Condemning The Coup, The UN Secretary General Urged Myanmar Military To Immediately Do These 5 Things

Myanmar citizens protest against the military regime. (Twitter / @ David_Khaing_)

JAKARTA - The United Nations (UN) today again held a routine meeting of the UN Human Rights Council which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. On this occasion, The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres criticized and regretted what happened in Myanmar.

In front of members of the UN Human Rights Council, Guterres said that what is happening in Myanmar is so bad that it must be stopped immediately. Moreover, throughout last weekend the military stepped up its repressive actions against protesters.

“We see the weakening of democracy, the use of brutal force, arbitrary arrests, oppression in all its manifestations. Civil space restrictions. Attacks on civilians. Serious abuses against minorities without accountability, including the so-called ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya population. The list goes on", the UN Secretary General told Reuters.

"Today, I ask the Myanmar military to immediately stop the oppression, release prisoners, end violence, respect human rights and the wishes of the people expressed in the (results) of the recent elections", he stressed.

Millions of Myanmar citizens this Monday went down to the streets while staging a national strike, as a form of rejection of the Myanmar military coup, as well as resistance to violence perpetrated by the regime against protesters, especially in the past week.

Apart from causing hundreds of injuries, so far four people have been killed over the past weekend. On Friday, February 19, Ma Mya Thwet Thwet Khine, a student protester died after being treated for ten days, from a live bullet shot in the head.

Then, on Saturday, January 20 afternoon, two people were shot dead in the head and chest, after security forces stormed the shipyard in Maha Aung Myay Township, to break up a demonstration or national insurrection (CDM) by shipyard workers.

And most recently, in the middle of Saturday evening before the dawn of Sunday, February 21, a civilian who carried out night patrols in their residential area in the Shwe Pyithar Township area, Yangon, was said to have been shot dead by police while inspecting a suspicious van.