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AA vows ‘retaliation’ for Myanmar army’s mass killing of civilians

November 16, 2022/in News

The group accused junta troops of killing nine civilians—mostly elderly villagers—during a raid late last week The political wing of the Arakan Army (AA) has declared that it will retaliate for the Myanmar military’s mass killing of civilians in northern Rakhine State’s Ponnagyun Township last week. In a statement released on Friday, the United League […]

UN Chief Admits World Has Failed the People of Junta-Ruled Myanmar

November 14, 2022/in News

The UN Secretary-General says the globe has failed the people of Myanmar, which has been engulfed by violence since the military staged a coup last year. “The international community as a whole has failed. And the UN is part of [the] international community. It is dramatic to see the suffering of the Myanmarese people,” said […]

AA vows ‘retaliation’ for Myanmar army’s mass killing of civilians

November 16, 2022/in News

UN Chief Admits World Has Failed the People of Junta-Ruled Myanmar

November 14, 2022/in News

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AA vows ‘retaliation’ for Myanmar army’s mass killing of civilians

November 16, 2022/in News

The group accused junta troops of killing nine civilians—mostly elderly villagers—during a raid late last week

The political wing of the Arakan Army (AA) has declared that it will retaliate for the Myanmar military’s mass killing of civilians in northern Rakhine State’s Ponnagyun Township last week.

In a statement released on Friday, the United League of Arakan (ULA) accused troops from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 550 of killing at least nine civilians, including elderly people, during a raid on the village of Sin Inn Gyi the day before.

Residents of the village said they found the bodies of nine people—mostly elderly residents and their carers who were unable to flee the attack—early Friday morning.

Junta forces from LIB 550 raided the village late Thursday after the AA ambushed two military vehicles in the area earlier in the day, local sources told Myanmar Now.

Soldiers torched several homes and shot the nine civilians dead before leaving the village, locals said.

The victims were identified as Sin Inn Gyi residents Ma Gyi, 86, Maung Kyaw Thein, 62, Kyaw Zan, 60, Khin Maung, 58, May Nu, 54, Mhe Ni, 45, Maung Maung Thein, 43, and Maung San Hla, 37, as well as Kyaw Naing, a 60-year-old traditional medicine specialist who was in the village to see a patient.

Villagers said they were only able to give the deceased makeshift burials due to the military’s heavy artillery shelling in the area.

In its statement, the ULA described the incident as one of the military’s “most inhumane war crimes” and called its forces cowardly for targeting unarmed civilians instead of engaging in combat with armed opponents.

There were also reports that shelling and drone and air attacks had left at least two other local civilians dead and five others injured.

“We will retaliate most seriously against the Ponnagyun-based LIB 550 for committing these war crimes and others who were involved in this incident,” said the ULA statement.

The AA said that it attacked the junta forces because the military’s recently imposed land and water travel restrictions in northern Rakhine State were causing undue hardships to the local civilian population.

According to residents of the state capital Sittwe, all traffic in and out of the city has been blocked since Thursday morning, leaving many buses and transport trucks from other parts of the country, including Yangon, stranded.

Myanmar’s military regime has not made any response to the ULA’s claims that its forces targeted civilians in last week’s attacks.

A map shows the trajectories of artillery shells fired from junta bases in Ponnagyun Township on November 10

A piece of a weapon that was found after a drone strike in Rakhine State’s Ponnagyun Township (Supplied)

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UN Chief Admits World Has Failed the People of Junta-Ruled Myanmar

November 14, 2022/in News

The UN Secretary-General says the globe has failed the people of Myanmar, which has been engulfed by violence since the military staged a coup last year.

“The international community as a whole has failed. And the UN is part of [the] international community. It is dramatic to see the suffering of the Myanmarese people,” said António Guterres, after being asked at Saturday’s ASEAN Summit for his response to criticism that the United Nations and ASEAN have failed the Myanmar people.

Myanmar has been plunged in bloody conflict since the military ousted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in February last year.

The UN chief’s admission came after almost two years in which the junta has brutalized the country with extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and airstrikes despite pleas by its people for the world body to intervene. The junta has so far killed more than 2,400 people amid the lack of international pushback.

The UN Secretary-General said, however, that he believed the Indonesian government would make progress on Myanmar when it takes the ASEAN helm next year.

“My special envoy is ready to fully cooperate with the ASEAN envoy in order to be able to create the conditions, to establish, as I mentioned, a democratic transition to let the political prisoners go in freedom and to end the dramatic violations of human rights in Myanmar,” he said.

Like the UN, ASEAN has been accused of failing Myanmar by sticking to its five-point peace plan despite it being largely ignored by the junta.

Saturday’s summit saw the bloc announce additional measures for implementation of the plan, known as the Five-Point Consensus, after ASEAN leaders identified the military regime as responsible for blocking progress. ASEAN also called on the UN to support implementation.

The additional measures include “concrete, practical and measurable indicators with a specific timeline” and engagement with all stakeholders – which opens the way to meetings with representatives of Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), a parallel government dominated by former lawmakers from Suu Kyi’s party.

“Engagement would be done in a flexible and informal manner, primarily undertaken by the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar,” ASEAN leaders said in the statement.

On Monday, former United Nations experts from the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) called on the UN to answer the ASEAN call for support.

“The UN must respond to ASEAN’s calls by using enforceable mechanisms to advance accountability for Myanmar and exert all possible pressure on the junta. ASEAN cannot deal with the junta alone,” said Marzuki Darusman, former chair of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.

ASEAN leaders also maintained the ban on regime representatives participating in the bloc’s high-level meetings but failed to extend it throughout the ASEAN system, where Myanmar retains influence.

The junta dismissed the decisions made at Saturday’s summit, saying it would not accept ASEAN resolutions made in Myanmar’s absence.

The military regime, which brands the NUG and its affiliates as terrorist organizations, said it “strongly objected and condemned the attempts by ASEAN member states to engage with those unlawful and terrorist organizations through any means and forms.”

The regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus was a process and “inserting additional pressure by setting a timeframe will create more negative implications than positive ones.”

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