Myanmar: Conflict Leads to Six-Fold Increase in Killing and Maiming of Children in First Three Months of This Year
June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, June 23 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on June 22:
Violence against children during the armed conflict in Myanmar's central Rakhine state has been on a sharp rise, despite urgent calls (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059972) from the UN Secretary-General for a global ceasefire to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of children killed or maimed in the violence rose six-fold in the first three months of this year compared . . .
Violence against children during the armed conflict in Myanmar's central Rakhine state has been on a sharp rise, despite urgent calls (https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059972) from the UN Secretary-General for a global ceasefire to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of children killed or maimed in the violence rose six-fold in the first three months of this year compared . . .