An independent UN human rights expert says Russia and China are supplying Myanmar's military people with weapons that have been used against civilians.
UN Special Envoy on Human Rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews released a detailed report on Tuesday on what types of weapons the two countries have been selling to the junta since 2018, including fighter jets, armored vehicles, ballistic missile systems and mobile defence. The system report said this was done "with full knowledge that they would be used in attacks against civilians."
The report also selected Serbia to authorize the transfer of rockets and artillery to Myanmar's military.
There was no immediate comment from China, Myanmar, Russia or Serbia.
China and Russia are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Andrews' report identifies several countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Pakistan, South Korea and Israel, that they have supplied weapons to Myanmar's military since 2018, even though it has sent ethnic Muslims in western Rakhine state. Action should be initiated against Rohingya minority members. This action drove more than 700,000 Rohingyas across the border into Bangladesh.
Myanmar's military seized power on February 1, 2021, detaining the de facto head of the civilian government, Aung San Suu Kyi and other high-ranking officials, claiming widespread fraud in the general election last November. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won an overwhelming majority of votes over the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.
China has in the past described the coup as a "cabinet reshuffle", with Russia calling it a "purely domestic matter". Both used their influence on the Security Council for water.
In a written statement, Andrews, a former US Congressman, appeared to criticize the UN Security Council for failing to vote on a resolution by the UN General Assembly calling on member states to halt the flow of arms into Myanmar.
Andrews said the transfer of weapons to Myanmar to kill civilians "really shocks conscience," and called on the Security Council to hold an emergency meeting and vote on a proposal to ban the transfers.
"The longer the world delays, the more innocent people, including children, will be killed in Myanmar," he said.
In November, the Security Council issued a statement calling for an end to violence in Myanmar.
A Thailand-based independent activist group, the Association for Political Prisoners, says at least 1,560 people have died in violent protests against the military regime since last February's coup.