Civil Society Groups Urge UN Arms Embargo on Myanmar Voice of America 06 May 2021, 09:05 GMT+10 NEW YORK - More than 200 civil society and human rights groups from around the world have called on the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar, in hopes of preventing the military from carrying out more murders and atrocities. "The U.N. Security Council's failure to even discuss an arms embargo against the junta is an appalling abdication of its responsibilities toward the people of Myanmar," Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, told reporters Wednesday in a call with some of the groups that signed the letter. "The council's occasional statements of concern in the face of the military's violent repression of largely peaceful protesters [are] the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging their shoulders and walking away."