Requesting an investigation into the issue of the military council operating under the UN seal

The London-based Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) has requested the UN to investigate the use of UN logos by the Myanmar military.

Southern Shan State On April 5, Mekong News, a local news agency, reported on local news that the military council used UN-branded cars during the Pin Laung-Pe Gon battles.

Christopher Gannett, the leader of the MAP group, wrote in his Twitter that this is another matter that will be investigated after the issue of the permission of the military council to carry weapons on the boat of the United Nations.

Based on leaked emails from the local UNHCR office, the MAP group alleged that the United Nations had helped with boats when military council officials went to Bangladesh in mid-March for a pilot project to repatriate the Rohingya.

But the United Nations denied that it was involved at all.

The MAP group added that the UN labels were removed from the boat after it was reported that the boat was helping, but the military council's security team and weapons were loaded onto the same boat.

The MAP group is collecting signatures for the UN to investigate these issues and is working to send them to the UN Secretary General.

RFA cannot independently confirm that the Burmese military is conducting military operations using UN logos.

The United Nations has not released anything yet, and RFA called Major General Zaw Min Tun, who is authorized to speak to ask the military council about this matter, but he could not get a call.

The vice-military leader accused the international and media of trying to destroy the unity of the army

Disrupting the internal unity of the army and weakening the strength of the army. On April 7, the second military leader of the coup alleged that foreign organizations and the media were trying.

Lieutenant General Soe Win, the second military leader of the coup, said this at the cadet graduation ceremony of the Cadet Academy (Ba Htoo) held in Ba Htoo Tu Township, Rassak Township, Southern Shan State.

While those who oppose the military dictatorship and pro-democracy are saying that the army is already broken, this is how they organize to have unity within the army.

inside the army It is necessary to seriously carry out camp organizing activities; The second military leader also mobilized not only military personnel but also their family members to build a united and strong unit.

Journalist U Sein Win said that the military had been oppressing the news media since before the coup, and that after the coup, arrests, torture and killings were committed.

Ko Zeya Min, the founder of Salwinwek News Agency, criticized the army for treating the news media as enemies, which are working to bring the right information to the people.

The military council sentenced 13 young people, including three journalists, to three years of hard labor from the Special Court of Yangon's Insein Prison on March 29.

The three journalists were arrested on September 13, 2022, while reporting on the Phappin Gyi Road protest in Yee Mi Tae.

On January 30 of this year, according to a statement by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), at least 130 journalists were arrested in Myanmar. 72 people have been imprisoned and arrested.