Civilians who the SR had met with

Cases
Location of case in SG report
2018-079-001
Relevant SG report
Year of the report
2018
Country Geolocation

Latitude: 21.916221

Longitude: 95.955974

Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
Myanmar (Burma)
From Region
UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
  • Unclear
Dates of prior UN action
March 2018
Type of record
Unnamed individual/group/organization
Was the victim a foreign national?
No
Was the victim a minor?
No
Type of rights defended
  • Caste/Ethnic minorities' rights/Racism
  • Religious freedom
Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
No
Reported trigger of reprisal

meeting with SR in Rakhine state

Engagement with UN body
  • UN Special Procedures: country
Dates of engagement
January 2017
Type of attempted engagement
  • Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
Dates of mentioned reprisals
January 2017
Location of mentioned reprisals
Rakhine State
Reprisal information

violent reprisals committed by the armed forces against civilians who she had met with following her visit to Rakhine State in January 2017 (see A/HRC/37/70, para.63). These include a killing, beatings, and rape. The Special Rapporteur received credible information that the armed forces attacked a village in Rakhine a couple of days after her 2017 visit as a reprisal against those in the community who spoke to her. The armed forces reportedly gathered the village men and women together, and subjected them to severe mistreatment, beatings and assaults, and in another village, one man was killed.

Types of reprisals suffered
  • Physical attack: Killing
  • Physical attack: Rape/sexual aggression
Alleged/likely perpetrators
State actors
Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
No
Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
Yes
Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
No
Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
No
Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
No
How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
1
In which SG report was this case followed up on? 0
2019
Follow up information provided in SG report 0
  1. The 2018 report of the Secretary-General (A/HRC/39/41, para. 59 and Annex I, para.
  1. noted that the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar had received information about violent reprisals taken by the armed forces against civilians with whom she had met following her visit to Rakhine State in January 2017, including a reported killing, beatings and a rape (see A/HRC/37/70, para. 63). The Special Rapporteur has been denied entry into Myanmar since January 2018, and has not been able to visit the area to follow up on these reports.
Followup Trends 0
No substantive information provided by SG report
Did the government respond? 0
No