24 February, 2021

Dear President and Members of the Security Council,

We, the undersigned protesters around Myanmar and CSOs call on the UN Security Council to immediately dispatch an intervention mission to Myanmar to stop violence from being inflicted against peaceful protesters, prevent further bloodshed and loss of life and release all those arbitrarily detained.

Since the 1 February, seven people have been killed and several others have been injured in relation to the illegitimate military coup in Myanmar. As requested in an open letter from the 177 CSOs to the Security Council on 12 February 2021, it is important that the UN Security Council respond immediately to the current political and human security crisis in Myanmar. Since this letter was last sent, we have witnessed the following escalating use of violence and intimidation by the military regime.

1. On 20 February, two people were killed, and dozens were injured when police, with support from soldiers, fired live ammunition into the dockworkers protestng at the Yadanarbon shipyard in Mandalay. At least one sniper from Light Infantry Division 33 – a shock unit deployed in ethnic regions that has historically inflicted brutal violence – was photographed on the streets at the place and time of the incident. Photos and videos of innocent bleeding protesters, dying in the streets, are placing an emotional strain on the people.
2. On February 9, Ma Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing, a 19-year old female student was shot in the head by police in Naypyidaw, later dying in hospital as a result of this incident on 19 February 2021.
3. The use of excessive forces, including rubber bullets, water cannons, and beatings by the police is now a common occurrence. On 14 and 19 February, in Myitkyina, Kachin State, the police beat, arrested and fired on crowds, causing panic among the people. Rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd in Yangon, as well as Mawlamyine, Mon State and in Myawaddy, Karen State.
4. Journalists and media reporting on the peaceful protests are facing intimidation and threats such as being followed, beaten and arrested.
5. Since the early hours of 14 February, the Internet has been cut off every night between 1am and 9am, and a social media ban persists. In addition, the military has added other draconian restrictions by enacting and amending series of laws related to cyber security.
6. There have been increased presence of army tanks and soldiers in the streets of major cities, including Yangon.
7. Protesters, especially civil servants and public-sector workers who join the CDM movement, continue to be arrested at night. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a total of 684 people have been arrested charged or sentenced in relation to the military coup as of 22 February.
8. On 12 February, authorities released more than 23,000 prisoners, who were escorted by security forces into city streets and neighborhoods, setting fire to houses, creating disturbances and inciting violence. Some still had their prison release papers when they were arrested while committing acts or attempting to commit violence.

The lack of human security situation is extremely worrying. More people are dying; our rights are becoming more restricted and we live in constant fear. We are being treated like enemies in combat.

Yet, we are also determined to continue opposing this illegitimate military coup. We will continue to go out on the streets and peacefully oppose the violence that is being inflicted upon us. However, we need urgent support from the Security Council. The current situation in our country is a major emergency. Therefore, it is with great urgency, that we reiterate our call from the letter dated 12 February for the UN Security Council to:

• Immediately dispatch an enhanced monitoring and intervention mission to Myanmar to stop the violence being inflicted against peaceful protesters, prevent further bloodshed and loss of life and release all those arbitrarily detained.
• In addition, it is imperative that the member states urgently impose a coordinated, global arms embargo on Myanmar. Our lives may depend on your concerted action.

Please accept the assurance of our highest consideration.

Signed by: (list updated on 25 February)

1. A Lin Pya Kyal
2. A Lin Tan
3. A Lin Thi Tan
4. A Nar Gatt Thit Group
5. Access Myanmar StudentsNetwork
6. Action Committee for Democracy Development
7. Action Group for Farmers Affair (စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်း)
8. Action Group for Farmers Affair (ပဲခူးတိုင်း)
9. Action Group for Farmers Affair (မကွေးတိုင်း)
10. Action Group for Farmers Affair (မန္တလေးတိုင်း)
11. Action Group for Farmers Affair (ဧရာဝတီတိုင်း)
12. Ahlin Tagar Rural Development Organization
13. Alinsaetamarn Library & Resource Center
14. Alinthitsar Environmental and Development Group
15. Alinyaungpandaing Environmental and Development Group
16. All Arakan Students’ and Youths’ Congress
17. Andin Mon Youth group
18. Anin Region enviromental conservation group
19. Ann Township Pipeline Monitoring Group
20. Area Peace and Development Forward
21. Arr Marn Thit Social Development Organization
22. Arr Thit Yaung Chi
23. Assistance Association for Political Prisoners
24. Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
25. Ayeyarwaddy West Development Organization (Minhla)
26. Ayeyarwaddy West Development Organization (Ngaphae)
27. AYY Famar Union
28. Ayyar Pyo May Women Development Organization
29. Ba Ann Media Group
30. Backpack Health Workers Team
31. Banmaw Youth Network
32. Basic Lawyer Network
33. Bawdi Youth (Ethnic Youth group)
34. BEE House
35. Bu Thee Taung Youth Network
36. Burma Human Rights Network
37. Burma Medical Association
38. Burma Monitor (Research and Monitoring)
39. Candle Light Group
40. CBT Gaw Ran Gyi Island (Nan Thar Pu)
41. Center for Social Integrity
42. Child Prevention Network
43. Child Protection Group
44. Chin Agency
45. Chin Community Base Rehabilitation
46. Chin Institute of Social Science
47. Chin MATA Working Group
48. Chin Resources Center
49. Chin Women Development Organization
50. Chin Youth Organization (Kanpalet)
51. Chindwin Region Natural Resources Watch Group
52. Chinland Natural Resources Watch Group
53. Cho Chin Women Organization
54. Citizen Action for Transparency
55. Civic Engagement Development Network
56. Civic Engagement Network for M2
57. Civil Call
58. Community Association Development
59. Community Development Youth Network
60. Community Observer Association
61. Community Peace Support Group
62. Community Response Group – ComReG
63. Da Nu Youth group
64. Daily Educations
65. Dawei Development Association
66. Dawei Watch Foundation
67. Dawei Women Union
68. Democracy, Peace and Women Organization
69. Diversity and Public Truth
70. Doe Myae Civil Social Development Organization
71. Empower Youth Enlightenment
72. Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation – EMReF
73. Environmental Conservation Association
74. Equality Myanmar
75. Farmer Agricultural Network
76. Farmer and Land Activity Group
77. Farmer and Land Worker Union (Myeik Region)
78. Farmer Union (Bago)
79. Farmers and Agricultural workers group
80. Farmers And Land Rights Action Group
81. Farmers Development and Environmental Watch Group
82. Farmers Network ဝမ်းတွင်း
83. Farmers Union (Ayar)
84. Forest User Association
85. Free & Fair (youth) Network
86. Free and Justice
87. Free Education Service Organization
88. Freedom and Labor Action Group
89. Freedom Society
90. Future Light Center
91. Future Light for Child
92. Future Light Social Development Organization
93. Future Star Youth Organization
94. Future Star မတ်တရာ
95. Generation Wave
96. Generation Wontho
97. Genuine People’s Servants
98. Global Family
99. GOAL Organization
100. Golden Future Social Development Organization
101. Golden Heart Organization
102. Good Hope Foundation (Bhamo)
103. Green (Chin)
104. Green Development Network
105. Green for All (NTI)
106. Green Justice Institute
107. Green Network (Mergui Archipelago)
108. Green Network (Tanintharyi Region)
109. Green Right Organization
110. Halcyon
111. Heartland Foundation
112. HeinNae Region Longterm Development Group
113. HinTha Da PIDP Group
114. Hinthar Tagon
115. Hkumzup Development Committee
116. Hna Lone Hla (AL)
117. Homalinn Youth Network
118. Hope For Children Development Organization
119. Hsar Ka Paw Group
120. Hsar Mu Htaw Group (ဆာမူထော် အဖွဲ့)
121. Hsar Mu Waw Group (ဆာမူဝေါ် အဖွဲ့)
122. Htaw Me Par Group (ထော်မဲပါ အဖွဲ့)
123. Htee Gyaing Network
124. Htoi Gender and Development Foundation
125. Htum Thit Sa Rural Development Organization
126. Htuu Region Development Group
127. Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
128. Human Rights Foundation of Monland
129. Humanity Institute
130. Justice For All (လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ခြင်းနှင့် တရားမျှတမှုလက်လှမ်းမှီရေးအဖွဲ့)
131. Justice Movement for Community Inlay
132. Ka Nyut Kwin Youth Center
133. Kachin State Women Network
134. Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
135. Kachin Women’s Union
136. Kan Chay Arr Man Fishery Development Organization
137. Kan Latt Myar
138. Kanaung Institute
139. Kani Natural Resources Watch
140. Kanpetlet Land Development Organization
141. Karen Affairs Committee
142. Karen Environmental and Social Action Network
143. Karen Grassroots Women Network
144. Karen Human Rights Group
145. Karen Organization for Relief and Development
146. Karen Peace Support Network
147. Karen Refugee Committee
148. Karen Rivers Watch
149. Karen Student Network Group
150. Karen Teacher Working Group
151. Karen Women’s Organization
152. Karen Youth Organization
153. Karenni Ever Green
154. Karenni Legal and Human Rights Center
155. Karenni MATA
156. Karenni National Women’s Organization
157. Karenni National Youth Organization
158. Karenni State Farmer Union
159. KatanKyun Development Group
160. Kaung Myat Hnalonethar Health Care Organization
161. Kayan Earth Right Action Network
162. Kayan New Generation Youth
163. Kayan Women Organization
164. Kayin Culture and literature committee
165. K’Cho Land Development Association
166. KECO
167. Keng Tung Youth
168. Khaingmyaethitsar Environmental Maintain Group
169. Khanti Youths
170. Khitlight Development Group
171. Kin Oo Natural Resources Watchs
172. Kin Ywar (Ma da yar Youth)
173. Kindness Foundation (Shan)
174. KOG
175. Kyaik Hti Yo Mountain Range Lover Association
176. Kyaingtone Youth
177. Kyaukse Youth Network
178. Kyike Mayaw MATA
179. Kyonemaku Chaung Network
180. Lamyan Farmers Network
181. Lan Pya Kyal Sin Group
182. Land Activist Group
183. Land and Environmental
184. Lat Pa Daung Monitoring Group
185. LatButta Farmer Union
186. Lawyers Network (Ayeyarwaddy)
187. Legal Knowledge Sharing Group
188. Let’s Help Each Other
189. Life Light
190. Light Civil Society Organization
191. Light Social Development Organization
192. Lin lake Kyal Social Development Organization
193. Local Development Network (Kayah)
194. Loka Ahlinn (Social Development Organization)
195. Lu Mu Htar Group
196. Ma Day Island Youth Development Association
197. Ma Naw Phyu
198. Magway Region Youth Network
199. Mandalay Affairs Team
200. Mandalay Regional Youth Association
201. Mandalay Regional Youth Network
202. Mandalay Women Political Federation (MWPF)
203. Mann Thingaha (Gender GBV Team)
204. Manoeyone Future Light Enviromental and Development Group
205. Maramagri Youth Network
206. Marga
207. MATA Sagaing Region
208. Matu Women Organization
209. Meiktila Youth Network
210. Metta Development Foundation
211. Mhine Nyein Network
212. Mi Karen Youth
213. Mitta Blood Health Group
214. Mitta San Yae (Magway)
215. Mitta San Yae (Shan)
216. Mitta Shin Group
217. Mitta Yake Group
218. Mitta Yaung Sin group
219. Mohn Chaung Lover
220. Mon green develop group
221. Mon State Community Association
222. Mon State CSO Network
223. Mon-region Social Development Network
224. Mother Land Network
225. MRDJO Magway Regional Rules of law and Justice group
226. Mu Se Multi Development Association
227. Mudidar ZiwadarNa and Social Association
228. Muditar Organization
229. Mudon CSO Network
230. Mudon Township Development Group
231. Mung Chying Rawt Jat
232. Municipal Monitoring Group
233. Muu basin Environmental Save Group
234. Mwetaung Area Development Group
235. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability
236. Myanmar Cultural Research Society
237. Myanmar Deaf Society
238. Myanmar Muslim Youth Association (Kachin State)
239. Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
240. Myat Darna Group
241. Myeik Lawyer Network
242. Na Phat Hla
243. Nant San Environmental Save Group
244. Natural Green Alliance
245. Northern Spectrum Youth Association
246. Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica
247. Olive Organization
248. Open data Myanmar
249. Open Development Foundation
250. Our Home
251. Pan Daing Shin
252. Pan Thi Kyo LGBT Organization
253. Parchan River Maintain Group
254. Pauk Khaung Youth Network
255. Pauktaingchaung Development Group
256. Paung Ku
257. Paungsee Myittar Organization
258. Peace Development Committee (မိတ္ထီလာ)
259. Peace, Development & Civic Engagement
260. People Oriented and Development Group
261. People Resource Alliance
262. Phyu Sin Mitta
263. Phyu Sin Myittar Social Development Organization
264. Pluralistic Society
265. Pone Yate Sit Regional Development Organization
266. Progressive Voice
267. Public Service Committee (Taunggoke)
268. Pwint Lin Voluntary Group
269. Pwint Lin Youth
270. Pwint Phyu Development Group
271. Pyar Mountain Conservation Group
272. Pyi Thue A Kyoe Pyue Group
273. Pyin Nyar Youth Association
274. Rakha Arr Marn Group
275. Rakhine Disable Association
276. Rakhine National Network (Lay Taung)
277. Rakhine Social Network (Myay Pone)
278. Rakhine Women’s Union
279. Rakhine Youth Generation
280. RanByae Township Development Group
281. Resources Center
282. Responsible Waste Collecting Group
283. Retired voluntary Group
284. Rivers and Creeks Monitoring Group
285. Rule of Law Watch Group
286. Rural Social Development Organization
287. Sagaing Region Youth Network
288. Sal and KyaySin Mining Watch Group
289. Sarnar Kyi Phyu Social Development Organization
290. SarPhyu Farmer Network
291. Say Da Nar Mon Voluntary Group
292. Say Da Nar Shin
293. Saytana Shaesaung Youth Organization
294. Second Tap Root
295. Sein Lan (Mogoke)
296. Sein Lan (Tha Pake Kyin)
297. Sein Lan Lwin Pyin Group (Laputta)
298. Sein Lan Myay (Kyun Hla)
299. Sein Yaung So (Katha)
300. Shan Literature
301. Shan MATA
302. Shan State Peace Task Force
303. Shan Women Development Network
304. Shantinmae Environmental Maintain Committee
305. Shwe Kyin Lover
306. Shwe Minn Tha Foundation (Myanmar)
307. Shwe Nathar Farmer Development Organization
308. Shwe Network
309. Shwe Paing Nyin Group
310. Shwechinthae Farmers Network
311. Sit Man Thaw Sanda Social group
312. SKY-Youth, Kyaukphyu
313. Social Development and Peace Network
314. Southern Youth Development Organization
315. SPACE
316. Spectrum Organization
317. Swam Su Ti Rural Development Organization
318. Synergy – Social Harmony Organization
319. Ta’ang Women’s Organization
320. Tarkapaw Youth Group
321. Tedim Youth Fellowship
322. Tgyit Watch Group
323. Than Dwe Development Association
324. Than Lwin Thar Chin Group
325. Thanlwin Network
326. Thazi Youth Network
327. The Seagull:Human Rights, Peace & Development
328. The Wings Institution
329. Theindaw Region Environmental Maintain Group
330. Thingantaung Waterfall Maintain Group
331. Thit Sar Yae Sin
332. Thurira Sanda Group
333. Thwee Community Development Network
334. Tonzang Fellowship
335. Tonzang Youth Association
336. Transparency and Accountability Network Kachin State
337. Tree Lover group
338. TRI STAR
339. TRY Organization
340. Union of Karenni State Youth
341. Unity Erch Bridge Organization
342. University Muslim Students Network – Myanmar
343. Upper Chindwin Youth Network
344. Upper Myanmar Watch Group
345. Waingmaw CSO Network
346. Waingmaw Women CBO
347. Western beach Ayeyarwaddy Environmental Conservation Group
348. White hand Social warefare group
349. White Marker Group
350. Windayea Village Social group
351. Women & Youth’s Development Organization
352. Women Development (Bago)
353. Women Development Group (Ayeyarwaddy)
354. Women Empowerment Group (Karen)
355. Women’s League of Burma
     • Burmese Women’s Union
     • Karenni National Women’s Organization
     • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
     • Kuki Women’s Human Rights Organization
     • Karen Women’s Organization
     • Kayan Women’s Organization
     • Lahu Women’s Organization
     • Pa-O Women’s Union
     • Shan Women’s Action Network
     • Ta’ang Women’s Organization
     • Tavoy Women’s Union
     • Women’s forJustice
356. Women’s Peace Network
357. Wonthoe Youths
358. Worker Development Organization
359. World View Monitoring and helping Group
360. Yangon Youth Network
361. Yatanar Youngyi Social Development Organization
362. Yaung Chi Thit public Library group
363. Yaung Ne Oo Women Group
364. Yaung Zin Arr Man Group
365. Yaung Zin Hlaing
366. Yaye Alliance Development Group
367. Yi Ywal Yar Community Development
368. Yi Ywal Yar Youth Development Organization
369. YMCA (Mandalay)
370. YoeMa Civil Society Group
371. Young Ni Oo Social Development Organization
372. Young Ni Oo Women Social Development Organization
373. Youth Arr Man Group
374. Youth Champion Network
375. Youth Circle
376. Youth Initiative for Human Rights
377. Youth Society Network
378. Zinlum Committee (Tanphaye)
379. Zomi Youth Association
380. ၈၈ငြိမ်းပွင့် စဥ့်ကူး
381. ၈၈ငြိမ်းပွင့် မြစ်သား
382. ၈၈ငြိမ်းပွင့် မိထ္တီလာ
383. ၈၈ငြိမ်းပွင့် သပိတ်ကျင်း
384. ၈၈ငြိမ်းပွင့် သာစည်
385. ကျောက်ပန်းတောင်း လူငယ်ကွန်ယက်
386. ကလျာဏမိတ္တလူမှုစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ခင်ဦး၊ ရှားတော)
387. စိမ်းရောင်စို (တံတားဦး)
388. ညီမော်ဒူ
389. တမာရိပ်
390. တို့တောင်သူလယ်သမားအသင်း
391. တောင်သမန်ကွန်ယက်
392. ဒို့တိုးတက်ရာ အစည်းအရုံး
393. ဒို့တောင်သူလယ်သမားအဖွဲ့အစည်း
394. ပန်းပျိုးလက် ဗန်းမော်  လူမှုရေးအဖွဲ့
395. ပျော်ဘွယ် လူငယ်ကွန်ယက်
396. မဇ္စျိမမေတ္တာ ရေလှူအသင်း (မိတ္ထီလာ)
397. မတ္တရာ လူငယ်ကွန်ယက်
398. မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး လူငယ်ရေးရာကော်မတီ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ
399. မန္တလေးလူထုနေရာ (Mandalay Community Center)
400. မြင်းခြံ နိုင်ကျဉ်းအဖွဲ့
401. မြင့်မြတ်ဧရာဝတီ လူငယ်လူမှု့ကွန်ယက်
402. မြေလတ်မျိုးဆက်အင်စတီကျု
403. မိတ္ထီလာခရိုင် အလင်းတန်းအဖွဲ့
404. ယုံကြည်ရာ အသိပညာပြန့်ပွားရေးအသင့်
405. ရွှေခြံအားမာန်အဖွဲ့ မြင်းခြံ
406. ရွှေတြိဂံတောင်သူလယ်သမားအဖွဲ့
407. ရွှေတောင်တိုက်နယ်တောင်သူ့အားမာန် ဝမ်းတွင်းမြို့နယ်အဖွဲ့
408. ရှစ်လေးလုံးသွေးသစ် (မိုးညှင်း)
409. လမ်းပြကြယ် LGBT Group
410. ဝါးစိမ်းတောင်ကာကွယ်စောင့်ကြည့်ရေးကော်မတီ (WPWC)
411. ဝိုင်းမော်မြို့နယ်လုံးဆိုင်ရာ သျှမ်းလူငယ်များစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးအဖွဲ့
412. သင့်မြတ်လိုသူများ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးပရဟိတအဖွဲ့
413. သုခမိန်အင်စတီကျု
414. အိမ်ယာမဲ့ပြည်သူများ အစည်းအရုံး
415. အောင်သာစည်အဖွဲ့

 Supported by:

1. Burmese – Canadian Network (Canada)
2. Burmese Community in France
3. Burmese Democratic Force (Indonesia)
4. Burmese Democratic Force (New Zealand)
5. Burmese Democratic Force (USA)
6. Burmese Rohingya Organization UK
7. Burmese Student Democratic Organization – BSDO (Canada)
8. Calgary Karen Community Association (CKCA)
9. Edmonton Karen Community Youth Organization
10. European Karen Network
11. Free Burma Action (Global),
12. Free Burma Action Committee (San Francisco)
13. International Karen Organization
14. Joint Action Committee For Democracy in Burma, Sydney
15. Karen American Association of Wisconsin, WI, USA
16. Karen Association of Huron, SD, USA
17. Karen Community of Akron, OH, USA
18. Karen Community of Canada (KCC)
19. Karen Community of Czech Republic
20. Karen Community of Finland
21. Karen Community of Hamilton
22. Karen Community of Iowa, IA, USA
23. Karen Community of Ireland
24. Karen Community of Israel
25. Karen Community of Kansas City, KS & MO, USA
26. Karen Community of Kitchener & Waterloo
27. Karen Community of Leamington
28. Karen Community of Lethbridge
29. Karen Community of London
30. Karen Community of Minnesota, MN, USA
31. Karen Community of North Carolina, USA
32. Karen Community of Ottawa
33. Karen Community of Regina
34. Karen Community of Saskatoon
35. Karen Community of Thunder Bay
36. Karen Community of Toronto
37. Karen Community of Windsor
38. Karen Community of Winnipeg
39. Karen Community Society of British Columbia (KCSBC)
40. Karen Organization of America
41. Karen Organization of Illinois, IL, USA
42. Karen Thai Group – Karen Youth Network
43. Karen Youth Education Pathways, USA
44. Karen Youth of Norway
45. Karen Youth of Toronto
46. Karen Youth Organization
47. Korea Karen Organization
48. Korea Karen Youth Organization
49. Myanmar Refugee Communities in New Delhi
50. NLD(OC)KOREA
51. Oversea Karen Organization Japan
52. Perth Burmese Community (Australia)
53. Union of Myanmar Citizen Association (UMCA) – Japan

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