U.N. Calls for End to Crackdown on Minority
United Nations investigators called on Myanmar’s junta to stop targeting members of the country’s ethnic Karen minority and cited allegations of killings, rape and torture by soldiers.
The appeal was issued by the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, as well as U.N. investigators of torture, housing, food, health and minority issues.
They said the army in Myanmar, also known as Burma, had been driving thousands of Karen out of villages close to the junta’s new capital, near the town of Pyinmana, in what appears to be the biggest offensive against the group in 10 years.
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