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"SUMMARY:
This briefing covers the situation of human rights, which were
documented by the Chin Human Rights Organization in
northwestern Burma/Myanmar, primarily in Chin State,
Sagaing and Magwe Regions, between August and September
2021. Under the reign of terror imposed by the junta, hundreds
have been arrested, dozens of people killed, injured and
thousands exiled in a matter of months.
Evidence contained in this briefing demonstrates that there is a
clear pattern of serious violations of international human rights
and humanitarian laws, which are being committed by the
Burmese/Myanmar military junta State Administration Council
(SAC) against civilian populations with complete impunity..... This document details human rights violations committed by SAC actors
during August and September, 2021. Attacks on the civilian population and
civilian infrastructure initiated by the State Administration Council (SAC) junta
have become increasingly relentless in western Burma/Myanmar since
August 2021. Junta soldiers operating in Chin State and parts of Sagaing and
Magwe Regions, under the Northwestern Regional Military Command based
in Monywa, have conducted a campaign of unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest
and detention, torture and deliberate targeting of civilian and religious
infrastructure.
During August and September, the numbers of attacks on civilian and
religious infrastructure in western Myanmar where Tatmadaw forces have
escalated military activities against civil militias from the Chinland Defense
Force (CDF) in Chin State and the various Peoples Defense Force (PDFs)
operating in Sagaing and Magwe Regions has increased. These conflicts have
led to radical violations of international human rights and humanitarian law,
resulting in the massacres of civilians and causing civilian casualties, damage
and destruction to private and public property.
These ongoing violations constitute part of what the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet described as the “human rights
catastrophe” in her report to the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva
on Thursday, September 23.1 The violations documented by CHRO and other
groups have clear patterns in which perpetrators’ actions are demonstratively
deliberate and intended to cause harms to civilians. The destruction of lives,
livelihood and properties are directly linked to the military scorched earth
counter-insurgency policy.
The notorious “four-cuts” doctrine, which has been employed in active war
zones in ethnic areas for decades, is now being applied in the junta’s military
campaigns in urban areas in the fight against local militia groups such as CDF
and PDFs in western Myanmar/Burma. In implementing the four-cuts
doctrine designed to cut off food, funding, intelligence and
recruits to the
resistance groups, civilians are deliberately exposed to extreme violence and
livelihood destruction. The deliberate and indiscriminate nature in which the
policy is being applied in the current conflict circumstance has led to
unnecessary deaths, destruction of livelihoods and properties of civilians..."
Source/publisher:
Chin Human Rights Organization
Date of Publication:
2021-10-15
Date of entry:
2021-10-22
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Chin State
Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
2.03 MB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good