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The UN calls for an international response against the repression, but Beijing and Moscow veto any punishment measure by the Security Council
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Biden calls the massacre this weekend “unacceptable” and Borrell denounces the “horror and shame” of the military action
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The president of the United States, Joe Biden, described this Sunday as “absolutely intolerable” the massacre this weekend in Burma, and did not rule out imposing more sanctions on the military junta that took power on February 1.
“It’s awful. It is absolutely intolerable. According to the information I have received, they have murdered a great many people; it’s totally unnecessary, “Biden said in a statement to reporters on the presidential plane as he returned to the White House after spending the weekend at his Delaware residence.
Asked if he will respond with more sanctions to the military leaders of Burma (Myanmar) or if he will have another type of reaction, Biden replied: “We are working on it now.”
Saturday was the worst day of repression since the February coup, with between 90 and 113 people killed due to the shooting of soldiers and the police, who attacked the protesters with indiscriminate violence in which they killed the less to six minors between 10 and 16 years old.
The total death toll since the coup exceeds 460, in an atmosphere of terror in which soldiers shoot and torture unarmed civilians daily.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, on Sunday denounced the “horror and shame” of the repression of the protests. “The escalation of violence, with more than a hundred murders of civilians perpetrated by the Army against their own people on its Armed Forces Day is unacceptable. Far from celebrating, the Burmese Army turned yesterday (Saturday) into a day of horror and shame, “said Borrell in an official statement.
Shame and horror in #Myanmar.
The escalation of callous violence by military against its own people is unacceptable and has to stop.
EU urges military leaders to stand down from this senseless path. https://t.co/ibJXk26gns
– Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) March 28, 2021
The United States and the European Union (EU) have strongly condemned the massacre and the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, it has demanded a “firm, united and determined international response.”
Until now, however, China and Russia have prevented with their right of veto that the UN Security Council take action against Burma.
In a highly unusual statement, the highest-ranking military commanders of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand also condemned this Saturday. occurred in the Asian country.
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“Professional military personnel must follow international standards of conduct and are responsible for protecting – not harming – the people they serve,” the defense chiefs of the twelve countries stressed.
The United States already sanctioned in February the commander of the Burma Army, General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military uprising that led to the deposition of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as nine other officers and various companies linked to the Armed Forces of that country.
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