The agency stressed the “need to ensure accountability around this fact.”
The UN Security Council condemned this Wednesday the killing of 35 people in Burma, including four children and two workers from the NGO Save the Children, on December 24, and demanded an immediate end to the violence in the area.
The agency also stressed the “need to ensure accountability around this fact”, and emphasized the “importance of respecting human rights and the safety of civilians”, as well as unimpeded humanitarian access for all who need help.
He also pointed to the need for “total protection” of medical personnel and humanitarian organizations, in clear reference to the two Save the Children workers who died in the attack.
Unicef confirmed this Wednesday the murder of four minors among the at least 35 victims of the massacre against civilians in eastern Burma’s Kayah state, allegedly perpetrated by the Burmese Army.
The minor victims they are two 17-year-old teenagers, an adolescent whose age is not specified and a minor between 5-6 years of age whose gender has not been determined, according to reports from “credible” sources to the international body, he pointed out last night in a statement.
The 35 burned corpses were found on December 24 in Kayah, one of the states in conflict over fighting between the military and civilian militias opposed to the coup.
Burma has entered a spiral of crisis and violence since the military led by Min Aung Hlaing seized power on February 1 in a coup that overthrew the democratic government of Aung San Suu Kyi, currently under arrest.
In addition to peaceful protests and a civil disobedience movement, civilian militias have formed that have taken up arms together with ethnic guerrillas that have been in conflict with the Burmese Army for decades.
Almost eleven months after the coup, the military junta still does not have complete control of the country, despite the brutal violence used against dissent and which has caused at least 1,380 deaths and more than 11,200 detainees to date, according to the Association of Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP) Burmese. (I)
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