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13.
Calls upon all parties to the conflict in Myanmar, in particular the Myanmar
military, to immediately cease the use of anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance,
ensure that amputees are not criminalized as a result of their injuries and take urgent steps to
ensure that victims and survivors have access to life-saving aid, as part of broader, urgent
measures to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in situations of armed conflict;
14.
Calls for the immediate and unconditional release of President Win Myint,
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and all those who have been arbitrarily detained,
charged, arrested, convicted or sentenced on specious grounds, in particular since 1 February
2021, including government officials and politicians, human rights defenders, journalists and
other media workers, civil society representatives, legal practitioners, religious and
community leaders, healthcare workers, aid workers, academics, teachers, local and foreign
advisers and members of student unions and trade unions, and for the military to refrain from
future reprisals against released detainees;
15.
Also calls for an end to the unjustified use of military tribunals to try civilians
and for the right to a fair trial, which includes the right to a public trial by a competent,
independent and impartial tribunal established by law, the presumption of innocence, the
prohibition of being tried or punished again for offences of which one has already been
convicted or acquitted, the right to be brought promptly before a judge to exercise judicial
power, the right to be present at trial and to review of one’s sentence or conviction by a higher
tribunal according to law, and the right to adequate time and facilities to prepare a defence,
and recalls the absolute prohibition of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment;
16.
Further calls for the Myanmar military to fully respect and protect the human
rights of all persons in Myanmar, including Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic
and religious minorities, to refrain from excessive use of force, to exercise the utmost restraint
and to seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis, recalling that the Myanmar military has a
responsibility to respect democratic principles and is obliged to respect the rule of law and
human rights, in accordance with international human rights law;
17.
Expresses grave concern at continuing serious human rights violations and
abuses by the military and security forces, as well as violations of international humanitarian
law in Myanmar, notably against Rohingya and other persons belonging to ethnic and
religious minorities, including those involving arbitrary arrests, deaths in detention, torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the deliberate killing and
maiming of children, the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, including as
human shields, as well as for child labour and forced labour, the use of schools and
universities for military purposes in contravention of international law, attacks on schools
and universities, hospitals and houses of worship and protected persons in relation to schools,
hospitals and houses of worship, indiscriminate shelling in civilian areas, the destruction and
burning of homes, the deprivation of economic, social and cultural rights, the forced
displacement of more than 923,000 Rohingya and other persons belonging to minorities to
Bangladesh, trafficking in persons, forced labour and rape, sexual exploitation and other
forms of sexual and gender-based violence;
18.
Also expresses grave concern at human rights violations and abuses against
Rohingya, including in conflict settings, and at the reported forced recruitment of Rohingya
and other persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities by the Myanmar military and
other armed groups;
19.
Calls upon the Myanmar military to immediately cease all air strikes, the use
of anti-personnel landmines and the use of arson attacks, and condemns in the strongest terms
the various attacks and killings that have ended civilian lives all across Myanmar, as well as
any attacks directed against civilians and civilian infrastructure, and indiscriminate attacks;
20.
Condemns in the strongest terms the indiscriminate attacks against children by
the Myanmar military, and calls upon all parties, in particular the Myanmar military, to end
violations and abuses against children, including the six grave violations against children
during armed conflict, to ensure accountability for these violations and abuses, to guarantee
protection to all children in armed conflict, including by stopping and preventing their
recruitment into armed forces and ensuring the immediate and safe release of those who have
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