AI sees the executions as “another example of the atrocious human rights record” of the military junta, while HRW calls it “absolute cruelty”
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The United Nations special rapporteur for the situation of Human Rights in Burma, Tom Andrews, has asked the international community that the execution of four opponents and activists serve as a “turning point” to step forward and take action against to the serious crisis that the Asian country is going through.
“I am devastated by the news of the execution of activist Ko Jimmy and MP Zeyar Thaw, executed along with two others. Members of the UN must honor their lives by making these depraved acts a turning point,” he said. it’s a statement.
Thus, he has said he feels “outraged” by what happened and has conveyed all his support to “the families, friends and loved ones”, as well as “to the entire Burmese people, “who are victims of the measures of the military junta and its atrocities”.
“These individuals have been tried and sentenced by a military court without having the right to appeal the judicial decision and without having any type of legal advice, in a clear violation of Human Rights,” he asserted.
In this sense, he has pointed out that the “systematic murder of demonstrators, the indiscriminate attacks against localities, and now the execution of opposition leaders, requires immediate measures by the member states of the United Nations.” “What else does the board have to do for the international community to respond?” she has pointed out.
In addition, he has accused the military junta of “laughing” at the five points proposed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a “road map” to guide the country and has stressed the need to “take measures up to these immeasurable acts”.
“EXAMPLE OF THE ATROCIOUS RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS”
For his part, the regional director of Amnesty International (AI), Arwin van der Borght, has denounced that these executions should be interpreted as “arbitrary deprivation of life” and that they are “another example of Burma’s appalling human rights record”.
“The four men were sentenced by a military court in highly secret and deeply unfair trials. The international community must act immediately as more than a hundred people are believed to be on death row after being sentenced in similar trials,” Van der Borght has influenced.
At this point, AI’s regional director has accused the Burmese military junta of being involved in “extrajudicial executions, torture and a whole range of human rights violations” since its seizure of power in February 2021.
“At a time when more and more countries are taking steps to abolish the death penalty, the resumption of executions after more than three decades not only contradicts the global trend, but also runs counter to the goal of abolition enshrined in international law. international human rights,” Van der Borght stressed.
Finally, Amnesty International has urged the Burmese authorities to establish “immediately” a moratorium on executions.
“ACT OF ABSOLUTE CRUELTY”
Along the same lines, the interim director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) for Asia, Elaine Pearson, has described the recent executions as “an act of absolute cruelty” by the Burmese military authorities.
Likewise, it has shared the position of other organizations that the judicial process against opponents and activists was “manifestly unfair and politically motivated.”
“This horrific news has been compounded by the board’s failure to notify the men’s families, who learned of the executions through board media reports,” Pearson said.
“The junta’s barbarism and callous disregard for human life are aimed at chilling the protest movement against the coup. The member states of the European Union, the United States and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning.” for their crimes,” added Pearson.
Finally, HRW has stressed the need to apply “immediate measures”, including the release of all political prisoners, as well as letting the Burmese military authorities know that their actions “have consequences”.
These are the first executions in the country since ethnic Chin student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo was hanged by the authoritarian regime of Dictator General Ne Win at Yangon’s Insein Prison in 1976.
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