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UN Security Council condemns Myanmar military over ‘unrelenting violence’

The military has been accused by the UN and others of killing civilians [File: Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo]

Members of the United Nations Security Council – with the exception of veto-wielding China and Russia – have condemned the “unrelenting violence” raging across Myanmar following a closed-door briefing on the crisis.

The 13 council members again urged the generals who led a coup against the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021 to end the violence and stop killing civilians, noting there had been “insufficient progress” on implementing December’s landmark Security Council resolution on Myanmar.

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