Press release on the continued human rights violations committed by the terrorist military junta’s council against elected parliamentarians

June 4, 2025

The terrorist military junta’s council seized state power from the democratically elected civilian government on February 1, 2021, and has committed a systematic series of gross human rights violations against elected representatives and the citizens.

Arbitrary detention, interrogation and torture leading to death interrogation and prisons, denial of adequate medical treatment to those detainees, destruction of public owns, burning of homes, and targeted airstrikes on civilian areas continue to be systematically carried out to this day.

U Aung Soe Min, an elected MP for House of Representatives representing Ywangan Constituency, Danu Self-Administered Zone, was arrested by the terrorist Military Junta’s Council in Pyin Oo Lwin in December 2024. It has been reported from credible sources that U Aung Soe Min died in an interrogation center a few months ago.

The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw is deeply saddened by the death of Representative U Aung in an interrogation camp and strongly condemns the terrorist Military Council, which is fully responsible for his death.

With this horrific news, we are deeply concerned about the detention of the elected representatives who have been detained including President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Three regional parliamentarians died in prison due to inhumane torture, ill-treatment, and lack of adequate medical care by the military junta. In addition, in June 2022, U Kyaw Myo Min, a regional parliament of Mon State, was brutally murdered on a roadside after being arrested by military junta’s troops.

According to the latest data, 11 National MPs and 13 Region/State MPs who had been forced to be displaced died due to lack of adequate medical care. Many other elected MPs and their family members have been forced to be displaced from their homes to other places, neighboring countries, and beyond. Their houses and properties have been sealed off.

According to information collected by the CRPH Vetting Committee, the military junta’s council has so far detained 18 national MPs and 41 Regional or State MPs.

We reiterate our appreciation for the decision adopted by the Governing Council at the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in April 2025 on the human rights violations committed by the military junta against elected parliamentarians of Myanmar. This resolution highlights the extent of the violence and human rights violations committed by the military junta against Myanmar’s people and parliamentarians, and also demonstrates the efforts of the international parliamentary community to promote democracy and human rights in Myanmar.

We reiterates our call on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and its Members to continue to stand with and support the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and the parliamentarians elected in 2020 election for the cease of the torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings committed against political prisoners including elected parliamentarians, for the immediate release those unjustly detained MPs and individuals, and for the restoration of democracy, peace, and stability in Myanmar as soon as possible.

In addition, we further call on the international community, including ASEAN and the United Nations, to make concerted efforts to urgently end the daily violence and human rights violations committed by the military junta in Myanmar, and to quickly restore peace, stability, and economic development in the country, which has been devastated by the illegal coup.

The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw

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