In Myanmar, Grief and Fury After an Attack on a School

The New York Times  

By Sui-Lee Wee
Sept. 23, 2022

 Eleven children died when soldiers fired on the school, where they said rebels had taken cover. “This is a war crime,” said a U.N. expert.

Damage from the Sept. 16 attack on a school in Let Yet Kone village, in the Sagaing region of central Myanmar. Credit...Social Media, via Reuters

 

 It was the noon hour, and children were playing outside the school, squeezing in their last few minutes of fun before lessons began. Suddenly, there came the roar of helicopters overhead.

Bhone Tayza, 7, looked up. His cousin shouted at him to run, and both of them dashed to hide in a hole in the trunk of a tamarind tree. Then Bhone Tayza remembered he had left his school bag in his classroom and ran back to get it. Soldiers started firing rockets.

Myanmar spiralling ‘from bad to worse, to horrific’, Human Rights Council hears

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21 September 2022
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A child looks after his younger sibling in Myanmar.

Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said on Wednesday that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.

“With each report I have warned that unless UN Member States change course in the way they collectively respond to this crisis, the people of Myanmar will suffer even further,” he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva, saying that conditions have “gone from bad to worse, to horrific for untold numbers of innocent people in Myanmar”.

Is There Any Solution to Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis?

THE I DEPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio

December 21, 2021

The February coup has further complicated the potential return of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

In the 10 months since the Myanmar military’s seizure of power tipped the nation into a toxic, nationwide political emergency, another serious crisis – that facing the Rohingya refugees of Bangladesh – has largely been consigned to the margins of international attention.

More than 1 million mostly Muslim Rohingya civilians have been entrapped, limbo-like, in the rambling refugee camps that surround the town of Cox’s Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh, since fleeing in scorched-earth military offensives in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017. While a solution was remote even before the coup, the new crisis has further compounded their troubles, complicating any resolution to the refugee emergency, while also distracting international attention away from what might be done to resolve it.

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအထူးကိုယ္စား လွယ္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြဆီ သြားေရာက္

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လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
2021-12-13

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ၊ ကုတုပေလာင္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ခိုလႈံေနသူေတြကို ၂၀၂၁၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔က ေတြ႕ရစဥ္
Photo: TANBIR MIRAJ / AFP

ကုလသမဂၢရဲ့ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ Tom Andrews ဟာ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နိုင္ ငံ က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြကို ဒီေန႔ကစၿပီး ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔ထိ တစ္ပတ္ၾကာ ေလ့လာေရး ခရီး စတင္ေနၿပီလို႔ UN OHCHR အဖြဲ႕က ထုတ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္က လူမ်ိဳးတုံး သုတ္သင္ရွင္းလင္းတဲ့နည္းနဲ႔ေမာင္းထုတ္လိုက္တဲ့ လူတစ္သန္းေလာက္ကို ကမၻာ ႀကီးက ေမ့ထားလို႔မရပါဘူး၊ သူ႔တို႔က ကိုယ့္အိမ္ကိုယ္ျပန္ဖို႔ကလြဲလို႔ ဘာမွမလိုခ်င္ပါဘူး၊ သူတို႔ကို ေအးေအး ခ်မ္းခ်မ္း နဲ႔ အႏၲရာယ္မရွိဘဲ ျပန္ေနခြင့္ေပးဖို႔ပဲလိုပါတယ္လို႔ Tom Andrews က ေျပာပါတယ္။

29th Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar

Joint Statement by Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
and the Coordination Committee

Geneva, 12 February 2021

Madam President, Distinguished members of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

I’m delivering this statement on behalf of my mandate and on behalf of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures. In light of the subject matter of the session today, the Committee has asked me to deliver our joint statement.  

We thank you for convening this Special – and very timely - session.

Introduction: The Need for Action

The very act of convening this session makes an important statement of the gravity with which this Council views what can aptly be described as an outrageous and illegal act – a coup d’état of a duly elected government and its duly elected leaders.

This is the 29th time that a Special Session of the Human Rights Council has convened. It is noteworthy, that the 27th Special Session was also convened to focus on illegal actions taken by the Myanmar military against its own people––in that case, the mass atrocity crimes that were committed against the Rohingya ethnic minority.

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စား လွယ္သစ္ အမည္စာရင္းတင္သြင္း

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

26 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2020
အင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢလူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္အသစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ဖို႔ အမည္သြင္းခံရတဲ့ အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လြႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေဟာင္း Tom Andrews (Photo- cspan)

ဆြစ္ဇာလန္ႏိုင္ငံ ဂ်ီနီဗာမွာ က်င္းပေနတဲ့ ၄၃ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီ ညီလာခံမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢလူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္အသစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ဖို႔ အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လြႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ေဟာင္း Tom Andrews ကို လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီဥကၠဌက အဂၤါေန႔မွာ အမည္တင္သြင္းလိုက္ ပါတယ္။