Source: UN News: Sunday, October 12, 2025 00:01 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern over the air strikes carried out by military forces on October 6 in the Chaung-U, Sagaing areas of Myanmar. Many people including children are reported to have been killed in these attacks and a large number of people have been injured. On the other hand, the top official of the independent organization for missing persons in Syria has said that time is running out to find the millions of victims who have gone missing in the last several decades. Briefing journalists at the New York headquarters on Wednesday, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that if this tragic incident is confirmed, it would be in the same worrying trend in which civilians are being affected by the spate of attacks across the country. This will deepen the suffering in Sagaing province, where civilians are already grappling with challenges due to the earthquake in March this year. The UN spokesperson said that ammunition is being used indiscriminately in air strikes, which is unacceptable. He cautioned that all warring parties must fulfill their obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. And all the culprits must be held accountable. With the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the country’s top political leadership was detained. After this, large-scale protests began in the country, which the military leadership took repressive action to suppress. Since then, many parts of Myanmar have been engulfed by violent conflict while the country grapples with a serious political, economic and humanitarian crisis. Secretary-General Guterres reiterated in his statement that violence must be ended, civilians must be protected, humanitarian access must be facilitated, and humanitarian aid must be routed forward on an inclusive path to a peaceful settlement. Syria: Missing Persons Time is running out to search for the missing © IIMP Syria Carla Quintana, head of the independent organization for missing persons in Syria, recently visited the country. Carla Quintana, head of the independent Organization for Disappeared Persons in Syria, has said that time is running out to find the millions of victims of decades of brutality, repression and enforced disappearances in the country. A large number of people had gone missing in Syria in the last 50 years during the dictatorial rule of the Assad family. This trend continued during the civil war that began in 2011 and lasted 14 years, which is a painful legacy of this conflict and which affected a huge number of people. The head of the independent organization told a press conference in New York on Wednesday that the crisis of missing people in Syria affects not only millions of families, but also entire communities throughout Syrian society. “There is a need to mobilize every available skill, resource and capacity to confront it.” of Needed.” Syrian families have the right to know what happened to their loved ones. “Every single person in Syria knows someone who has disappeared.” No one can do this important work alone. Carla Quintana took up this post in December last year. He says that the work of searching for the missing must be carried forward under the Syrian leadership and for this the support of the international community is necessary. According to him, gathering information about the missing persons will not only help the individual families to know the truth, but it will also pave the way for justice, mutual reconciliation and reforms in the country.
