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Center on Nag Evidence 2023 GenocideIn which 157 citizens were killed and dozens of more injured. The most deadly mass murder since the coup in February 2021, it cries for accountability.
On 11 April, Juver Fighter Jets attacked Pazigi village for half an hour, where 800 people gathered to celebrate the inauguration of an office of Nag’s Armed Wing, People’s Defense Force. Two 500LB bombs were dropped at the village, followed by a helicopter shooting on citizens.
Explosions from bombs were so serious that eyewitnesses reported that the body parts were thrown up to 300 meters from the points of effect. Nag Ministry of Human Rights Documentation of the death of 157 citizens in Pazigi, including 27 women and 19 children. Many injuries led to life -changing disability. Those who survived faced serious fractures and burning. Hundreds of people were displaced and forced to escape to the nearby forests. The medical teams could do what they could do to help the injured and die, but later on that day, a fighter jet returned and attacked a 15 -minute attack against the first respondents, who severely obstructed the relief and recovery attempt.
Myanmar Accountability Project is also presenting the testimony collected by local investigators HPON NYO Leik VillageIn late January 2024, in Buttidung Township in the Northern Rakhin state. Grand level investigation teams have documented killing 18 people and killing 50 wounds, including women and children. There were attacks after the Arakan Army, who opposed Junta, took over the positions in the village – but it does not justify the use of such indiscriminate and incompatible attacks.
As part of the initiative of building accountability institutions at a grassroots level, parts we work with a documentation of a pattern of misuse, adding evidence that that Massacre against Rohingya Continued for decades. The massacre is a feature of the ongoing repression against citizens in the state of Rakhin, which are caught between the Juver forces and the Arkan Sena, which has forced the government from the entire state, a handful of townships.
Nag requested that the independent investigative mechanisms at Geneva for Myanmar (IIMM), which have gathered millions of evidence from the citizens of Myanmar, offer evidence about the attacks to support the investigation in Turkey. Given how much the Turkish justice system is overwhelmed, it will significantly add possibilities for our case.
We appeal to IIMM to give positive response to NUG’s request. IIMM has already shared a large amount of evidence and analysis Action in International Criminal CourtInternational Court of Court and Federal Prosecutor in Argentina regarding crimes against Rohingya. It is also responding to specific requests for information from officials in the United Kingdom and other courts, which is often related to post -coup violence.
According to the Nag’s Human Rights Ministry, since the coup, there have been at least 413 massacres: mass incidents where more than five people died. More than 4,377 people were killed in the dominated massacres, including at least 1,545 children and at least 757 women. Last month alone, an estimated 277 citizens were killed across the country.
The United Nations has identified two dangerous new trends: 26 allegations of using chemicals associated with explosive equipment in six states and regions; And the use of armed paramotors, low-up strategic aircraft that are almost completely used to release sages at civilian places.
Meanwhile, the latest United Nations human figures portray a strict picture: an estimated 19.9 million people – more than a third of Myanmar’s population – In need of human assistanceRepresenting an increase of more than 1 million compared to 2024. Internal displacement has reached high levels of more than 3.5 million people. Children take up the crisis, which requires assistance to 6.3 million children, out of which 1.1 million were left without access to security services, which increased their vulnerability towards violence, neglect and exploitation.
Myanmar’s internal multdown is already increasing strict regional refugee crisis. The United Nations says that in the last two years more than 150,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, who already add 1.2 million living there in poverty, as United Nations’ monthly aid package decreases At the point where starvation is now unavoidable. According to a new amnesty report, it would be “frightening” to resume them under current circumstances in the northern Rakhin state.
The need for strong action has never been high. Some 30,000 political prisoners have been imprisoned since the coup. The army has pressed 65,000 youth in forcible consent in the form of cannon fodder for front lines. Cruel excesses of Myanmar’s Junta Going uncontrolled. Meanwhile, the upcoming – and widely rejected – the election called by dictatorship would see an increase in violence.
The people of Myanmar are crying for justice. The accountability must be part of the international reaction, to end the jota attacks on citizens along with the demands of human access. Our case in Türkiye provides some hope to those who have been denied dignity, peace and prosperity for a very long time.
Tune Aung Shwe represents the National Unity Sarkar of Myanmar in Australia, and Christopher Gunson Myanmar is the director of the accountability project