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Statement on Women with Gun-shoot Wound by Junta and call for provide medical treatment Inbox

February 21, 2022/in Member statements

Khin Kay Khine, who was working at the backyard of her house, was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet fired indiscriminately by troops of the military council who entered into Winkapaw village, Taung Pyauk area in Thayetchaung township, Dawei district, Tanintharyi Region, in the evening of 3 November 2021. Fortunately, Khin Kay Khine […]

Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (14 February – 21 February 2022)

February 21, 2022/in HR Situation

Statement on Women with Gun-shoot Wound by Junta and call for provide medical treatment Inbox

February 21, 2022/in Member statements

Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (14 February – 21 February 2022)

February 21, 2022/in HR Situation

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Statement on Women with Gun-shoot Wound by Junta and call for provide medical treatment Inbox

February 21, 2022/in Member statements

While Khin Kay Khine was being treated in the hospital, the military learned about her case and military affairs intelligence agents watched her around the clock. She was then transferred to a military hospital in order to black out the news. Her sister, who accompanied her at the hospital, was released after about one month at the hospital, and put in a car. Khin Kay Khine was then sent to prison for interrogation. Since then, Khin Kay Khine has been out of contact with her family members.

About a month later, it was heard from the family of a Dawei political prisoner that she had been sentenced to seven years in prison on February 10 at the prison court while she was still suffering from the gunshot wound. Our network has been monitoring the incident closely but did not release the information due to concern for the safety of her family members.

Now, we have got information that three women prisoners are in emergency need of medical treatment, including Khin Kay Khine, who is still suffering from the gunshot wound.

1) We, the Network for Advocacy Action (NAA), call upon ICRC to provide assistance to political prisoners who are currently being held in prisons and in need of medical treatment.

2) We urge international organizations that respect Human Rights to give pressure for the immediate release of political prisoners who are being detained unfairly, including Khin Kay Khine.

3) We hereby declare that we strongly oppose the violations of human rights and inhumane brutality of the military council.

Network for Advocacy Action (Tanintharyi)

Contacts: – +(95)9 792 413 960

– +(66) 951 147 147

Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (14 February – 21 February 2022)

February 21, 2022/in HR Situation

It is no surprise to the people of Myanmar that the junta cannot be trusted. Decades of violence against civilians, perpetrated with impunity has denied many justice. Rights, freedoms and basic protections under the regime have entirely disappeared. While trying to pursue legitimacy nonetheless, the leaders of the attempted coup have failed tremendously. And yet, the international community and other stakeholders including regional actors have seemingly been complicit in their war path which has deprived civilians their right to life.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial meeting, which took place last week, did not include a representative from Myanmar after the junta was barred from attending. A ‘five-point consensus’ proposed to the junta last year, has failed to make even the slightest bit of progress. A peace process has not been facilitated, nor has any end of the fighting been alluded to. Thousands remain in military custody under the harshest of conditions, where in addition to falsified charges, they have been deprived of their basic human rights.

Talks at the ASEAN meeting included a discussion on how to resolve the worsening human rights crisis in Myanmar. ASEAN is divided on how to deal with the junta. Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia have been critical of the junta. Whereas, Thailand and Cambodia have failed to draw a hard line with the regime amid a series of excuses and citing the crisis as ‘an internal issue.’

ASEAN cannot be relied upon as a mediator in the crisis when the junta has so obviously proven that their lies are interwoven into excuses which are evident of a lack of accountability and regard for critics. They have no moral compass and cannot be trusted.

KARENNI (KAYAH) STATE

In addition to Karenni IDP camps being targeted with airstrikes by the military junta, the Karenni Human Rights Group (KnHRG) has also reported the drones are being used to attack civilians after shelling a funeral home. Infantry battalion 102, fired 120 mm artillery shells and 81 mm mortars. Despite zero injuries or casualties, this speaks to the level of cruelty which the junta is bombarding innocent civilians with.Only a month ago, airstrikes on western Demawso, killed three internally displaced teenagers, and after an attack on Rekeebu IDP camp, another two young girls were killed as well as an elderly man. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to flee the junta and seek safety and protection. As ND-Burma and KnHRG documented in a recent joint report, ‘The World Must Know,’ human rights violations perpetrated in Karenni (Kayah) State by the terrorist junta have increased as has in other states and regions since 1 February 2021. The safety of civilians has been seriously undermined as ongoing bombardments threaten to further destabilize the state. Problematic patterns of impunity have jeopardized prospects for justice as residents are ruthlessly targeted while soldiers evade accountability.

SAGAING REGION

In Mingin Township, Sagaing region, the bodies of four civilians were found deceased with evidence of serious trauma to their bodies. One of the bodies was discovered badly burned and reduced to ashes. The discovery of the villagers came after the regime had set hundreds of homes on fire in Mote Thar and Mauk Tet. Only a few homes have been left standing as the numbers of displacement continue to rise.

According to Myanmar Now, those killed were Naing Soe Lin, a 21-year-old vegetable seller, and three volunteer village guards named Kaung Min San, 18, Than Min Soe, 24, and Naing Zaw, 28. The victims had families and were denied not only protection and their rights, but also a proper burial. The wife of Naing Soe Lin is also missing.

The increase of force and airstrikes comes as the junta is losing their offensives across the country. In January 2022, nearly forty civilians were forced to guide junta soldiers as human shields, including women and children.

SHAN STATE

The latest documentation by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) found harrowing evidence of further crimes against humanity perpetrated against innocent civilians. A 44 year old farmer, who had been displaced, was tortured to death in Kyaukme township, northern Shan State. Military intelligence officers arrived at his home and violently forced their way into his home where they searched for drugs. When their search failed to render the results they were after, the farmer, Sai Tun Win, was beaten on his body and head. His family members were also assaulted by the soldiers and robbed of their possessions, including 30 000 Myanmar Kyat.

Sai Tun Win was forced to accompany the soldiers where he was found at a hospital with wounds to his head and mouth, and a remaining handcuff on his left hand. The regime called the whole thing a ‘misunderstanding’ and refused to pay the devastated family any compensation. Just one week before, SHRF reported on the case of a villager who was killed in a violent hit and run by the junta in Mong Hsu, southern township and no compensation was provided, nor justice for the family was granted in further incidents of human rights violations perpetrated against innocent civilians.

Villagers in northern Shan State were also forced to flee airstrikes perpetrated by the military junta. The majority of those who fled were women and children.

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