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JOINT STATEMENT BY THE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS OF MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA CONDEMNING HUN SEN’S SUPPORT OF THE MYANMAR MILITARY JUNTA

January 4, 2022/in Press Releases and Statements

4 January 2022 We, the undersigned civil society organizations of Myanmar and Cambodia, strongly condemn Hun Sen for supporting the criminal military junta in Myanmar and demand an urgent coordinated international response to immediately halt the junta’s campaign of terror. The Myanmar military junta has been using extreme violence to terrorize the people across the […]

Human Rights Situation of Myanmar: Post Coup (December 27 to 2 January)2022

January 3, 2022/in HR Situation

On 1 January, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners reported that since 1 February, 1393 people had been killed, 11, 296 arrested and over 8000 are still being unlawfully detained. In December alone, according to the National Unity Government, over five dozen civilians were murdered and tens of thousands were displaced by the junta’s violence. The Women’s League of […]

JOINT STATEMENT BY THE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS OF MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA CONDEMNING HUN SEN’S SUPPORT OF THE MYANMAR MILITARY JUNTA

January 4, 2022/in Press Releases and Statements

Human Rights Situation of Myanmar: Post Coup (December 27 to 2 January)2022

January 3, 2022/in HR Situation

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JOINT STATEMENT BY THE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS OF MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA CONDEMNING HUN SEN’S SUPPORT OF THE MYANMAR MILITARY JUNTA

January 4, 2022/in Press Releases and Statements

4 January 2022

We, the undersigned civil society organizations of Myanmar and Cambodia, strongly condemn Hun Sen for supporting the criminal military junta in Myanmar and demand an urgent coordinated international response to immediately halt the junta’s campaign of terror.

The Myanmar military junta has been using extreme violence to terrorize the people across the country since its attempted coup on 1 February 2021. The people of Myanmar continue to resist strongly, succeeding at pushing back the military junta who has failed to gain effective control of the country after eleven months. Yet, the junta continues to commit inhumane acts of violence especially in ethnic areas – amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes.

As of today, 1,398 people have been killed, including at least 100 children and 11,328 people have been illegally detained according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Those in detention face torture, murder, and deprivation of food and water. Women have been raped and gang-raped inside and outside prison. Properties have been robbed and destroyed by junta soldiers. Since February, over 280,000 civilians have been internally displaced. Towns and villages have been burned or blown away by artillery shelling and airstrikes. Medical facilities and medical workers have been attacked. Humanitarian aid has been blocked and destroyed, unable to reach those desperately in need of assistance.

Recently on 24 December 2021, the junta arrested approximately 40 innocent villagers near Moso Village in the western part of Hpruso Township in Karenni State including women and children, put them in vehicles while their hands tied behind their backs and burned them alive. Similar massacres took place at Dontaw Village in Salingyi Township in Sagaing Region on 7 December, where 11 civilians were burned to death. Before this, the junta massacred at least 40 civilians over four different inhumane incidents in Kani Township, Sagaing Region in July.

While the atrocities were being committed in Karenni State, since 15 December, the terrorist junta has started shelling using heavy weaponry at Lay Kay Kaw and surrounding areas in Karen State and later with the use of airstrikes – jets bombing the area indiscriminately. This has displaced more than 10,000 innocent civilians, half of whom fled to Thailand to take refuge. Some Thai villagers also had to relocate, as some houses on the Thai side of the border were destroyed by the Myanmar junta’s artillery shelling.

Speaking at the inauguration of the new Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phnom Penh on 15 December 2021, Hun Sen publicly revealed that his highest priority in 2022 while Cambodia serves as chair of ASEAN is to support the return of Myanmar to fully functioning member of ASEAN under the illegal military junta. Hun Sen plans to visit Myanmar on 7 January 2022, for talks with the leader of the murderous junta, Min Aung Hlaing – a move that would only serve to embolden the military junta to continue their campaign of terror against the people of Myanmar. Hun Sen’s plan to act unilaterally in addressing the multidimensional crisis in Myanmar is utterly insufficient, as Hun Sen should know well from the Cambodian experience. Ending the Khmer Rouge required a concerted international and UN response, it was not left in the hands of only one man.

The escalating violence being committed by the junta against the people of Myanmar amounts to crimes against humanity and war crimes, amidst an ongoing genocide against the Rohingya since 2017. Hun Sen must not condone and applaud such inhumane acts and should know well of the pain and immense suffering of genocide on a nation, given the millions of Cambodian people who were victims and survivors of genocide committed by the tyrannical Khmer Rouge. Hun Sen must not lend legitimacy to the genocidal junta, and he must not forget the suffering of millions of Cambodians who faced genocide.

Hun Sen reiterated that a solution for Myanmar cannot be achieved without negotiating with those who are currently in power, but ultimately power lies with the people of Myanmar who have declared in the strongest terms that they have no desire to see negotiations with this criminal military junta who are committing atrocity crimes.

Hun Sen referenced the Civil Disobedience Movement and the National Unity Government of Myanmar as guerrilla fighters or shadow government. The people of Myanmar hereby declare in the strongest terms that they take the utmost exception to his references and take them as the worst insult possible.

While ASEAN’s decision in October 2021 to exclude junta leader Min Aung Hlaing from the annual regional summit was unprecedented and a step in the right direction, ASEAN must take further decisive steps to resolve the intensifying crisis in Myanmar. The recent incidents of extreme violence in Karen and Karenni States and Sagaing Region clearly show there must be an urgent and stronger coordinated international response. We urge the UN, ASEAN, and international community at large to take concrete actions to end the junta’s campaign of terror against the people and hold them to account through international accountability mechanisms.

The root cause of the crisis in Myanmar is the military junta. It has caused not only immense suffering of the people of Myanmar but has also posed a threat to regional peace and stability. Hun Sen, ASEAN and the international community must realize that the Myanmar military junta has no genuine intention to comply with ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus and that ASEAN alone is ill-equipped to tackle the crisis in Myanmar.

ASEAN must recognize the legitimate government of Myanmar, the National Unity Government, work in coordination with the UN and the NUG and demand the military junta to immediately halt its terror campaign against the people. ASEAN’s credibility is at stake, and it must put effective pressure on the Myanmar military junta to end its relentless violence and support the people of Myanmar in their endeavor to establish a federal democracy.

In addition, ASEAN member states must cut all business ties with the Myanmar military junta and stop all programs and activities that lend legitimacy to the junta as these would be complicit in the junta’s crimes against humanity and war crimes.

ASEAN, as well as the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council, that has backed the ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, must ensure that Hun Sen does not act alone in 2022 – lending legitimacy to the Myanmar military junta and further emboldening them to cause more harm to the people. This would be an insult to the people of Myanmar and Cambodia and further jeopardizing ASEAN’s already-diminishing credibility during the Cambodia tenure as chair of ASEAN in 2022. Human rights violations and atrocity crimes committed by Hun Sen and Min Aung Hlaing must be rectified and democracy and human rights must be restored to the peoples of Cambodia and Myanmar.

The people of Cambodia are in their own tireless struggle for full-fledged democracy and protection of human rights, currenting calling for free and fair elections in 2022. The people of Myanmar stand in solidarity with the people of Cambodia who want to overcome an oppressive authoritarian leader, who routinely denies and violates their human rights. The people of Myanmar categorically reject the terrorist military junta’s announced plan of elections in 2023 – just as they have been defiantly and categorically rejecting its bloody coup attempt for the past eleven months.

The undersigned CSOs from Myanmar declare in the strongest terms that Hun Sen is not welcome in Myanmar and the undersigned Cambodian CSOs declare that Hun Sen’s views are his own and do not represent the will of the Cambodian people.

For further information, please contact:

Aung Moe Win, Support the Democracy Movement in Burma, NYforBurmaDemocracy@gmail.com
Jan Jan Maran, Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy & US Advocacy Coalition for Myanmar, hmaran@gm4md.org
Tung Yap, Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy (CAHRAD), tung@cahrad.org
Wai Wai Nu, Women’s Peace Network, waiwainu@womenspeacenetwork.org

Signed by:

Action Against Myanmar Military Coup (Sydney)
Action Committee for Democracy Development
All Arakan Students’ and Youths’ Congress (AASYC)
All Burma Student Democratic Front – Australia Branch
All Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA)
All Burma Monks’ Representative Committee (ABMRC)
All Young Burmese League (AYBL)
ALTSEAN-Burma
Anti Dictatorship in Burma – DC Metro Area
Anti-Myanmar Dictatorship Movement
Anti-Myanmar Military Dictatorship Network (AMMDN)
Arakan Rohingya Development Association – Australia Inc. (ARDA-Australia)
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO)
Arakan Rohingya Union
Artists Against Tyranny
Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters-HRDP
Australia Burma Friendship Association, Northern Territory
Australia Karen Organization WA Inc.
Australia Myanmar DNF
Australia Myanmar Youth Alliance (AMYA)
Australian Burmese Muslim Organisation
Australian Chin Community (Eastern Melbourne Inc)
Australian Karen Organisation (AKO)
Australian Karen Organisation (AKO) Queensland
Bamar Community Tasmania
Better Burmese Health Care
Blood Money Campaign
Boston Free Burma
Burma Action Ireland
Burma Campaign UK
Burma Human Rights Network
Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC)
Burma Task Force
Burmese American Millennials
Burmese Canadian Network
Burmese Community (Australia)
Burmese Community Development Collaboration (BCDC)
Burmese Community Support Group-BCSG
Burmese Friendship Association
Burmese Medical Association Australia (BMAA)
Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan ( BRAJ)
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK)
Burmese Rohingya Welfare Organization New Zealand
Burmese Women’s Union
Cambodian Americans and Friends for Democracy and Human Rights Advocates
Cambodian Americans for Human Rights and Democracy (CAHRAD)
Cambodian Australian Federation (CAF)
Campaign for a New Myanmar
Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative
Canberra Karen Association
Chin Community of Western Australia Inc.
Chin Community SA (Australia)
Chin Community Tasmania
Chin Leaders of Tomorrow
Chin Youth Organization
Citizens of Burma Award (New Zealand)
CRPH Funding Ireland
CRPH/NUG Support Group Australia
CRPH-NUG Supporters (Ireland)
Democracy for Burma
Democracy for Ethnic Minorities Organization
Democracy, Peace and Women’s Organization -DPW
Democratic Youth Council
Equality Myanmar (EQMM)
European Karen Network (EKN)
European Rohingya Council (ERC)
Falam Community
Federal Myanmar Benevolence Group
Foundation of Khmer Samaki (FKSamaki)
Free Burma Coalition- Philippines
Freedom for Burma
Free Myanmar
Free Myanmar Campaign USA (Indianapolis, IN)
Free Rohingya Coalition
Freedom Justice Equality for Myanmar
Future Light Center
Future Thanlwin
General Strike Collaboration Committee (GSCC)
Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy (GM4MD)
Global Myanmar Spring Revolution
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Industrial Training Centre (ITC) Family Sydney
The Institution of Professional Engineers Myanmar
International Campaign for the Rohingya
International Society of Myanmar Scholars and Professionals
John VI Film
Joint Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (JACDB)
Justice For Myanmar
Kachin Association Australia
Kachin Association of Australia WA Inc.
Kachin National Organization USA
Karen Community (Australia)
Karen Community Association UK
Karen Environment and Social Action Network
Karen Organization of America
Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN)
Karen Swedish Community (KSC)
Karen Women’s Organization (KWO)
Karenni Federation of Australia
Karenni Human Rights Group
Karenni/Kayah Community (Australia)
Karenni National Women’s Organization (KNWO)
Kayin Community Tasmania
Keng Tung Youth
Khmer Alliance Foundation
Khmer Association of Hampton Road Virginia (KAHRV)
Khmer People Network for Cambodia (KPNC)
La Communauté Birmane de France
Listen Up Myanmar
Los Angeles Myanmar Movement-LA2M
LGBT Alliance-Myanmar
Matu Chin Community (Austalia)
Me Boun Foundation
Metta Campaign Mandalay
Mindat Chin Community NSW
Mindat Community (Australia)
Mizo Community (Australia)
Mon Families Group (Australia)
Mon National Council (Australia)
Myanmar Buddhist Community of South Australia
Myanmar Community Coffs Harbour, Australia (MCC)
Myanmar Democracy and Peace Committee (Australia)
Myanmar Democratic Movement (MDM)
Myanmar Development Foundation
Myanmar Engineering Association of Australia (MEAA)
Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia ( MERHROM )
Myanmar Family Community Ireland
Myanmar Global Support Foundation (General Incorporated Association)
Myanmar Muslim Association Netherland
Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
Myanmar People Residing in Canberra
Myanmar Professionals Association Australia (MPAA)
Myanmar Students’ Association Australia (MSAA)
Myanmar Queer Straight Alliance
Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma)
NLD Solidarity Association (Australia)
No Business With Genocide
Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica
Olive Organization
People’s Hope Spring Revolution
Perth Myanmar Youth Network
Pro Démocratie pour le Cambodge du Canada (PDCC)
Progressive Voice
PWVB (Patriotic War Veterans of Burma)
Queensland Kachin Community (QKC)
Queensland Myanmar Youth Collective (QMYC)
Queensland Rohingya Community
Red Campaign Nirvana Exhortation Group
Remonya Association of WA (Mon Community)
Rohingya Action Ireland
Rohingya Human Rights Network
Rohingya Women Development Network
Rohingya Youth Association (RYA)
Save and Care Organization for Ethnic Women at Border Areas
Save Myanmar (San Francisco)
Save Myanmar (USA)
Shan MATA
ShizuYouth for Myanmar
Shwe Youth Democratic Alliance (SYDA)
Sisters 2 Sisters
Sitt Nyein Pann Foundation
Students For Free Burma (SFB)
Southcare Medical Centre
Southern Youth Development Organization
Support for Myanmar
Support Group for Democracy in Myanmar (Netherlands)
Support the Democracy Movement in Burma (SDMB)
Swedish Burma Committee
Swedish Rohingya Association (SRA)
Sydney Friends for Myanmar Unity
Ta’ang Women’s Organization
Ta’ang Legal Aid
Tanintharyi MATA
Thint Myat Lo Thu Myar
Union of Karenni State Youth
United Myanmar Community of South Australia
US Advocacy Coalition for Myanmar
US Campaign for Burma
Victorian Burmese Care Community (VBCC)
Victorian Myanmar Youth
We love Myanmar
We Pledge CDM (Australia)
Western Australia Myanmar Democratic Network
Women Activists Myanmar (WAM)
Women Advocacy Coalition – Myanmar (WAC-M)
Women’s League of Burma
Women’s Peace Network
Yadanar Foundation
Yangon Medical Network
Zo Community (Australia)
Zomi Association Australia Inc.
Zomi Community South Australia
Zomi Community Queensland

Supported by:

ANAKBAYAN Daly City
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR)
Asia Democracy Network
Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition
Association for the Advancement of Freedom of Religion or Belief in Vietnam (AAFORB-VN)
Blasian March
Boat People SOS
Campaign Committee for Human Rights (CCHR)
Campaign for Popular Democracy (CPD)
Clarity & Decency
Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA)
Committee for Religious Freedom in Vietnam
Initiatives for International Dialogue
Justice for All
League of Filipino Students SFSU
Milk Tea Alliance
Nguyen Van Ly Foundation
Peace and Human Rights Resource Center (PHRC)
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD)
Resist US-Led War
Spirit in Education Movement (SEM)
Vietnam Coalition Against Torture

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Human Rights Situation of Myanmar: Post Coup (December 27 to 2 January)2022

January 3, 2022/in HR Situation

Prospects for peace for the people of Myanmar appear more distant now, than in recent times. The turmoil and terror spurred by the military junta since the failed February coup have squandered hopes and dreams of young people, and perpetuated a growing feeling of instability. Despite the junta’s fear mongering, the spirit of civilians, revolutionary fighters, human rights defenders and people of all ages, genders, and socio-economic backgrounds has not been broken.

The resilience seen over the last 11 months speaks volumes to the strength and courage citizens have embodied and exemplified. Yet, in the midst of the devastating times and harrowing levels of violence, the international community has countlessly been too slow to act. Dozens of statements were accompanied by condemnation but no action. Closed door meetings with the UN Security Council failed to meet the moment of crisis and urgency being made from the ground.

As the year came to an end, the conflict in Myanmar’s ethnic areas did not ease. Quite the contrary, airstrikes and ground attacks saw the forced internal displacement of thousands. Women, children, and the elderly were among those without adequate shelter, food or clothing while they were fleeing for their lives to the borders of neighboring countries, including Thailand. In Karen State, on December 23 and 24, the junta launched three airstrikes in surrounding villages of Lay Kay Kaw. The Karen National Union (KNU) has emphasized that there is a ‘high possibility that [the attacks] will happen again.’ The KNU, in addition to civil society organizations, have urged for collective action to the atrocities in Myanmar which are ongoing, systematic and widespread.

A New Year is a renewed opportunity for action and accountability. The international community must not fail the people of Myanmar who have been more than patient. Time must not be wasted, and true, meaningful steps towards holding the junta accountable for their endless crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.

KAREN STATE

Violence in Karen State has been increasing throughout the year periodically and more so recently since the end of December 2021. According to the Karen Peace Support Network, , the number of IDPs and refugees to date has fluctuated as Thai authorities only allow war victims to cross into Thailand when they hear gun fire. After a while, those who had fled were pressured to return to Karen State.

The updated numbers of refugees in Thailand is currently around 5000 who are sheltering in various places in the country. However, ground reports suggest significant pressure from Thai authorities for those fleeing violence to be sent back. It is unlawful, and harmful to send innocent civilians fleeing a war zone back into an environment that is unsafe.

ND-Burma member, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland, reported that fighting between the Karen National Liberation Army of Brigade 6 in Dalee village took place on 31 December. At least 60 households, and an estimated 240 villagers fled to nearby KNU controlled areas.

SAGAING REGION

More attacks by the military junta are creating rampant displacement amidst Internet cuts and blocking urgently needed humanitarian aid. On 28 December, more homes were burnt to the ground in Kale Township, Sagaing. Ongoing airstrikes and ground attacks left 20 civilians dead, and displaced thousands more. Civilian defense forces are actively fighting with the Myanmar military who is retaliating against innocent villagers in response.

Residents of Ye-U village were found ‘burnt beyond recognition’ following airstrikes a few days earlier. Among the seven people killed, two included women. Some of the bodies were half buried near a home that had been destroyed. In the relentless assaults across the country, Sagaing region is among those which have been hit the hardest as civilian casualties continue to grow, adding a horrifying layer of devastation to the current crisis.

SHAN STATE

In Shan State, Pekon Township, two villagers who were abducted by the junta and forced to guide soldiers died in custody. The two men, aged 67 and 49 were among 19 villagers taken hostage at the end of October. The two victims had stayed behind during a raid on their village to take care of the elderly residents. Their bodies have not been returned to their families as clearance operations, including theft and arbitrary arrests, have left the region in shambles.

Reports of more civilians being tortured in military custody included a teacher, and a couple who were members of the National League for Democracy who were killed in military custody. These awful atrocities are being violently committed in areas where resistance forces against the regime are most active.

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