Failure of international action enables Myanmar regime’s war crimes

By Admin 20 Dec 2025

DMG Newsroom

20 December 2025, Mrauk-U

Justice for Myanmar and 209 local and international organisations jointly released a statement on Friday, saying the failure of international governments to take effective action against Myanmar’s military regime has enabled impunity and the continued commission of war crimes.

According to the statement, from the military coup in 2021 to December 11, 2025, the regime carried out more than 6,450 aerial bombings, killing over 3,800 civilians, including newborns, and injuring more than 6,800 others.

The statement said the military regime has committed war crimes by targeting 99 hospitals, 291 schools and 485 religious buildings, while also planning to hold sham elections to gain international recognition.

On the evening of December 10, International Human Rights Day, the regime dropped two bombs on Mrauk-U Hospital in Arakan State, killing at least 33 civilians, including health workers and a three-month-old baby, and injuring 78 others.

The statement said the regime committed war crimes in seven townships in Arakan State, including a December 11 bombing of Ngalonesu Village in Kyaukphyu Township, which killed eight civilians and injured 10 others.

The statement urged ASEAN, the United Nations, the European Union and international governments to go beyond issuing condemnations and impose effective sanctions to halt the regime’s violence and war crimes, and to ensure accountability.

It called on all international governments to take collective action to punish the military regime for international crimes and to immediately end deliberate attacks on civilian targets.

The statement also called for an immediate halt to the direct or indirect export, sale and distribution of international jet fuel to Myanmar, and for effective sanctions on all companies involved in the jet fuel supply chain, including those linked to ASEAN.

It said international governments, particularly the UK government, should block marine insurance services for tankers and infrastructure involved in transporting jet fuel to Myanmar.

The statement urged Thai-owned energy company PTTEP to immediately stop paying millions of dollars in monthly gas revenues to the illegal military regime and to place public oil and gas tax revenues in an escrow account inaccessible to the regime.

According to the statement, the military regime’s continued aerial bombardment has been enabled by its ability to purchase aircraft and bombing equipment from authoritarian allies, including Russia, China and Belarus.