UN: Myanmar Likely Committing Crimes Against Humanity UN special rapporteur calls for multilateral sanctions, arms embargo on Myanmar junta. Myanmar junta's brutal response to peaceful protests likely meets the legal threshold for crimes against humanity after credible reports of the "murder" of at least 70 people, a UN special investigator told the Human Rights Council Thursday. "The people of Myanmar need not only words of support but supportive action," said Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, saying there is video evidence to back his report. "They need the help of the international community, now." Security forces in Myanmar have unleashed disproportionate violence to clamp down on anti-coup protesters which started just after Feb. 1 when the country's de facto leader Aung Suu Kyyi was ousted and detained by the military junta in a coup.