UN Report Slams Israel for Selling Arms to Myanmar Army despite Muslim Rohingya ‘Genocide’

PALESTAINE CHRONIC
August 5, 2019
Blog, News

 Myanmar officials attended weapons conference in Tel Aviv, despite weapons ban over Rohingya genocide. (Photo: via Social Media)

A United Nations fact-finding mission called on Monday for an embargo on arms sales to Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with connections to the military after finding they are funding human rights abuses.

UN investigators detailed how businesses run by Myanmar’s army, also known as the Tatmadaw, are engaged in such violations and provide financial support for military operations such as efforts to force Muslim Rohingya out of Rakhine state in what has been branded a “genocide”.

 

Myanmar approaching point of economic collapse: UN report

UN News

30 April 2020

Peace and Security

The turmoil following the military coup in Myanmar, coupled with the impact of COVID-19 could result in up to 25 million people – nearly half of the country’s population, living in poverty by early next year, a United Nations report said on Friday.

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That level of impoverishment has not been seen in the country since 2005, and the economy is facing significant risks of a collapse, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in its report, COVID-19, Coup d’état and Poverty: Compounding Negative Shocks and their Impact on Human Development in Myanmar.

Renewed clashes displace thousands in Myanmar, UN reports

UN News

Peace and Security

28 April 2021

UNICEF/Minzayar Oo An IDP camp in northern Myanmar. (file photo)

Fresh clashes between Myanmar security forces and regional armed groups have displaced thousands across the country, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.

British firm Veripos sold technology to Burma military, says UN report

The Telegraph

By,Joe Wallen 

6 August 2019

 

The army is accused by the UN of waging a two-year war of terror against the minority-Muslim Rohingya Credit: REUTERS 

 

A United Nations report has revealed that a British company sold more than £70,000 worth of navigation technology to the Burmese army, which is accused of carrying out genocide and war crimes against the Rohingya.

The UN Has Failed the Rohingya in Myanmar. Now it Should Take Responsibility

THE WIRE
Maung Zarni
Article

30th June 2019

 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

 The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s systemic failures in the country.

The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s involvement in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018.

The report, by former Guatemalan foreign minister and UN executive Gert Rosenthal, acknowledges that there were “systemic failures” in how the UN responded to the crisis in Myanmar.

United Nations says it suffered 'systematic failure' dealing with Burma's Rohingya crisis

The Telegraph
Reuters News Agency 

18 June 2019 

 

Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound in Myanmar in 2017 Credit: Reuters 

There was a "systemic failure" of the United Nations in dealing with the situation in Burma ahead of a deadly 2017 military crackdown because it did not have a unified strategy and lacked Security Council support, according to an internal report.

United Nations failed to handle Rohingya crisis: UN Report

Global Village Space
AFP
June 18, 2019

United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres ordered an investigation into the UN's failure in the Rohingya crisis. Rohingya is the Muslim community in Myanmar being persecuted at the hands of Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims fled to other countries as refugees. UN took notice but failed to handle the situation or end it. 

 The United Nations experienced “systemic failures” in its handling of the situation in Myanmar leading up to the 2017 mass exodus of Rohingya, a UN report said on Monday.

A Brief and Independent Inquiry into the involement of the United Nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018