The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the “
disproportionate
use
of force
” in Burma, where it wants an office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to be established. 'man.
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On February 12, the Council had already adopted a resolution on Burma, during an extraordinary session, demanding in particular the lifting of the state of emergency and the release of all those arbitrarily detained, including the deposed head of government. Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi.
But the junta remains deaf to international condemnations, saying once again this week that it is determined to "
suppress anarchy
".
However, on Wednesday, she released more than 600 people arrested since the coup, including a photographer from the American press agency AP.
The resolution adopted Wednesday by the UN body based in Geneva, at the end of its 46th session, once again condemns "
in the strongest terms the overthrow, on February 1, 2021, of the civilian government
" and calls again for "
immediate release. and unconditional
”to all those who have been arbitrarily arrested, detained or charged.
In particular, the text reiterates its demands for the immediate and unconditional release of all journalists, human rights defenders, religious leaders, members of civil society, local and foreign advisers, medical workers, academics, teachers and activists arrested "
for policies
”.
The text calls for the right to freedom of opinion and expression online to be protected and condemns "
the disproportionate use of force by the army and the police (...) in particular the indiscriminate use of lethal force
”and calls on the army to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis.
He also wants all the experts and UN bodies responsible for human rights "
to have immediate and full access to the whole country, without restriction or surveillance, in order to monitor the situation in complete independence
" and judges that an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights must be established in the country.
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The resolution also stresses that it is necessary "to
genuinely address the root causes of human rights violations and abuses committed against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, in particular the Rohingya
" and demands the elimination of statelessness from which this Muslim minority suffers.
Nearly one million Rohingya members live in precarious conditions in camps in Bangladesh, after fleeing military repression in their country in 2017. The remaining 600,000 live in permanent apartheid conditions.
