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LoginUN Human Rights Council urged to endorse Special Rapporteur’s findings on Burma
In 2007 Burma's 500,000 monks protested against the military ruling junta. The generals retaliated with violence and murder. Image courtesy of Scoop.co.nz.
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By the PMC news desk.
The NGO, International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) has written to the United Nations human rights council urging its members to endorse the findings of the special rapporteur who found institutionalised and widespread violations against Burma’s peoples.
The letter highlighted frustrations that go back decades over the international community failing to enforce effective consequences or sanction against the military regime that commands power in Burma.
In the letter, the IFHR stated:
Our Organisations strongly support the Special Rapporteur’s findings that ‘there is a pattern of gross and systematic violation of human rights which has been in place for many years and still continues.’ We further concur with his conclusion that the lack of accountability and the systematic and widespread human rights violations indicate that they are ‘the result of a state policy’ that involves state actors at all levels.”
The IFHR urged the United Nations to be unified against those who commit crimes of oppression and violence against Burma’s people.
“The ongoing lack of accountability for these alleged violations at the national-level, warrants the consideration by the UN of ‘the possibility to establish a commission of inquiry with a specific fact finding mandate to address the question of international crimes.’,” the IFHR letter stated.
For the complete IFHR letter to the UN HRC, click here
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