Opposing Military Regime, Myanmar Parliament Appoints International Human Rights Lawyers

Evacuation of injured anti-coup protesters. (Twitter / @ MizzimaNews)

JAKARTA - The Representative Committee of the Myanmar Parliament (CRPH) continues to make efforts to counter the military regime's coup, while the people of Myanmar have intensified national demonstrations and strikes.

Most recently, CRPH appointed international law firm Volterra Fietta based in London, England to fight against the military regime. The law firm will provide input regarding the international legal process.

The subject is acts of violence against pro-democracy protesters, as well as armed aggression against representatives of democracy. Apart from being related to the coup against the government, the election results.

The Myanmar legal team will be led by Robert Volterra and Álvaro Nistal, who have advised many states and victims of human rights violations.

The firm's website states that they specialize in international law with experience in the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and other global courts.

In the CRPH statement, the legal process will take time. However, they will go through all the necessary steps to hold them accountable for widespread and systematic human rights violations, including soldiers, police and ordinary criminals.

"We are gathering a lot of evidence," said the statement, launching The Irrawaddy.

As of Thursday, at least 2,045 people have been detained by the military, including politicians, activists and protesters, since the coup. More than 70 civilians have been killed by the military junta.

On Thursday, Amnesty International said the military had used increasingly lethal tactics and weapons typically seen on the battlefield rather than against peaceful protesters and observers.

It said after examining more than 50 videos, the evidence confirmed that the security forces were implementing a systematic and planned strategy, including an increased use of lethal force. Many of the documented killings constitute extrajudicial executions, Amnesty International said.

Amnesty said the Myanmar military used weapons suitable for battlefields to kill protesters. It said they were in the hands of units accused by rights groups of years of committing atrocities against ethnic minority groups, including Rohingya Muslims.

"This is not an act of coping, individual officers make bad decisions," Joanne Mariner, director of crisis response at Amnesty International, told Reuters.

"This is an unrepentant commander who has been involved in crimes against humanity, deploying troops and methods of killing in the open," he added.

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