Human Rights High Commissioner Bholkar informed the Human Rights Council in Turk Geneva about the situation in Myanmar, surrounded by war, oppression and misery.
Since the military coup in February 2021, 5 ordinary citizens have died, more than 22,000 have been detained indiscriminately. 2.2 million people need humanitarian assistance and more than 1 million violent conflicts have been displaced.
The OHCR chief says that the report I am presenting today is about the people in Myanmar and their desires for a better future.
“Despite the huge challenges, people from different sections of the society are trying to form a peaceful, uninterrupted, democratic, diverse Myanmar, on which human rights have human rights.”
Currently, the country is struggling with serious challenges on various fronts. About four thousand people died in the earthquake on March 25 and 60 million people needed assistance, but the army intensified its attack instead of assisting in relief.
According to the UN Human Rights Office, 600 military attacks have been collected since the earthquake, of which 5 percent of which are in spite of ceasefire. Schools, religious places and other protected places have been constantly targeted.
Rakhin’s situation is also thought to be extremely concerned, where ordinary citizens, mainly the Rohinjya Muslim population, is grinding the Myanmar army and a ethnic armed party to fight the Arakan army.
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Five people in Myanmar are forced to live under the poverty line or something above the poverty line. 1 million people have left the country and are often forced to travel to risky land and sea.
The High Commissioner Turk suggested four ways for a peaceful and democratic Myanmar in his report: justice and accountability; Democratic administration; Economic reforms for ordinary citizens; Continuous international communication and interaction.
He emphasized that all political prisoners should start accountability by releasing and judge the criminals of human rights violations.
“It is compulsory for the army to immediately stop violence, unnecessary humanitarian assistance and all those detained in voluntary custody should be released.”
He said that future plans for human rights, the basis of human rights, arouse hope among the people. In reality it is our responsibility to realize this hope.
Help the crisis
UN Special Correspondent Tom Andrew Human Rights High Commissioners on behalf of Myanmar reclaimed the warning that international support in the country was decreasing when military repression deepened.
“Military leadership decided to use assistance as a weapon.”
He said that humanitarian workers were being stopped at the check points and the survivors of the earthquake were being sent from the shelter, though there was no place to approach them.
This year, an appeal was issued for Myanmar, an appeal of $ 1.5 billion, of which only 12 percent could be increased. In addition to these, Tk 2 27 crore was released separately for earthquake relief efforts, where only 1 percent percent was obtained.
Tom Andrews said that at a time when people in Myanmar need more support from the international community, they are facing the opposite situation. If it continues, people’s pain will increase, the price may be paid by life.