UN expert calls for Myanmar action as death toll tops 2,000

Monitors say more than 2,000 civilians have been killed since the military seized power in a coup in February 2021 [File: Stringer/EPA]

A United Nations expert has called on the international community to do more to address the crisis in Myanmar triggered by last year’s coup as the number of people killed in the military’s crackdown on its opponents rose above 2,000.

“Too much is at stake for Myanmar and its people to accept complacency and inaction by the international community,” Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement at the end of an eight-day visit to Malaysia.