The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday that the military government of Myanmar is limiting aid to victims of last week’s devastating earthquake because the victims live in areas held by insurgent forces.
“Limitations of aid is part of a strategy to prevent aid getting to the populations it sees as not supporting its seizure of power back in 2021,” said James Rodehaver, head of OHCHR’s Myanmar team.
OHCHR also criticized the junta for continuing military operations against the rebels, including devastating airstrikes, in the aftermath of the earthquake. The U.N. agency counted 53 airstrikes since the magnitude 7.7 quake last Friday.
Fourteen of those airstrikes were conducted after the junta ostensibly agreed to a
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