A report published by the United Nations on Friday (March 3) accused Myanmar’s military of creating “a perpetual human rights crisis” in the southeast Asian country and called for an immediate stop to the violence.
Since seizing power two years ago, Myanmar’s junta has plunged the country in chaos and violence, with a resistance movement fighting the military on multiple fronts after a bloody crackdown on opponents saw Western countries re-impose sanctions.
The report, which documents human rights concerns between Feb. 1, 2022 and Jan. 31, 2023, found that violence had intensified in northwestern and southeastern Myanmar due to the military’s “indiscriminate airstrikes and artillery shelling, mass burnings of villages to displace civilian populations, and denial of humanitarian access.”
