The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) organized a special meeting online on 8 May to call for international action against the Myanmar military over its crimes against humanity, massacres and war crimes over the past two years after it illegally seized power in February 2021.
The meeting was chaired by CRPH Chairman Aung Kyi Nyunt, Acting President of the National Unity Government Duwa Lashi La, and its Prime Minister Mahn Win Khaing Than who delivered opening remarks.
Daw Aye Aye Mu (aka Daw Shar Mee), the MP for Kalay Township constituency in Sagaing Region, tabled a proposal to urge the international community including the UN Security Council to take immediate and serious action against the Myanmar military to prevent more civilian casualties.
The proposal was supported by nine MPs from Kachin, Chin, Kayin, Kayah, Tanintharyi, Shan, Bago, Magway and Kayah.
The CRPH then approved the draft resolution calling for international action against the Myanmar military.
The 13-point resolution included blame for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the military; a ban on selling aviation fuel and military equipment to the Myanmar military; imposing sanctions against its revenue sources; increasing actions against responsible officials, junta members and their families’ businesses; supporting the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) which is collecting data to disclose the crimes of the military; and to cooperate and bring the junta’s crimes to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice.
In addition, they called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union, European Parliament, ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly and the international parliamentary community to provide pragmatic assistance after holding discussions on Myanmar’s crisis; to communicate with the NUG and revolutionary forces for providing humanitarian assistance; to release all arbitrarily imprisoned detainees, including President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as per UNSC Resolution 2669; to impose a no-fly zone for preventing more airstrikes by the Myanmar military; to implement R2P to stop war crimes, genocide
and crimes against humanity by the military; for ASEAN to make a united effort in accordance with its norms and rules to solve the Myanmar crisis effectively; and called on Indonesia, the rotating chair of ASEAN, to hold close discussions with CRPH, NUG and political parties that do not ally with the military.
At the meeting, the CRPH claimed that the military had killed more than 3,465 civilians, and that 21,947 people were arbitrarily arrested, and faced torture, sexual harassment and no access to medical treatment. The military has sentenced more than 100 people to death.
The CRPH also said at least 70,000 houses were burnt down with elderly and disabled people being set on fire, while over 1.76 million people were forced to flee their homes due to armed clashes across the country.
