スー・チー氏率いるＮＬＤ系組織、国軍の人権侵害の証拠１８万点収集

【ヤンゴンＡＦＰ＝時事】ミャンマーのアウン・サン・スー・チー氏率いる国民民主連盟（NLD）の議員らが設立した「連邦議会代表委員会（CRPH）」は7日、拷問や裁判によらない処刑など軍事政権による人権侵害の証拠18万点を集めたと発表した。（写真は資料写真）
　スー・チー氏が拘束された２月１日のクーデター以降、ミャンマーでは混乱が続いており、抗議デモへの弾圧でこれまでに６００人近くが死亡した。
　ＣＲＰＨは弁護士らが７日、軍事政権による残虐行為疑惑について、国連の「ミャンマーに関する独立調査メカニズム（ＩＩＭＭ）」の調査員らと話し合うと明らかにした。
　ＣＲＰＨによると、裁判によらない処刑５４０件以上、拘束中の死亡１０件、拷問、不法拘束、平和的なデモに対する行き過ぎた実力行使など、国軍が行った大規模な人権侵害の証拠１８万点が寄せられた。
　国政を担うのは軍政ではなく自分たちだとするＣＲＰＨは会合について、国軍の残虐行為に関連し、ＣＲＰＨが代表するミャンマーとＩＩＭＭとの対話および協力の在り方を議論するものだと説明している。開催時間や場所は明らかにしなかった。
　国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルは先月、国軍が非武装のデモ隊に戦場で用いる兵器を使用し、計画的かつ組織的な殺害を行っていると報告していた。
　同国の人権監視団体「政治囚支援協会（ＡＡＰＰ）」によると、デモ弾圧でこれまでに５８１人の市民が死亡しており、２７００人以上が拘束されているという。
　流血の事態が拡大する中、１０の少数民族武装勢力が抗議活動支持を表明しており、本格的な内戦に発展するとの懸念が高まっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/04/08-11:48）

A group representing Myanmar's ousted civilian government said Wednesday it has gathered 180,000 pieces of evidence showing rights abuses by the junta including torture and extrajudicial killings.
The country has been in turmoil since the army deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, with nearly 600 people killed in a crackdown on anti-coup protests.
The Committee for Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) -- a group of MPs from Suu Kyi's party -- said its lawyers would meet UN investigators to discuss alleged atrocities committed by the junta.
CRPH has received 180,000 items of evidence. This evidence shows widescale abuses of human rights by the military, the group said in a statement.
They include more than 540 extrajudicial executions, 10 deaths of prisoners in custody, torture, illegal detentions and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protests, the statement said.
Demonstrations calling for the return of democracy and the release of Suu Kyi from detention have rocked Myanmar almost daily since the coup.
Civil servants, doctors and other key workers have downed tools as part of a civil disobedience movement aimed at preventing the military from running the country.
In response, the security forces have used rubber bullets and live rounds to break up rallies and detained thousands of activists, some in night raids.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a local monitoring group, says 581 civilians have been killed in the crackdown and more than 2,700 arrested.
Nearly 50 of the dead were children.
With many protest supporters and NLD activists now in hiding to escape arrest, the junta is increasingly taking their family members hostage, according to AAPP.
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International powers have voiced anger and dismay at the junta's brutal approach, and imposed sanctions on key officials.
But while the UN Security Council has condemned civilian deaths, it has stopped short of considering sanctions.
Both China and Russia have come out against sanctions, arguing they risked making the situation worse.
And so far, the diplomatic pressure appears to be having little effect, as deaths and detentions continue every day.
The CRPH, which claims the right to speak for the country instead of the junta, said its lawyers are to meet the UN's Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar on Wednesday.
This meeting is intended to discuss the modalities of dialogue and cooperation between Myanmar (acting through CRPH) and the IIMM in relation to the atrocities committed by the military, the statement said, without giving details of when and where the meeting would take place.
Rights group Amnesty International last month reported that the junta was using battlefield weapons on unarmed protestors and carrying out premeditated killings orchestrated by their commanding officers.
The growing bloodshed has prompted warnings that Myanmar could slide into broader civil conflict, particularly after 10 ethnic rebel armies came out in support of the protest movement.
As well as breaking up protests and making arrests, the security forces have also sought to shut off news of the crisis.
Internet access has been throttled, and independent media outlets raided and shut down.
In response, some activists have started a daily two-page newsletter called Voice of Spring, rounding up independent media reports and publishing on Twitter.
The military insists that it is responding proportionately to what it says are violent, armed protesters.
It has defended seizing power, pointing to allegations of voting fraud in the November election which Suu Kyi's party won comfortably.