March 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has denounced this Friday the “impunity” with which the Burmese military junta has acted for two years since the coup, having created a “perpetual” political and humanitarian crisis. , while global efforts fall on deaf ears.
Türk has regretted that since they carried out a coup two years ago, the military has embarked on a “scorched earth” policy in order to end any loophole of opposition, showing total “contempt” for the obligations and principles international.
The new United Nations report on the matter documents the abuses committed by the military junta in the last year, citing reliable sources that speak of at least 2,940 deaths and close to 17,580 arrests, despite the demands and actions of various international organizations to stop the violence immediately.
“In Burma, people are continuously exposed to murder, forced disappearances, displacement, torture, arbitrary detention and sexual violence. There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Army and its related militias are responsible for most of these crimes,” Türk denounces.
The United Nations has cited the so-called method of the four cuts that the military junta has applied since it took power on February 1, 2021, designed to strip the opposition of its fundamental resources: financing, food, intelligence and personnel.
Likewise, he has listed some of the worst massacres that the military have perpetrated in villages and towns throughout the country, but especially in the northwest and southeast, such as the air attack on a school in Sagaing on September 16, before the soldiers will land to continue the attack.
Hospitals in regions where the opposition is present are also targeted by a junta that uses the general burning of villages and houses as a tactic of war. For decades, this has been the ‘modus operandi’ of the Burmese Army, although in the last year 39,000 houses have fallen to the flames.
Burma suffers not only from the violence inflicted by the military, but also from its “mismanagement” of the economy. His inability, denounces the United Nations, has caused “a serious economic crisis for a large part of the population”, which has caused poverty rates to double.
“Almost half the population now lives in poverty and rural populations are at risk of starvation,” denounces the UN, which warns that the movement restrictions imposed by the junta to contain the opposition have further aggravated the situation. .
They have blocked the main supply routes and waterways throughout the country, preventing humanitarian actors from reaching 17.6 million people in need.
