By Alice Autin
GENEVA - This week, three high level UN experts presented separate – but equally powerful - reports detailing war crimes and crimes against humanity in junta-controlled Myanmar.
Accounts of gruesome mass killings of civilians in custody, unlawful attacks on villages, on schools, hospitals, and camps for displaced people, as well as sexual crimes – sometime committed against children - were rightfully described as a “raging fire of brutality”.
The reports are shocking. But none comes as a surprise. They are not the first records of Myanmar’s military brutality, which dates back decades.
Unless the international community puts in place effective sanctions against the abusive Junta, and makes it impossible for it to buy weapons these reports won’t be the last.
Myanmar’s generals have never faced any real accountability for these abuses. That has to change. Otherwise, there might be no end to this cycle of brutality and abuses against civilians.
