A UN rapporteur calls for the executions to serve as a "tipping point" to address the crisis in Burma

MADRID, 25 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United Nations special rapporteur for the situation of Human Rights in Burma, Tom Andrews, has asked the international community that the execution of four opponents and activists serve as a "turning point" to step forward and take action against to the serious crisis that the Asian country is going through.

"I am devastated by the news of the execution of activist Ko Jimmy and MP Zeyar Thaw, executed along with two others. Members of the UN must honor their lives by making these depraved acts a turning point," he said. it's a statement.

Thus, he has said he feels "outraged" by what happened and has conveyed all his support to "the families, friends and loved ones", as well as "to the entire Burmese people, "who are victims of the measures of the military junta and its atrocities".

"These individuals have been tried and sentenced by a military court without having the right to appeal the judicial decision and without having any type of legal advice, in a clear violation of Human Rights," he asserted.

In this sense, he has pointed out that the "systematic murder of demonstrators, the indiscriminate attacks against localities, and now the execution of opposition leaders, requires immediate measures by the member states of the United Nations." "What else does the board have to do for the international community to respond?" she has pointed out.

In addition, he has accused the military junta of "laughing" at the five points proposed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a "road map" to guide the country and has stressed the need to "take measures who are equal to these immeasurable acts".

These are the first executions in the country since ethnic Chin student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo was hanged by the authoritarian regime of Dictator General Ne Win at Yangon's Insein Prison in 1976.