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        UN Human Rights HC Volker Türk delivered an Oral update on Myanmar to the 56th Human Rights Council
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        UN Human Rights HC Volker Türk delivered an Oral update on Myanmar to the 56th Human Rights Council

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        STORY: UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk Myanmar oral update to the 56th Human Rights Council

        TRT: 03:07
        SOURCE: UNOG/OHCHR
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        LANGUAGE: English/ NATS
        ASPECT RATIO: 16:9 
        DATELINE:  18 June 2024-         Geneva, Switzerland

        SHOTLIST

        1.     Exterior: Alley of flags, Palais des Nations

        2.     Interior: Room 20

        3.     SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “As we convene here in the Council, yet again discussing Myanmar, we are bearing witness to a country being suffocated by an illegitimate military regime. Myanmar is in agonizing pain. And the disintegration of human rights continues at breakneck speed. This is a crisis emblematic of a decades-long legacy of military domination, the stifling of dissent, and division.”

        4.     Cut Aways: Room 20

        5.     SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Rohingya and Rakhine communities.We are hearing stories of horrific war tactics, such as beheadings. Midnight drone attacks. The burning of homes as people sleep. People being shot at as they flee for their lives.”

        6.     Cut Aways: Room 20

        7.     SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “The military has lost control over a considerable amount of territory. So it is resorting to increasingly extreme measures. Forced conscription. Indiscriminate bombardment of towns and villages. Brutal atrocity crimes.”

        8.     Cut Aways: Room 20

        9.     SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “The Myanmar military continues to gain access to foreign currency and weapons it needs to sustain its campaign of terror, while international financial support for the people of Myanmar is meagre at best.”

        10.  Cut Aways: Room 20

        11.  SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “I also witnessed a profound sense of hope. In my discussions with Myanmar civil society, human rights defenders and refugee communities, it was clear to see there is a new generation of young people from all ethnic communities leading the struggle to create an inclusive vision for the future of Myanmar.”

        12.  Cut Aways: Room 20

        13.  SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “We are witnessing a people’s revolution against decades of oppression and violence.”

        14.  Cut Aways: Room 20

        15.  SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “These tactics have brought back the shocking images and memories from 2017 of systematic terrorisation, persecution and forced displacement of populations.”

        16.  Cut Aways: Room 20

        17.  SOUNDBITE (English) Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “The violence must end. The attacks against civilians must end. The forced conscription must end. And the denial of humanitarian aid must end”

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        military and dual use materials, including aviation fuel to the
        So I can
        As we convene here
        in the council
        yet again discussing Myanmar,
        we are bearing witness
        to a country being suffocated
        by an illegitimate military regime.
        Myanmar is in agonising pain
        and the disintegration of human rights continues at breakneck speed.
        This is a crisis emblematic of a decades long legacy of military domination,
        the stifling of dissent and division
        Rohingya and Rakhine communities.
        We are hearing stories of horrific attack
        of horrific war tactics such as beheadings.
        Midnight drone attacks, the burning of homes as people sleep.
        People being shot at as they flee for their lives
        determine
        a
        sign.
        The Rohingya and Rakhine communities.
        We are hearing stories of horrific attack
        of horrific war tactics such as beheadings.
        Midnight drone attacks, the burning of homes as people sleep,
        people being shot at as they flee for their lives.
        The military has lost control over a considerable amount of territory,
        so it is resorting
        to increasingly extreme measures Forced conscription,
        indiscriminate bombardment of towns and villages, brutal atrocity crimes.
        Yes!
        Yeah!
        The Myanmar military continues to gain access to foreign
        currency and weapons. It needs
        to sustain its campaign of terror,
        while international financial support for the people of Myanmar is meagre at best.
        But
        but
        I also witnessed a profound sense of hope
        in my discussions with Myanmar civil society,
        human rights defenders and refugee communities.
        It was clear to see there is a
        new generation of young people from all ethnic communities
        leading the struggle to create an inclusive vision for the future of Myanmar.
        We are witnessing a people's revolution against decades of oppression
        and violence.
        These tactics have brought back the shocking images and memories from 2017
        of systematic terror,
        persecution and forced displacement of populations.
        The violence must end,
        the attacks against civilians must end,
        the forced conscription must end
        and the denial of humanitarian assistance must end.