Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Myanmar.

The military regime continues to commit human rights violations across the country, including against Rohingya and other ethnic and religious minorities. Since the coup in 2021, the military has cracked down on all opposition, with journalists, medical professionals, civil society actors and faith leaders targeted and imprisoned. On 21 December 2022, the UN Security Council passed the first ever resolution on the situation in Myanmar, led by the UK. The Resolution highlighted the oppression faced by people across Myanmar and demanded an end to violence and the release all those arbitrarily detained. To end the culture of impunity in Myanmar, we have established the Myanmar Witness programme, which collect and preserves evidence of human rights violations for future prosecution.