The Myanmar army led more than 120 attacks after the mortal earthquake of March 28, with more than half of them after the war teams declared a temporary cease-fire in the civil war on April 2, according to the United Nations Rights Office.
The Office of Rights of the United Nations denounced the army in power of Myanmar for having violated the temporary truce in the civil war which was declared by the teams at war last month following a deadly earthquake.
Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights, said on Friday that military attacks against armed resistance groups came when “the only objective should be to guarantee that humanitarian aid reaches disaster areas”.
The ceasefire declared after the earthquake of March 28 which killed more than 3,600 people in Myanmar was to last until April 22.
A multiple conflict has engulfed myanmar since 2021, when the soldiers of General Min Aung Hlaing declared a coup and stopped the civil government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Tony Cheng of Al Jazeera had previously pointed out that many survivors of the earthquake suffer while the military government had blocked aid to the rebel areas.
Since the earthquake struck, Shamdasani said that “military forces have led more than 120 attacks.
“More than half of them (were) after their cease-fire declared must have entered into force on April 2,” she added.
The head of the United Nations Rights Volker Turk, she said, “calls for soldiers to remove all obstacles to the performance of humanitarian aid and to stop military operations”.
The Office of Rights of the United Nations determined that most of them involved air strikes, according to Shamdasani, “including in the areas affected by the earthquake”.
“Many strikes have been reported in populated areas, many of which seem to be equipped with blind attacks and to live the principle of proportionality in international humanitarian law.”
Shamdasani stressed that the areas of the Earthquake epicenter in Sagaing, in particular those controlled by army opponents, had to rely on local community responses for research and rescue and to meet basic needs “.
In the midst of devastation, Shamdasani urged the soldiers to announce a complete amnesty for the detainees he has imprisoned since February 2021, including the State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.
In the midst of military government criticisms, China has announced an emergency humanitarian assistance of one billion yuan ($ 137 million) to provide necessary food, medicines and prefabricated houses.
China, which supports the military government, also sent more than 30 Myanmar rescue teams after the earthquake and provided approximately 1.5 million yuan ($ 205,000) in cash through the Chinese Red Cross.
