Amid the increasing intensity of the bloody suppression of the Myanmar military, the actions of the citizens of Myanmar, who are taking risks and posting videos of accusations of military and police atrocities on social media, are receiving praise from the international community.
On the 3rd (local time), UN envoy Christine Schraner Berginer told a video press conference, “Today is the most bleeding day since the coup on February 1. Now, the total number of deaths since the coup has exceeded 50.” Said.
“Today, I watched very shocking videos, one of which was a military police assaulting a volunteer paramedic, and the other was a scene where the military police dragged a protester and shot a gun from a very close distance of about 1 meter. Citizens He did not resist the arrest and died on the street as it was,” he said.
The video mentioned by Envoy Burginer is seen as a video of the assault of paramedics in North Ocalappa, Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, and the shooting of soldiers in the middle of the street while dragging protesters to death.
These videos were taken by CCTV in the building or were taken by citizens secretly hiding in window frames or balconies at the time of the shooting. Citizens informed the international community of the brutality of the military and police through this, even in situations where soldiers fired indiscriminately.
The international community said that it was possible to know the horrors of Myanmar through these videos, and paid homage to the activities of’citizen reporters’ who took risks and tried to inform the truth.
UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, tweeted on the 4th, ahead of the UN Security Council closed meeting, “I urge members of the UN Security Council to view photos and videos of shocking violence against peace protesters before the Security Council meeting. .
Meanwhile, Myanmar’s military is currently in strong media control, warning the media not to use the words’Junta’ and’Regime’, which mean the military regime.
Supreme Commander Min Aung Hlaing said at a state council meeting presided over on the 22nd of last month, “Media that continues to use the term military government will lose its publication permission.” You have to be drunk,” he said.
The Myanmar Media Council, an organization that investigates and resolves media disputes and establishes a hardline on media ethics, has not been operated normally, with 23 out of 26 members resigning after the coup.