveillance projects in at least five cities around Myanmar, including Mawlamyine, the country’s fourth-largest city; Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State; and Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. Local firms are sourcing the cameras and other related technology from Chinese companies – Dahua, Huawei and Hikvision – that are tied to the surveillance of the ethnic Uyghur population in China.
The surveillance cameras are part of a wider effort to monitor the activities of populations in Myanmar. Last month four UN experts condemned the military’s attempts to establish a “digital dictatorship” in Myanmar with tactics like sweeping internet blackouts, digital censorship and surveillance. According to the experts, telecommunications providers have been pressured to activate surveillance technology and hand over user data to police and military officials.
Since August 2021 at least 31 townships in seven states and regions across Myanmar have reportedly experienced internet shutdowns, and an additional 23 have faced severely slowed internet speeds. The internet shutdowns have targeted areas where the military faces strong resistance from opposition groups. The UN experts said, “online access to information is a matter of life and death for many people in Myanmar, including those seeking safety from indiscriminate attacks by the military.” Notably, the imposition of internet blackouts in Sagaing Region coincided with the escalation of a military offensive characterized by arson and airstrike campaigns against civilian areas.
The UN experts also noted that “internet restrictions are being used by the junta as a cloak to hide its ongoing atrocities.” The barriers to internet access and lack of connectivity in many parts of the country are hindering the collection of evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by human rights monitors and journalists.
The military in Myanmar must respect the population’s right to privacy. Member states should support civil society efforts to combat censorship and surveillance and impose sanctions to restrict the sale or supply of dual-use surveillance technology..."
Source/publisher:
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2022-07-13
Date of entry/update:
2022-07-13
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Individual Documents
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Children and armed conflict, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights and international relations
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"Monitoring of landmine and ERW incidents during the first five months of 2022 show that the number of casualties reported countrywide (162 reported) account for 57% of the total incidents reported in 2021 (284 reported). In terms of regional breakdown, Shan State accounted for 53% of the total casualties followed by Kachin with 10%, Sagaing with 9%, Rakhine with 7% respectively and Mandalay and Kayin with 5% each. Other areas (Bago, Chin, Kayah, Mon and Tanintharyi) have reported 11% of the total casualties. Children represent 35% of casualties from landmine/ERW explosions countrywide. Please note that this report doesn’t include explosions and casualties targeting local administrations and security forces across the country..."
Source/publisher:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of publication:
2022-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2022-07-07
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"အဓိကဖော်ပြချက်များ
မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် ပေါက်ကွဲစေတတ်သောပစ္စည်းများ၏ ဖြစ်ရပ်များကို စောင့်ကြည့်လေ့လာချက်များအရ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ပထမငါးလတာကာလအတွင်း တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးတွင် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူအရေအတွက် (၁၆၂ ဦး) ရှိခဲ့ပြီး ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်တွင် အစီရင်ခံတင်ပြခဲ့သည့် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူအရေအတွက်စုစုပေါင်း၏ (၅၇) ရာခိုင်နှုန်း ရှိခဲ့ပါသည် (၂၈၄ ဦး အစီအရင်ခံခဲ့)။ ဒေသအလိုက်အနေဖြင့် ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်တွင် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူအရေအတွက် စုစုပေါင်း၏ (၅၃) ရာခိုင်နှုန်းရှိခဲ့ပြီး၊ ကချင်တွင် (၁၀) ရာခိုင်နှုန်း၊ စစ်ကိုင်းတွင် (၉) ရာခိုင်နှုန်း၊ ရခိုင်တွင် (၇) ရာခိုင်နှုန်းနှင့် ၊ မန္တလေးနှင့် ကရင်တို့တွင် (၅) ရာခိုင်နှုန်းစီတို့ အသီးသီးရှိကြပါသည်။ အခြားဒေသများ (ပဲခူး၊ ချင်း၊ ကယား၊ မွန်နှင့် တနင်္သာရီ) တွင် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူအရေအတွက် စုစုပေါင်း၏ (၁၁) ရာခိုင်နှုန်းရှိပါသည်။ တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးအနေဖြင့် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူအရေအတွက်၏ (၃၅) ရာခိုင်နှုန်းမှာ ကလေးများဖြစ်ကြပါသည်။ ဤအစီရင်ခံစာတွင် နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းရှိ ဒေသဆိုင်ရာ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးနှင့် လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များကို ပစ်မှတ်ထားသောပေါက်ကွဲမှုများနှင့် ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသူများ ပါဝင်ခြင်းမရှိကြောင်း သတိပြုစေလိုပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
United Nations Children's Fund
Date of publication:
2022-07-01
Date of entry/update:
2022-07-07
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as represented by the National Unity Government, strongly
welcomes the public statement1 issued by the UN Child Rights Committee, urging the international
community to take swift action to protect Myanmar’s children.
The Committee’s statement swiftly follows a searing report issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on
the situation of human rights in Myanmar.2 Finding the likely commission of crimes against humanity
and war crimes by the military junta, the Special Rapporteur declares that ‘relentless attacks on
children underscore the depths of the military junta’s depravity and its willingness to inflict immense
misery and hardship on innocent victims to try and subjugate the people of Myanmar.’
Depraved acts directed against children include hostage-taking, the pulling out of fingernails and
teeth, stabbing and burning, sexual violence, mock executions, deprivation of food and water and the
denial of medical care.
As the UN Child Rights Committee asserts, ‘time is running out to save Myanmar’s stricken
generation’. The rights of Myanmar’s children must be respected and protected, and perpetrators of
atrocity crimes against children must be held accountable.
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of the
child, consistent with its obligations under international law including the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and its optional protocols.
Myanmar also extends its full cooperation to the UN Child Rights Committee and echoes the
Committee’s call on the ‘international community to urgently reassess and redesign the global
response to the crises in Myanmar, prioritize children’s rights over other considerations, and take
concrete measures to alleviate their suffering.’..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2022-06-30
Date of entry/update:
2022-06-30
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" Time is running out to save Myanmar’s stricken generation, the UN Child Rights Committee warned today, urging the international community to take swift action to protect the country’s children.
Citing alarming findings in a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the Committee said 7.8 million children in the country remain out of school, 250,000 are internally displaced, and children have reportedly been abducted and recruited for armed conflicts. The Committee issued the following statement today:
“Children continue to bear the brunt of the Myanmar military's ongoing attacks to assert control over the territory.
At least 382 children have been killed or maimed by armed groups since the February 2021 coup. In addition, over 1,400 children have reportedly been arbitrarily arrested since the coup. Children who took part or were suspected of having participated in protests, are among those detained by the military. At least 274 child political prisoners remained in the military’s custody as of 27 May this year.
The military also takes children of human rights defenders hostage to pressure their parents to surrender. According to the latest report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, at least 61 children are currently being held hostage by the junta.
Rohingya children have been arrested and detained for alleged migration-related offences. Torture and ill-treatment, including sexual abuse, have allegedly been inflicted on these children.
The number of children being abducted for recruitment purposes is on the rise, as well as children joining local defence groups and being particularly exposed to the danger of being killed or injured. They have been dispatched to participate in armed conflicts.
The economic and humanitarian crises are having devastating impacts on children and fueling all forms of violence and exploitation. The Committee is deeply concerned that the military intentionally impedes access to food, funds, medical aid, and communication to weaken the support base for armed resistance and provoke fear. Child trafficking and child labour are reportedly on the rise in Myanmar.
According to UN figures, the estimated number of internally displaced people since the coup in the country has passed 700,000, including more than 250,000 children, as of 1 June 2022.
More than half of the country’s child population, about 7.8 million, remain out of school. The UN has documented 260 attacks on schools and education personnel since the coup, and 320 cases of the use of schools by armed groups between February 2021 and March 2022.
It is estimated that 33,000 children will die from preventable causes in 2022 merely due to the lack of routine immunizations. In addition, 1.3 million children and more than 700,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women require nutritional support. As a result, experts warn of a looming food crisis and a dramatic increase in rates of childhood malnutrition.
The rights of children in Myanmar must be respected and protected under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, both ratified by Myanmar, as well as under the international humanitarian law.
The Committee urges Myanmar’s military to cease involving children in the hostilities, stop taking children hostage, end unlawful detention and torture and ill-treatment of children in captivity, and release all detained children immediately and unconditionally.
Perpetrators of atrocity crimes against children must be held accountable before impartial and independent courts. The Committee also reiterates its call for the UN and civil society organizations to have safe and unrestricted access to deliver assistance and services to Myanmar’s most vulnerable children.
The Committee calls on the international community to urgently reassess and redesign the global response to the crises in Myanmar, prioritize children’s rights over other considerations, and take concrete measures to alleviate their suffering.”..."
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2022-06-29
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"Last week, two seven-year-old boys were tragically killed in a grenade round explosion in Gangaw Township, Magwe Region.
The incident occurred on 19 June, when the two boys were playing with an unexploded grenade round they found in a jungle.
Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) continue to kill and maim many children in Myanmar.
At least 115 children have been killed or injured by landmines and UXO since February 2021, including 47 casualties that occurred between January and April 2022 alone.
In times of conflict, children are the most vulnerable, including from landmines and UXO. Since children are smaller than adults, they are more likely to take the full impact of the blast and are therefore more likely to suffer death or serious injury.
In Myanmar, more than one third of the reported casualties from landmines and UXO are children.
The safety and rights of children must be the primary consideration in all contexts. During the first five months of 2022, UNICEF and partners have reached 20,000 children across Myanmar with Explosive Ordnance Risk Education.
UNICEF calls on all parties to facilitate access for assistance to victims; to stop laying mines and to clear existing mines and UXO..... ပြီးခဲ့သည့်ရက်သတ္တပတ်အတွင်း မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ဂန့်ဂေါမြို့နယ်တွင် အသက် ၇ နှစ်အရွယ် ယောက်ျားလေးနှစ်ဦး ဗုံးသီးပေါက်ကွဲမှုအတွင်း ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ရပါသည်။
အဆိုပါဖြစ်ရပ်မှာ ဇွန်လ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့တွင် ကလေးနှစ်ဦးက တောထဲတွင်တွေ့ရှိခဲ့သော မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသည့် ဗုံးသီးတစ်လုံးကို ကစားနေစဥ် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။
မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းများနှင့် မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသော စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်း (UXO) များသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကလေးငယ်များစွာကို အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးစေခြင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်လက်အင်္ဂါချို့တဲ့စေခြင်းများ ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေလျက်ရှိပါသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလမှစ၍ မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသော စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်းများ (UXO) ကြောင့် အနည်းဆုံး ကလေးငယ် ၁၁၅ ဦး သေဆုံး ဒဏ်ရာရခဲ့ပြီး ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီလမှ ဧပြီလအတွင်းမှာပင် သေဆုံး ဒဏ်ရာရသူ ကလေးငယ် ၄၇ ဦးအထိ ရှိခဲ့ပါသည်။
ပဋိပက္ခအချိန်များအတွင်း ကလေးသူငယ်များသည် မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသော စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်းများ (UXO) ကြောင့် အပါအဝင် အားနည်းထိခိုက်လွယ်ဆုံးသူများဖြစ်ကြသည်။ ကလေးငယ်များမှာ လူကြီးများထက် အရွယ်အစားအားဖြင့် ပိုမိုသေးငယ်သောကြောင့် ပေါက်ကွဲမှုဒဏ်ကို အပြည့်အဝ ခံရနိုင်ဖွယ်ပိုများသည်ဖြစ်ရာ သေဆုံးခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် ပြင်းထန်ဒဏ်ရာရာနိုင်ချေပိုများပါသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသော စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်းများ (UXO) ကြောင့် သေဆုံးဒဏ်ရာရရှိသူများ၏ သုံးပုံတစ်ပုံကျော်မှာ ကလေးငယ်များဖြစ်သည်။
မည်သို့သော အခြေအနေမျိုးတွင်မဆို ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံမှုနှင့် အခွင့်အရေးများကို အဓိကထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစားရပါမည်။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ပထမ ၅ လအတွင်း ယူနီဆက်နှင့် မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကလေးငယ် ဦးရေ ၂၀,၀၀၀ အား ပေါက်ကွဲစေတတ်သောလက်နက်များအန္တရာယ် အသိပညာပေးမှုများ ပြုလုပ်ပေးနိုင်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
ယူနီဆက်အနေဖြင့် သက်ဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအားလုံးအား ထိခိုက်နစ်နာသူများအတွက် အကူအညီများ လွယ်ကူချောမွေ့စွာ ပေးနိုင်ရန်၊ မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းအသုံးပြုမှုများ ရပ်တန့်ရန်နှင့် ရှိနှင့်ပြီးသော မြေမြှုပ်မိုင်းနှင့် မပေါက်ကွဲသေးသော စစ်လက်နက်ပစ္စည်းများ (UXO) များကို ရှင်းလင်းကြပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံ တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ရပါသည်။..."
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United Nations Children's Fund
Date of publication:
2022-06-24
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2022-06-24
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"The Myanmar junta has deliberately killed hundreds of children as part of a strategy to inflict immense suffering on innocent civilians and subjugate the people of the country, a UN expert said on Tuesday.
At least 382 children have been killed or injured by armed groups since the coup and the Myanmar military bears the most responsibility for these deaths, according to a report by Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
Of the deaths and injuries of children, 59 percent occurred during targeted or indiscriminate attacks by the military, according to the report, which also found that at least 111 were killed or injured by landmines.
The report states that the junta has arbitrarily detained over 1,400 children since the coup and at least 274 remain behind bars. From 2021 to March 2022, it adds, at least 142 children were subject to torture in prison, resulting in injuries and in some cases deaths. Regarding junta forces’ treatment of child prisoners, Andrews writes: “They have beaten, cut and stabbed children, burned them with cigarettes, forced them to hold stress positions, subjected them to mock executions, deprived them of food and water.”
Additionally, at least 61 children—some very young—are currently being held as hostages to put pressure on family members wanted by the regime.
On April 5, a 3-year-old boy was abducted from his kindergarten in Yangon by junta forces after they arrested his mother. On the same day, a 14-year-old boy was arrested by regime forces looking for his father, a friend of the 3-year-old’s mother.
The special rapporteur was unable to confirm the whereabouts of the mother, her son or the 14-year-old, all of whom appear to remain in the junta’s custody.
More than 250,000 children have been displaced since the coup due to junta attacks on civilians, Andrews said based on information from UN agencies, humanitarian and human rights groups and civil society organizations.
He urged the world to return its attention to Myanmar.
“Member states, regional organizations, the Security Council, and other UN entities must respond to the crisis in Myanmar with the same urgency they have responded to the crisis in Ukraine,” he said.
The UN special rapporteur recommended imposing an arms embargo on Myanmar, slapping sanctions on the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise and other key sources of revenue, and facilitating cross-border humanitarian aid by the UN and ASEAN..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2022-06-15
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2022-06-15
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"The Myanmar military junta has brutally attacked and killed children and systematically abused their human rights, a UN expert said in a report released today that calls for immediate coordinated action to protect the rights of children and safeguard Myanmar’s future.
“The junta’s relentless attacks on children underscore the generals’ depravity and willingness to inflict immense suffering on innocent victims in its attempt to subjugate the people of Myanmar,” said Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
“The international community’s approach to the coup and the junta’s atrocities has failed. States must take immediate coordinated action to address an escalating political, economic and humanitarian crisis that is putting Myanmar’s children at risk of becoming a lost generation.”
The Special Rapporteur said it was clear from the evidence that the children of Myanmar were not only being caught in the crossfire of escalating attacks, but that they were often the targets of the violence.
“During my fact-finding for this report, I received information about children who were beaten, stabbed, burned with cigarettes, and subjected to mock executions, and who had their fingernails and teeth pulled out during lengthy interrogation sessions,” Andrews said.
“The junta’s attacks on children constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and other architects of the violence in Myanmar must be held accountable for their crimes against children,” he said.
“For the sake of Myanmar’s children, Member States, regional organisations, the Security Council, and other UN entities must respond to the crisis in Myanmar with the same urgency they have responded to the crisis in Ukraine.”
Andrews urged Member States to work in coordination to alleviate the suffering of children by systematically increasing pressure on the junta. He urged States that have already imposed sanctions on the military and military-linked companies to take stronger coordinated action that will inhibit the junta’s ability to finance atrocities.
“States must pursue stronger targeted economic sanctions and coordinated financial investigations. I urge Member States to commit to a dramatic increase in humanitarian assistance and unequivocal regional support for refugees,” he said.
“It is scandalous that the international community has committed only 10 percent of the funds required to implement the Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2022, causing lifesaving programs for children to be shelved,” he said.
The Special Rapporteur’s report describes the impact of the 1 February 2021 coup on the human rights of children in Myanmar and details the alarming, underreported facts of the violence being perpetrated against them. Soldiers, police officers and military-backed militias have murdered, abducted, detained and tortured children in a campaign of violence that has touched every corner of the country, the report said.
Over the past 16 months, the military has killed at least 142 children in Myanmar. Over 250,000 children have been displaced by the military’s attacks and over 1,400 have been arbitrarily detained. At least 61 children, including several under three years of age, are reportedly being held as hostages. The UN has documented the torture of 142 children since the coup.
The junta has intentionally deprived children of their fundamental human rights to health, education and development, with an estimated 7.8 million children out of school. Following the collapse of the public health system since the coup, the World Health Organization projects that 33,000 children will die preventable deaths in 2022 because they have not received routine immunizations.
Andrews said the lack of action by Security Council was a moral failure with profound repercussions for children in the country.
“World leaders, diplomats and donors should ask themselves why the world is failing to do all that can reasonably be done to bring an end to the suffering of the children of Myanmar,” the expert said..."
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva)
Date of publication:
2022-06-14
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2022-06-14
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Whereabouts of children taken by the military since the 2021 coup are mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe
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"Hundreds of children have been detained by the Myanmar military since it seized power more than one year ago, with many held ransom by soldiers and police who are seeking to arrest their relatives, according to a minister of the country’s National Unity Government.
Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, minister of Women, Youths and Children Affairs Ministry in the NUG, which was formed last year by elected lawmakers to challenge the junta, said 287 children under the age of 18 had been detained since 1 February 2021. Most had been held in police station detention centres, and some in prisons.
A further 80 school children aged under 12 were detained for about 36 hours at a Buddhist monastery in Yinmabin Township in Sagaing Region, according to local media reports last month. The area was targeted by the military as it sought members of the armed resistance.
The whereabouts of children taken by the military since the coup is mostly unknown, according to Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe.
She referred to the detention of Dr Htar Htar Lin, the former head of Myanmar’s Covid vaccination programme, who was taken by the military in June 2021 along with her husband, seven-year-old son and their family dog. Dr Htar Htar Lin was targeted because she had returned 168 million kyat ($US94,580) in funding to the UN, preventing it from being seized by the military. Her family’s location is still unknown, said the minister.
“[The children] are doing nothing wrong, but the military tried to arrest the activist and also NLD members and the political activists,” said Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, National League for Democracy. “When they could not find the people, they arrested the children as a ransom. They also ask the activist to come and be arrested so that this child will be released,” she said.
Parents face an impossible choice, fearing they, or older relatives, could be killed if they come forward. “So many parents are heartbroken people. The children were arrested but they couldn’t do nothing because they have to run for their lives,” she said.
A previous estimate by Unicef suggested hundreds more young adults have also been detained. It said last year that about 1,000 children and young people aged up to 25 years old had been held by the military without apparent reason.
Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe spoke to the Guardian while in hiding inside Myanmar, where she continues her work for the NUG, which comprises elected lawmakers, ethnic minority representatives and activists. The NUG, which has been labelled a “terrorist” group by the junta, has sought to gain international recognition as Myanmar’s legitimate government. The UN General Assembly last year deferred a decision on who should take the country’s seat, allowing representative Kyaw Moe Tun, a critic of the junta, to remain in place.
In the wake of the coup, Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe stayed with doctors, wearing a medical coat to avoid detection. She eventually travelled to an area of the country that is controlled by an ethnic armed group that supports pro-democracy activists. Like many civilians, she has faced the continued threat of airstrikes, and suffered from dehydration and diarrhoea due to the conditions in which she has been forced to seek shelter.
The military has unleashed a campaign of terror on the public in order to crush a pro-democracy movement that continues to oppose its rule. At least 1,600 people have been killed by security forces since the coup, according to the UN. More than 12,800 have been arrested, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), an advocacy group that tracks detentions.
Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe also raised concern over the military’s use of sexual violence against those who oppose the coup, but said data is hard to gather.
It was young people, she said, who were leading the struggle for democracy in the face of such brutality. Many have taken up arms in response to military violence, while others are using peaceful forms of protest to disrupt the junta.
Their fight was not about supporting Aung San Suu Kyi or her party, but was driven by a determination not to “go back to the dark age”, and by a desire to rid Myanmar of age-old discrimination – against ethnic minorities as well as on the basis of age or gender, said Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe.
She referred to apologies made by young protesters, who have said they should have done more to support the Rohingya, who received little public sympathy when they were subject to a brutal campaign of violence by the military in 2017. UN investigators later said the violence was carried out with “genocidal intent”. Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe, previously an NLD lawmaker, has made a similar apology.
Older politicians should follow the lead of young people, she added.
“My opinion is that [young people] are fighting in this revolution to completely tear down the military dictatorship and to end the old-established discriminations based on gender, age, skin colour, race and religion. The dictators are abusing nationalism to promote hate between us to preserve their status quo. We are fed up with them and we won’t be divided any more. They can’t divide us any more. We’re going to turn the system upside down..."
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"The Guardian" (UK)
Date of publication:
2022-03-22
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2022-03-22
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"At least 10 children were killed by Myanmar’s junta forces in less than a week this month, bringing the number of children killed since last year’s coup to around 120.
Among the recent victims were three siblings killed when junta artillery was indiscriminately fired at their village – which is not near the combat zone – near the Kayah State capital Loikaw on Tuesday afternoon.
The children, aged seven, 10 and 12, were playing under a tree at the time, according to the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force. The shell also injured their father and 15-year-old sister.
On Tuesday, Mg Myat Bhone Naing, five, and Mg Swan Htet Naing, eight, were killed along with around nine others, including their mother and grandmother, when junta forces shelled a monastery sheltering displaced civilians in Lat Pan Taw village, Yinmabin Township in Sagaing Region.
According to photos seen by The Irrawaddy, junta troops burned the bodies in an apparent attempt to remove evidence.
“They were killed when the junta fired artillery at the monastery. We saw their bodies as the troops burned them, including two children, behind the monastery but we could not do anything,” a resident said.
A relative told The Irrawaddy there were no words to express the pain after seeing the pictures of the burned remains.
“They did not even leave the dead to be recovered by their relatives. They just burned them all.”
In Papun Township, Karen State, on Saturday night, junta artillery killed Naw Tar Lu, two, Naw Htoo Phaw, five and Naw Tin Nilar Win, 14. Four more residents were killed and others severely injured in the strike. The villagers were asleep when the strike occurred and had no chance to take shelter.
Other victims killed by junta forces include the four-year-old and 11-year-old daughters of Daw Aye Aye Win in Pauk Township, Magwe Region. Regime forces allegedly raped the mother before killing her and her two daughters last Saturday.
Residents said the younger girl was stabbed to death while the older child was one of several villagers detained as potential human shields and found dead three days later.
The civilian National Unity Government’s Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs reported on March 1 that the junta had killed at least 110 children.
Among the fatalities were a one-year-old in Mandalay and Khin Myo Chit, six, who was shot dead while sitting on her father’s lap as troops broke into her home.
Aye Myat Thu, 11, was shot in the head while playing in front of her home in Mon State’s capital Mawlamyine and Salai Van Bawi Thang was shot dead by junta forces in Thantlang, Chin State. Htoo Myat Win, 13, was shot dead while playing near his home in Shwebo, Sagaing Region.
The report said Sagaing Region saw the highest number of children killed, followed by Mandalay and Yangon..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2022-03-10
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2022-03-10
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"Myanmar regime forces raped a mother before killing her and her two daughters last Saturday in Magwe Region’s Pauk Township. Junta troops also detained 29 villagers as potential human shields.
Some 70 Myanmar military soldiers, police and pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia raided Inn Nge Htauk Village in Pauk Township on Saturday, forcing villagers to flee their homes. Daw Aye Aye Win, 42, was caught trying to escape and was then raped and killed. Her four-year-old daughter was also stabbed to death, according to local residents.
Daw Aye Aye Win was raped in a wayside public rest house near her home. A volunteer doctor from a local resistance group carried out a post-mortem on her body and confirmed that she had been raped, a resident told The Irrawaddy.
“Junta troops raided Inn Nge Htauk on March 5, firing heavy guns. All the villagers fled and so did Daw Aye Aye Win’s family. The husband and wife fled separately and the wife and the daughter were caught. She was raped at a public rest house not far from her home,” said the resident.
Junta troops also detained 29 villagers, including nine children, as potential human shields. Among the young detainees was another of Daw Aye Aye Win’s daughters, an 11-year-old, whose dead body was found three days later by a creek near the village, according to locals.
Some detainees were reportedly killed in junta custody. The Irrawaddy, however, was unable to verify those reports independently.
Fighting took place in Inn Nge Htauk from last Saturday to Tuesday. Five resistance fighters were killed by junta soldiers in the clashes and their bodies were subsequently set on fire, local sources said.
Military regime forces and Pyu Saw Htee militia are deployed in Wun Chone Village, Pauk Township. The village is reported to be a Pyu Saw Htee stronghold and junta soldiers have used it as a base to raid the surrounding villages of Lelyar, Letpan Hla and Inn Nge Htauk.
Lelyar Village, which has 252 households, was raided on March 3. Regime troops torched 210 houses. Letpan Hla Village was raided the following day, and half of the village’s 120 households were burned down, said locals.
One resident said: “With their [junta forces] megalomaniac streak, they view anyone unlike them as their enemy, kill and intimidate them, torch their houses and loot their possessions. The higher-ups turn a blind eye to these acts to demoralize the people so that they never dare to hold up their heads, speak the truth and demand a different system.”
Since early March, people from at least 12 villages in Pauk have been forced to flee junta raids.
Over 6,100 civilian houses have been destroyed in the 13 months since the military’s coup, according to a report by Data for Myanmar, an independent research organization..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2022-03-09
Date of entry/update:
2022-03-09
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" A six-year-old boy has been killed and an estimated 2,000 people have been left homeless – including 1,000 children – by the sixth fire this year to tear through the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, says Save the Children.
The fire raced through camp 5 of the world’s largest refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar at around 4.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday afternoon, destroying 400 shelters, which for almost five years have been the closest thing to home for Rohingya families fleeing Myanmar.
This follows a massive fire in January, which destroyed 1,200 shelters and left more than 5,000 people homeless, and four smaller fires between January and March.
Some of the families who lost their homes are staying with relatives in the same camp area, while others have been displaced to nearby camps. Eight volunteers working with Save the Children also lost their homes in the blaze.
Save the Children is providing psychological first aid, food, medical support and reunifying children separated from their families during the fire.
“We have nothing left, everything burnt to ashes in the fire,” said 13-year-old Fahim*, whose family lost their shelter and all their possessions in the blaze.
Save the Children is concerned that the fire could trigger distressing memories for children, many of whom saw their homes set alight in Myanmar. In a survey conducted by Save the Children in August last year, about 73% of Save the Children staff said children they worked with referred to traumatic experiences in Myanmar when talking about more recent events in the camps, including fires.
Save the Children’s Country Director in Bangladesh, Onno van Manen, said: “This is the sixth fire to tear through Cox’s Bazar in less than three months. Year on year, we’re seeing a huge increase in the number of fires in the camps—and the risk is only going to go up as the climate crisis worsens.
“No one should have to watch the few belongings they own be reduced to wreckage. These camps were supposed to be a safe haven for refugees who fled their homes in Myanmar. Events like these are incredibly distressing for children, and Save the Children is providing them with the emotional support they need to recover.
"The shelters made of dry bamboo and tarpaulin are incredibly flammable. More fire-resistant materials must be permitted and additional openings in the fencing need to be built so that refugees can reach safety in an emergency. The risk of fires in these densely populated and confined areas is enormous, but it is avoidable with the right support and infrastructure in place.”
According to the Inter Sector Coordination Group Daily Incident Reporting, there were over 150 fires in the camps in 2021 - a staggering 180 per cent increase on the 84 fires seen in 2020.
Save the Children is calling on the international community to financially support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh while pursuing a long-term solution to the Rohingya crisis that addresses its root causes and allows for safe, dignified, and voluntary returns of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar when it is safe to do so..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2022-03-08
Date of entry/update:
2022-03-09
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Karen State: 7 Killed and 4 Injured by Burmese Military Heavy Artillery
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"Seven people were killed and four injured when the Burmese military fired heavy artillery at Klaw Day Village, Mae Klaw village tract, Bu Tho Township in Mu Traw District, Kawtholei, (Karen State) on 5th March.
Among those killed are three children, all girls, aged 2, 5 and 14. A 3 year-old boy and a 17 year old girl were among those injured. A pregnant woman was also killed.
The Burmese military knew the location of the village and that it was a civilian village. They deliberately targeted the village. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity. The attack came at 7.20pm, a time when the Burmese military know people are likely to be in their homes.
The Burmese military have been using long range heavy artillery based in Papun to attack civilians in Mu Traw.
Those killed are:
1. Naw Htoo Paw (5 yrs old)
2. Saw Day Poe ( 19yrs old)
3. Saw Kay (40 yrs old)
4. Naw Paw Wah (32 yrs old)
5. Naw Eh Moo (22 yrs old)
6. Naw Tin Ne La Win (14 yrs old)
7.Naw Ta Lu (2 yrs old)
Those injured are:
1. Saw Nyut Htoo(28 yrs old)
2. Naw Kri Hser (28 yrs old)
3 Naw S'baw (17 yrs old)
4. Saw kyaw Bi (3 yrs old)
The Burmese military attacks and kills our people using weapons bought internationally and which are paid for in part by international companies doing business with the military.
The Karen Peace Support Network calls for increased pressure on countries involved in supplying arms and equipment to the Burmese military, including on Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus, India and Singapore.
The Karen Peace Support Network calls for targeted economic sanctions to be imposed at a much faster rate to cut the revenue to the military. Companies in business with the Burmese military are complicit in the international crimes being committed against us.
The Karen Peace Support Network calls for sanctions on the supply of aviation fuel to Burma. The majority of displaced people in Karen State are displaced by airstrikes or the threat of airstrikes, creating a humanitarian crisis. The Burmese military are using drones to identify targets such a villages and IDP camps, which they later attack using airstrikes or heavy artillery..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Peace Support Network
Date of publication:
2022-03-06
Date of entry/update:
2022-03-09
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"1. All People’s Defence Forces must be particularly mindful of the protection of children under 18, who are our future, and the alleviation of any and all potential physical and mental sufferings they may endure during this people’s resistance against the military council.
2. The Ministry of Defence under the National Unity Government has therefore published the following Code of Conduct and regulations to protect children under 18 during the people’s armed resistance.
(a) Protect and provide necessary support to all vulnerable groups including children, disabled people, women, and the elderly (Article 6, Code of Conduct for Civilian Relations)
(b) Ensure an absolute prohibition of any sexual act or violence against minors (Article 2, Code of Conduct regarding women and children)
(c) Never target and attack schools, hospitals, religious buildings cultural monuments, and public places (Article 3, Designation of Military Targets)
3. Moreover, the People’s Defence Forces need to ensure that they do not commit any of the six grave violations that are often committed against children under 18 during armed conflicts. These violations are as follows:
a) Killing and maiming of children;
b) Recruitment and use of children;
c) Sexual violence against children;
d) Abduction of children;
e) Attacks against on schools or and hospitals;
f) Denial of humanitarian access for children.
4. The People’s Defence Forces must be determined to avoid any occurrence of these six grave violations. They must take necessary measures to protect children from such breaches.
5. The People’s Defence Force and other armed groups under the Ministry of Defence of the National Unity Government are honourable security forces that follow international norms, laws and treaties. Thus, conscription of those 18 and over as members of security forces must follow the policy guidelines of the Ministry of Defence. If children under 18 are already in different stations for whatever circumstance, measures in accordance with additional guidelines must be carried out to protect them..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Defence - National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2022-03-04
Date of entry/update:
2022-03-08
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"1. The Ministry of Human Rights and the Ministry o f Women, Youths and
Children Affairs o f the National Unity Government (NUG) express their
outrage at the hostage-taking o f up to 80 children by military junta troops in
Yinmabin Township o f Sagaing Region.
2. On the morning o f 26 February 2022, junta forces targeted Chin Pone and
adjacent villages in Yinmabin Township with indiscriminate air strikes.
Subsequent raids on the villages followed.
3. At the time o f the attacks, up to 80 children, all under 12 years o f age and many
under five, were attending a kindergarten in Chin Pone village. Teachers
evacuated the children to the basement o f a nearby monastery, where they were
later located and have since been held hostage by junta troops.
4. Junta troops in Chin Pone village have reportedly broadcast threats over
loudspeaker, claiming that they will bum the village down unless locals that
fled the violence return. The children remain hostages in this threat. Given the
junta’s escalating acts o f terror and atrocity crimes against civilians, the NUG
holds well-founded fears that returning villagers would be killed, disappeared,
tortured or arbitrarily detained. It also holds grave fears for safety of the captive
ch ildren.
5. The NUG condemns in the strongest possible terms the junta's hostage-taking
of the children as well as their teachers and parents. It calls on the international
community to join its efforts to secure their immediate and unconditional
release.
6. The NUG also restates Myanmar’s commitment to its international obligations,
including under international humanitarian law and the Convention on the
Rights o f the Ch ild and its optional protocols. Children have a primary claim to
protection under international law, and their abduction and hostage-taking
comprises a grave violation..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Human Rights and Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs National Unity Government
Date of publication:
2022-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2022-02-28
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"ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ
လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ၀န်ကြီးဌာနနှင့်အမျိုးသမီး၊
လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန
အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုက ယင်းမာပင်မြို့နယ်မှ မူကြို
ကလေး ငယ် ၈၀ ဦးခန့်ကိုဓားစာခံအဖြစ် ဖမ်းဆီးထား
သည့်အပေါ် ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
၂၇ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၂၀၂၂
၁။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုသည် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၂၆ ရက်နေ့ မနက် ၉ နာရီခန့်မှစတင်၍ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း၊ ယင်းမာပင်မြို့နယ်၊ ချင်းပုံးရွာနှင့် နီးစပ်ရာ ကျေးရွာများကို စစ်ရေးနှင့် အရပ်ဘက် ပစ်မှတ်များကို မခွဲခြားပဲ လေကြောင်းမှနေ၍ ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များ ကျေးရွာများအတွင်းသို့ စီးနင်းခဲ့ချိန်သည် ချင်းပုံးရွာရှိ မူကြိုကျောင်းတွင် အသက်ငါးနှစ်အောက် ကလေးငယ် ၈၀ ဦးနှင့် ကွန်ပြူတာ သုံးစွဲမှု သင်ကြားနေသူ အသက် ၁၂ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးငယ်များ ပညာသင်ကြားနေချိန်ဖြစ်သည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်ဝင်ရောက်လာသည့်အတွက် ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမများက ကလေးငယ်များကို နီးစပ်ရာ ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်းဝင်းရှိ မြေအောက်ခန်းတွင်းသို့ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းခဲ့ကြပါသည်။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုတပ်ဖွဲ့များက ညနေပိုင်းတွင် ထိုကလေးငယ်များကို မြေအောက်ခန်းမှ ထုတ်၍ ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့သည်။ ထိုသို့ဖမ်းဆီးခံရမှုတွင် ပါဝင်သည့် ကလေးငယ်များကို မူကြိုကျောင်းမှ သွားရောက်ခေါ်ယူရန် ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့သည့် မိဘတချို့ကိုလည်း အကြမ်းဖက်တပ်များက ထပ်မံဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပါသည်။ ရွာသားများ ပြန်မလာပါက ရွာကို မီးရှို့ပစ်မည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း လော်စပီကာမှတဆင့် ကြေညာနေသည်ဟု သိရှိရသည်။
၂။ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် အမျိုးသမီး၊လူငယ်နှင့်ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့အနေဖြင့် ယခုဖမ်းဆီးမှုသည် ကလေးများကို ဓားစားခံအဖြစ် ဖမ်းဆီးထားမှုဖြစ်သည်ဟုယူဆသည်။ ထို့အပြင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရသော ကလေးများ၊ ဆရာဆရာမများနှင့် မိဘများအပေါ် တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ ထိခိုက်နိုင်မည်ကို အလွန်အမင်းစိုးရိမ်ပူပန်ပါသည်။ ယခုကဲ့သို့သောလုပ်ရပ်သည် ပဋိပက္ခကာလအတွင်း ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ်အကြမ်းဖက်မှုဖြစ်သည့်အတွက် အပြင်းအထန် ရှုတ်ချသည်။
၃။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုအနေဖြင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ၊ ဆရာဆရာမများနှင့် မိဘများကို ထပ်မံ၍ ကိုယ်ထိလက်ရောက် ထိခိုက်နာကျင်စေမှုမပြုပဲ ချက်ချင်းလွှတ်ပေးရမည်။ ကလေးသူငယ်များ၊ ဆရာဆရာမများနှင့် မိဘများ၏ ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ထိခိုက်မှုများ၊ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ထိခိုက်မှုများအတွက် ပြန်လည်ကုစားနိုင်ရေးအတွက် ရနိုင်သမျှသော နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးနိုင်ရန် မိမိတို့ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနများမှ ကြိုးပမ်းမည်။ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်း၊ နိုင်ငံတကာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့်လည်း ကလေးသူငယ်များ လွတ်မြောက်ရေး၊ ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းရှင်းရေး၊ လုံခြုံရေး၊ ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ ထိခိုက်မှုများကို ကုစားရေးအတွက် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီပေးကြပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs and Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2022-02-27
Date of entry/update:
2022-02-27
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"၁။ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၂၁)ရက်နေ့၊ ညနေ(၅း၀၀)နာရီဝန်းကျင်ခန့်တွင် မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ချောက်မြို့၊ ရွှေပုံတောင် စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေရေး နယ်မြေ၌ အသက်မပြည့်သေးသည့် ကလေးငယ်များ ဖြစ်သော အခြေခံပညာ ကျောင်းသားအချို့က စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး စာသားများ ပါဝင်သော စာရွက်များ ကပ်သည့် လှုပ်ရှားမှုတစ်ရပ်ကို ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ ပြုလုပ်စဉ်တွင် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အဓမ္မ ဖမ်းဆီးခြင်း ခံခဲ့ရပါသည်။ ထို့နောက် ဖမ်းဆီးခံလိုက်ရသည့် ကလေးငယ်များကို အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုက အကြမ်းဖက် နှိပ်စက်ပြီး အဆိုပါ ကလေးငယ်များ၏ သူငယ်ချင်း ကျောင်းသား/သူလေးများကိုပါ ဆက်လက်၍ အဓမ္မ ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပါသည်။
၂။ အဆိုပါ အဓမ္မ ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသော ကလေးငယ်များတွင် ခန့်မှန်းခြေအားဖြင့် အနည်းဆုံး အမျိုးသမီးငယ်လေး (၅)ဦးခန့် ပါဝင်ကြောင်းသိရှိရပြီး စုစုပေါင်း ကလေးငယ် (၂၀) ဦးခန့် ပါဝင်ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။ ၎င်းအသက်မပြည့်သေးသည့် ကလေးငယ်များကို အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုက အမျိုးသား လိင်အင်္ဂါကို ဆေးလိပ်မီးဖြင့် ထိုး၍ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ဆေးခြင်း အပါအဝင် လူမဆန်သော ယုတ်မာရက်စက်သည့် စစ်ကြောနည်းမျိုးစုံဖြင့် စစ်ဆေးနေကြောင်းကိုလည်း ကြားသိရပါသည်။
၃။ ထိုကဲ့သို့ အဓမ္မ ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသော ကလေးငယ်များသည် အဋ္ဌမတန်း၊ နဝမတန်း၊ ဒဿမတန်း၌ တက်ရောက်ပညာသင်ကြားနေကြသည့် အရွယ်မရောက်သေးသူများကြဖြစ်ပြီး ဖမ်းဆီး ခံရချိန်တွင်လည်း မည်သည့်လက်နက် တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ ကိုင်ဆောင်ထားခြင်းမျှမရှိဘဲ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး စာရွက်ကပ်သည့် လှုပ်ရှားမှုကို အကြမ်းမဖက်ဘဲ ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ ဆောင်ရွက်နေကြခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသည့် ကလေးငယ်များမှာ ကိုယ်စိတ်နှစ်ပါး ကျန်းမာရေး ဒေါင်ဒေါင်မြည် ကောင်းမွန်လှသည့် ကလေးငယ်များ ဖြစ်၍ ဖမ်းဆီးခံရပြီးနောက် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူမဆန်စွာ ရုပ်ပိုင်း၊ စိတ်ပိုင်း ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုများကြောင့် ၎င်းတို့၏ အသက်အန္တရာယ် ထိခိုက်နစ်နာမှုများ ခံရမည်ကို အလွန် စိုးရိမ်ရသည့် အခြေအနေတွင်ရှိပါသည်။
၄။ ယခုကဲ့သို့ အသက်မပြည့်သေးသည့် ကလေးငယ်များကို အဓမ္မဖမ်းဆီးပြီး လူမဆန်စွာ အကြမ်းဖက် နှိပ်စက်နေမှုများသည် ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေး၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများကို အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်အုပ်စုက ထပ်မံ၍ ပြောင်ပြောင်တင်းတင်း ချိုးဖောက်ခဲ့ခြင်း ဖြစ်၍ အဖမ်းဆီးခံရပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း အဖြစ်အပျက်အားလုံးကို အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုအနေဖြင့် တာဝန်ယူ/တာဝန်ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းနှင့် အဆိုပါ ကလေးငယ်များ အပါအဝင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရသော ကျောင်းသားပြည်သူများ၏ လွတ်မြောက်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အမြစ်ပြတ်သည်အထိ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ မကွေးလူထုတိုက်ပွဲကော်မတီက ဆက်လက်၍ အားထုတ်ကြိုးစားသွားမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်ပါသည်။
၅။ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေး၌ နိုင်ငံတစ်ဝန်း၌ ကျဆုံးခဲ့ရသော ပြည်သူများနှင့် ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရသော ကျောင်းသား ပြည်သူများ၏ ထိခိုက်နစ်နာမှုများအပေါ် တရားမျှတမှုကို ပြန်လည်ရယူနိုင်ရေးအတွက် စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် အမြစ်ပြတ်သည်အထိ တော်လှန်ရေးကိစ္စများ၌ မိဘပြည်သူများကလည်း ပူးပေါင်း ဝန်းရံ ကူညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးကြပါရန် တိုက်တွန်းနှိုးဆော်အပ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Magway People's Revolution Committee
Date of publication:
2022-02-23
Date of entry/update:
2022-02-23
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"Myanmar wishes to congratulate you for your election as the President o f the
Executive Board o f UNICEF. I would like to commend you for your able leadership.
I also wish to congratulate Ms. Catherine M. Russell for her appointment as the
Executive Director o f UNICEF and thank her for the comprehensive report. I look forward
to working closely with the Executive Director and her team in the work o f UNICEF.
I wish to join the previous speakers in expressing our deep appreciation to UNICEF
for its outstanding work in many areas in particular protection o f children and promotion
o f their rights and addressing many challenges children all over the world are facing.
On my country, Myanmar, we are happy to learn that UNICEF’s humanitarian
strategy focuses on delivery o f life-saving humanitarian assistance, to ensure continuity o f
critical services at scale and promoting durable solutions. We thank UNICEF for its
assistance even in the time o f crisis situation.
According to UNICEF, since the illegal military coup in Myanmar on 1 February
2021, at least 114 children between ages 3 and 17 have been killed by the military, 18
children in last month alone. The military jun ta ’s widespread and systematic violence
against the population, which as per the preliminary analysis by the UN Independent
Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) could amount to crimes against humanity,
includes, among others, attacks on education and medical personnel, torture o f arbitrary
detainees to death, blockage o f life-saving humanitarian assistance, burning houses and
religious facilities and massacres o f civilians including women and children.
2
The Christmas Eve massacre in Karenni State (Kayah State) on 24 December 2021
is one o f the many atrocities committed by the military. In the incident, at least 35 civilians
including women, children and two humanitarian response staff members o f Save the
Children were inhumanely killed and burnt by the military forces.
Many children all over the country especially in conflict affected areas need livesaving
humanitarian assistance, health care and education services. Therefore, I wish to
request the UNICEF to find all possible ways including cross border humanitarian
assistance to provide necessary assistance to those children in need.
We would like to request the donor states to help UNICEF by providing necessary
funding o f USD 151.4 million required by UNICEF in order to respond ably to the multisectoral
humanitarian needs o f children in Myanmar in 2022.
Here, I wish to stress that it is critically important to make sure that the assistance
reaches to the children in need..."
Source/publisher:
Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations (New York)
Date of publication:
2022-02-08
Date of entry/update:
2022-02-08
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"၁။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းသည် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြုလုပ်သော ကုလသမဂ္ဂကလေးများရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့ (UNICEF) အမှုဆောင် ဘုတ်အဖွဲ့၏ ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် ပထမအကြိမ် ပုံမှန်အစည်းအဝေး (Virtual) သို့ တက်ရောက်၍ မိန့်ခွန်း ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါသည်။
၂။ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ်၏ မိန့်ခွန်းတွင် အောက်ဖော်ပြပါ အဓိကအချက်များ ပါဝင်ပါသည်-
(က) ကမ္ဘာပေါ်ရှိ ကလေးများ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည့် စိန်ခေါ်မှုများ၊ ကလေးများအား ကာကွယ်ပေးရေး၊ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေး မြှင့်တင်ပေးရေးလုပ်ငန်းများတွင် ကောင်းမွန်စွာ ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးနေသည့် UNICEF ကို ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါကြောင်း၊ UNICEF ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီပေး ရေး မဟာဗျူဟာတွင် အသက်ကယ်တင်ရေး လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီပေးရေး၊ အရေးကြီးသည့် ဝန်ဆောင်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများ စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ်ရှိစေရေးတို့ကို အလေးထားသည်ကို သိရှိရ၍ ဝမ်းသာပါကြောင်း၊
(ခ) ကုလသမဂ္ဂကလေးများရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့ (UNICEF) ၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်အရ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် စစ်တပ်က တရားမဝင် အာဏာသိမ်းခဲ့သည့် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှ စတင်ကာ အသက် ၃ နှစ်မှ ၁၇ နှစ် အကြား ကလေးငယ် ၁၁၄ ဦးထက်မနည်း စစ်တပ်၏ သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းခံခဲ့ရပြီး ပြီးခဲ့သောလအတွင်းမှာပင် ကလေး ၁၈ ဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပါကြောင်း၊
(ဂ) ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ လွတ်လပ်သော စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု ယန္တရား (IIMM) ၏ ပဏာမလေ့လာဆန်းစစ်ချက်များအရ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်မှ ပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့်နှင့် စနစ် တကျ ကျူးလွန်သော အကြမ်းဖက်မှုများတွင် လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇ၀တ်မှုများ ဖြစ်သည့် ပညာရေးနှင့် ဆေးဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ထမ်းများကို တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း၊ မတရားချုပ်နှောင်ထားသူ များအား သေသည်အထိ ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ ပိတ်ဆို့ခြင်း၊ အိမ်များနှင့် ဘာသာရေး အဆောက်အအုံများကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း၊ အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များအပါအဝင် အရပ်သားများကို အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းများ ပါဝင်ပါကြောင်း၊
(ဃ) ကရင်နီပြည်နယ် (ကယားပြည်နယ်) ၌ ခရစ္စမတ်အကြိုကာလ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သော အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုသည် စစ်တပ်က ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သော ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုများစွာအနက် တစ်ခုဖြစ်ပြီး၊ အဆိုပါဖြစ်ရပ်တွင် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လူသားချင်းစာနာ ထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ခုဖြစ်သော Save the Children ၏ ဝန်ထမ်းနှစ်ဦးအပါအဝင် အမျိုးသမီး၊ ကလေးများနှင့် အရပ်သား ၃၅ ဦးထက်မနည်းကို စစ်တပ်က လူမဆန်စွာ သတ်ဖြတ်မီးရှို့ခဲ့ပါကြောင်း၊
(င) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ဒေသများ အထူးသဖြင့် ပဋိပက္ခဖြစ်ပွားရာဒေသများရှိ ကလေးအများအပြားသည် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုအကူအညီများ၊ ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်မှုနှင့် ပညာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ လိုအပ်နေပါကြောင်း၊ ထို့ကြောင့် ယင်းကလေးများအား လိုအပ်သောအကူအညီများ ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးနိုင်ရေး နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီများ အပါအဝင် ဖြစ်နိုင်သမျှ နည်းလမ်းအားလုံးကို ရှာဖွေ၍ ပံ့ပိုးပေးရန် မိမိအနေဖြင့် UNICEF အား မေတ္တာရပ်ခံပါကြောင်း၊
(စ) ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ ကဏ္ဍစုံလူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု လိုအပ်ချက်များကို ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးနိုင်ရေးအတွက် UNICEF မှ လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသော ရန်ပုံငွေ အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၁၅၁.၄ သန်း ကို UNICEF ထံသို့ ကူညီထောက်ပံ့ပေးပါရန် အလှူရှင်နိုင်ငံများအား မေတ္တာရပ်ခံပါကြောင်း၊
(ဆ) အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေသော ကလေးငယ်များဆီ အကူအညီများ အမှန်အကန်ရောက်ရှိစေရန်မှာ အရေးအကြီးဆုံးကိစ္စရပ်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့်အတွက် ယင်းအချက်ကို မိမိအနေဖြင့် အလေးပေးပြောကြားလိုပါကြောင်း၊
၃။ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် ပြောကြားခဲ့သည့် မိန့်ခွန်းအပြည့်အစုံ (အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ) အား ပူးတွဲဖော်ပြအပ်ပါသည်။
၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၈ ရက်
ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာ မြန်မာအမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖွဲ့ရုံး၊ နယူးယောက်မြို့။..."
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Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations (New York)
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2022-02-08
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2022-02-08
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"Thawdar*, 14, who had to flee her home due to violence, stands in a displacement camp in Kayah state. More content from Kayah state here and from Northern Shan state here.
One year since the Myanmar military seized power in a coup, the scale and severity of violence against civilians, including children and humanitarian staff, is escalating, Save the Children said today. In the past two weeks alone, children have been killed in several bombings and raids by the military in Kayah state[i] and Sagaing region[ii][iii][iv], including the bombing of a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kayah. In the past year, at least 150,000 children have been forced to flee their homes[v].
The UN Security Council must find ways to address the crisis and protect children from violence, attacks and displacement in Myanmar, the child rights organisation said.
Recent UN figures show at least 405,700 people have fled their homes due to fighting within Myanmar since the military seized power almost a year ago, with that figure increasing by 27% in just the past month. Of the total number of people displaced across Myanmar, an estimated 37% are children[vi], many of whom are living outside in the jungle under makeshift shelters and vulnerable to hunger, illness and protection risks, the aid organisation said.
Violence has particularly intensified in the southeastern state of Kayah in recent months, where last week two teenage sisters were among those killed in the bombing of an IDP camp. Recent UN figures show 91,400 people in Kayah state have fled their homes since February 2021, but local reports earlier this year said the more accurate figure is much higher – more than half its 300,000 population.
Thawdar*, 14, had to flee her village in Kayah and is now sheltering in an IDP camp. She remembers the scorching sun and the sound of gunfire on the day she fled.
She said: “When I was working on harvesting corn in the field, my aunt came and told us that we also need to flee as we heard the weapons loudly. It was urgent and we couldn’t take so many things. My mother packed some clothes, pots and plates. Then, we left our home.
“I was so worried and thinking on the journey, ‘What if weapons hit us?’ I have always been afraid of the soldiers, and I pray they don’t reach the camp. I never want to hear the sound of heavy weapons again.”
Thawdar*, her family and others in the camp rely on food donated by Save the Children and other local charities to survive.
Thawdar’s* mother Daw Merry*, 36, who has four children, said she constantly worries about meals and insecurity. She said: “If we do not have enough food to eat, what should we do? Sometimes I feel sad when I don’t have money to buy medicines or snacks my children want.”
Kayah state was also the site of an attack on at least 35 civilians, including four children and two Save the Children staff members late last year. The aid workers, both young fathers who were passionate about children’s education, were on their way back to their office after working on a humanitarian response in a nearby community when they were caught up in the attack.
Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, said: “Yet again we are seeing children bear the brunt of conflict. Over the past year, a shocking 150,000 children have been displaced across Myanmar. That’s 150,000 children who are separated from their friends, their schools, and their homes.
“Children and their families are fleeing because they have no choice, and we are seeing them forced to hide out in jungles and forests and living in terrible conditions. Save the Children teams are doing what they can to provide urgent assistance, but they have very little access to food, clean water and healthcare, let alone education. Children on the move are at heightened risk of trafficking, abuse, recruitment into armed groups, injury and death. Last week’s horrific attack on an IDP camp shows that children in Myanmar are caught between a rock and a hard place.
“The Myanmar military, as well as all other armed actors, must uphold International Humanitarian Law, protect children and keep them out of harm’s way, and provide unhindered humanitarian access.”
Prior to the coup, there were already 370,000 people displaced across the country, including tens of thousands of Rohingya children living in detention-like camps in Rakhine state. The situation for them and the nearly 500,000 Rohingya children and their families who have fled into Bangladesh remains fragile. The brutal tactics employed by the military in Myanmar are reminiscent of the atrocities committed against the Rohingya in 2017, according to Save the Children.
Inger Ashing said: “UN Security Council members must deliver on their shared responsibility to address the unfolding crisis in Myanmar.
“Member states must impose an arms embargo, with a focus on limiting the kinds of airstrikes we’ve seen recently. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) must also convene on an urgent meeting to review and action the ‘Five Point Consensus’ agreed in April 2021, which calls for an immediate cessation of violence in Myanmar and for the ASEAN Special Envoy to help mediate a diplomatic solution. These steps are vital to protect children, their communities and humanitarian aid workers.”
Save the Children has been working in Myanmar since 1995, providing life-saving healthcare, food, education and child protection programmes through more than 50 partners and 900 staff across the country. Save the Children has now resumed the majority of its programmes across Myanmar following the attack on 24 December 2021, and staff remain fully committed to helping the most vulnerable children in Myanmar, especially during this time of conflict and crisis.
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Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2022-01-28
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2022-01-28
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At least four children have been killed and multiple others have been maimed during an escalation of conflict over the past week in Myanmar, said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday
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"Last Saturday, the body of a 13-year-old boy was discovered in Matupi, Chin State, while a 12-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy were injured by heavy weaponry in Loikaw, Kayah State, following intense airstrikes and mortar attacks.
On the same day, a 7-year-old girl was injured by heavy weapons fire in Hpa An, Kayin State.
On 7 January, one 14-year-old and two 17-year-old boys were fatally shot in Dawei Township, in the Tanintharyi Region. And on 5 January, two young girls, aged 1 and 4, were injured by artillery fire in Namkham, Shan State.
International humanitarian law
In a statement, UNICEF Regional Director, Debora Comini, said the agency was “gravely concerned” by the escalating conflict and condemns the reported use of airstrikes and heavy weaponry in civilian areas.
UNICEF is also particularly outraged over attacks on children that have occurred across the country.
“Parties to conflict must treat the protection of children as a foremost priority and must take all steps necessary to ensure that children are kept away from fighting and that communities are not targeted”, Ms. Comini said.
According to her, this protection is required by international humanitarian law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Myanmar is a signatory.
Recalling other recent incidents, UNICEF called for urgent action to ensure independent investigations, so that those responsible can be held to account.
Unprecedented crisis
Overall, the people of Myanmar are facing an unprecedented political, socioeconomic, human rights and humanitarian crisis with needs escalating dramatically since the military takeover and a severe COVID-19 third wave.
According to a UN Humanitarian Needs Overview published in December by OCHA, the turmoil is projected to have driven almost half the population into poverty heading into 2022, wiping out the impressive gains made since 2005.
The situation has been worsening since the beginning of the year, when the military took over the country, ousting the democratically elected Government. It is now estimated that 14 out of 15 states and regions are within the critical threshold for acute malnutrition.
For the next year, the analysis projects that 14.4 million people will need aid in some form, approximately a quarter of the population. The number includes 6.9 million men, 7.5 million women, and five million children..."
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UN News
Date of publication:
2022-01-11
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2022-01-12
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The victims, all of whom were unarmed, included a disabled civilian and 10 members of local anti-junta guerrilla forces
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"This report contains disturbing images
Eleven unarmed people, including teenagers, were captured and massacred by junta soldiers in a village in Sagaing Region on Tuesday, shortly before locals found the smoldering remains of their burnt bodies.
Some 100 soldiers raided Done Taw in Salingyi Township at around 11am after guerrilla fighters detonated explosives in an attack against a military convoy travelling nearby, local media reported.
Villagers found the badly charred bodies of the 11 victims in a pile, some with their hands tied, leading many to assume they were burned alive.
“The victims were taking shelter in a makeshift hut while running away from the military raiding their village,” said someone who is helping to organise their funerals. “The soldiers found them, beat them up and burned them.”
Done Taw is near the Letpadaung copper mine, which is owned by the military conglomerate MEHL and a Chinese company named Wanbao.
The Salingyi G-Z Local People’s Defence Force (PDF) also said the victims were burned alive after the soldiers beat them.
The leader of the Done Taw PDF, a self-organising anti-junta guerrilla group, added that the 11 were unarmed when they were captured. “They beat them to the brink of death and burned them alive before they died. Some of them are not even 18,” he said.
It is unclear if there were any eyewitnesses to the incident and Myanmar Now was unable to immediately confirm the exact circumstances of their deaths.
The victims were all male and included a 40-year-old with paraplegia and five teenagers under the age of 18, while the rest were aged 30 or younger, according to a list compiled by the Done Taw PDF.
The paraplegic man was the only victim who was not a member of the Done Taw PDF, the leader said.
Most of the victims were unrecognisable from being so badly burned, he added, except for 17-year-old Than Myint Aung, who was identifiable from his ear piercing.
All 10 PDF members worked as volunteers helping Covid-19 patients before joining the resistance against the junta, he added.
A video filmed by locals showed a group of burnt bodies lying in various positions in a pile of ashes with smoke still rising from the remains of what appears to have been a hut.
“Motherfucker,” says one of the people in the video, using a Burmese phrase that plays on the spelling of military chief Min Aung Hlaing’s name. “They’re not even recognisable anymore.”
The soldiers found the 11 victims on a betel farm at around 11am, around which time villagers heard gunshots and saw smoke rising from near that area, the PDF leader said. “They didn’t know that the soldiers were coming there until it was too late,” he said.
He added that he believed the victims were not shot dead.
Villagers were still fleeing for their safety when they gave accounts to Myanmar Now in the chaotic aftermath of the killings.
The 11 victims “were running through the farm and got shot and were taken to the hut where they were burned,” said a Done Taw villager.
Another local said she saw a monk get shot in the arm when soldiers started firing from the North Yamar bridge at around 7am.
“I saw the monk get shot with my own eyes,” she told Myanmar Now. “I heard that the bullet went neatly through his arm. I didn’t get to see his arm though.” The monk was not one of the 11 who were caught and he survived the gunshot, she added.
Early on Tuesday morning the Done Taw PDF attacked a convoy of military vehicles using three homemade explosives near the North Yamar bridge, which is about 300 meters from the village.
After the attack, soldiers began searching for the assailants in nearby woodlands, the PDF leader said. The soldiers were then seen entering the village from near the Pathein-Monywa road at 8am, according to other locals.
Their arrival led to people fleeing from nine villages in Salingyi and neighbouring Yinmabin Township, including Done Taw, Kyay Sarkya, Kan Kone and Aung Moe.
“They marched into the region on foot via the North Yamar bridge. They had a car with them as well. They also fired heavy and light weapons in the area,” said a villager from Kyay Sarkya village, which neighbours Done Taw.
Done Taw has only one entrance and exit route, through the Shwe Myin Tin farm on the bank of the Chindwin river, locals said. The lack of escape routes was likely the reason the 11 victims were captured, they added.
A local man living close to Done Taw said the soldiers who terrorised the area stationed themselves on Tuesday evening on Laynhyin hill, about a mile away from Done Taw.
The Done Taw PDF gave Myanmar Now a list naming ten of the 11 victims. They are: Arkar Soe, 14; Hsan Min Oo, 17; Than Myint Aung, 17; Kyaw Thet, 17; Chit Nan Oo, 19; Win Kaw, 20; Htet Ko, 22; Zin Min Tun, 22; Tin Naing, 30, and U Soe, 40.
The unnamed eleventh victim was 17 years old, the group said.
Earlier this year junta soldiers massacred dozens in the Sagaing township of Kani..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-12-07
Date of entry/update:
2021-12-08
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"Soldiers have been accused of killing 13 people from a village in central Myanmar, 11 of whose burned bodies were discovered on Tuesday.
The incident occurred near the city of Monywa, after local militias opposing military rule carried out at least two bomb attacks on a military convoy.
Locals say soldiers then swept through nearby villages, rounding up and killing six men and five teenagers.
The military junta is yet to comment on the incident.
Locals say that people's defence forces volunteers - armed groups formed to resist military rule in towns and villages - from the area planted two improvised explosives on a road used by the military in an attempted attack.
One of these devices detonated early, killing the two men planting it. When the second device exploded, two more men were reportedly detained and shot dead.
Residents allege the military then swept through nearby villages, rounding up and capturing six men and five teenage boys, who were in hiding. Their hands were tied, and they were shot before their bodies set alight.
Armed volunteer people's defence forces in towns and villages in Myanmar have carried out hundreds of bombings and assassinations targeting officials working with the military government after the violent suppression of pro-democracy rallies made peaceful protest almost impossible.
What is the background to the violence?
Mass protests had broken out across Myanmar after the military seized control of the South East Asian country in February and declared a year-long state of emergency following a general election.
The military claimed there had been widespread fraud during the election late last year, which had returned elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to power. The election commission has dismissed these claims.
Since then, the military has engaged in a brutal campaign of repression, killing at least 1,303 people in the demonstrations and arresting more than 10,600.
Earlier this week, Ms Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in prison for inciting dissent and breaking Covid-19 rules, in the first of a series of verdicts that could see her jailed for life.
Monywa is also close to a controversial Chinese-owned copper mine, which has provoked protests from local villagers going back 10 years over grievances that the Chinese company operating it, Myanmar Wanbao, is in a joint venture with a conglomerate controlled by the Myanmar military..."
Source/publisher:
"BBC News" (London)
Date of publication:
2021-12-08
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2021-12-08
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"The number of children killed by Myanmar’s military regime has risen to at least 100, following the fatal shooting of a five-year-old girl on Monday night by junta forces in Mandalay.
Local residents said the girl was shot in the head when regime soldiers fired random shots in her neighbourhood in Mandalay’s Chanmyathazi Township. The indiscriminate shooting came after a bomb attack on the Aung Tharyar ward administration office around 8pm on Monday.
“We live near the ward administration office. We heard an explosion first, then gunshots. A five-year-old girl from the nearby betel stand was shot dead. They also fired shots at people near the scene. People had to rush into their houses and turn off their lights,” a local resident told The Irrawaddy.
Junta soldiers guarding the ward administration office fired randomly after two men on a motorbike threw a bomb into the building.
Residents living close to the scene reported junta troops shouting, “If you want democracy, stay under military rule” as they opened fire.
The five-year-old was the third child in Chanmyathazi Township to be killed by junta soldiers since the military’s February 1 coup. In March, Khin Myo Chit, six, was shot dead while sitting on her father’s lap during a regime raid on her home. The same month, Tun Tun Aung, 14, was fatally shot in the chest by soldiers when he left his house to fetch water while helping his mother with household chores.
At least six children were killed by regime forces last month. A 17-year-old was shot dead by junta troops after going outside to watch a military convoy passing through Myaung in Sagaing Region.
Wai Thu Aung, 16, from Magwe Region was shot dead while playing a game in his village with other young people. Another youth was beaten and arrested.
The parallel National Unity Government’s Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs reported that 98 children, ranging in age from just one to ten-years-old, had been killed by junta forces as of November 17..."
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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
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2021-12-07
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2021-12-07
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"For Immediate Release
DATE: 24 November 2021
Civilians in Myanmar have unjustly been subjected to systematic human rights violations perpetrated by the military junta for decades. A new briefing paper by the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma), “Democracy Derailed in Myanmar,” details how the junta has curtailed attempts for democratic reform in Myanmar.
A failed attempt at seizing control of the country by the Myanmar military on 1 February 2021 has left the country in desperate need of humanitarian assistance alongside worsening economic and social crises. With over 3 million civilians lacking critical life-saving materials including food, water and shelter in the midst of raging internal conflict, the Myanmar Generals have effectively left the most vulnerable in oblivion. Villages under martial-law, amid sweeping restrictions on movement and access to information, has made basic survival a daily challenge.
Among ND-Burma’s findings, ongoing conflict in urban and rural areas, as well as the suppression of fundamental freedoms, including that of the press, and the mishandled COVID-19 response has led to the conclusion that the junta is on a war-path which includes the destruction and annihilation of anyone or anything that stands in their way. Using evidence collected by ND-Burma members including the Chin Human Rights Organization and the Human Rights Foundation of Monland, and desk-research, it is abundantly clear that long held impunity is emboldening the junta to commit state-wide atrocities.
Any government which uses violence to suppress basic rights and freedoms must be condemned in the harshest possible terms. It is unacceptable that civilians are fearing for their lives in the midst of a brutal, militarized civil war. Longstanding calls for their protection must be heard, and freedom of expression must not be used to derail civilian rights.
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Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma
Date of publication:
2021-11-24
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2021-11-24
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"၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့
ဆယ်စုနှစ်များနှင့်ချီ၍ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်မှ စနစ်တကျ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ကို မြန်မာပြည်သူများသည် လက်မခံဘဲ ဆန့်ကျင်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးမှတ်တမ်းကွန်ရက် (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ) (ND-Burma) မှ ထုတ်ပြန်သည့် “ဒီမိုကရေစီလမ်းကြောင်းပေါ်မှ လမ်းချော်ခဲ့သောမြန် မာ” အစီရင်ခံစာတွင် အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အုပ်စုက မြန်မာ့ဒီမိုကရေစီ အကူးအပြောင်းအား မည်သို့ ဟန့် တားနှောင့်ယှက်နေသည်ကို တင်ပြထားသည်။
မြန်မာစစ်တပ်မှ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ရက်တွင် အာဏာသိမ်း၍ တိုင်းပြည်အာဏာကို မတ ရား ရယူပြီးနောက် အလွန်စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ် လူသားချင်းစာနာသည့် အရေးပေါ်အကူအညီများ လိုအပ်ခြင်း နှင့်အတူ လူမှုရေး စီးပွားရေး ချွတ်ခြုံချ ဆိုးရွားလာသည်။ ပြင်းထန်သည့် ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ကြောင့် ပြည်သူ ၃ သန်းခန့်မှာ စားရေ ရိက္ခာ၊ ရေနှင့် နေထိုင်စရာ အပါအဝင် လူ့ဘဝအသက်ရှင်သန်ရေး အ တွက် လိုအပ်သည့်အထောက်အကူပစ္စည်းများ ကင်းမဲ့ ချို့တဲ့လျှက်ရှိပြီး စစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးများသည် ထိခိုက်နစ်နာ အလွယ်ဆုံးသူများအားလည်း မေ့လျော့ပစ်ထားကြသည်။
စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဥပဒေအောက်ရှိ ရွာသားများမှာ ခရီးသွားလာခွင့်နှင့် သတင်းအချက်အလက်ရရှိမှု အပေါ် တင်းကြပ် ကန့်သတ်ခံရခြင်းကြောင့် နေ့စဥ် အသက်ဆက် ရှင်သန်ရေးအတွက် အခက်အခဲ များနှင့် ကြုံတွေ့ရသည်။
ND-Burma မှ တွေ့ရှိချက်အရက် ကျေးလက်နှင့် မြို့ပြများတွင် ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေသည့် တိုက်ပွဲများ၊ သတင်းလွတ်လပ်မှုအပါအဝင် အခြေခံလွတ်လွပ်ခွင့်များကို ဖိနှိပ်ခြင်းနှင့် ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါကို ထိရောက်စွာ မကိုင်တွယ် မဖြေရှင်းနိုင်တို့က စစ်အာဏာရှင်တို့သည် ကြမ်းကြုတ် ရက်စက်ပြီး ၄င်းတို့ရပ်တည်မှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်သည့် မည်သူ့ကိုမဆို သုတ်သင်ချေမှုန်း ဖျက်ဆီးမည်ကို ပြသ နေသည်။ မွန်ပြည်လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းနှင့် ချင်းလူ့အခွင့်အရေးအဖွဲ့အပါအဝင် ND-Burma အဖွဲ့ဝင်များမှ သက်သေအထောက်အထားများ မှတ်တမ်းတင် စုဆောင်းမှုအရ စစ်တပ်သည် ကာလကြာရှည် အသုံးပြုနေသည့် အပြစ်ရှိသူများအပေါ် အပြစ်ပေး အရေးယူခြင်းမရှိမှုကြောင့် နိုင်ငံနှင့်ချီ၍ ကျယ်ပြန့်သည့် ကြမ်းကြုတ်ရက်စက်မှုများကို ဆက်လက်ကျူးလွန်နေသည်မှာ ထင်ရှားသည်။
မည်သည့်အစိုးရမဆို အခြေခံအခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်များအပေါ် အကြမ်းဖက် ချိုးဖောက် လာပါက အပြင်းထန်ဆုံး စကားလုံးများဖြင့် ပစ်တင်ရှုံ့ချရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ ကြမ်းကြုတ် ရက်စက်ပြီး စစ်အင်အား တိုးချဲ့ချထား တပ်လွှမ်းမိုးသည့် ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ကြောင့် ပြည်သူများသည် ၄င်းတို့ဘဝ ဘေးကင်း လုံခြုံစိတ်ချရရေးအတွက် စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်နေရသည်မှာ လက်ခံနိုင်စရာ အကြောင်းမရှိပေ။ ၄င်းတို့ဘဝ လုံခြုံစိတ်ချရရေးအတွက် ကာလကြာရှည် တောင်းဆိုနေမှုကို မဖြစ်မနေ နားထောင်ရ မည်ဖြစ်ပြီး လွတ်လပ်စွာထုတ်ဖော်ပြောဆိုခွင့်မှာလည်း နိုင်ငံသားအခွင့်အရေးမှ လမ်းချော်သွားရမည် မဟုတ်ပေ။..."
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Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma
Date of publication:
2021-11-24
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2021-11-24
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"It is an honour to join you today as the National Unity Government’s (NUG)
Minister of Human Rights. It is a great pleasure to be with you in Parma and I
join my colleagues in thanking you for the invitation.
The Myanmar people have shown tremendous courage in opposing the
military junta through civil disobedience and organised resistance. Tragically,
this has come at the cost of lives and freedoms. Your support continues to give
us strength.
Human rights situation in Myanmar
Myanmar is facing a human rights catastrophe. Since the military junta
launched its failed coup d’etat on 1 February, it has committed some of the
worst crimes against the Myanmar people.
At 13 November 2021:
• at least 1260 civilians had been killed, many of them children
• at least 7251 people were in detention, with reports of deaths in custody,
torture and mistreatment, sexual violence, and the denial of medical
treatment • and a total of 65 people - including 2 children - had received death
sentences.
• Arrest warrants had been issued for another 1954 people.
Furthermore, over the past 10 months:
Children have been taken hostage with their family members, tortured, and
killed in the street.
Villages In Chin State, Karenni State, Sagaining Division, Magwe Division and
Tenessarim Divisions have been targeted with air strikes and artillery, and set
ablaze.
Entire communities have been displaced, resulting in new waves of Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs), some driven into neighbouring countries.
And COVID-19 has been weaponised by the junta, with medical treatment and
COVID-19 vaccines withheld in an attempt to gain military advantage.
Furthermore, these crimes have been accompanied by the military’s infamous
“four cuts strategy”, which has cut off communities and presumed insurgents
from funding, food, intelligence and recruits, including through internet
blackouts.
This has raised a genocide alarm in Chin State and Kareni State, and there is
limited time for the international community to act. Left unchecked, we could
see atrocities on an unprecedented scale in modern Myanmar. A determined
international response is required.
This is a perfect storm of violations. And, significantly, these acts comprise
crimes against humanity because:
• They are widespread and systematic
• They have been directed against civilians • And they have been conducted with the knowledge and at the orders of
the junta leadership.
And, as we meet here today, there is every indication that these atrocities will
escalate. The Special Rapporteur on Myanmar has also warned that the
military’s tactics in the country’s north and northwest are “ominously
reminiscent" of those it used before its genocidal attacks against the Rohingya
in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017.
Crimes against humanity
In September 2021, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights held the
military responsible for a 'human rights catastrophe' that included widespread
and systematic violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.
Also in September, the Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for
Myanmar (IIMM) told the UN’s Human Rights Council that analysis of collected
materials showed that the military's crimes were 'widespread and systematic
in nature'.
More recently, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar confirmed to the UN
General Assembly that the Myanmar military had engaged in probable crimes
against humanity and war crimes.
1. Actions taken by the NUG
The NUG has taken a series of steps to bring these crimes to the world’s
attention and to pursue accountability. For instance:
(a) The NUG continues to report on the human rights situation through public
reports, statements, and by engaging with UN fora and experts, including
the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, the IIMM, and the UN’s Human Rights
Office
(b) The NUG has submitted an Article 12(3) Declaration to the International
Criminal Court (ICC). This Declaration accepts the ICC’s jurisdiction over
international crimes committed in Myanmar since 1 July 2002
(c) The NUG is cooperating with the International Court of Justice in The
Gambia vs. Myanmar hearing on the Genocide Convention
(d) And the NUG has developed a Code of Conduct to ensure that all defensive
actions respect international norms.
2. Recommendations
Despite the scale and nature of the military’s atrocities and their clear threat to
international and regional peace and security, an international response has
been tragically lacking.
There are three immediate steps that Italy, as part of the international
community, can take in support of the Myanmar people:
(1) NUG recognition
The first step, also raised by the Minister of Health and Education, is NUG
recognition. This recognition is a critical step to stopping the atrocities, to
protecting civilians, and to holding perpetrators to account. Here, following
efforts by the EU Parliament, the French Senate and the US Congress, the
Italian Parliament could recognise the NUG as the official Government of
Myanmar, and pressure the Italian Government to do the same. The General Assembly’s Credentials Committee is currently considering
Myanmar’s representation. Italy also has a vital role to play at the General
Assembly and in other UN fora.
(2) Accountability
The NUG continues to urge the Security Council to adopt a resolution that
targets impunity, supports accountability efforts, and starves the junta of cash
and arms. The Italian Government could publicly and politically support these
efforts.
(3) Humanitarian response
As the Minister of Health and Education outlined, humanitarian assistance -
including medicines and vaccines - is urgently needed.
Conclusion
As a final point, the Italian public and media also have incredibly important
roles to play through awareness raising, keeping attention on the situation in
Myanmar, and through encouraging their political representatives to act in
support of the Myanmar people.
I thank you again for your solidarity and support..."
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Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2021-11-16
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2021-11-16
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"Joint Statement by the UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Dr. Najat Maalla M’jid
The 1 February military takeover, led by the Commander in Chief of the Tatmadaw, halted Myanmar’s peaceful democratic transition and caused a violent ongoing multi-faceted crisis with grave impacts for children and their future. In the absence of peaceful and inclusive dialogue to end this situation, and the lack of unified international response, the United Nations continues to receive alarming reports of a growing number of children and youth seeking to join armed groups, while others have been displaced, detained, or are suffering.
The abuse of children by all parties to the conflict in Myanmar has increased notably through the recruitment use and killing and maiming of children, in addition to ongoing attacks on schools and hospitals and protected personnel. The arbitrary detention of children is also a serious concern, while all children in Myanmar and those displaced by the fighting are experiencing various degrees of violence including mental and physical degradation. We urge all parties in Myanmar to immediately stop all child rights violations, retain, and enact domestic legislation criminalizing the six grave violations, promote all aspects of the Child Rights Law, and engage collectively in the protection of children from the ravages of conflict, including the prevention of their recruitment and use.
The delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance for children in Myanmar has also been impaired by the crisis mainly through access and security constraints, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unrestricted humanitarian access to children must be granted through all existing channels in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. The United Nations calls on all parties to exercise utmost restraint to protect children and to respect their responsibilities under international law. Children should never, under any circumstances, be recruited or used in hostilities. The prohibition of the six grave violations against children in armed conflict must guide prevention efforts in Myanmar.
The desperate situation of children in Myanmar and those displaced in neighboring countries, in particular the Rohingya children in Bangladesh, demands greater attention from the international community as well as from regional actors. The protection of children’s rights should remain a key priority by all stakeholders across the globe. Violence against children including their use and abuse by parties to armed conflict in Myanmar must stop. The children of Myanmar have the right to no less..."
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Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar and Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Date of publication:
2021-10-29
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-30
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"စစ်တပ်မှအာဏာသိမ်းလိုက်သည့် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ၊ ၁ ရက်နေ့မှ စက်တင်ဘာလထိ ၈ လတာ ကာလအတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အမျိုးသမီးများအပေါ် စစ်တပ်မှ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် အမျိုးသမီးအခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှု အခြေအနေများကိုတင်ပြထားသည့် အစီရင်ခံစာကို အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့ပူးပေါင်း၍ ယနေ့ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။
စစ်အာဏာရှင်လက်ထက်တွင် အမျိုးသမီးထုသည် အသက်ဘေးရင်ဆိုင်နေရခြင်းများအပြင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုအမျိုးမျိုးကိုလည်း ကျူးလွန်ခံနေရပါသည်။ နိုင်ထက်စီးနင်းပြုကျင့်ခံနေသည့် အမျိုးသမီးထု၏ ဆုံးရှုံးနစ်နာမှုများကို ဖော်ထုတ်တင်ပြရန်၊ အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်များ၏ လူမဆန်သည့်ကျူးလွန်မှုများကို ထိရောက်စွာအရေးယူနိုင်ရန်၊ အမျိုးသမီးထု၏ အခွင့်အရေးကို ထိရောက်စွာ ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်နိုင်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်၍ ဤအစီရင်ခံစာကို ပြုစုထုတ်ပြန်ရခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Human Rights and Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs National Unity Government
Date of publication:
2021-10-21
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-21
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National Unity Government (NUG), 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Women's rights
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"Responding to the latest escalation of violence in Myanmar, including harm done to children, Save the Children said:
“Reports that children have been injured by the military, including in Northern Shan, should be met with sadness, outrage but also urgent action to better protect children across Myanmar.
“We are particularly disturbed by the potential use of heavy weapons, which there have been signs of in recent weeks, which not only risk killing and injuring children, but can also destroy homes, civilian infrastructure like schools and hospitals and displace entire communities.
“This is in addition to the detention and abduction of children, which is also being reported. The children who have been killed, injured, displaced, and who have witnessed this violence are entitled to protection, but have instead become targets.
“This incident, like many others which have taken place over recent weeks and months, is evidence of a deepening crisis in Myanmar. Not only have Myanmar children had to contend with multiple waves of COVID-19 over the last 18 months, but violent incidents affecting large numbers of children have continued to rage across the country.
“The military coup and subsequent humanitarian crisis continue to fundamentally threaten children’s human rights. With the education and health systems failing, food security deteriorating and the economy in freefall, urgent steps are required to bring peace, stability and safety into Myanmar children’s lives – especially the most vulnerable and those who have been displaced.
“Ultimately, to prevent violations against children all those involved in clashes and violence must take proactive steps to respect and uphold children’s rights. This goes beyond avoiding civilian casualties, and includes measures to get children back into education, to provide unimpeded humanitarian access, and to support children with the mental health and psychosocial impact of this complex crisis. Myanmar children have shown incredible strength and resilience, but cannot be expected to keep carrying such a heavy load.
“As such, with our local partners, Save the Children is prioritising a response which focuses on reinstating as much learning as possible, provides food assistance to those who need it the most, and supports children with their mental and physical health and wellbeing. As we have done since 1995, we will continue to do our utmost for and with Myanmar children in compliance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, independence, impartiality and neutrality.”..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2021-10-14
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-14
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Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: resources and organisations
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"A large proportion of more than 76,000 children in Myanmar who have been forced to flee their homes since the February coup could go hungry as their families share a single meal per day, Save the Children has warned.
Citing the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, the charity said on Monday that around 206,000 people have been displaced by violence since the coup.
Of them, 76,000 are children and many are sheltering in forests during torrential rain under tarpaulins without enough food, it reported.
“While the world’s attention has moved on, a hunger crisis is unfolding in Myanmar,” Save the Children said. “Children are already going hungry and very soon they will start to succumb to disease and malnutrition.”
Myanmar is seeing growing popular resistance to military rule in response to attacks on peaceful protests.
The junta has retaliated with brutal raids on villages suspected of harboring resistance fighters while torching houses and making arbitrary arrests, particularly in Sagaing and Magwe regions, Chin and Kayah states.
While the displaced people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and food, delivery of aid is often blocked or restricted by the junta.
A volunteer at a displacement camp in Kayah State said hunger was a huge concern for displaced families.
“In the beginning, they received public donations or from charities that were helping people in the camps. But now donations are limited because people are being prevented from going to the camps. Some rice bags were donated and every family got just five cups. That’s not much for a family of seven people to live off,” the volunteer told Save the Children.
In Kayah State, around 22,000 people fled their homes in September alone, according to the UN, which said more than 79,000 people, including around 29,000 children, are displaced in the state.
Earlier this year, the World Food Programme estimated that the number of children in the country going hungry could more than double to 6.2 million this year, up from 2.8 million in February..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2021-10-04
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-06
Grouping:
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2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Anti-coup protesters, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups.
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"Monday 4 October 2021 – More than 76,000 children[i] in Myanmar have been forced to flee their homes since the coup on 1 February as armed conflict has erupted in several parts of the country, Save the Children said today.
Most of the displaced children are living outside in the jungle, with nothing but tarpaulins held up with bamboo sticks to protect them from the torrential monsoon rain. Many families do not have adequate food supplies and are sharing just one meal between them per day, Save the Children said.
Since the coup, 206,000 people have been displaced across the country. In Kayah State in southeastern Myanmar – a displacement hotspot - around 22,000 people fled their homes in September alone, according to the UN. More than 79,000 people – including around 29,000 children – are currently displaced in the state[ii]. One town, Demoso, has been left completely empty after its entire population fled violent clashes there last month.
A UN human rights envoy warned in June that Kayah State could see “mass deaths from starvation, disease, and exposure”. With access to food and life-saving services blocked, displaced families were reported to have been living on only rice broth.
Cherry*, 33, has been living in a displacement camp in a forest since she fled her home in Demoso Township five months ago with her husband and their two children. The family is living under a small makeshift tarpaulin shelter. Cherry* is pregnant with her third child, and faces the prospect of giving birth outside without access to medical care.
“I cannot even describe in words the pain I feel,” Cherry* told Save the Children. “My delivery date is close, and I’m so worried about the baby because I’m living in this camp. I can’t even think about eating nutritious food, as we have to eat whatever we can get. I’m also worried about what I’m going to feed my baby after its born. All we have is donated food and we have to eat whatever there is – it’s not the right food for a baby.”
In many parts of the country aid agencies have been unable to reach families in need due to ongoing conflict and restrictions on delivery of aid. Many displaced families are relying on donations from local people for food and essentials.
U Tun* and his family fled their home with nothing when fighting in their hometown of Demoso escalated in May. The family is unable to return home as their house was set alight in the conflict along with everything they own.
“I was only able to bring a few important identity documents, and I fled with my family. Now, we are living on a hill in a temporary shelter. It is very difficult to get food and we have to rely on donations because all of our property was destroyed and we can’t go home. Other people here are also suffering like us,” U Tun* told Save the Children.
Save the Children warned that thousands of displaced children could go hungry without urgent food aid. Some 60% of Kayah families surveyed by Save the Children in April said they relied on farming as their primary source of food, but had been uprooted from their farms by the conflict.
Earlier this year, the WFP estimated that the number of children in the country going hungry could more than double to 6.2 million in the next six months, up from 2.8 million prior to February.
Esther*, a volunteer at a displacement camp in Kayah State, said hunger was a huge concern for displaced families.
“In the beginning they received some donations from local people or charities that were helping people in the camps. But now donations are limited because people are being prevented from going to the camps. We got some bags of rice bags donated, and when we divided it, every household got just five cups of rice per family. That’s not much for a family of seven people to live off for long,” Esther* told Save the Children.
Save the Children said:
“While the world’s attention has moved on, a hunger crisis is unfolding in Myanmar. Tens of thousands of children across the country who have fled their homes are living outside in jungles or sheltering in temples, many of them with nothing but a tarpaulin sheet to protect them from the torrential monsoon rains. Families are living on next to nothing, sharing just one meal a day between six or seven people. Children are already going hungry, and very soon they will start to succumb to disease and malnutrition.
“Displaced families urgently need tents, food, clean water, medical care and sanitation. Our teams will continue doing everything they can to get children and their families the help they need, but we urgently need access to displaced families to deliver our life-saving services.
“As long as the violence continues, more families will be forced to flee in search of safety. We call on all parties to protect children’s rights and keep them out of harm’s way. This goes beyond protecting them from the dangers of conflict – children need to get back to school, and they need support to process the trauma they have experienced. Myanmar children have shown incredible strength and resilience, but they cannot be expected to keep carrying such a heavy load.”
Save the Children and its partners in Myanmar are providing food assistance and essential items to families who need it most. It provides life-saving health and nutrition services, as well as getting children back into learning and supporting them with their mental and physical health and wellbeing..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2021-10-04
Date of entry/update:
2021-10-04
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Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights and international relations, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"1. It has been nearly eight months since entire Myanmar people staged Spring
Revolution opposing Myanmar military' s February 1 coup. The National Unity
Government has also declared a nationwide state of emergency to wage a
"people's defensive war" against the military.
2. The military regime has been continuously committing human rights violations
since the coup, and evidence of its systematic, deliberate and widespread
human rights violations points to international crimes. The oppressed are
revolting in various ways against those atrocities.
3. The National unity Government has established military code of conduct and
rules of engagement for People’s Defense Force to ensure they respect human
rights and avoid inflicting harm on innocent civilians in the revolt.
4. Under no circumstances, violence shall be used against innocent civilians,
particularly the vulnerable groups including women, children, the elderly and
the disabled. It is clearly stated in international human rights laws that women
and children must be given special protection during conflicts. Our ministry is
working together with international community to document the regime's
human rights violations including those against women and children, and to
hold perpetrators accountable under the law.
5. Thus, ordinary civilians including the vulnerable groups such as women,
children, the elderly and the disabled must be protected from harm anywhere,
anytime and under any circumstances. Every armed unit and group has
responsibility not to harm them.
6. We urge respective armed groups around Myanmar that are revolting in their
own ways against the military regime to exercise due caution not to violate
international human rights laws..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry o f Human Rights
Date of publication:
2021-09-26
Date of entry/update:
2021-09-27
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National Unity Government (NUG), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Anti-coup protesters, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"1. It has been nearly eight months since entire Myanmar people staged Spring
Revolution opposing Myanmar military's February 1 coup. The National Unity
Government has also declared a nationwide state of emergency to wage a
"people's defensive war" against the military.
2. The military regime has been continuously committing human rights violations
since the coup, and evidence of its systematic, deliberate and widespread
human rights violations points to international crimes. The oppressed are
revolting in various ways against those atrocities.
3. The National unity Government has established military code of conduct and
rules of engagement for People’s Defense Force to ensure they respect human
rights and avoid inflicting harm on innocent civilians in the revolt.
4. Under no circumstances, violence shall be used against innocent civilians,
particularly the vulnerable groups including women, children, the elderly and
the disabled. It is clearly stated in international human rights laws that women
and children must be given special protection during conflicts. Our ministry is
working together with international community to document the regime's
human rights violations including those against women and children, and to
hold perpetrators accountable under the law.
5. Thus, ordinary civilians including the vulnerable groups such as women,
children, the elderly and the disabled must be protected from harm anywhere,
anytime and under any circumstances. Every armed unit and group has
responsibility not to harm them.
6. We urge respective armed groups around Myanmar that are revolting in their
own ways against the military regime to exercise due caution not to violate
international human rights laws..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2021-09-26
Date of entry/update:
2021-09-27
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Individual Documents
Category:
National Unity Government (NUG), Children, Anti-coup protesters, Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Human Rights Defenders, Women's rights, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Six months since the military coup in Myanmar, the situation for families is worsening as a wave of COVID-19 rages across the country and children are unable to access medical care and education, Save the Children warns.
Save the Children said many children in Myanmar may lose caregivers as the death toll from COVID-19 is rising rapidly and the rate of positive testing, reportedly over 37%, ranks among the highest in the world - even though positive cases and deaths are severely underreported.
So far more than a million children around the world have lost a parent to COVID-19, and a total of 1.5 million have lost either a parent, a grandparent who helped care for them or some other relative responsible for their care, according to a study published in The Lancet this month.
In Myanmar, the health system has virtually collapsed since the coup began on February 1 and vaccinations remain largely unavailable in a country wracked by disease, poverty and violence.
Entire families are falling sick with COVID-19, with family members desperately struggling to access treatment, medicine, emergency oxygen and other medical supplies that are in short supply for relatives and friends, while prices have skyrocketed.
In the absence of sufficient health care options and threatened by violence, pregnant women are being forced to give birth under appalling circumstances, including while hiding in the jungle from armed soldiers.
Children killed and detained
According to the UN, 75 children have been killed since the coup began, though the actual number of fatalities is thought to be much higher. More than a third of these deaths were of children aged under 16. The youngest was an 18-month-year-old girl, who was killed when a military vehicle hit her father’s motorbike after he refused to stop while taking her to hospital.
At least 104 children, some as young as seven, remain in detention, many in Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison, where a serious outbreak of COVID-19 has been reported. Last month, a 17-year-old boy reported that he was tortured almost to death while being held in an interrogation centre. On 24 May, two boys, aged 15 and 17, were sentenced to death by the courts after they were accused of killing a pro-military informer. Their cases have since been referred to the juvenile court where they are again awaiting sentencing.
In addition to those killed or injured, Save the Children is concerned that countless more children are being deprived of essential medical care and education amid the surge in COVID-19 cases which is devastating the country. Regular vaccination campaigns for children have also stalled, and nearly 1 million children have been unable to receive essential vaccinations in Myanmar since the coup (UN).
The economic situation of many families is growing increasingly desperate. A survey by Save the Children among nearly 1,500 households across seven regions found the crisis was affecting the ability of about 75% of households to meet basic needs. About 34% of respondents reported a total loss of income in the months after the coup. The World Bank predicts an 18% drop in GDP this year, while ILO estimates that 2.2 million jobs have been lost since the start of the year.
Save the Children said:
“Soon after the coup six months ago we spoke of a ‘nightmare scenario’ unfolding. That scenario is now playing out before our eyes and it is far worse than we could have predicted. Not only have children witnessed and experienced violence and horror that no child should ever see, but they are now also losing caregivers and family members due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is rapidly plummeting the country further into chaos. The complex and by now chronic crisis is taking a heavy toll on the mental health and well-being of millions of people, including many children.
“Save the Children calls for an end to the violence in Myanmar and a strong, coordinated and decisive effort by the international community to help address the ongoing crisis, especially the COVID-19 situation. Both the UN Security Council and ASEAN have no more time to lose when it comes to Myanmar. ASEAN should urgently take action during its upcoming formal meeting on August 2. The bloc must do everything it can to make sure that violations against people in the country cease, including against children, and find a regional solution to this crisis.
“People in Myanmar are showing admirable resilience and strength, but they cannot weather this perfect storm on their own. Help is urgently needed.”..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2021-07-30
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-31
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"Children’s rights in Myanmar are facing an onslaught that risks leaving an entire generation damaged, the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) has warned.
Since the military coup, 75 children have been killed, about 1,000 arbitrarily detained and countless more deprived of essential medical care and education, according to credible information obtained by the Committee.
“Children in Myanmar are under siege and facing catastrophic loss of life because of the military coup,” Mikiko Otani, Chair of the CRC, said. The Committee monitors the compliance by States parties to the Child Rights Convention. Myanmar acceded to the Convention in 1991.
The Committee strongly condemned the killing of children by the junta and police. Some victims were killed in their own homes, including a six-year old girl in the city of Mandalay, who was shot in the stomach by police and died in her father’s arms.
The CRC also deplored the arbitrary detention of children in police stations, prisons and military detention centres. The military authorities have reportedly taken children as hostages when they are unable to arrest their parents. Among those detained is a five-year-old girl in the Mandalay region whose father helped organize protests against the junta.
“Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day. They have guns pointed at them, and see the same happen to their parents and siblings,” Otani warned.
The Committee is profoundly concerned at the major disruption of essential medical care and school education in the entire country, as well as access to safe drinking water and food for children in rural areas.
The UN Human Rights Office has received credible reports about hospitals, schools and religious institutions being occupied by security forces and subsequently damaged in military actions.
According to UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, a million children in Myanmar are missing key vaccinations. More than 40,000 children are no longer getting treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
“As a result of the military coup and conflicts, children’s right to life, survival and development have been repeatedly violated,” said Otani.
“If this crisis continues, an entire generation of children is at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic consequences, depriving them of a healthy and productive future.”
The Committee called for immediate action to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis and urged Myanmar to uphold its obligations under the Convention to protect and promote children’s rights to the utmost degree..."
Source/publisher:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of publication:
2021-07-16
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-16
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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Aung Swan Pyae, 12, was detained with his father and five others at a tea shop on Tuesday
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"Junta soldiers detained a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday along with six others, including his family members, after resistance fighters clashed with the military near Mandalay International Airport.
Aung Swan Pyae was taken from the Shwe Kyal Zin tea shop as troops raided his village of Ohnbin Chan in Sintgaing Township. Thirty-two-year-old Min Thu Tun, who is the boy’s father and owns the teashop, was also arrested.
The other detainees were Min Thu Tun’s wife, Tin Nwe Hlaing, his brother-in-law, and three of his employees, a local resident said.
Early on Tuesday morning, junta soldiers exchanged fire with fighters from the Sintgaing People's Defense Force (PDF) near the airport in Tada-U, a second resident said on condition of anonymity.
During the shootout, a junta soldier was killed and a PDF fighter was arrested, he said, adding that the soldiers then went to nearby Ohnbin Chan and raided a hut where someone lived.
“Within half an hour of the shootout, they raided the house and a nearby tea shop. I feel sorry for those arrested, including the kid. They were not involved in the shooting,” he said.
Junta forces reportedly found handmade explosives at the hut and searched the tea shop because they suspected Min Thu Tun had helped the person who lived in the hut, the first resident told Myanmar Now.
The seven are being kept at a detention centre in Sintgaing and some are still being interrogated, said a lawyer representing them.
Aung Swan Pyae will have a court hearing on Monday, while the trial against the adults will begin on July 16. “It is not yet known which charges they will have to face,” the lawyer said.
The Sintgaing police station could not be reached for comment.
The junta has repeatedly arrested young children as part of its crackdown against both peaceful and armed resistance to its rule.
Last month regime forces detained a four-year-old girl along with her mother and 17-year old sister when they were unable to find the girl’s activist father in Mogok. She was released after spending her fifth birthday in detention.
Dr Htar Htar Lin, the former head of Myanmar’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, was arrested early last month along with her husband, her seven-year-old son, and the family dog. Their whereabouts are still unknown..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-07-09
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-09
Grouping:
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The death of a toddler in Kengtung has highlighted the impact of the regime’s violence on even the most innocent
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"Moe Thandar was an adorable toddler who had just learned how to ask for things she wanted by raising her hand.
She was the firstborn daughter of Than Soe Aung and Nandar, a young couple from Kengtung in Shan State. She had just turned 14 months old and was the pride and joy of her family.
“Although she couldn’t speak yet, she would always gesture at us with her mouth when she was hungry and wave at animals and say ‘come, come’ whenever she saw them,” said her 23-year-old mother, Nandar. “If we called out to her to come to sleep, she would bring her own pillow and lie down.”
But in a country thrown into crisis by a military coup, even a child of Moe Thandar’s age and innocence can fall victim to the spiral of violence that has gripped Myanmar.
On the day that she died, her father was taking her to see a doctor for her diarrhoea. But as he was navigating the streets of Kengtung on his motorbike, he ran into a convoy of regime forces that was patrolling the town.
It was then that he became involved in a collision that knocked both him and his daughter off the motorcycle. Moe Thandar suffered a head injury that claimed her life a few hours later.
It was a devastating loss for her parents. But exactly what led to that tragic accident has become the subject of a lawsuit that now threatens to deprive Nandar not only of her child, but also of her husband.
True to its practice of avoiding accountability for its actions, the regime has blamed Than Soe Aung for his daughter’s death. In a case that has attracted considerable attention on social media, he is now facing trial for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The case has also highlighted the impact of the coup on some of Myanmar’s youngest citizens, who like many others have been caught up in the regime’s indiscriminate use of force to impose its will on the nation.
‘Pure agony’
Nandar said that her husband was sleeping soundly after a hard day of work as a cargo handler when she woke him up late in the evening of June 19 to tell him that their daughter needed medical attention.
“It was past 9pm that day. Our baby had diarrhoea all day, so my husband got up to take her to a doctor. He left on the motorbike, really worried about her,” she said.
With his daughter cradled in his left arm, Than Soe Aung set off to find a clinic that was still open at that late hour. When he couldn’t find one, he stopped at his uncle’s house to ask for help. He left there at around 10pm to return home.
It was near a restaurant called Shwe Nagar that he encountered the three-vehicle patrol convoy, which included military and police personnel, as well as the local general administrator.
What happened next is in dispute, but according to a police report circulating on the internet, Than Soe Aung failed to stop when one of the patrol vehicles blinked its headlights at him to signal that he should pull over for inspection.
However, another account offered by township police claims that the motorbike crashed after hitting the side of the car driven by the deputy chief of the township General Administration Department (GAD).
A third version of events—the one offered by Than Soe Aung himself, and conveyed to Myanmar Now through his wife—is that a car struck his motorbike from behind as he was trying to dodge a police car coming towards him on the wrong side of the road.
According to Nandar, a witness to the incident told her that her husband was also beaten by police and soldiers after being knocked off his motorcycle.
“He had to scream ‘I have a child here! I have a child here!’ in order for them to let him go pick our daughter up. Even then, it took quite a while to find her,” said Nandar, citing the witness.
“It was pure agony. I couldn’t even believe my own ears when I first heard about it.”
A second blow
After the couple got permission to collect their daughter’s body from the morgue at the Kengtung People’s Hospital, they held a funeral for her at the cemetery right away.
“I cried my eyes out. She was all we had. This whole incident filled me with rage and hatred,” recalled Nandar.
But before they could even begin to grieve, the now childless couple received another blow at the hands of the authorities.
When they returned to their home at around 5:30pm after spreading their daughter’s ashes in the river, a community leader arrived to summon them to the police station. That’s when they arrested Than Soe Aung.
“We begged them to wait just seven days so that we could hold a memorial service for our daughter. But they just wouldn’t let us,” said Nandar.
Than Soe Aung now faces up to seven years in prison for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder”—an offence under Section 304a of the Penal Code that applies to cases of impaired driving that result in death.
The move has outraged local citizens, who believe that the GAD official was the one responsible for the accident, and who should therefore be facing charges.
Despite her own anger over the incident, however, Nandar says she has no desire to press charges against anybody for what happened.
“I don’t want to file a lawsuit. We’re just day labourers. We don’t have that much money. Besides, if we sued [the GAD official], he would have to serve seven years. He’d lose his job. He’s got a family and children of his own,” she said.
Now living alone in the small apartment that they had rented for 500,000 kyat (about $300) a month, Nandar said she wouldn’t wish her fate on anybody, even those who had inflicted this suffering on her family.
“I think it was unfair that I had to lose my daughter and see my husband go to prison, but there is nothing I can do, is there? I just hope my husband will be released soon,” she said.
Innocent victims
However the case proceeds, it has served as a reminder for many of the toll that the coup has taken on children.
According to the United Nations, more than 60 minors under the age of 18 have been killed by regime forces since the military seized power five months ago. Many others have been injured.
Most were not involved in protests. Many happened to be in public places when police and soldiers were cracking down on demonstrators, while others were gunned down in their own homes during raids.
On the same day that Moe Thandar lost her life, Pho Thingyan was shot dead while running away from soldiers who suddenly appeared while he was playing in Yangon’s Bahan Township. He was just 13 years old.
Less than a month earlier, on May 27, a 14-year-old teen named Sunday Aye was shot in the head while fleeing from soldiers during a raid on the village of Kayan Thar in Kayah State’s Loikaw Township.
Kayah State is one of several areas, including Chin State and Sagaing Region, where the deployment of military forces to crush armed resistance to the coup has resulted in massive displacement of local civilians.
In many of these areas, illness is rife among the elderly and the very young due to a lack of access to basic shelter and healthcare. There have also been reports of infants and children dying due to harsh living conditions...."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-07-05
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-05
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"Since the military seized power in February, it has been committing various crimes on a daily basis, including unlawful arrests, murder and torture. This brutality has even been targeted towards children and infants. According to AAPP’s data, a total of 72 children, who were eighteen years old and under the age of eighteen, have now been killed since the coup. These are the deaths verified by AAPP, the actual number is likely to be much higher. The names and ages of children who were killed by military artillery and air strikes in the ethnic areas remain unconfirmed and are yet to have been added to the list. The military has killed children as young as one years old.
Below are the recorded deaths of children within 11 States and Divisions. Mandalay Division has recorded the highest number of child fatalities, with 24 children being confirmed to have been killed. The second highest was Yangon, with 20 confirmed child deaths. The junta murdered 48 children in March alone. 11 of the 72 children killed died from gunshot wounds to the head.
On February 20, Maung Wai Yan Tun, 16-years old, was protesting in Thinbawgyin, Mandalay against the detainment of workers involved in the anti-coup movement. The military regime cracked down on this strike, shooting and injuring a civilian with live ammunition. The injured civilian was rescued in a handcart by other protestors, including Maung Wai Yan Tun. Whilst pushing the handcart to help save this civilian, he was shot by junta forces. He died on the same day.
Maung Khant Nyar Hein, was a 17-year old, first year medical university student, and a member of the defense team during a protest against the coup in Tamwe Township, Yangon Division on March 14. He was shot by junta troops, who then dragged him away. He died on the same day. Junta forces also beat and arrested a young woman who came to help him when he was shot.
On March 27, Ma Aye Myat Thu, a 11-year old, grade six student was shot unprovoked to the ear by junta troops as she played in front of her house. She died within the hour, in Thukhawadi Ward, Mawlamyine Township.
Maung Aung Kyaw Htwe, a 17-year old, and his friend were hit by a military vehicle, without reason as they rode a motorbike at the intersection of Pyigyitagon, Mandalay, and Chanmyathazi and Patheingyi Road on June 6. Both of them died that night. The dead body of Maung Aung Kyaw Htwe was recovered, however, his 18-year old friend was not identified, and the name could not be confirmed.
Ma Moe Thandar Aung, was just 1-year and 6-months old, from Kengtung Township, Shan State. On June 19, she fell sick, so her father took her to the clinic at around 9 pm. On their way back, the military signaled to stop them, however because her father was carrying his daughter in his arms, he was unable to stop suddenly. Because of this, the deputy administrator of the General Administration Department from Kengtung Township hit the motorbike with his vehicle. Both father and daughter were severely injured, and his daughter, Ma Moe Thandar Aung, was pronounced dead within minutes.
The unprovoked shooting and killing of children are a grave violation of the law and of human ethics. This inhumane act committed by this brutal regime can have no justification. These horrific actions prove that the regime will stop at nothing to oppress civilians.
In 1991, Myanmar signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in 2012 signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (CRC-OP-SC). The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AC) was first signed in 2015 and later ratified in 2019. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (CRC-OP3-IC) has not yet been ratified. The infliction of bodily harm or killing of children during armed conflict has been defined as criminal under Myanmar’s domestic child rights law.
The United Nations and its affiliates have regularly monitored Burma’s human rights record. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have adopted a number of resolutions towards furthering human rights in Burma. Since 1992, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been compiling data on human rights abuses in Burma. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has also made a number of recommendations concerning the condition of human rights in Burma. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has also compiled and released reports on children’s rights in Burma. The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), which formed in March 2001, and the Independent inquiry Mechanism (IIMM), established in 2018 also have collated data and records of children in Burma. As well as this, Amnesty International, the independent international Human Rights Watch (HRW) and ICRC have also documented reports on the abuse of children in Burma. Human rights organizations throughout Burma have also published reports and suggestions related to children’s rights abuses in Burma.
Despite the fact that Burma has signed both international, and domestic law, safety and security of children of Burma is under significant threat by the junta regime. The junta are now in part control of child protection mechanisms, including the courts. Children are now unprotected by the law and are in constant danger under the junta. This undermines all the vital work that has been done by international organizations, NGOs and domestic charities within Burma to ensure the rights of children. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners urges international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, to take effective action against the military group, which commits horrific crimes upon children..."
Source/publisher:
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Date of publication:
2021-06-25
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-26
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"Wherever they are and wherever they go, Rohingya children in south and southeast Asia
face discrimination, exclusion, and denial of their most basic rights. For most of these
children, these challenges begin in Myanmar, where the Rohingya community has suffered
decades of state-sponsored persecution and violence. However, even after Rohingya
families have left Myanmar – often in search of safety or a better life for themselves and
their families – Rohingya continue to experience unequal treatment and denial of their
rights, which over time has exposed them, their children, and their children’s children to
ever-widening cycles of deprivation and marginalisation.
This report examines the situation of Rohingya
children in five countries in southeast and south
Asia: Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand,
and Indonesia. As places of origin, transit, and/or
destination, these countries are home – either
permanently or temporarily – to hundreds of
thousands of Rohingya children. All countries are
required under international law to respect, protect,
and fulfil these children’s human rights. Yet too often
these rights are denied.
Based on in-depth desk research, key informant
interviews, and analysis of national laws, the report
examines three areas affecting Rohingya children’s
lives and enjoyment of their rights: legal status and
access to identity documentation; access to
education; and risks to security and wellbeing, in
addition to other child protection concerns. While
not intended as a comprehensive examination of the
situation, the report seeks to provide a snapshot of
the challenges – in law, policy, and practice – that
prevent Rohingya children in these countries from
living their lives in safety and with dignity, equality,
and respect for their rights.....LIFE ON THE MARGINS:Based on publicly available information and estimates
by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and
other credible sources, there are close to
700,000 Rohingya children in the five countries
covered by this report. Rohingya boys and girls live
lives on the margins of society across the region.
Most lack any formal legal status – deprived of the
right to a nationality in Myanmar and effectively
rendered stateless as a result. Most Rohingya
children inherit their de facto statelessness from their
parents and – when they grow up – go on to pass it
on to their children, perpetuating cycles of exclusion
and marginalisation. Rohingya children also often
struggle to access birth registration, which means
they often have often no official record that they
even exist. Failure to provide children with birth
certificates exposes them to a range of age-related
abuse and exploitation and can prevent them
from exercising other rights and receiving legal
recognition and protection as children.
Across the region, Rohingya children struggle
to access comprehensive, quality education. The
reasons for this are varied and wide-ranging. In
some countries, discriminatory policies prohibit
Rohingya children from accessing formal education,
while in others, policies which on paper should
facilitate access to education are not enforced or
fully implemented. In several countries where access
to formal education is restricted, United Nations
(UN) agencies, NGOs and Rohingya community
groups have stepped into provide informal education; however, quality varies and lack of
resources – including adequate funding, facilities and
teaching staff – poses significant challenges.
While primary-level education is generally more
available, lack of schools and limited financial
resources mean that secondary level students
often struggle to continue their studies. Even
when they do, education is often not accredited,
which means that children leave school with no
officially recognised qualification. Adolescent girls
experience greater difficulties going to school as
cultural attitudes deprioritise girls’ education and
they face greater threats to their physical safety
when traveling long distances to the nearest
school. As a result, girls are much more likely to
drop out of school, placing them at greater risk
of early marriage and adolescent pregnancy.
Without education, children grow up with limited
opportunities to build a better life for themselves,
and this can have devastating impacts on their
emotional and psychological well-being. It also
seriously limits their ability to earn an income,
often condemning them to a life of poverty..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children (London)
Date of publication:
2021-06-22
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-22
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The woman was one of more than 40 people arrested following an arson attack on a village primary school
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"A woman from Yangon Region’s Hmawbi Township who was beaten by soldiers after they found protest photos on her phone has had a miscarriage, according to local residents.
The woman, who was two months pregnant, was one of more than 40 people arrested in connection with a fire that broke out at a primary school in the village of Sein Shwe Kone on June 14.
She was arrested and beaten later the same day when a photo of her at a protest was discovered on her mobile phone.
“They found that picture and took her away. They used a device to check her phone, so that even deleted pictures were recovered,” a resident of the village said.
“She took photos during protest rallies. The authorities asked for the home addresses of those in the pictures. They used the phone to hunt the protesters,” the villager added.
The woman was released on June 16 and is currently receiving medical treatment, residents said. Myanmar Now was unable to contact her directly at the time of reporting.
A female resident said that the soldiers arrived a few hours after the fire broke out and demanded to know who in the village had ties to the National League for Democracy (NLD).
“The soldiers came and rounded everyone up. They asked a few people about the arson attack. When the villagers said they didn’t know anything about it, the soldiers wanted to know who in the village was associated with the NLD and who participated in protests. The soldiers beat the villagers until they got the answer,” the woman said.
Residents said that 10 people were arrested on the day of the fire and more than 30 others were taken into custody two days later. Anyone who was found to have liked posts about the NLD on Facebook was arrested, according to residents.
Many others in the village of roughly 1,000 people were also subjected to questioning.
“They said they would interrogate everyone until they found out who the arsonist was,” said one young resident who was among those who were temporarily detained.
“They said that if we tried to evade arrest, they would give our parents trouble. At night, I just had to sit at home and wait for my turn,” she said.
Another resident said that soldiers also examined the list of households in the village to see which ones had children who were not enrolled in school.
“Whenever they found a child who was not enrolled in the school, they beat the child’s parents,” said the villager.
Most of those who were detained were also subjected to beatings, residents said.
“First they hit them five times with a bamboo stick and asked them who the arsonist was. If they said they didn’t know, they were beaten 10 times with the stick. Then 15 and 20 times if they still said they didn’t know,” said one villager.
An activist in Hmawbi said that he could not confirm how many people had been released because some were reluctant to share information out of fear of re-arrest.
A state-run newspaper reported on June 18 that 56 textbooks, three dozen notebooks, and several pieces of furniture were destroyed in the fire.
Junta-controlled media has accused alleged terrorists with links to the NLD of bombing schools and carrying out attacks against teachers and students.
Local People’s Defence Forces loyal to the ousted NLD government have denied targeting civilians in their campaign to pressure the regime to give up power..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-06-21
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-21
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Women's rights, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"Myanmar saw 103 schools and other education facilities attacked and often damaged by explosives in May this year alone, new data from Save the Children reveals, as armed forces continue to occupy schools and university campuses across the country.
Explosive devices such as IEDs and hand grenades were reportedly used in the vast majority of incidents where bomb blasts occurred in and around schools, posing a serious risk to children and teachers. The blasts reportedly killed and injured several people and severely damaged education facilities across the country.
The shocking figures come as deeply disturbing images emerged on social media this week of armed soldiers in class rooms, apparently encouraging young children to hold guns. Armed forces have also occupied at least 60 schools, and university campuses across the country since March.
These attacks cause yet more disruption to education in Myanmar, where more than 12 million children have already lost more than a year of education as a result of COVID-19-related school closures. Over two million of these children were already out of school before the pandemic.
Following the military coup on 1 February, children’s education has been marred by political strife and conflict, Save the Children said, with almost daily attacks on schools and widespread teacher lay-offs. Local media reports have suggested that only one in four children returned to school since they officially re-opened on 1 June.
One nine-year-old boy from Magway, a region in central Myanmar, said:
"Our school didn't open this year. When I see other children going to school, I want to go too. But I’m afraid because I heard guns and bomb blasts at my school. I don't like bomb blasts and guns shooting at school, because [I’m scared that] the school will be on fire and students will die. If there were no more soldiers and bomb blasts at school, I want to go back."
A 10-year-old girl, also from Magway, said:
“I wasn't able to go to school for the whole of last year because of the virus. And this year I dare not go. I want to go to school, but I’m scared. Although the school gates are closed, there are soldiers inside, and I’m afraid of the soldiers. I’m afraid that there might be a bomb blast at our school while we are there."
Save the Children said:
“Save the Children is appalled by these attacks, which not only put the lives of children in danger, but also further compromise what is already a disastrous situation when it comes to children’s learning in Myanmar. Schools are protected places of learning for children that must be free from attacks at all times. Attacks on schools constitute a grave violation against children, and no school should be deliberately targeted.
“We are also deeply concerned by the images that have emerged of armed soldiers in classrooms. Armed soldiers have no place in schools or other learning spaces. Under no circumstances should children be made to hold weaponry of any kind. This highly irresponsible behavior by armed personnel is unacceptable, it puts children at risk and violates international standards for safe education.
“Save the Children urges all parties involved to put the best interests of children first. All children have the right to a safe education – a right that is safeguarded by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), both of which apply to Myanmar.
“Learning spaces must be made safe again for children and appropriate measures to limit the possible spread of COVID-19 must be implemented. Save the Children calls for everyone in Myanmar who has an interest in children’s wellbeing to step up and make their safety and learning a priority.”
Save the Children and its partners are investing in safe, quality and inclusive learning opportunities for children in Myanmar across a range of options. It is also providing mental health support for children affected by the crisis..."
Source/publisher:
Save the Children via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-06-11
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-11
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"H.E. Dr. Sasa's address to Japanese Parliamentarians, Professors and Researchers - ဒေါက်တာဆာဆာ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးနှင့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသူ မှ ဂျပန်ပါလီမန်အမတ်များထံသို့ ပန်ကြားလွှာ - ミャンマー国民統一政府 国際協力大臣兼ミャンマー広報担当 ササ医師の日本の国会議員とのセミナーにおける演説 (仮訳) 2021 年6月6日..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar
Date of publication:
2021-06-06
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-08
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Category:
National Unity Government (NUG), Japan-Burma relations, Human Rights and international relations, Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Japanese language version of H.E. Dr. Sasa's address to Japanese Parliamentarians, Professors and Researchers - ミャンマー国民統一政府 国際協力大臣兼ミャンマー広報担当 ササ医師の日本の国会議員とのセミナーにおける演説 (仮訳) 2021 年6月6日..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar
Date of publication:
2021-06-06
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-08
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Category:
National Unity Government (NUG), Japan-Burma relations, Human Rights and international relations, Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"Konnichiwa!
Thank you for having me, I am really grateful to you all for giving me this opportunity. The brave people and National Unity Government of Myanmar greatly appreciate the People, Parliament and Government of Japan for standing with us at this critical moment in our history. This is the darkest of hours and the most pivotal moment in the history of Myanmar. While the fate and future of Myanmar hangs in the balance,
the strong and continued support from the people, parliamentarians, and Government of Japan and its International alliance are absolutely crucial in stopping this reign of terror and great tragedy in Myanmar. More than ever before, the 54 million courageous citizens of Myanmar need the continued strong friendship and coordinated support and recognition from the people, parliamentarians and Government of Japan in fulfilling the hopes, aspirations and dreams of those who
have suffered so much for far too long under the hands of the brutal and cruel military generals and their regime.
I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate my sincere thanks to the People, Parliament and Government of Japan for standing in solidarity with the 54 million citizens of Myanmar in this very difficult time in our history. Thank you for being a strong voice for the people of Myanmar and extending the visas for our grateful citizens living in Japan. Thank you for your leadership at G7 on behalf of the people
of Myanmar, and for the recognition of CRPH and NUG as important voices of the people of Myanmar. Thank you for joining countries that have imposed an arms embargo in solidarity against the cruel and ruthless military junta in Myanmar. The duty of a nation’s military is to defend and protect its people. However, under the command of Min Aung Hlaing, the supposed guardians of our nation are doing
precisely the opposite of their duty and continue arbitrarily murdering and detaining the brave and innocent civilians of Myanmar without cause on a daily and hourly basis. The people of Myanmar unanimously consider Min Aung Hlaing and those who
report to him as terrorists and perpetrators of crimes against humanity. It has been four months since Min Aung Hlaing and his gunmen instigated this illegal coup d’etat and took the nation hostage.
Since the 1 st of February 2021: Nearly 900 civilians have been murdered by the junta, including at least 72 children. Nearly 6,000 civilians have been arrested by the junta, and over 1,900 are evading arrest warrants. I have been charged with high treason
by these military generals who are in fact the ones committing high treason against the people of Myanmar themselves. The junta continues using the ASEAN Summit as a propaganda tool while the junta forces make daily raids on private homes in villages,
towns, and cities across the nation. The torture and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians under the junta forces continue. They have abolished free media outlets in the vain attempt to stop the truth from getting out. Harassment and imprisonment of
journalists continue under the junta. We are however thankful to courageous Japanese journalist Mr. Yuki Kitazumi for his bravery in reporting the true situation inside the prisons that he observed while illegally detained. We were all relieved by the news of his release, but more than 40 more journalists remain behind the junta’s
cruel prison bars. The violence we are seeing by the junta is both systematic and widespread. It is clear that they are engaging in crimes against humanity against by using heavy battlefield weapons against unarmed civilians. They have been purchasing these weapons from
China and Russia, among other countries by using the stolen wealth of the people and Country of Myanmar. As a result, Myanmar is now quickly becoming a failed state: Nearly a million people have become displaced, food insecurity is rising sharply, and the UNDP is predicting that over half of the population of Myanmar (approximately 27 million people) will be living in poverty within a year. The WFP
analysis has also shown that more than 3 million people in Myanmar are going to face hunger in the coming months, while so many have already had to flee their homes and are facing hunger hiding in the jungle. It will be heart breaking to count the number of deaths caused by not only the deepening crisis of violence, but also by
the tragedy of poverty and hunger that has begun.
We, the sovereign citizens of Myanmar, are doing all that we can to prevent these great tragedies of violence, genocide, criminal atrocities, poverty and hunger by courageously and peacefully resisting the junta’s efforts to cause us maximum pain, suffering, death and destruction. They continue trying to take away our freedom and
democracy with their blood-stained battlefield weapons. The peaceful Civil Disobedience Movements (CDM) led by dauntless medical and health workers, schoolteachers, students, activists, and joined by hundreds of thousands of civil servants and private sector workers continues unabated. Make no mistake, this is the most powerful peaceful movement ever to rise against a military junta. Day after day
the defenseless people of Myanmar march across the nation and continue to demonstrate enormous valiancy in the face of the murderous and oppressive military dictators. This peaceful movement has even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, however, this peaceful movement deserves not only the Nobel Peace prize, but
also the full support of the People, Parliamentarians and Government of Japan, and the international communities. The citizens of Myanmar have initiated strong domestic sanctions against the junta through this peaceful movement of CDM, strikes and other acts of civil disobedience.
We are boycotting junta produced goods, and a large percentage of civil servants are refusing to support the junta’s work. The sanctions that have been imposed to date by Japan and the International Community have been a helpful start to supporting
our domestic efforts. While the brutal crackdown by the junta and its forces continue, opposition to the junta remains strong and unanimous among the people of Myanmar. However, greater help and support from the people, Parliament and Government of Japan and its allies from the international community are vitally important.
We have three core requests to present to the People, Parliament and
Government of Japan and its allies from around the world:
1) Engage with the National Unity Government as the sole legitimate
representative of the people of Myanmar. We are comprised of leaders elected in Myanmar’s democratic November elections as well as leaders of ethnic states and regions. The people of Myanmar recognize us as the sole legitimate government and our hope is that you will also work with us as the sole legitimate government of Myanmar as well.
2) Help us address a growing humanitarian crisis. We need aid. The National Unity Government knows how to get aid to where it needs to go. A humanitarian crisis is growing due to conflict and the spread of COVID-19. Myanmar’s economy is in collapse and millions are already, or at risk of being, without water, food, sanitation, shelter and medicine. (UNWFP estimates 6.4m people will be without
food in Myanmar by October 2021). We desperately need aid for 1) FOOD SECURITY, 2) HEALTH 3) SHELTER, 4) EDUCATION:
3) Help us put more financial pressure on the junta. It is critical for the nations of the world who stand with us to band together in a coordinated campaign of further sanctions that would cut the flow of revenue to this murderous regime. We are respectfully requesting that the Government of Japan ensure that no funds from any entity under the control of Japan, whether public or private, be allowed to
continue to be transferred to the Junta, its business entities, leaders or their families. The largest source of revenue to the junta, the oil and gas sector, remains unscathed by the international community. Coordinated and targeted sanctions and legislation would make a clear legal obligation for companies to stop the flow of this revenue to the junta. We must not continue to allow this illegal junta to
spend the wealth of the people of Myanmar in murdering the people of Myanmar. Therefore, the Government of Japan and the International Community must place sanctions against Myanmar Oil and Gas and all state-owned enterprises, including the transfer of dual use technology, and impose an international arms embargo and a strict no-fly-zone above the territory of Myanmar by whatever
means necessary. These measures are critically vital to prevent civil war and another genocide in Myanmar. Our National Unity Government Myanmar is ready, willing and able to help in all of
these coordinated efforts. This is the first time in the history of Myanmar that there has been a National Unity Government with the full support of the people. We need the endorsement, recognition, acknowledgement and engagement from the Government of Japan and the free countries and leaders from around the world who
believe in freedom, justice and democracy. This is the first time in our history that elected members of Parliament, political parties, ethnic leaders, ethnic armed organizations and grass roots civil society organizations have come together as one united people to oppose the common enemy. This is the greatest opportunity of the
century. We must then seize upon this window of opportunity and put an end to this wicked, illegitimate regime, and begin afresh with a transparent and inclusive federal democratic union of Myanmar. As the true legitimate and democratically elected Government of Myanmar, the National Unity Government of Myanmar is here to help
generate the will of the brave people of Myanmar by whom, and for whom it was elected. This united will of the people is: - Building of a Federal Democratic Union of Myanmar where both Federal States
and Federal Union Governments are by the people and for the people, and where the rights of ALL regardless of race, sex, culture, ethnicity, background, and religion are equally respected, protected and promoted. It will be a place where power and resource sharing will be based on the principles of equality and self-determination, and where the three branches of Parliament, Judiciary and Executive will function independently. - Total eradication of military dictatorship and the current genocidal military which has become a cancer to the country and people of Myanmar, and to replace it with an ethical and inclusive armed force that belong to the people of Myanmar and is led by the civilian government. - Complete nullification of the 2008 constitution created by the junta and for the junta, and repealing and replacing discriminative laws, such as the 1982 citizenship law, with new laws and a federal constitution for the people of Myanmar. This will be done in an inclusive manner and only with the consensus
of ALL the stakeholders. A constitutional convention and referendum will be held on the permanent draft constitution which will be won by the people and belong to the people of Myanmar for generations to come. I am very proud of the courageous people of Myanmar who are on the front lines of this movement to liberate our nation from a brutal military regime, and for their bravery and their commitment to human rights, a federal democracy and freedom for ALL the
people of Myanmar. Mark my words: we, the opposition to the illegal junta, will win in our struggle to liberate Myanmar from the brutal military junta, and on the other end of this fight we will emerge an inclusive Myanmar that is committed to democracy,
human rights, and to being a responsible partner in the global community. With the help of the People, Parliament and Government of Japan, our vision and our dream will become a powerful reality and will bear testimony to our strong friendship and unyielding gratefulness.
Sincerely,
Arigatou..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of International Cooperation Myanmar
Date of publication:
2021-06-06
Date of entry/update:
2021-06-06
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National Unity Government (NUG), Japan-Burma relations, Human Rights and international relations, Anti-coup protesters, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians
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Title: UNICEF Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3: Reporting Period: 28 April to 28 May 2021
Topic:
Contributions, Coordination, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Mine Action, Protection and Human Rights, Water Sanitation Hygiene
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Contributions, Coordination, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Mine Action, Protection and Human Rights, Water Sanitation Hygiene
Description:
"Highlights: • The number of people displaced in Kayin, Kachin, Chin and Kayah has increased with the intensification of armed clashes between the Myanmar Armed Forces and ethnic armed organizations. A wave of improvised explosive device explosions has occurred resulting in the death of a 10 year old child and the injury of another child.
• A total of 54 children (47 boys, 7 girls) have been killed by security forces since the military takeover. Around 1,000 children and young people have been detained, although many of these have now been released.
• UNICEF and partners provided education on explosive weapons-related risk to 13,948 people.
• UNICEF conducted a rapid need assessment (RNA) in Mindat township,vChin State, which will provide data for advocacy, coordination, fundraising, and appropriate allocation of response funds.
• The humanitarian community is working on an Interim Emergency Response Plan for Urban Areas, which will constitute an Addendum to the 2021 Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (New York) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-05-28
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Education in Burma/Myanmar - general, Public Health, Food Security and human rights in Burma
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"This is a list of children under 18 who were brutally killed by the military junta between Feb. ((15) to May (15), 2021 in Myanmar. Totally 73 children, 63 boys and 9 girls were executed across the country.
Some were shot during the street protest and some were killed when the military searched their homes and intentionally shot to them. Some were shot while the kids were playing on the street.
The recent death of children in current intensive fights in Mindat, Kani, Demosoe have not been documented in this list. More update list from other areas will be released soon.
Please kindly provide any human rights violations to the Ministry of Human rights page.
Justice for all!...ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ (၁၅) ရက်ကနေ မေလ (၁၅) ရက်နေ့အတွင်း စစ်အုပ်စုရဲ့ သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကြောင့် သေဆုံးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ကလေးသူငယ်များစာရင်းပါ။ ဒီရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်းတနိုင်ငံလုံးမှာ အသက် (၁၈) နှစ်အောက်ကလေး စုစုပေါင်း (၇၃) ဦးသတ်ဖြတ်ခံခဲ့ရပါတယ်။ ယောကျ်ားလေး (၆၃) ဦး မိန်းကလေး (၉) ဦးဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
လမ်းပေါ်မှာ ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော်ရင်း ပစ်သတ်ခံရသလို နေအိမ်ထဲဝင်ရောက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရတာတွေလဲ ရှိပါတယ်။ တချို့ကလေးတွေက အိမ်ပြင်မှာ ကစားနေရင်း သေနတ်ထိမှန် သေဆုံးခဲ့တာတွေလဲ ပါဝင်ပါတယ်။
အခုစာရင်းထဲမှာ အခုနောက်ပိုင်း တမြို့လုံးကို ပစ်မှတ်ထား ချေမှုန်းတိုက်ခိုက်ခံရတဲ့ မင်းတပ်၊ ကနီ၊ ဒီမောဆိုးစတဲ့ဒေသတွေက သေဆုံးစာရင်းတွေမပါသေးပါဘူး။ ဒီစာရင်းတွေကို နောက်ထပ်ထပ်တိုးစုဆောင်းတင်ပြပါမယ်။ မိုးမောက်မြို့နယ်အတွင်း အသက် (၁၂) နှစ်အရွယ်ကလေးတယောက် လက်နက်ကြီးထိမှန်ပြီး သေဆုံးတာမျိုးစတဲ့ သတင်းတွေ ထပ်ရထားပါတယ်။
ပြည်သူတွေအနေနဲ့လဲ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးသတင်းများကို စုဆောင်းပေးပို့ဖို့ တိုက်တွန်းပန်ကြားပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Human Rights
Date of publication:
2021-05-26
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-26
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"More than 100 people are reported to have been killed by security forces in Myanmar, on the deadliest day since last month's military takeover of the country.
A five-year-old was reported to be among the dead along with other children.
Protesters against the military coup had defied warnings from the government that security forces would shoot people in “the head and back”.
There’s been international condemnation of the violence.
Kate Silverton presents BBC News reporting by Laura Bicker..."
Source/publisher:
"BBC News" (London)
Date of publication:
2021-03-28
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-23
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Human Rights Defenders, Anti-coup protesters, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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"ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ
အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အမှတ်(၂/၂၀၂၁)
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ မေလ (၁၅) ရက်
၁။ ယနေ့နံနက်မှစ၍အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ မြေပြင်နှင့်ဝေဟင် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကြောင့် မင်းတပ်မြို့သည် စစ်မြေပြင်ကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်ပွားလျက်ရှိပြီး စစ်ကောင်စီအနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများကို ချိုးဖောက်ကာ ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသည့် ပြည်သူလူထုအား လူသားဒိုင်းအဖြစ်အသုံးပြု၍ ပြင်းထန်စွာ ထိုးစစ်ဆင်နေကြောင်း သိရသည်။
၂။ မင်းတပ်မြို့ရှိ တိုက်ပွဲများကြားတွင် ပိတ်မိနေသော အရွယ်မရောက်သေးသည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ၊ အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများ အတွက် အထူးစိုးရိမ်မိပါသည်။
၃။ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီသည် ဖမ်းဆီးခံအမျိုးသမီးများကို လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက် ကျူးလွန်မှုများ ရှိနေကြောင်းလည်း သက်သေအချက်အလက်များဖြင့် တိုင်ကြားမှုများ ရှိနေပါသည်။ စစ်ကောင်စီ အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် အာဆီယံ၏ တောင်းဆိုချက်များအပေါ် လိုက်နာရန်၊ မင်းတပ်မြို့ရှိ ပြည်သူလူထုအား ဝေဟင်စစ်ကြောင်း၊ မြေပြင်စစ်ကြောင်းများဖြင့် အင်အား အလွန်အကျွံသုံးပြီး တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများကိုရပ်တန့်ရန်၊ ဒေသခံလူထုများအပေါ် ဓားစာခံအဖြစ် အသုံးချခြင်း၊ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအကြမ်းဖက်မှုများ ကျုးလွန်နေခြင်းတို့ကို ချက်ချင်းရပ်တန့်ရန် ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။
၄။ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအနေဖြင့် မင်းတပ်မြို့ရှိ ပြည်သူများ တရားမျှတမှုရရှိစေရန်အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာ စစ်ခုံရုံးများတွင် အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ကျူးလွန်မှုများကို တိုင်ကြားသွားမည် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ထို့အပြင် မင်းတပ်မြို့လူထုအတွက် လူသားချင်း စာနာထောက် ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ အရေးပေါ်အကူအညီများ အလျင်အမြန် ရရှိနိုင်ရန်လည်း ကူညီသွားမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။
အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန
အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs
Date of publication:
2021-05-15
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-15
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Individual Documents
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National Unity Government (NUG), Chin State, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Chin State, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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A six-year-old girl has been shot dead in Myanmar, becoming the youngest known victim in the crackdown following last month's military coup.
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"Khin Myo Chit's family told the BBC she was killed by police while she ran towards her father, during a raid on their home in the city of Mandalay.
Myanmar's military has been increasing its use of force as protests continue.
Rights group Save the Children says more than 20 children are among dozens of people who have been killed.
In total, the military says 164 people have been killed in protests, while the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) activist group puts the death toll at at least 261.
The military on Tuesday expressed sadness at the death of protesters, while blaming them for bringing anarchy and violence to the country.
But security forces have used live rounds against protesters, and there have been multiple eyewitness reports of people being beaten and sometimes shot as the military conducts house raids to arrest activists and protesters.....'Then they shot her': Khin Myo Chit's older sister told the BBC police officers had been searching all the houses in their neighbourhood in Mandalay on Tuesday afternoon, when they eventually entered their place to search for weapons and make arrests.
"They kicked the door to open it," 25-year-old May Thu Sumaya said. "When the door was open, they asked my father whether there were any other people in the house."
When he said no, they accused him of lying and began searching the house, she said.
That was the moment when Khin Myo Chit ran over to their father to sit on his lap. "Then they shot and hit her," May Thu Sumaya said.
In a separate interview with community media outlet Myanmar Muslim Media, their father U Maung Ko Hashin Bai described his child's last words. "She said, 'I can't Father, it's too painful'."
He said she died just half an hour later while she was rushed away in a car to seek medical treatment. Police also beat and arrested his 19-year-old son.
The military has yet to comment on the death.
In a statement, Save the Children said it was "horrified" by the girl's death, which came a day after a 14-year-old boy was reportedly shot dead in Mandalay.
"The death of these children is especially concerning given that they reportedly were killed while being at home, where they should have been safe from harm. The fact that so many children are being killed on an almost daily basis now shows a complete disregard for human life by security forces," the group said.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, authorities released around 600 detainees held at Insein prison in Yangon (Rangoon), many of them university students.
Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw was among those freed. He and other journalists had been held covering a protest last month.
The AAPP says at least 2,000 people have been arrested in the crackdown so far.
Protesters have planned for a silent strike with many businesses to close and people to stay at home. There are also plans for more candle-lit vigils overnight, both in Yangon and elsewhere.....Myanmar profile: Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent from Britain in 1948. For much of its modern history, it has been under military rule
Restrictions began loosening from 2010 onwards, leading to free elections in 2015 and the installation of a government headed by veteran opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the following year
In 2017, Myanmar's army responded to attacks on police by Rohingya militants with a deadly crackdown, driving more than half a million Rohingya Muslims across the border into Bangladesh in what the UN later called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".....Country profile: Correction 1 April 2021: An earlier version of this article gave Khin Myo Chit's age as seven years old. While in Myanmar's counting tradition this is correct, as the BBC uses Western conventions for age we have amended the article to describe her as a six-year-old girl..."
Source/publisher:
"BBC News" (London)
Date of publication:
2021-04-01
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-12
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Children in Myanmar urgently need support now
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"The crisis following the military takeover on 1 February this year is having a catastrophic toll on the physical and mental wellbeing of children in Myanmar. Children are being killed, wounded, detained and exposed to tear gas and stun grenades and are witnessing terrifying scenes of violence. In some areas, thousands of people have been displaced, cutting children off from their relatives, friends, communities and their traditional means of support.
Even before the current crisis, children in Myanmar were experiencing huge challenges due to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict in several parts of the country. Over one million people, including an estimated 450,000 children, were already affected by Myanmar’s conflict and vulnerable to gender-based violence, exploitation, abuse, detention, family separation, displacement and trafficking,[1] and about 34 per cent of the country’s 17 million children lived below the poverty line. In addition, almost 33 per cent of the population living just above the poverty line were in a state of extreme vulnerability and are now at great risk of falling back into poverty due to economic disruptions resulting from the current crisis[2]......A generation in peril: The compounding impacts of the current crisis threaten the lives and wellbeing of millions of children, putting an entire generation in peril. The ongoing loss of access to key services, combined with economic contraction, will push many more into poverty, potentially creating an entire generation of children and young people who will suffer profound physical, psychological, educational and economic impacts from this crisis and be denied a healthy, prosperous future.
Hard-won gains in the area of child rights are now being wiped out, threatening children’s lives, wellbeing and prosperity. This represents a serious failure by duty bearers to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of children, as required by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to which Myanmar is a State Party, and the Myanmar Child Rights Law, issued in 2019.....UNICEF’s response: UNICEF is committed to children in Myanmar, to upholding children’s rights and to providing the services critical for children’s survival and wellbeing. UNICEF is adapting the way it works and taking advantage of its extensive and diverse network of partners, including national and international non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and private sector partners, striving to ensure continuity of access to critical services at scale.
Drawing on its 70 years of experience in Myanmar, delivering for children including in times of conflict and crisis, UNICEF is able to continue to reach children in need even in the most challenging situations. UNICEF brings strong capacity to mobilize and deliver at scale, coordinating the efforts of multiple partners to achieve coherent approaches that span across the country. In addition to its coordinating role, UNICEF brings strong capacities in direct implementation of programming and efficient and cost-effective procurement and transport of commodities and supply.
As always, UNICEF’s focus is particularly on reaching the most vulnerable children including the poorest children, children with disabilities, children living in camps for displaced people, migrant and refugee children and those in hard-to-reach areas, now including areas of key cities, including Yangon and Mandalay, which are under martial law.....Keeping children safe: Before the current crisis, it was already a major challenge to keep children safe from violence, abuse and exploitation in Myanmar. Between January and September 2020, 49 children were killed and 134 maimed as a direct result of conflict. During the current crisis, many more children have been killed, seriously injured, arbitrarily detained without access to legal counsel or forced to flee their houses and communities. On top of the loss of innocent lives, the daily exposure to scenes of horrific violence will have long-lasting impacts on children’s mental and emotional well-being.....How UNICEF is responding: Working with legal aid providers, UNICEF supports children and young people’s access to justice across the country. UNICEF has supported children and young people in contact with the law to access quality legal aid, including legal advice, legal consultation, and legal representation. Since February 1, UNICEF has supported 62 children and 176 young people to access quality legal aid.
Working with partners, UNICEF is establishing a nationwide toll-free justice hotline, expanding on already existing helpline numbers operated by several partners to ensure children and young people have timely access to quality legal advice.
We are also producing informational materials for children and young people to know about their rights when dealing with the law enforcement and how to access free legal assistance in both English and Myanmar languages. Materials are being disseminated widely in collaboration with Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) members.
UNICEF is working with national organizations to support a nationwide mental health and psychosocial support helpline, ensuring children are able to access counselling and mental health support in several local languages. UNICEF also support referrals of child survivors of abuse and violence to mental health experts for individual counselling and therapy sessions. UNICEF is currently working on setting up psychosocial peer-support groups for adolescents and young people.
UNICEF is supporting efforts to monitor and report grave child rights violations and reporting these violations to United Nations and other bodies that pursue justice.....Keeping children out of extreme poverty: A UNICEF study carried out before the military takeover estimated that COVID-19 could push a further one third of children into poverty on top of the almost one third of children already living in poor households. The current crisis has the potential to force millions more children into poverty, denying them the ability to access basic services, depriving them of opportunities to fulfil their potential, and putting them at even greater risk of abuse and exploitation.....How UNICEF is responding: UNICEF has established mechanisms to monitor how the current crisis is impacting children, particularly children in families which have lost their income, whose caregivers are detained and those who are unable to access learning or healthcare. Data and evidence generated through this monitoring work will inform UNICEF’s efforts to protect children from the worst impacts of poverty.
UNICEF is coordinating with relevant partners to design, establish and roll out a national child cash grant scheme, through which families with children between the ages of 2-5 and children aged under 5 with disabilities will receive unconditional cash grants, which can be used to supplement family incomes and pay for access to key services.
UNICEF is working with Common Health, a private company, to roll out mobile-based health micro-insurance, ensuring that all children in Myanmar under the age of 6 have are covered by health insurance and are able to access health care.....Keeping children learning: COVID-19 had already disrupted the learning of almost 12 million children and young people. With the ongoing closure of schools due to COVID-19 preventive measures, children are still being denied access to learning, destroying their aspirations and hopes for a better future. Many will never be able to catch up or get another chance.....How UNICEF is responding: UNICEF is working with national and international NGOs to scale up home-based learning using high quality educational materials.
We are supporting young children’s readiness for learning and language development by training civil society organization partners, including ethnic language teachers, and developing and printing storybooks in ethnic languages.
UNICEF is working with national and international NGOs to provide alternative learning opportunities for primary and middle-school-age children. Support includes providing learning materials and assisting children with learning and language development, while also offering mental health and psychosocial support.
We are working with national and international NGOs to deliver non-formal education for children who were out of the formal education system even prior to the COVID pandemic.....Keeping children healthy: Since the military takeover, health workers have experienced threats, intimidation and violence, putting them in danger and further increasing their reluctance to provide services. With health services seriously disrupted, children are missing out: almost 1 million children are missing out on routine immunization; almost 5 million children are missing out on vitamin A supplementation, putting them at risk of infections and blindness. There is a risk that the spread of COVID-19 will accelerate.
In addition, access to water, sanitation and hygiene services are facing disruptions due to limited availability of supplies, disruption of transportation and banking channels. Across the country, more than three million children lack access to a safe water supply at home, threatening a large-scale outbreak of diarrhoea which could be fatal, particularly for children under the age of 5.....How UNICEF is responding: UNICEF is working with partners to support emergency care through supply of first aid kits and essential medicines for children most in need of medical care
While routine immunization has been suspended in the largest part of the country, in Non-Government Controlled areas UNICEF is working with partners to carry out routine vaccinations to prevent vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, such as measles, diphtheria and polio.
We are developing smartphone apps to train health workers on provision of trauma and emergency care for women and children.
UNICEF is providing pregnant women, new mothers, newborns, children and adolescents with healthcare services and procuring essential medicines and supplies to save lives and treat diseases.
We are working with partners and the private sector to coordinate and explore options for delivery of clean drinking water to vulnerable households in urban areas.
We are also coordinating with communities in Shan and Magway to deliver supplies for community managed water supply.....Keeping children nourished: Before the current crisis, many children in Myanmar were already experiencing malnutrition, with almost 30 per cent pre-school children experiencing stunting (being too short for their age), 7 percent of pre-school children (In Rakhine 14 percent) experiencing wasting (being seriously low for their height) and 57 percent pregnant women experiencing anaemia. Loss of access to water, sanitation and hygiene services, which can lead to diarrhoeal disease, will further exacerbate the situation. The situation is particularly severe for young children under the age of 2, who are at risk of death or irreversible physical and cognitive delays if they suffer undernutrition for an extended period. The impacts – for the children, their families, communities and the country as a whole – may be devastating.....How UNICEF is responding: In Kachin, Rakhine and northern Shan states,
UNICEF is working with partners to screen and treat children with severe acute malnutrition.
We are providing lifesaving micro-nutrient supplements to children and pregnant women.
UNICEF is working with local NGOs to provide mothers advice on infant and young child feeding.
In all these efforts, UNICEF and its partners are determined not to let down the children of Myanmar at this critical time, when their lives, wellbeing and future are at stake..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-04-20
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-11
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: resources and organisations, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Right to Health: reports of violations in Burma, Education rights: reports of violations in Burma, Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, COVID-19 (Coronavirus), 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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The United Nations independent human rights expert on Myanmar on Friday called on countries that have not yet done so, to impose arms embargo on the country urgently, to stop the “massacre” of citizens across the country.
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Peace and Security
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"Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the southeast Asian nation, underscored in a statement, the need to stop the flow of weapons and so called dual-use weapons technology into the hands of forces under the command of the military junta, describing it as “literally a matter of life and death.”
“There is no time to lose … I urge governments who support cutting the flow of weapons to a brutal military junta to consider immediately establishing their own arms embargo against Myanmar while simultaneously encouraging UN Security Council action.”
‘Dual-use’ technology
Mr. Andrews also said that bilateral arms embargoes should encompass both weapons and dual-use technology, including surveillance equipment.
“Together, they will represent an important step forward to literally taking guns out of the hands of those killing innocent men, women and children.”
The Special Rapporteur also applauded a call by over 200 civil society organizations to bring the arms embargo issue to the attention of the 15-member Security Council.
He is currently updating a list of States that have established arms embargoes against Myanmar, Mr. Andrews added, noting that he intended to publish an updated list next month. The independent expert’s report to the Human Rights Council in March identified that nations that had already established arms embargoes.
Month four
Into its fourth month, the political turmoil – marked by near daily pro-democracy protests and a brutal crackdown by security forces – has reportedly claimed at least 750 lives and wounded countless more.
There are also serious concerns over the continuing impact of the crisis, with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) warning of an economic collapse, and the UN human rights chief cautioning that Myanmar could spiral into a “full-blown conflict” similar to the implosion of Syria over the past decade, if the bloodshed does not stop.....Preparing supplies for refugees, in Thailand: Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said that it is pre-positioning key relief items and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Thailand, which could potentially be provided to those fleeing violence in Myanmar.
According to a bulletin issued earlier this week, about 2,300 people crossed from Myanmar into Thailand on 27 April due to increased fighting and they are currently hosted in safe zones, managed by the Thai Army.
“UNHCR has advocated for access to the population and offered support to the Thai Government’s efforts to respond to further displacement from Myanmar and address refugees’ protection needs”, it said.
As of 31 December 2020, there are about 92,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand, who fled previous waves of displacement, in nine temporary shelters, according to UNHCR.....Refugee arrivals in India: Similarly, the agency estimates that between 4,000 to 6,000 refugees from Myanmar have entered into the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur since March, where local charities and individuals have provided life-saving assistance those arriving.
“Some 190 have moved onward to New Delhi, where UNHCR is assessing their needs and has begun registering and providing them with basic assistance”, the agency added, noting that it has offered its support to the Indian Government in protection, and humanitarian coordination and response to new arrivals from Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
UN News
Date of publication:
2021-05-07
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-09
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UN human rights documents on Myanmar, UN Security Council, The UN and Burma - news and commentary, UN System humanitarian assistance, Women's rights, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, Burmese refugees in India
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Contributions, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Protection and Human Rights, Water Sanitation Hygiene
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Contributions, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health, Protection and Human Rights, Water Sanitation Hygiene
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"Highlights: • Artillery shelling and indiscriminate airstrikes by armed forces in Kayin State caused more than 20,000 civilians to flee and hide in forest areas along the Myanmar-Thailand border.
• New displacements are reported in Kachin State, northern Shan State and Bago region. On a single day.9 April, 82 civilians were killed in Bago region, and tens of thousands of people were displaced.
• Provision of health, education and other critical services continue to be disrupted in many parts of the country.
Protests and a civil disobedience movement (CDM) against the military takeover continue.
• Since the events of 1 February, a significant decline in the number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths has been observed. COVID-19 vaccination is currently being managed by the de facto authorities without any clear prioritization by age or associated risk factors. Even before, nearly one million people in five states, including 336,000 IDPs, needed humanitarian assistance.
• There are additional needs for areas falling outside of Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) areas, especially in the Yangon, Mandalay and Bago regions..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-04-40
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-04
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Anti-coup protesters, Spring Revolution, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: resources and organisations, Education in Burma/Myanmar - general, Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Public Health, COVID-19 (Coronavirus), 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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Title: Brutal violence by security forces in Myanmar leaves dozens dead, including multiple children
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35 children killed by security forces in less than two months
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"Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore: NEW YORK, 28 March 2021 – “An 11-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, two 13-year-old boys, a 13-year-old girl, three 16-year-old boys and two seventeen-year old boys, all reportedly shot and killed. A one-year-old baby girl gravely injured after being struck in the eye with a rubber bullet. These were the latest child casualties on the bloodiest day in Myanmar since the military takeover on 1 February.
“In less than two months, at least 35 children have allegedly been killed, countless others seriously injured and almost 1,000 children and young people reported arbitrarily detained by security forces across the country. Millions of children and young people have been directly or indirectly exposed to traumatizing scenes of violence, threatening their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
“I am appalled by the indiscriminate killing, including of children, taking place in Myanmar and by the failure of security forces to exercise restraint and ensure children’s safety. As the Secretary-General just said, those responsible for these actions, which undoubtedly constitute egregious child rights violations, must be held accountable.
“In addition to the immediate impacts of the violence, the longer-term consequences of the crisis for the country’s children could be catastrophic.
“Already, the delivery of critical services for children has ground to a halt: Almost 1 million children are without access to key vaccines; almost 5 million are missing out on vitamin A supplementation; nearly 12 million risk losing another year of learning; more than 40,000 children are without treatment for severe acute malnutrition; close to 280,000 vulnerable mothers and children will lose access to cash transfers which are their lifeline and more than a quarter million children will lose access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene services.
“This loss of access to key services, combined with economic contraction which will push many more into poverty, puts an entire generation of children and young people in peril. They are already at risk of suffering profound physical, psychological, emotional, educational and economic impacts, potentially denying them a healthy, prosperous future.
“Security forces must immediately refrain from perpetrating abuses of child rights and ensure the security and safety of children at all times. Security forces should cease the occupation of education facilities. They must also protect all essential workers – including health workers and teachers – providing vital services for children and families.
“UNICEF’s commitment to children in Myanmar remains unwavering. After 70 years in the country, reaching all children including Rohingya and those from other minority groups with lifesaving services in times of conflict and crisis remains a top priority.
“We must not to let down the children of Myanmar at this critical time, when their lives, wellbeing and future are at stake. We will always stand firmly by their side.”..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-03-29
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-01
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: resources and organisations, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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Joint Statement of Save the Children, UNESCO and UNICEF
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"YANGON, 19 March 2021 – The occupation of education facilities across Myanmar by security forces is a serious violation of children’s rights. It will exacerbate the learning crisis for almost 12 million children and youth in Myanmar, which was already under tremendous pressure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing widespread school closures. Save the Children, UNESCO and UNICEF call on security forces to vacate occupied premises immediately and ensure that schools and educational facilities are not used by military or security personnel.
As of 19 March, security forces have reportedly occupied more than 60 schools and university campuses in 13 states and regions. In at least one incident, security forces reportedly beat two teachers while entering premises, and left several others injured. Other public institutions including hospitals have also been occupied.
These incidents mark a further escalation of the current crisis and represent a serious violation of the rights of children. Schools must be not used by security forces under any circumstances. Save the Children, UNESCO and UNICEF remind security forces of their obligation to uphold the rights of all children and youth in Myanmar to education as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Myanmar Child Rights Law, and the National Education Law and call on them to exercise maximum restraint and end all forms of occupation and interference with education facilities, personnel, students and other public institutions.....ရန်ကုန်၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ မတ်လ ၁၉ ရက် – မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတစ်ဝန်းရှိ ပညာရေးအဆောက်အအုံများတွင် လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များက တပ်စွဲထားခြင်းသည် ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကြီးလေးစွာချိုးဖောက်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ နဂိုကတည်းကပင် ကိုဗစ် - ၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါနှင့် နေရာအနှံ့ ကျောင်းများပိတ်ထားကြရသည့် အကျိုးဆက်ကြောင့် ကြီးမားလှသော ဖိစီးမှုများကြုံနေကြရသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ကလေးသူငယ်များနှင့် လူငယ်များ ၁၂ သန်းနီးပါးအတွက် ယင်းကဲ့သို့ကိစ္စရပ်များသည် သင်ယူလေ့လာရေး အကြပ်အတည်းကို ပိုမို ဆိုးရွားသွားစေမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များအား တပ်စွဲထားသော အဆောက်အအုံဥပစာများမှ ချက်ချင်းဖယ်ရှားပေးကြရန်နှင့် ကျောင်းများနှင့် ပညာရေးအဆောက်အအုံများကို စစ်တပ် သို့မဟုတ် လုံခြုံရေး ဝန်ထမ်းများမှ အသုံးမပြုကြပါရန် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အနေဖြင့် တောင်းဆိုလိုက်သည်။
မတ်လ ၁၉ ရက်အထိပြည်နယ်နှင့်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး ၁၃ ခုတွင် လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များသည် စာသင်ကျောင်းနှင့် တက္ကသိုလ်ပရိဝုဏ် ၆၀ကျော်တွင် တပ်စွဲထားကြောင်း သိရှိရသည်။
ဖြစ်ရပ်တစ်ခုတွင် လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များသည် အဆောက်အအုံ ဥပစာများအတွင်း ဝင်ရောက်ချိန်တွင် ဆရာ/ဆရာမနှစ်ဦးအား ရိုက်နှက်ပြီး အခြားလူပေါင်းများစွာကို ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာများ ရရှိစေခဲ့သည်ဟု သိရှိရသည်။ ဆေးရုံများအပါအဝင် အခြားအများပြည်သူပိုင်အဆောက်အအုံများတွင်လည်း တပ်စွဲထားကြသည်။
ဤဖြစ်ရပ်များသည် လက်ရှိအကျပ်အတည်း ဆက်လက်အရှိန်မြင့်တက်လာခြင်းကိုပြပြီး ကလေးသူငယ် အခွင့်အရေးများကို ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ချိုးဖောက်ရာရောက်ပါသည်။ မည်သို့သော အခြေအနေမျိုးတွင်မှ ကျောင်းများကို လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များက အသုံးမပြုရပါ။ ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီချက်စာချုပ် (CRC)၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကလေးသူငယ် အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေနှင့် အမျိုးသားပညာရေးဥပဒေတို့တွင် ဖော်ပြပါရှိသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ကလေးသူငယ်များနှင့် လူငယ်များ၏ အခွင့်အရေးများအားလုံးကို စောင့်ထိန်းလိုက်နာရမည့် ၎င်းတို့၏ ဝတ္တရားများကို လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များအားလုံးက စောင့်ထိန်းလိုက်နာရန် သတိပေးလိုက်ရပြီး အမြင့်ဆုံးကန့်သတ်ထိန်းချုပ်မှုကို ကျင့်သုံးရန်နှင့် ပညာရေးဆိုင်ရာ အဆောက်အအုံများ၊ ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ ကျောင်းသားများနှင့် အခြားအများပြည်သူပိုင် အဆောက်အအုံများကို သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်းနှင့် ဝင်ရောက်နှောင့်ယှက်ခြင်းပုံစံမျိုးစုံကို အဆုံးသတ်ရန် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့က တောင်းဆိုလိုက်သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-03-19
Date of entry/update:
2021-05-01
Grouping:
Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Education rights: reports of violations in Burma, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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UNICEF Myanmar Statement
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"YANGON, 9 February 2021 – UNICEF expresses deep concern regarding the impact of the ongoing crisis in Myanmar on children’s wellbeing and reminds all actors of their obligations to uphold all children’s rights as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to which Myanmar is a State Party, and under the Myanmar Child Rights Law enacted in July 2019. These rights include the rights to protection, participation, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. They also include freedom from unlawful or arbitrary detention or separation from parents. In crisis situations, children are often disproportionally affected, and it is essential that all actors uphold the best interests of the child, one of the core principles of the CRC, as a primary consideration.
In the context of ongoing demonstrations and current events, and reports of injuries, some potentially fatal, UNICEF calls on all actors, including security forces, to exercise the utmost restraint, to resolve differences through constructive and peaceful means, and to prioritize the protection and safety of children and young people as they express their opinions.....ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၉ ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် – ယူနီဆက်အနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဖြစ်ပွားလျှက်ရှိသော ပဋိပက္ခအခြေအနေများကြောင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ ကောင်းကျိုးချမ်းသာအပေါ် ထိခိုက်လာမည်ကို လွန်စွာစိုးရိမ်ပူပန်လျှက်ရှိပြီး သက်ဆိုင်ရာ တာဝန်ရှိသူအဖွဲ့အစည်းများအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ပါဝင်သဘောတူလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးထားသည့်ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂသဘောတူစာချုပ် (CRC) ပြဌါန်းချက်များ နှင့် ၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ တွင်ပြဌါန်းခဲ့သည့် ကလေးသူငယ်အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ ပြဌါန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ အခွင့်အရေးများအားလုံးကို လေးစားလိုက်နာကြပါရန် သတိပေးလိုပါသည်။ ဤအခွင့်အရေးများတွင် ကလေးသူငယ်များအနေဖြင့် ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်မှုခံယူပိုင်ခွင့်၊ ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ စုဝေးခွင့်နှင့် လွတ်လပ်စွာထုတ်ဖော်ပြသပိုင်ခွင့်တို့ ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ တရားဥပဒေနှင့်မညီသော သို့မဟုတ် မတရား ဖမ်းဆီး ထိန်းသိမ်းခံရမှုများ သို့မဟုတ် မိဘများနှင့် ဝေးကွာစေခြင်းများကို မပြုလုပ်ရန်လည်း ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ ပဋိပက္ခကာလများအတွင်းတွင် ကလေးသူငယ်များမှာ မကြာခဏအားဖြင့် အထိခိုက်ခံရဆုံးသူများဖြစ်ကြပြီး သက်ဆိုင်သူများအားလုံးအနေဖြင့် CRC ၏ အဓိကကျသော အခြေခံမူများမှတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ အကောင်းဆုံးအကျိုးစီးပွားကို အဓိကဦးစားပေးအဖြစ် ထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစားပြီး ထိန်းသိမ်းစောင့်ရှောက်ကြရန် အထူးပင် အရေးကြီးလှပါသည်။
လက်ရှိဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ဆန္ဒပြမှုများတွင် ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရရှိမှုများဖြစ်ပေါ်နေပြီး အလွန်ပြင်းထန်ကြောင်းလည်းသိရသည့်အတွက် သက်ဆိုင်သူများအားလုံးသည် ကွဲလွဲမှုများကို အပြုသဘောဆောင်ပြီး ငြိမ်းချမ်းသောနည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် ဖြေရှင်းကြပါရန်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များနှင့် လူငယ်များက ၎င်းတို့၏ သဘောထားများကို ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသသည့်အခါ ၎င်းတို့ကို ကာကွယ်ပေးရေးနှင့် ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံရေးကို ဦးစားပေးရန်အတွက် အထူးထိန်းသိမ်းဆောင်ရွက်ကြပါရန် တောင်းဆိုလိုပါသည်။ အဓိကတာဝန်ရှိသည့် မိဘများနှင့် စောင့်ရှောက်သူများအနေဖြင့်လည်း ကလေးများ၏ ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံရေးကို အမြဲထည့်သွင်းစဉ်းစားပြီး ကလေးများ ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းဝေးစေရေးအတွက် သင့်လျော်သောလုပ်ဆောင်မှုများကို လုပ်ဆောင်ထားကြရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-02-09
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2021-05-01
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"Ministry Investigates Sexual Violence in Detention: 1. We strongly condemn the serious allegations of sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls in unlawful detention committed by the military-led State Administrative Council and its security forces. We have received many disturbing reports of women being tortured, verbally and
sexually assaulted, severely beaten causing serious injuries, including a case of a woman being raped during an interrogation by the security forces. Some detained women have also reportedly been humiliated in public, forced to dance in the streets to entertain the security forces, while others have been groped and manhandled during arrests. One woman miscarried while in detention as a result of mistreatment.....2. These cases are indicative of the wider pattern of sexual and gender-based violence committed by Myanmar’s military that has persisted for years with impunity, particularly against ethnic minority
women and girls in armed conflict areas. In 2019, the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (IIFFMM) found that the military committed "widespread and systematic" gender-based violence against ethnic communities, employing tactics such as rape, gang rape, sexual slavery and other forced sexual acts against women, girls, boys, men and transgender people. According to the IIFFMM, such violations could amount to crimes against humanity and
grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. The military’s use of rape as a weapon of war to terrorize ethnic communities has been widespread and systematic, particularly in ethnic conflict-affected
areas, and has been widely documented by the local ethnic women organizations and the international community.....3. We are deeply troubled that the State Administrative Council appears to have set aside the Joint Communique that was signed by the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations in 2018. This agreement was adopted under the framework of United Nations Security Council resolution 2106 (2013) and requires Myanmar’s military to implement specific time-bound commitments that include the issuance of clear orders through chains of command prohibiting sexual violence
and accountability for breaching these orders, as well as timely investigation of alleged abuses.....4. We appeal to the international community to immediately investigate the allegations of widespread
sexual and gender-based violence being committed by the military junta so that all perpetrators, regardless of seniority or rank, can be held accountable for their actions. Furthermore, we
believe that immediate action is needed to end the ongoing intensification of nationwide attacks against civilians by the military, that includes widespread allegations sexual and gender-based
violence. We therefore urge the UN Secretary-General to use his good offices to deter further grave violations from taking place. This could include an official visit to Myanmar by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, with the goal of stopping the military terror and violence and securing the safety of the people of Myanmar.....5. We are committed to a zero-tolerance policy for crimes of sexual and gender-based violence, in line with Myanmar’s obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, including
UN Security Council resolution 1325 and related resolutions, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We call on the UN, including the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Special Rapporteur on human rights situation in Myanmar, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, ASEAN Commission
on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, and the international community to work with our Ministry to protect the rights of women, youth and children and stop and prevent further violence. We all have a responsibility to hold the perpetrators of such heinous crimes to account and to address the needs of survivors through a survivor-centered approach, including provision of necessary services such as medical care and psychological support. The ministry will continue investigate these allegations and document the incidents in order to bring justice for all victims. Our Ministry stands with the victims and survivors of sexual and genderbased
violence and commits to ending violence against women, youth and children and to ensure justice and accountability....Ministry of Women, Youth and Children's Affairs National Unity Government..."
Source/publisher:
National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2021-04-29
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-29
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"• The crisis following the military takeover on 1 February is likely to have a severe impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of children and will exacerbate existing humanitarian needs of 450,000 children.
• Peaceful protests and a civil disobedience movement (CDM) against the military takeover continue across the country despite violent and arbitrary crackdowns by security forces. Military occupation of hospitals and universities has been reported in almost all states and regions, limiting access to critical life-saving services, with particularly serious implications for vulnerable populations.
• There are continued disruptions to communication, transportation and supply chains, and shortages of cash for operations due to limitations on banking services. Despite these challenges UNICEF continues to provide a package of interventions in Health, Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, WASH and Social Protection.
• The current situation calls for emergency assistance outside the current Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) locations.....Funding Overview and Partnerships: UNICEF is currently appealing for US $61.7 million to support 424,000 people, including 224,000 children, to access essential basic services in the areas of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), nutrition, health, education, child protection and social protection and improved hygiene practices to prevent COVID-19 infection. However, these reflect pre-February needs, given the increasingly deteriorating situation across the country with loss of access to basic services due to the protests and CDM, and agencies turning to costly alternatives in programme implementation outside national systems, we expect these needs to increase.....Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs: Humanitarian needs in Myanmar are driven by multiple factors including armed conflict, inter-communal violence, and vulnerability to natural hazards (HNO 2020). Even before 1 February 2021, nearly one million people in five states, including 336,000 IDPs, were in need of humanitarian assistance. Fighting between the Myanmar Armed Forces and Arakan Army in 2020 had displaced 81,245 people to 185 informal settlements in Rakhine and 236 in Chin, adding to the needs of 130,000 people already displaced since 2012 and in deteriorating and overcrowded camps. UNICEF’s appeal aligns with the sectoral needs of the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan in five states: Rakhine, Chin, Kachin,
Shan and Kayin.
The political situation has deteriorated in the country since 1 February 2021, with continuous demonstrations across most of the country and the imposition of martial law. As the crisis escalates, there is an urgent need to ensure the continuity and functionality of services and thereby enable a rapid scale up of emergency assistance outside current HRP locations. Challenges are being faced in the movement of humanitarian supplies sparking fears of potential supply shortages due transportation and supply chains, and shortages of cash for operations due to limitations on banking services.
Children are being killed, wounded, detained, exposed to tear gas and stun grenades and are witnessing terrifying scenes of violence. The continuing use of force against children by security forces, including the use of live ammunition, is taking a devastating toll on children in Myanmar.
Since the crisis began on 1 February, at least 35 children have been killed and many more seriously injured. Arbitrary detentions of children are also continuing to occur – indeed almost half of all persons detained are children or young people. UNICEF estimate that almost 1,000 children and young people have been arbitrarily detained. And while many of those detained have subsequently been released, many are still being held without access to legal counsel, in violation of their human rights. In some areas, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, cutting off tens of thousands of children from their relatives, friends, communities and traditional means of support.
On 14 March, martial law was imposed in 11 townships across the country. The establishment of complete military control in those areas poses significant risk for children given the risk that standard legal safeguards provided for under the Child Rights Law (CRL) may be suspended. This is of concern since the military justice system, unlike the civilian justice system, does not include any special measures or considerations for children.
Life-saving humanitarian services such as maternal, newborn and child health, emergency care and emergency obstetrics and neo-natal care have been disrupted nationwide for a number of reasons, including the participation in the CDM by civil servants and other service providers. Disruption of provision of essential services such as communication, banking, logistics and transportation are observed.
Learning has been disrupted for almost 12 million children in Myanmar due to widespread school closures since March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been further exacerbated by the lack of alternative learning programmes. This lost learning opportunity has affected not only school-aged children who would normally be enrolled in government formal schools, but also those children seeking continuous learning opportunities in non-formal education centres, which have been closed. Prolonged disruptions to learning not only keep children out of school but also serve to create more out-of-school children after schools eventually reopen.
As of 19 March, security forces have reportedly occupied more than 60 schools and university campuses in 13 states and regions. In at least one incident, security forces reportedly beat two teachers while entering premises, and left several others injured. Other public institutions including hospitals have also been occupied.
Since 1 February, COVID-19 testing has been very limited in Myanmar, with the result that the true burden of COVID19 cases is not known. It is likely that the mass gatherings associated with demonstrations will have led to an increase in incidence. Prior to February 2021 an average of around 20,000 tests were being conducted on a daily basis. In February and March, the rate has dropped to fewer than 2,000 tests per day..."
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UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-03-31
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2021-04-24
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"The first meeting of the Ministry of Women, Youth and Children’s Affairs under the National Unity Government was held on 18 April 2021.
The meeting discussed the current needs and various issues concerning women, youth and children and decided to endorse policies to proceed enforcing them immediately.
Discussion Summary
• The predicament of women, youth and children of the minorities including the Rohingyas whom the military committed ethnic cleansing missions against,
• The commitment to take action against the military for its human rights violation upon the women, youth and children during the coup resistance and transformation of power,
• The commitment to stop the abovementioned violation of human rights,
• To provide the best possible assistance to women, youth and children affected by the civil war,
• The needs for the youth who are protesting,
• To initiate rehabilitation programs in education, health including mental support for women, youth and children who have suffered from the SAC’s brutal actions.
The meeting decided to strategize on the issues and cases that were discussed from one month to six month.
The Ministry of Women, Youth and Children’s Affairs will take consideration of the voice of the people and make amendments according to the people’s concerns and needs....အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့၏ ဝန်ကြီးဌာနတစ်ခုဖြစ်သော အမျိုးသမီး၊လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန၏ ပထမအကြိမ်အစည်းအဝေးကို ဧပြီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့တွင် ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သည်။
အဆိုပါအစည်းအဝေးတွင် အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့်ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ လတ်တလောလိုအပ်ချက်များ၊ ၄င်းတို့ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့နေရသော ပြဿနာများအား တင်ပြဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပြီး အခြေခံမူဝါဒများချမှတ်ကာ အမြန်ဆုံး အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန် လုပ်ငန်းစဥ်များချမှတ်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။
ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြချက်များအရ စစ်အာဏာရှင်ဖိနှိပ်မှုအောက်တွင် လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကို ခံစားခဲ့ရသော ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူနည်းစုအပါအဝင် လူမျိုးစုအသီးသီးရှိ အမျိုးသမီး၊လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များ၏ အခန်းကဏ္ဍ၊ အရေးတော်ပုံကာလနှင့် အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလအတွင်း အမျိုးသမီး၊လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများအား အရေးယူနိုင်ရန်နှင့် ယင်းသို့ချိုးဖောက်မှုများဆက်လက်မဖြစ်ပေါ်စေရန်၊ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ကြောင့် ရွှေ့ပြောင်းနေထိုင်ရသော အမျိုးသမီး၊ လူငယ်နှင့်ကလေးသူငယ်များအား ကူညီပံ့ပိုးရန်၊ နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးတွင် ရွပ်ရွပ်ချွံချွံတိုက်ပွဲဝင်နေကြသောလူငယ်ထု၏ လိုအပ်ချက်များ၊
စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အာဏာသိမ်းမှုနှင့်ပြည်တွင်းစစ်အကျိုးဆက်ကြောင့် ထိခိုက်နစ်နာခဲ့ရသော အမျိုးသမီးများ၊ လူငယ်များနှင့်ကလေးသူငယ်များအား ပညာရေး၊ကျန်းမာရေးမှစ၍ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာပံ့ပိုးမှုအပါအဝင် ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းများလုပ်ဆောင်ပေးနိုင်ရန်တို့ကို အဓိကဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပါသည်။
အဆိုပါ ဆွေးနွေးချက်များကို အမြန်ဆုံးစတင်အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ရန် တစ်လမှ ခြောက်လအတွင်း လုပ်ငန်းစဥ်ချမှတ်၍ ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
အမျိုးသမီး၊လူငယ်နှင့် ကလေးသူငယ်ရေးရာဌာနအနေဖြင့် ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီနိုင်ငံသို့ တက်လှမ်းရာတွင် အရေးပါသော ပြည်သူလူထုအသီးသီး၏ အသံကို အစဥ်တစိုက်နားစွင့်နေပြီး လိုအပ်ချက်များကို ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးနိုင်ရန် အစွမ်းကုန်ကြိုးစားသွားမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း အသိပေးအပ်ပါသည်။..."
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National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2021-04-18
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-19
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, Women's rights, Articles, reports and sites relating to women of Burma, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Discrimination against the Rohingya, National Unity Government (NUG)
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UNLAWFUL KILLINGS
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UNLAWFUL KILLINGS
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"Responding to reports that at least 91 people, including a five-year-old boy, were killed by Myanmar security forces across the country on 27 March in its ongoing brutal crackdown on protesters, Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns, said:
“This is just the latest example of the military authorities’ determination to kill their way out of nationwide resistance to the coup. These abhorrent killings again show the generals’ brazen disregard for the inadequate pressure applied so far by the international community.
“This comes a day after the military announced that further protests would be met with shots to the head.
“The cost of international inaction is being counted in bodies, including children shot dead in their homes. Amid the horrifying death toll is a nation of over 50 million held hostage, subjected to arbitrary arrest and sweeping surveillance, living in fear of death and torture.
“The people of Myanmar continue to protest, all while they grieve more killings by the hour. The nations that participated in the military’s Armed Forces Day events today in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw, particularly China and Russia, are the same states that have shielded the Tatmadaw from accountability time and time again, supplying them with the means to carry out mass slaughter.
“UN Security Council member states’ continued refusal to meaningfully act against this never-ending horror is contemptible.”
Background
At the time of writing, media reported that the military killed nearly 100 people in Yangon, Mandalay and other towns today, including a five-year-old boy. On 26 March, state television announced protesters were “in danger of getting shot to the head and back”.
According to estimates from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPPB), the minimum death toll since the 1 February coup stood at 328 on 26 March.
While a small number of protesters have armed themselves with crude homemade weaponry including molotov cocktails, slingshots and homemade air-pressure rifles, the protests have overall remained peaceful and in the incidents that Amnesty International has examined, lethal force used by the military has been unlawful and excessive.
Elsewhere in the country, armed conflict is escalating between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups. Amnesty International has grave concerns about the potential for further mass atrocities as well as the resumption of large-scale conflict and associated mass displacement adding to the country’s existing internally displaced population of over 300,000.
Amnesty is calling on the UN Security Council to impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar, and refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.
The Security Council must also impose targeted financial sanctions against Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (Myanmar’s military chief now in charge of the country) and other military leaders responsible for atrocity crimes against various ethnic minorities across the country, including the Rohingya.
The UN Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar has previously called for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and other senior officials to be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide..."
Source/publisher:
"Amnesty International" (UK)
Date of publication:
2021-03-27
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-19
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Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Anti-coup protesters, Human Rights and international relations, Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar
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Hundreds of soldiers and police crush an anti-coup defence area in the Mandalay Region town, shooting indiscriminately and arresting locals, including one child
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"The regime’s armed forces crushed an anti-coup stronghold in the Mandalay Region town of Myingyan on Sunday in an afternoon attack.
The Lanmadaw protest base in the town’s sixth ward was a primary defence area from which civilians had been using homemade guns, such as hunting rifles, to resist attacks by regime troops.
Some 200 members of the armed forces assaulted the stronghold from late afternoon until 10pm, according to locals.
An estimated six people, including a 13-year-old boy, were arrested after the attacks, a resident said.
Local sources said that there were casualties on the side of the armed forces, but that no civilians had died in the assault. Myanmar Now was unable to confirm these details at the time of reporting.
A Myingan local told Myanmar Now that troops were “shooting at every person they saw… like in a war zone.”
Residents rebuilt the Lanmadaw stronghold before dawn on Monday, but it was destroyed by the troops again at around 10am.
Prior to the attack on Lanmadaw on Sunday, soldiers and police also indiscriminately shot at people near Myingan’s municipal market. At least one man was injured and in critical condition after being shot in the head, according to local sources.
He was a worker in a rice shop, and was shot by troops as he tried to close the shop’s doors as they passed by the area.
At around 4pm on Sunday, there was an explosion in front of the KBZ Bank branch in the town but no one was reported as injured. The cause of the blast is unknown.
According to local relief organisations, at least 23 people have been killed in Myingyan by the military and police in crackdowns on demonstrations since the February 1 coup.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group that has been monitoring the regime’s violence, reported that more than 730 people have been killed nationwide during the same period..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2021-04-19
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-19
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Anti-coup protesters, Spring Revolution, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Armed conflict in Burma - attacks on civilians, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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Title: INTERVIEW: Myanmar military increasing efforts to keep truth from getting out, UN expert says
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The crackdown on journalists, cutting off the Internet and disrupting the flow of information across Myanmar, is “not working”, and the world is not buying the military leadership’s “propaganda” that it is exercising restraint against protesters, the UN independent human rights expert on the country has said, in an in-depth interview with UN News.
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"Over 700 people are reported to have been killed in the brutal response by the security forces since the military overthrew the democratically elected Government on 1 February. Thousands more have been injured – many of them seriously, and over 3,000 people are in detention.
That includes at least 71 journalists, more than half of whom are still detained, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – UN’s media workers’ safety watchdog – which added that some two dozen people have been charged for “allegedly spreading fake news”.
Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told UN News in his extensive interview, that the military junta has been making “significant efforts, which have been increasing, to keep the truth inside the country, to not allow the world to see what is going on”.
“Already the military has been making up stories about what it is facing. From the very outset, it said that it is using ‘utmost restraint’ – its language – to contend with ‘violent protests’, [but] we saw nothing of the kind.”
“We saw increasing violence and increasing brutality by the military. And we saw very peaceful, unarmed protesters … despite their efforts to block it, the truth is getting out, and it is a gruesome truth”, Mr. Andrews added.
In the first of this two-part interview with the Special Rapporteur, UN News asked the rights expert how he characterized the current international response to the crisis in Myanmar and what countries can do to stop the bloodshed.
We will be publishing part two over the weekend, in which he addresses the responsibility to protect citizens from violence, and his hopes for the country’s future.
UN News: It must be increasingly difficult to get information from Myanmar, but as far as you know, what is the situation on the ground?
Special Rapporteur: You are right. There have been great efforts by the junta to block information from getting out to the world. Not only the blocking of Internet but also now the interruption of broadband wireless service, and there have been at least 64 journalists, that I know of, who have been arrested and detained.
So there has been a significant effort, which has been increasing, to keep truth inside the country and not allow the world to see what is happening.
Nonetheless, we know that conditions are worsening in Myanmar. We know that at least 700 people are confirmed dead, at least 3,000 people arbitrarily detained, and at least 46 children killed..."
Source/publisher:
UN News
Date of publication:
2021-04-16
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-17
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Anti-coup protesters, Spring Revolution, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, violations of, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Human rights issues, UN human rights bodies and mechanisms, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, UN human rights documents on Myanmar
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" Myanmar security forces opened fire Sunday on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, local media reported.
The escalating violence — which took the lives of at least 114 people Saturday, including several children — has prompted a U.N. human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticize the international community for not doing enough to stop it.
The Security Council is likely to hold closed consultations on the escalating situation in Myanmar, U.N. diplomats said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement. The council has condemned the violence and called for a restoration of democracy, but has not yet considered possible sanctions against the military, which would require support or an abstention by Myanmar’s neighbor and friend China.
The mounting death tolls have not stopped the demonstrations against the Feb. 1 takeover — or the violent response of the military and police to them. Myanmar Now reported that the junta’s troops shot at mourners at the funeral in the city of Bago for Thae Maung Maung, a 20-year-old killed on Saturday. He was reportedly a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Union, which has a long history of supporting pro-democracy movements in the country.
According to the report, several people attending the funeral were arrested. It did not say if anyone was hurt or killed. But at least nine people were killed elsewhere Sunday as the crackdown continued, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which has been documenting deaths during demonstrations against the coup.
Some of the funerals held Sunday became themselves opportunities to demonstrate resistance to the junta.
At one in Bhamo in the northern state of Kachin, a large crowd chanted democracy slogans and raised the three-finger salute that has come to symbolize defiance of the takeover. Family and friends were paying their respects to Shwe Myint, a 36-year-old who was shot dead by security forces on Saturday.
The military had initially seized her body and refused to return it until her family signed a statement that her death was not caused by them, according to the Democratic Voice of Burma, a broadcast and online news service.
In Yangon, the country’s largest city, meanwhile, mourners flashed the three-finger salute as they wheeled the coffin of a 13-year-old boy. Sai Wai Yan was shot dead by security forces as he played outside his home.
The Feb. 1 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government reversed years of progress toward democracy after five decades of military rule. It has again made Myanmar the focus of international scrutiny as security forces have repeatedly fired into crowds of protesters. At least 459 people have been killed since the takeover, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. The crackdown extends beyond the demonstrations: Humanitarian workers reported that the military had carried out airstrikes Sunday against guerilla fighters in the eastern part of the country.
Henrietta Fore, head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, said in Saturday’s bloodiest day since the coup “an 11-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, two 13-year-old boys, a 13-year-old girl, three 16-year-old boys and two 17-year-old boys, (were) all reportedly shot and killed.” She said “a 1-year-old baby girl gravely injured after being struck in the eye with a rubber bullet.”
“In less than two months, at least 35 children have allegedly been killed, countless others seriously injured and almost 1,000 children and young people reported arbitrarily detained by security forces across the country” she said, condemning the indiscriminate killings and demanding that those responsible be held accountable..."
Source/publisher:
"Associated Press" (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-03-29
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-16
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Anti-coup protesters, Spring Revolution, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, violations of, Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children, 2021 Burma/Myanmar coup d'état
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Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 40 children since February. Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu. She was 10.
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"In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete. Small hands reached out for the first slice, cool and slippery.
His daughter — 10 years old, with dreams of being a makeup artist or a nurse or maybe even a princess with long golden hair like the one in “Maleficent,” which she had watched a zillion times, no joke — ran down a path with her sweet prize.
Just as she reached the trees that marked the perimeter of their property, the girl seemed to stumble, landing flat on her stomach, her father recalled. The piece of coconut slipped from her grasp, falling onto the reddish earth of Mawlamyine, a port town perched on a slender archipelago in southeastern Myanmar.
Mr. Soe Oo put his machete down and ran to tell her it was OK, that she could have another chunk of coconut. He scooped her up, limp in his arms, but it still didn’t register where all the blood was coming from, why she wasn’t saying anything at all.
The bullet had hit the left temple of his daughter, Aye Myat Thu, at about 5:30 in the soft glow of the afternoon of March 27. By the time darkness fell less than an hour later, she was dead.
Since staging a Feb. 1 coup and jailing the nation’s civilian leaders, the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, has murdered, assaulted and arrested with impunity. More than 550 people have been killed on the streets and in their homes by soldiers or police officers, according to a monitoring group. At least 40 of the dead were children under 18, according to a tally compiled by The New York Times that relies on medical testimony, funeral details and family accounts. A few of the minors were killed for participating in the protests. Many others were bystanders who were seemingly executed, with a single gunshot to the head.
Often the children were killed as they went about their lives, playing or huddling with their families, in cities and towns that have descended into terror. Some had done nothing more threatening in their final moments than seek the comfort of a father’s lap, serve tea, fetch water or run down a lane with a piece of coconut.....နွေရာသီ၏ ပူစပ်ပူလောင်နိုင်လှသော ရာသီဥတုကို အံတုလျက်က ဦးစိုးဦးသည် ကျင့်သားကောင်းပြီးသား ဓားချက်ဖြင့် အုန်းသီးတစ်လုံးကို ခွပ်ခနဲ ခွဲလိုက်သည်။ ကလေးလက်ကလေး နှစ်ဖက်က အုန်းသီးစိတ်အေးအေးလေးကို ဦးဦးဖျားဖျား စွပ်ခနဲဝင်နှိုက်ယူသွားလေသည်။
ဦးစိုးဦး၏ သမီးလေးဖြစ်သည်။ ၁၀ နှစ်သမီးလေးက မိတ်ကပ်ပညာရှင်ဖြစ်စေ၊ သူနာပြုဆရာမဖြစ်စေ ဖြစ်လိုသော အိပ်မက်များ ရှိသည်။ ဖြစ်နိုင်လျှင် သူအခါရာထောင်မက ကြည့်ဖူးသော ‘Maleficent’ ဇာတ်ကားထဲက ရွှေရောင်ဆံပင်ရှည်များနှင့် မင်းသမီးလေးပါ ဖြစ်လိုသည်တဲ့။ သမီးလေးက အုန်းသီးစိတ်ကလေးကိုင်၍ လူသွားလမ်းကျဉ်းလေးတစ်လျှောက် ပြေးထွက်သွားပြန်သည်။
သူတို့အပိုင်ခြံကွက်အနားသတ်အဖြစ် အမှတ်အသားပြုထားသော သစ်ပင်များနားအရောက် ချော်လဲသွားသလိုတွေ့သည်ဟု ဦးစိုးဦး ခပ်ရေးရေးမှတ်မိသည်။ ကလေးက မြေကြီးပေါ် ပြားပြားမှောက် ဝပ်လဲလျက်သားဖြစ်နေပြီ။ သူ့လက်မှ အုန်းသီးစိတ်လည်း ချော်ထွက်သွားပြီး မော်လမြိုင်မြို့၏ နီစွေးစွေးမြေအပေါ် အတိုင်းသားကျနေလေသည်။ မော်လမြိုင်မှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အရှေ့တောင်ဘက်ပိုင်း ရှည်မျောမျော ကျွန်းစုတစ်ခုအပေါ် မေးတင်တည်ရှိသော ဆိပ်ကမ်းမြို့တစ်မြို့ဖြစ်သည်။
ဦးစိုးဦးက ဓားမကို အသာချပြီး သမီးကိုထူပေးရန် ခပ်သုတ်သုတ် ပြေးလိုက်သည်။ ဘာမှ မဖြစ်ဘူးမလား၊ အုန်းသီးနောက်တစ်စိတ်ယူလေ သမီးရဲ့ဟု ချော့ဖို့အဆင်သင့်။ သမီးကို ကောက်ပွေ့လိုက်သည်။ ပျော့ခွေလျက်ပါလာသည်။ သွေးအများကြီး ဘယ်ကထွက်နေမှန်း၊ သမီး အသံ ဘာကြောင့် မထွက်တော့မှန်း နားမလည်နိုင်သေးပေ။
မတ်လ ၂၇ ရက်နေ့ နေညိုချိန် ညနေ ငါးနာရီခွဲခန့်တွင် သမီး မအေးမြတ်သူ၏ ဘယ်ဘက် နားထင်ကို သေနတ်ကျည်ဆံထိမှန်ခဲ့ခြင်းပင်ဖြစ်သည်။ တစ်နာရီခန့်အကြာ နေဝင်ချိန်တွင် သူမဆုံးပါးသွားလေသည်။
ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ (၁) ရက်နေ့တွင် မြန်မာ့ အရပ်သား ခေါင်းဆောင်များကို ဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ကာ အာဏာသိမ်းအပြီးတွင် မြန်မာ့စစ်တပ်(တပ်မတော်)သည် ဒဏ်ခတ်ခံရခြင်းမှ ကင်းလွတ်ခွင့်အပြည့်ဖြင့် သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း၊ လက်ရောက်နှိပ်စက်ခြင်းနှင့် ဖမ်းဆီးချုပ်နှောင်ခြင်းတို့ကို ဆက်တိုက် လုပ်ဆောင်လာခဲ့သည်။ လေ့လာစောင့်ကြည့်ရေးအဖွဲ့များ၏ စာရင်းအရ စစ်သားနှင့် ရဲတို့၏ တိုက်ခိုက်မှုကြောင့် လမ်းပေါ်တွင်သေဆုံးရသူနှင့် အိမ်ထဲနေရင်း သေဆုံးရသူပေါင်း ၅၅၀ ကျော်လာပြီဖြစ်သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
"The New York Times" (USA)
Date of publication:
2021-04-04
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2021-04-07
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"With scores of children killed and maimed each year in Myanmar’s long-running ethnic wars, and hundreds conscripted as laborers, the government is setting up a national complaint mechanism for reporting violence and sexual crimes against minors in regions under conflict, officials said.
Myanmar, whose military has been at war with ethnic armies fighting for autonomy since the country gained independence from Britain in 1948, has struggled to shed a reputation for use of child soldiers. It signed an action plan with the U.N. in 2012 to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers.
In 2019, Myanmar’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement set up a Committee on the Prevention of Grave Violations against Children in Armed Conflict and enacted a Child Rights Law to align its national policies and regulations with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The committee submitted a national action plan for protecting children in armed conflicts from injury, death and sexual violence to President Win Myint's office on June 3, said Win Naing Tun, director-general of the ministry’s Rehabilitation Department.
“We are waiting for approval,” he told RFA’s Myanmar Service. “If it is approved, we will start accepting complaints. Then, we will make assessments along with relevant organizations.”
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar’s minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, will oversee the process, which will include officials from the home affairs and defense services ministries who will take action against perpetrators of violence against children, Win Naing Tun said.
They also will work with U.N. groups or the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR), co-chaired by UNICEF and the highest U.N. representative in-country, on the implementation phase and awareness-raising campaigns, he added.
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Myanmar ratified in 1991, prohibits all forms of violence against children under the age of 18. It also criminalizes grave violations against children and grants them legal protections..."
Source/publisher:
"RFA" (USA)
Date of publication:
2020-07-22
Date of entry/update:
2020-07-22
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"A surge in fighting between the Myanmar military and insurgents has killed at least 32 civilians, mostly women and children, in the restive Rakhine and Chin states, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday, adding the military had destroyed homes and schools.
Myanmar’s military denies targeting civilians and a spokesman on Friday declined to respond to the allegations.
The Arakan Army, an insurgent group seeking greater autonomy for the region, has been battling government troops for more than a year.
“Myanmar’s military has been carrying out almost daily air strikes and shelling in populated areas resulting in at least 32 deaths and 71 injuries since 23 March, the majority women and children, and they have also been destroying and burning schools and homes,” U.N. human rights office spokesman Rupert Colville told a Geneva news briefing.
He later said that the 32 were civilians..."
Source/publisher:
"Reuters" (UK)
Date of publication:
2020-04-17
Date of entry/update:
2020-04-27
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Children, Women of Burma -- bibliographies, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Armed conflict in Rakhine (Arakan) State
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"The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, completed a five-day mission to Myanmar where she engaged with national authorities, civil society, Ethnic Armed Organizations representatives, the Diplomatic Corps and the Country Taskforce on Monitoring and Reporting on Children and Armed Conflict (CTFMR on CAAC) in Myanmar.
“Children in Myanmar have suffered tremendously from the impact of hostilities, especially in Rakhine, Shan and Kachin States; it is crucial for all parties, including the Tatmadaw and other Government security forces, to continue their engagement with the United Nations to end and prevent violations against children,” said the Special Representative.
During this visit to Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw, the second since 2018, the Special Representative met with senior government officials including the State Counsellor and Foreign Minister, Her Excellency Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as the Ministers of Defense, of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, of Labor and Immigration and Population, and with the Union Attorney General. She also had constructive discussions with the Chairs of the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee.
“The Government Forces have made significant progress in the implementation of their joint Action Plan signed in 2012 with the United Nations on the recruitment of children; the Action Plan must now be expedited and finalized. I also urge the Tatmadaw Army to continue its engagement with the United Nations to develop measures to better protect children and to commit to a joint action plan on killing and maiming and sexual violence, violations for which they remain listed,” she added..."
Source/publisher:
UN Office of the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2020-01-20
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-21
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Children, Children's Rights - studies, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"UNICEF Myanmar has expressed deep sorrow over the death of four children last week when an explosive device went off while they were collecting fire wood in the forest near Htike Htoo Pauk village of Buthedaung Township in Rakhine State. Five more children were injured in the incident.
UNICEF, in a statement, said it was deeply concerned about the continued reports of killings and injuries of children, as a result of intensified fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army in the conflict-affected areas of Rakhine State.
In 2019 alone, 16 children lost their life and 36 have been severely injured in conflict affected areas of Myanmar as a result of incidents caused by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERWs)..."
Source/publisher:
"Mizzima" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-01-13
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-13
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Individual Documents
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Children, UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Child protection, Armed conflict, Myanmar
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Child protection, Armed conflict, Myanmar
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"UNICEF Myanmar expresses deep sorrow over the death offour children on Monday when an explosive device went off while they were collecting fire wood in the forest near Htike Htoo Pauk village of Buthedaung Township in Rakhine State. Five more children were injured in the incident. Our thoughts go to the families of the victims, to those injured and to all children caught up in conflict.
UNICEF is deeply concerned about the continued reports of killings and injuries of children, as a result of intensified fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army in the conflict-affected areas of Rakhine State.
In 2019 alone, 16 children lost their life and 36 have been severely injured in conflict affect areas of Myanmar as a result of incidents caused by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERWs).
UNICEF urges all parties to the conflict to stop laying mines and to clear existing mines and unexploded ordinances to ensure the safety of children caught up in conflict, and to uphold their right to protection. UNICEF also urges the Government to facilitate access for the provision of emergency Mine Risk Education activities so children, teachers and other community members receive psychosocial support and mine risk education in schools and communities in all conflict-affected areas of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar) via Reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2020-01-12
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-12
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Armed conflict in Rakhine (Arakan) State
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" Myanmar has taken the lead in Southeast Asia to eliminate corporal punishment and child labour with the ratification of a minimum age obligation and new legislation.
According to the Myanmar Times, last November, the International labour Organisation’s Minimum Age Convention No 138 was approved by parliament.
Among others, the 18-article convention allows Myanmar and other underdeveloped countries to employ children aged 12 to 14 for non-harmful light work.
It also seeks to abolish child labour and support the physical, mental and economic development of young people.
A few months earlier, Myanmar enacted the Child Rights Law, which garnered widespread recognition and support among civil society organisations for the advancement of children’s rights.
It also ended violence against children and the legislation was applauded by the likes of Unicef, Human Rights Watch and Save the Children.
Save the Children, which has operations in Myanmar, hailed the nation as a leader in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the issue of any form of punishment perpetrated against children..."
Source/publisher:
"New Straits Times" (Malaysia)
Date of publication:
2020-01-09
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-09
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Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Child labour in Burma
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Deadly landmine explosion happens in forest where Rohingya from nearby villages went to harvest firewood
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"Four Rohingya children were killed in a landmine explosion in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state early Tuesday, according to an official.
A group of more than 10 local Rohingya -- including several teenagers -- were harvesting firewood in the forest near Hteiktoo Pauk village in Kyauktaw Township when the mine exploded around 10.30 a.m. local time (0600GMT).
“Four children, two of them 8 years old and two of them 10, were killed on the spot,” said Aung Thaung Shwe, lower house lawmaker for the area.
He told Anadolu Agency by phone on Tuesday that six other Rohingya -- one adult man and five teenage boys -- were also injured in the landmine explosion.
It is still unclear whether Myanmar’s military or the Arakan Army -- a predominantly Buddhist ethnic group fighting for greater autonomy in the region -- planted the landmine in the forest.
“It is an act of terror as it targets civilians,” said Aung Thaung Shwe.
According to local media reports citing data from civil society groups, around 100 civilians have been killed in Rakhine state by armed clashes since the Arakan Army launched synchronized attacks on police outposts last January, killing 13 officers..."
Source/publisher:
"Anadolu Agency" (Ankara)
Date of publication:
2020-01-07
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-08
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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Myanmar is the leading country in Southeast Asia in eliminating corporal punishment and child labour following the ratification of a minimum age obligation and passsage of a landmark legislation.
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"In November, the parliament approved the ratification of the International Labour Organization’s Minimum Age Convention No 138. The 18-article convention seeks to abolish child labour and support the physical, mental and economic development of young people, while allowing Myanmar and other underdeveloped countries to employ children aged 12 to 14 for non-harmful light work. This follows the enactment of the Child Rights Law a few months earlier, a move which garnered widespread recognition and support among civil society organisations for the advancement of children's rights, particularly in ending violence against children. The legislation was applauded by the likes of UNICEF, Human Rights Watch and Save the Children.
Save the Children, which has operations in Myanmar, hailed the nation as a leader in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the issue of any form of punishment perpetrated against children..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-01-07
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-08
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Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, ASEAN-Burma relations
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Three-fold rise in verified attacks on children since 2010, an average of 45 violations a day
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"Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the United Nations has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict – the equivalent of more than 45 violations every day for the last 10 years.
The number of countries experiencing conflict is the highest it has been since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, with dozens of violent armed conflicts killing and maiming children and forcing them from their homes.
“Conflicts around the world are lasting longer, causing more bloodshed and claiming more young lives,” said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. “Attacks on children continue unabated as warring parties flout one of the most basic rules of war: the protection of children. For every act of violence against children that creates headlines and cries of outrage, there are many more that go unreported.”
In 2018, the UN verified more than 24,000 grave violations against children, including killing, maiming, sexual violence, abductions, denial of humanitarian access, child recruitment and attacks on schools and hospitals. While monitoring and reporting efforts have been strengthened, this number is more than two-and-a-half times higher than that recorded in 2010..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (New York)
Date of publication:
2019-12-29
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-07
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Children, UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"Hundreds rallied in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon on Monday to protest the release by police officials of the identity of a child-rape victim known to the public as Victoria, demanding that authorities take action against the officers exposing her identity.
The toddler nicknamed Victoria was two years and 11 months old when she was allegedly assaulted on May 16 at the private Wisdom Hill School in Zabuthiri township of Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw.
On July 14, police arrested 29-year-old Aung Kyaw Myo, a driver at the school who goes by the name Aung Gyi, charging him with rape based on the school’s CCTV video footage, an identification by the victim, and the presence of semen on his underwear.
Speaking at a press conference on Dec. 19, senior police officers Police Major General Aung Naing Thu, Police Brigadier General Soe Naing, Police Brigadier General Min Han, and Police Colonel Thar Htoon for the first time named the child victim in the case, later posting further information about the young girl and her family on the police department’s official Facebook page..."
Source/publisher:
"RFA" (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-12-23
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-07
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Children, Children's rights: resources and organisations, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"Earlier this year, in June, Save the Children released its Global Childhood Report 2019. The report involved a total of 176 countries, and took a look at indicators such as children’s healthcare, education, nutrition and protection. But while Singapore took lead in terms of providing a safe and fostering environment for children, leaving other ASEAN countries far behind, countries like Lao, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines performed the worst in the bloc.
The ASEAN Post has published several articles citing this particular report. We looked at the dire state in Lao, Cambodia, and the Philippines, and also commended Singapore for being able to grab top spot for the second year in a row. Nevertheless, today it’s pertinent to also take a closer look at Myanmar.
Talking about children in Myanmar is timely as recently, the country’s Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) approved Myanmar’s ratification of an international treaty to abolish child labour in the country. The Minimum Age Convention (138) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which includes the abolition of child labour, was approved on Tuesday..."
Source/publisher:
"The ASEAN Post" (Malaysia)
Date of publication:
2019-12-09
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-15
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Children, Child labour in Burma, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, ASEAN-Burma relations
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"On 6 December, yet another child lost his precious life in a horrific manner. The nine-year-old student, who was reportedly still wearing his school uniform and fleeing his school with other students because they heard sounds of armed clashes, was struck by several bullets and died on the spot on the road in front of his school, Basic Education Primary School – Pike The, in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State. We are shocked and saddened at such tragic loss of a child’s life.
UNICEF is deeply concerned about the alarming increase of reports of killings and injuries of children, as a result of intensified fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army in the conflict-affected areas of Rakhine State.
UNICEF calls on all parties to the conflict to ensure the full respect of the civilian character of schools, and to prevent any interference of armed actors with education infrastructures, personnel and students in line with national legal frameworks such as the Child Rights Law and the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement as well as obligations under international law. The presence of armed actors in or around schools increases the risk of schools being targeted and students and school personnel may be harmed, and school facilities damaged. It prevents children from accessing education, and associates schools with violent and traumatic events. We owe it to children to keep them safe at school and we urge all parties to the conflict, to exercise maximum restraint and to protect children at all times.
UNICEF further calls on the Government of Myanmar to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration and to adopt the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict, into domestic policy and operational frameworks..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-12-12
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-14
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Armed conflict in Rakhine (Arakan) State
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"Children in conflict with the law will have their rights protected by the International Legal Foundation (ILF) and United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Myanmar.
The partnership followed the implementation of the nation’s Child Rights Law which came into effect in July, according to The Myanmar Times.
Funded by the European Union initiative “Protecting children affected by migration in Southeast, South, and Central Asia”, the project focused on diverting children away from the criminal justice system and promoting alternatives to their detention.
Unicef Myanmar and the ILF would train defence lawyers and other justice stakeholders on child-friendly justice as well as set defence standards for juveniles.
They would also facilitate increased cooperation between police, prosecutors, judges and social service providers to divert cases concerning minors away from courts and connect children with appropriate community support to promote alternatives to incarceration.
Jennifer Smith, executive director of the ILF, underscored the importance of having skilled lawyers to defend children accused of crimes.
“Children need strong and skilled defenders to fight for them from the earliest possible moment after arrest, and their cases must be handled differently from adults,” she said..."
Source/publisher:
"New Straits Times" (Malaysia)
Date of publication:
2019-12-06
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-06
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Children, Children's Rights - studies, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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"The Drivers of Violence Against Adolescents in Myanmar: Consultations to Inform Adolescent Programming Report is part of the Understanding Violence Against Adolescents in Myanmar Series which aims to contribute to this growing body of evidence to understand better why violence against children is happening and what is driving it. The Series draws data from both nationally representative data as is presented in this report and from the UNICEF-supported interventions where diverse information is being collected as part of programme monitoring. The Series attempts to give it a closer look at the data and information at hand and dig deeper the issue of violence against children in Myanmar. We hope to generate evidence, create deeper understanding of the issue and stimulate discussions – all to better inform programming to address violence against children in Myanmar.
This publication has been funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Government of Canada, as well as the UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict. The views expressed in this publication are the author’s alone and are not necessarily the views of the Australian Government, Canadian Government, UN Action or UNICEF..."
Source/publisher:
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-12-03
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-04
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Individual Documents
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UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group
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