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UN Watching for Civil Abuse in Myanmar Conflict | WGN Radio 720 – Illinoisnewstoday.com

UN Watching for Civil Abuse in Myanmar Conflict | WGN Radio 720 – Illinoisnewstoday.com

Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s UN office may have executed 25 civilians captured by groups opposed to the country’s ruling party forces, and government security forces reportedly burned the village. He expressed concern about the spread of human rights violations. .. The struggle between the military junta, which came to power in February, and those who

Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s UN office may have executed 25 civilians captured by groups opposed to the country’s ruling party forces, and government security forces reportedly burned the village. He expressed concern about the spread of human rights violations. ..

The struggle between the military junta, which came to power in February, and those who oppose it has intensified in recent months after the expulsion of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Initially a non-violent civil disobedience movement against hijacking, elements have turned into fledgling armed resistance in response to severe crackdowns from police and soldiers who killed hundreds of peaceful protesters and bystanders. Developed.

A statement from the UN Secretariat cited abuse by both sides, calling for “all parties in the current crisis to ensure that norms and standards of international human rights are respected.”

“This includes supporting the obligation to minimize incidental harm to civilians and private infrastructure, and prohibiting the application of collective penalties to communities, families or individuals,” said the UN affairs. Tokoro said.

The statement referred to the discovery of two mass graves in the eastern province of Cain, also known as Karen, containing the bodies of 25 people “reportedly detained by the Karen Defense Agency or KNDO on May 31.”

KNDO is one of the fighting forces of the Karen National Union, a political organization of the Karen ethnic minorities who have fought for decades to increase autonomy from the central government.

Military junta said on Sunday that the bodies of 25 people were the bodies of road construction workers detained and killed by KNDO.

In response, KNDO spokesman Wah Nay Nu was told by independent online news service The Irrawaddy that the man was not a civilian, but a spying government soldier. Some were shot dead by KNDO troops, while others were killed by artillery fire from government troops, he said.

However, on Wednesday, the Karen National Union issued a statement that it would form a team to investigate the case, stating that the group “follows the Geneva Convention, which does not tolerate the killing of civilians during armed conflict.”

The statement added that measures could be taken to prosecute fraud in accordance with relevant law without providing details.

A UN statement called for “responsible persons for human rights abuses, including the perpetrators and their chain of command, should be held accountable.”

The burning of the village of Betel in the Magway region of central Myanmar on Tuesday was also controversial.

Villagers are responsible for burning most of the village’s approximately 250 homes with independent media Associated Press accounts and cannot or want to escape with the rest of the villagers. An old couple died in flames. The villagers spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by the government.

However, government-controlled media reported that “terrorists” were the cause of the fire, they burned down the homes of someone who did not sympathize with their cause, and that the wind spread the fire.

The government and its opponents each call the other side a “terrorist.”

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