What is actually happening in Myanmar?

Where is Myanmar?
• Myanmar, also known as Burma, is in South East
Asia, which neighbours Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh,
China and India.

When was the coup?

• The military seized control on 1 February 2021 after
a general election which Aung San Suu Kyi's
National League for Democracy (NLD) party won
by a landslide.
Source: https://monitor.icef.com/

What has happened since the coup?

• Currently, Myanmar military has carried out

systematic attacks on towns and villages burning the
entire local communities on the ground and staged
major aerial offensives that has killed unarmed
civilians.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/
How can the international community
• Opposition activists have formed the Campaign for
help the people of Myanmar?
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and have
• Impose targeted sanctions against the military and
helped organise peaceful strikes and mass protests.
military-linked business and all those responsible for
• Despite non-violent resistance of the protesters,
human right violations.
Myanmar military responded with indiscriminate
• Recognise and support the National Unity
crackdowns using water cannons, rubber bullets and
Government (NUG) which represents the people
live ammunitions. What started as civil disobedience
of Myanmar as the legitimate government.
has now turned into essentially a civil war across
• Impose an arms embargo and end all military
Myanmar.
support for the Junta.
• On 16 April 2021, Myanmar’s National Unity
• Provide humanitarian aid and assistance to the
Government (NUG) has been established by the
people of Myanmar suffered from the repressive
members of parliament elected in 2020, lawmakers,
military campaigns.
activists and representatives of several ethnic groups
to oppose the military regime. (NUGmyanmar.org) Produced by Swedish Myanmar Supporting Community
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 What are the atrocities of Myanmar military?

• Since the coup, Myanmar’s military has engaged in systematic human rights violations, many amounting to war
crimes and crimes against humanity.

• BBC revealed a series of mass killings of civilians committed by Myanmar military in

Mass killing
July 2021, which resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59699556)
Use of civilians • Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in
as human custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC.
shields
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59462503)
• By the end of April 2022, at least 11,417 civilian houses at 296 locations were burned
Sexual abuse downed by Myanmar military. (https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/over-
11000-houses-burned-down-in-myanmar-junta-attacks-since-coup.html)

Burning down civilian houses Torture Massacres

• On 13 June 2022, the UN expert reported that the Myanmar military junta has brutally attacked and killed
children and systematically abused their human rights.
(https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/A_HRC_50_CRP1_EN.docx)

At least 142 Over 1,400 Over 250,000

children were children have children have
killed. been detained been displaced

• As of June 29, at least 2,039 pro-democracy activists and civilians have been killed (including children and
women), and 14,374 people have been arrested through military crackdowns and pro-democracy movements.
(https://aappb.org/)
• As of June 29, UNHCR estimates there are over 1.2 million persons of concerns in Myanmar, including
810,000 internally displaced persons and 600,000 stateless Rohingya. (https://www.unhcr.org/myanmar.html)

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