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A 2023 UN report alleges that these arms were likely to be used in the commission of international crime and that companies have avoided sanctions through shell companies. [56] The India–Myanmar border is 1,021 miles (1,643 km) in length and runs from the tripoint with China in the north to the tripoint with Bangladesh in the south. [57]
Myanmar's Killing Fields is a 2018 British-American television documentary film about the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Produced by the American investigative journalism program Frontline on PBS , it investigates the origin of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar as well as the ongoing situation of the Rohingya people .
The report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ... -Myanmar's military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit ...
In April 2019, the UN appointed an American prosecutor as head of an independent team that will probe human rights violations in Myanmar's volatile Rakhine state, focusing on atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims. However, Myanmar's ruling political party National League for Democracy disapproved of the new UN investigative mechanism. [94]
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The UN estimated that between 1996 and 2006, around 1 million people were internally displaced inside Myanmar, over 230,000 of whom remain displaced in the southeast of the country, and 128,000 refugees lived in temporary shelters on the Myanmar–Thailand border.
The United Nations warned Friday that far too little aid is reaching cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar and the country could face a major food crisis soon if farmers are unable to plant crops. “The ...
The office was established in March 1992 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the aftermath of the 1990 Myanmar general election, and continued deterioration in the country's human rights situation under the rule of the military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. [2]