Yale Schell Center: Myanmar Junta Responsible for Crimes Against Humanity [1]
On March 25, 2022, The Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School and the human rights organization, Fortify Rights, released a report [3], titled Nowhere is Safe, that details how the Myanmar junta was responsible for crimes against humanity, murder, torture, and forced displacement of civilians and political leaders. According to the Schell Center [4], the report “is based on more than 120 testimonies, leaked documents and information, and in-depth legal analysis of new evidence. It focuses on the first six months after the military’s attempted coup on February 1, 2021.” The report’s contribution to the landscape is its specific targeting of the junta’s atrocities since the coup, which included: “[i]dentifying 61 senior military and police officials who should be investigated and possibly prosecuted for international crimes and “[p]roviding the most thorough legal analysis to date of the junta’s widespread and systematic attacks on the people of Myanmar in the first six months after the coup.”