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9.
Expresses grave concern at the continuing practice of arbitrary detention,
enforced disappearance, rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and urges the Government of
Myanmar to undertake without further delay a full, transparent, effective, impartial
and independent investigation into all reports of human rights violations and to
bring to justice those responsible in order to end impunity for violations of human
rights, and, regretting that previous calls to that effect have not been heeded, calls
upon the Government to do so as a matter of priority and, if necessary, drawing on
the assistance of the United Nations;
10. Takes note of the recent steps taken by the Government of Myanmar to
review some national legislation, and calls upon the Government to undertake a
transparent, inclusive and comprehensive review of compliance of the Constitution
and all national legislation with international human rights law, fully engaging with
democratic opposition, civil society groups, ethnic groups and other stakeholders,
while recalling once more that the procedures established for the drafting of the
Constitution resulted in a de facto exclusion of opposition groups from the process;
11. Urges the Government of Myanmar to ensure the independence and
impartiality of the judiciary and the independence of lawyers, to guarantee due
process of law, and to fulfil earlier assurances made to the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in Myanmar to begin a dialogue on judicial reform;
12. Expresses its concern about the conditions in prisons and other detention
facilities and consistent reports of ill-treatment of prisoners of conscience, including
torture, and about the moving of prisoners of conscience to isolated prisons far from
their families where they cannot receive regular visits, or food and medicine, and
calls upon the Government of Myanmar to ensure that proper investigations are
conducted of all deaths in prison;
13. Expresses deep concern about the resumption of armed conflict and the
breakdown of long-standing ceasefires in areas including Kachin and Shan States, as
a result of continued pressures imposed by the national authorities on certain ethnic
groups and the exclusion of some key ethnic political parties from the political
process and from decisions affecting their lives, while noting some steps taken to
establish ceasefires in other areas, and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to
protect the civilian population in all parts of the country and for all concerned to use
political means to re-establish ceasefire agreements, and also calls upon the
Government to expand the offer of peace talks with armed groups on a nationwide
basis;
14. Strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take urgent measures
to put an end to continuing grave violations of international human rights and
humanitarian law, including the targeting of persons based on their belonging to
particular ethnic groups, the targeting of civilians as such in military operations, and
rape and other forms of sexual violence, and to end impunity for such acts;
15. Also strongly calls upon the Government of Myanmar to end the practice
of systematic forced displacement of large numbers of persons within their country
and other causes of refugee flows into neighbouring countries;
16. Expresses its concern about the continuing discrimination, human rights
violations, violence, displacement and economic deprivation affecting numerous
ethnic minorities, including, but not limited to, the Rohingya ethnic minority in
Northern Rakhine State, and calls upon the Government of Myanmar to take
immediate action to bring about an improvement in their respective situations, and
to grant citizenship to the Rohingya ethnic minority;
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