
Nearly two years after Myanmar’s military coup, the country has plunged into catastrophe, the UN rights chief says, calling for the military to be brought under civilian oversight.
Since the coup that toppled the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb 1, 2021, Myanmar has “by nearly every feasible measurement, and in every area of human rights … profoundly regressed,” Volker Turk said in a statement.