The junta extended the state of emergency by six months
The Burma Army has increased violence against civilians reaching unprecedented levels last year, with the highest number of civil victims from the coup d’état that led him to power on February 1, 2021: he reported it today L ‘United Nations Human Rights Office.
According to the data of the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP) – cited by the UN – at least 6,231 civilians were killed by the army, including 1,144 women and 709 children, in the last four years. In 2024, at least 1,824 people were killed, including 531 women and 248 children, clearly increased compared to the previous peak of 1,639 deaths verified in 2023.
For the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations Volker Türk, “it is deeply distressing to discover that the situation for civilians is only worsening day by day”. “Even if the power of the army decreases, the scope and intensity of their atrocities and violence” has expanded. “This crisis of human rights created by the army caused indexable suffering through indiscriminate attacks against civilians, negation of humanitarian aid and systematic violations of human rights.
An analysis of the conflict also describes acts of extreme brutality and underlines how the army has launched subsequent waves of air attacks and bombed the civilians with the artillery, forced thousands of young people to military service, arrested many people, caused mass displaces and denied access to humanitarian aid.
Today, meanwhile, the Burmese military junta has extended by six months the state of emergency that should have expired at midnight, further postponing the elections.
