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16 April, 2021 – London/Yangon -- Burma Human Rights Network strongly condemns the military’s arbitrary arrest, torture, extrajudicial killings of civilians and targeting religious premises and calls for the international community to do an immediate intervention to save the people of Myanmar. As the country marked the Buddhist religious and Burmese national holidays “Thingyan Holidays” and Muslims’ holy month of the Ramadhan, the military forces are still continuing arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings across the country including underaged children and emergency medical-care workers. The military has been brutally killing civilians and the death toll has reached over 700 people which includes over 40 children and more than 3000 people are in detention while hundreds are missing.
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London/Yangon – Burma Human Rights Network is calling on the international community to take strong decisive actions in response to the Tatmadaw’s atrocious killing spree against civilians. On 27 March, in concert with Armed Forces Day, the regime brutally attacked the civilian population across the entire country. BHRN has documented at least 113 civilians killed on 27 March alone and 466 civilian deaths since the 1 February Coup. Among the dead on 27 March were women and children, including a five-year-old child. In addition to attacks on protesters, the Tatmadaw reportedly used fighter jets to bomb ethnic Karen villages in response to Ethnic Armed Organizations standing with the protests.
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London/Yangon – Burma Human Rights Network is very encouraged by yesterday’s passage of new sanctions by the US and UK against businesses connected to the Burmese military that BHRN has been advocating since 2017. Both countries sanctioned Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited, a military conglomeration, and the US also sanctioned the Myanmar Economic Corporation, another key collection of business interests of the military. BHRN welcome these actions and hopes that the UK will soon also sanction MEC. These sanctions follow over 300 civilians being murdered and thousands of arrests for protesting the military’s 1 February coup.
