United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk is condemning the increasing brutality and wholesale repression of Myanmar\u2019s military leaders to maintain their iron grip on power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
United Nations rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk says Myanmar has plunged ever deeper into crisis since the military launched a coup against the country\u2019s democratically elected government nearly two years ago, on February 1, 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFar from being spared, civilians have been the actual targets of attacks\u2014victims of targeted and indiscriminate artillery barrages and air strikes, extrajudicial executions, the use of torture, and the burning of whole villages,” T\u00fcrk spokesman Jeremy Laurence said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk is condemning the increasing brutality and wholesale repression of Myanmar\u2019s military leaders to maintain their iron grip on power. United Nations rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk says Myanmar has plunged ever deeper into crisis since the military launched a coup against the country\u2019s democratically elected government nearly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":90072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3125,31],"tags":[3431,685],"class_list":["post-90071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myanmar","category-news","tag-human-rights-in-myanmar","tag-violence"],"yoast_head":"\n