Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its polices of reports that members of Myanmar's N.D.L. party have died in unknown circumstances.

We are monitoring the current situation closely. The UK condemns the military coup in Myanmar and the detention of members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and civil society, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. We firmly condemn the violent crackdown by Myanmar's military on peaceful protests and politicians alike. We urge the military to exercise utmost restraint and respect human rights and international law.

The specific reports of the arbitrary detention of the NLD members, as well as credible reports of torture and killings are deeply concerning. It is essential that all those detained arbitrarily are released. The UK has used its leadership role at the G7 and the UN Security Council, including through a Presidential Statement on 10 March, to call for an end to violence and the release of all those detained arbitrarily.