A/RES/79/182
Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other
minorities in Myanmar
that there were reasonable grounds to believe that members of Myanmar security
forces were involved, and regretting that the full report of the Commission at present
remains unpublished,
Condemning the use of excessive force and violence by the Myanmar military
and affiliated armed forces, including torture and sexual and gender-based violence,
which has led to injuries and fatalities in many cases, against peaceful demonstrators,
as well as members of civil society, women, young people, children, minorities and
others, and expressing its deep concern at undue restrictions to the activities of
medical and humanitarian personnel, all other representatives of civil society, labour
union members, journalists and media workers, and calling for the immediate release
of all those detained arbitrarily, including foreign nationals,
Reiterating its deep concern at the widespread, deliberate, indiscriminate and
excessive use of force by Myanmar security and armed forces across the country,
including abductions, arbitrary detentions, mass killings, torture and maiming, aerial
attacks against and burning of villages and civilian objects, attacks on schools,
hospitals, internally displaced persons camps and places of worship and civilian
gatherings, the unlawful recruitment and use of children and the use of facilities
functioning as hospitals and schools for military purposes and for committing crimes,
as well as reports of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of
international humanitarian law, including those involving the use of landmines,
leading to continued forced displacement and making conditions in Rakhine State and
other parts of the country unsuitable for the voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable
return of all refugees and forcibly displaced persons, including Rohingya,
Expressing deep concern at the indiscriminate use of violence and ongoing
escalation and expansion of the conflict, as well as the declaration of martial law in
parts of the country, which seriously undermines the enjoyment of human rights in
Myanmar, especially those of women, children and older persons, as well as those of
persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, including Rohingya Muslims,
owing to the heavy militarization of Myanmar aggravated by the continued access to
arms from abroad that increases the ability of the Myanmar military to commit serious
violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,
including attacks against civilians and civilian objects and seriously undermines the
enjoyment of human rights, especially by Rohingya Muslims and other minorities,
Underlining the urgent need to prevent the laying of additional landmines and
to promote the marking and mapping of newly mined areas, mine clearance, the
clearance of explosive remnants of war and mine-risk education programmes for
civilians, and to prioritize victim assistance and stockpile destruction, including prior
to any movement by internally displaced persons back to contaminated areas,
Deeply alarmed by the surge in grave violations against children in Myanmar,
including as reported by the Secretary-General, including Rohingya children and
children belonging to other minorities, and urging all parties to immediately end and
prevent all violations and abuses against children, including the recruitment and use,
and the killing and maiming of children, as well as the rise in attacks on schools and
on hospitals by all parties to the conflict, in particular the Myanmar armed forces,
including related forces and affiliated militias, that children continue to be subjected
to the six grave violations against children during armed conflict, and that the scale
and recurrent nature of such violations and abuses will affect generations to come,
Expressing alarm at the violations and abuses occurring in the framework of
transnational crimes, such as human trafficking, drug trafficking and online scam
operations,
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