{"id":3869,"date":"2018-05-02T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/new-eng\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:25:21","slug":"u-n-myanmar-rights-envoy-calls-for-halt-to-violence-in-kachin-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Myanmar rights envoy calls for halt to violence in Kachin state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-myanmar-military-rights\/u-n-myanmar-rights-envoy-calls-for-halt-to-violence-in-kachin-state-idUKKBN1I236B\">GENEVA (Reuters)<\/a> \u2013 The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilties in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container_2pnvl\">\n<div class=\"container_1tVQo\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"caption_KoNH1\">FILE PHOTO \u2013 Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee gives her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 12, 2018. REUTERS\/Denis Balibouse<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cInnocent civilians are being killed and injured, and hundreds of families are now fleeing for their lives,\u201d Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people rallied on Monday in Kachin to demand humanitarian access for villagers trapped by fighting between government forces and ethnic minority insurgents that has displaced more than 5,000 people. \u201cAny wilful impediment of relief supplies may amount to war crimes under international law,\u201d Lee said, appealing for access.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container_28wm1\">\n<div class=\"attribution_o4ojT\">\n<p class=\"content_27_rw\">Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay, editing by Tom Miles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trustBadgeContainer_1gqgJ\"><span class=\"trustBadgeTitle_7sKLj\">Our Standards:<\/span><span class=\"trustBadgeUrl\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) \u2013 The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilties in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China. FILE PHOTO \u2013 Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}