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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edith M. Lederer

INSANE: Un envoy to myanmar warns that violence puts country on path to self destruction - The Real Truth

Myanmar Earthquake Recovery - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N. envoy warned on Tuesday.

Julie Bishop told the U.N. General Assembly that “alarmingly” the violence didn’t end after a powerful earthquake in late March devastated parts of the capital, Naypyitaw, and the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, killing more than 3,000 people and injuring thousands more.

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