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When an alliance led by three rebel armies seized swathes of territory near Myanmar's border with China from the military junta last October, Beijing looked the other way. A year on, rebel forces ...
International human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch, [4] Amnesty International, [5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science [6] have repeatedly documented and condemned widespread human rights violations in Myanmar.
The main opposition organization in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to act strongly to restore democracy in the Southeast Asian nation, saying ...
[37] [38] China has also been accused of tacitly supporting the junta. China and Russia have blocked any substantive action against Myanmar's military at the United Nations Security Council, while the country's security forces have reportedly used Chinese and Russian-supplied weapons to perpetrate human rights violations. [39]
A report by human rights group Burma Campaign UK in December 2018 stated that Chinese companies make up the bulk of corporations named for involvement in human rights and environmental violations in Myanmar. [89] In June 2020, Myanmar was one of 53 countries that backed the Hong Kong national security law at the United Nations. [90]
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty ...
The international community must take "targeted action" to restrict the Myanmar junta's access to arms, jet fuel and foreign currency to prevent it from committing "atrocities" against its people ...
Truth and reconciliation in Myanmar refers to the examination of human rights abuses in Myanmar, [1] [2] [3] particularly involving those suffered by the Rohingya people. [citation needed] From a coup d’état in 1962 to a general election in 2010, Myanmar (previously known as Burma) was controlled by a military regime. The junta was ...