Junta 'trying to destroy' Myanmar – UN special rapporteur

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 12, 2024 12:13 am

BANGKOK — Myanmar's junta appears to be 'trying to destroy a country it cannot control,' the United Nations' special rapporteur to the country warned on Thursday.

Clashes between an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups and the military have shredded a China-brokered truce in January.

WORRYING WORDS Tom Andrews, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, speaks about that situation during a press conference at the UN’s European headquarters in the city of Geneva, southwestern Switzerland, on March 20, 2024. EPA FILE PHOTO

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