Global arms embargo and economic sanctions to be imposed on Myanmar?
05 Mar 2021 16:31:13
Geneva, Mar 5: The United Nations Human Rights investigator on Myanmar, Thomas Andrews urged the Security Council on Mar 4, to impose a global arms embargo and economic sanctions on the military generals and move the atrocities to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. Various segments of world media are covering that the military in Myanmar has murdered, beaten and unlawfully arrested protesters since it seized power in a coup on Feb 1.
Tom Andrews, the United Nations Human Rights investigator on Myanmar, urged the UNSC to impose a global arms embargo and targeted economic sanctions on the military rulers, while he called for wide-ranging punitive sanctions. He also said that the issue of atrocities on the civilians should be taken up at the International Criminal Court for prosecution and that States should impose sanctions on the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, now controlled by the military and its largest source of revenue, as per a report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The UNSC is to discuss the situation on Mar 5, in a closed meeting. The Myanmar military, UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has condemned Wednesday's firing on the pro-democracy protesters and said that it was the 'bloodiest day' since the Feb 1 coup. Burgener said "Today was the bloodiest day since the coup happened on Feb 1." According to the numbers that the envoy provided, 38 people died had died on Mar 4 itself and the count of the people dead since the coup started has crossed 50."
She further said that the incidents in Myanmar are not an internal affair as they affect the stability of the region. The military coup of Feb 1, halted Myanmar's tentative steps towards democracy after nearly 50 years of military rule and has drawn condemnation and sanctions from the United States and other Western countries, and growing concern among its neighbors.