Page 2 - Schell Center News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Suspend Myanmar Junta Participation, Enact Emergency Measures to Protect Civilians

Leila Sadat, a law professor and founder of the Initiative on Gun Violence & Human Rights at Washington University in St. Louis, equates the U.S. government’s failure to prevent and reduce gun violence with violating children's human rights. “The pitiful spectacle of politicians offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ as kids are buried is lamentable — and an abdication of their oath of office,” Sadat recently wrote in an essay. "Children have a fundamental human right not to suffer ill-treatment in school. America’s adults are failing them.”

Violence and civil unrest

Myanmar has been embroiled in violence and civil unrest since the military ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in February 2021. The initially widespread peaceful protests were

Last year, a military junta seized power and imprisoned the country’s civilian leader. A popular resistance movement has been met with brutal force, including the recent execution of four democracy activists.