The sure-handed sketches mostly show young men looking pensively into the distance, though a few crack a smile.
Stan Dube, who died in 2009, was drafted into the Army while studying architecture at Syracuse University, and he put his drawing skills to use by sketching pencil- and charcoal-on-paper portraits of his fellow soldiers while the 27th Division was stationed in Hawaii in 1943.
She called for all armed forces to protect civilians and said the use of air strikes and artillery in residential areas must cease immediately.Dube found the signed sketches in the attic of his sister’s home in Mississippi early last year while they were going through their father’s belongings. The former Chilean president urged all parties - but especially the military - to allow unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, and called for the immediate release of all political prisoners. The international community must redouble its efforts to restore democracy and prevent wider conflict before it is too late."īachelet said more than 1,100 people had now reportedly died at the hands of the security forces since the coup, while over 8,000 others, including children, had been arrested and more than 4,700 still in detention. "The national consequences are terrible and tragic - the regional consequences could also be profound. "Myanmar's stability and path to democracy and prosperity have been sacrificed over these last months to advance the ambitions of a privileged and entrenched military elite," she said. "These disturbing trends suggest the alarming possibility of an escalating civil war," she said.īachelet urged countries to support a political process that would engage all parties, saying the ASEAN regional bloc and influential powers should use incentives and disincentives "to reverse the military coup and desperate spiral of violence". "Conflict, poverty and the effects of the pandemic are sharply increasing, and the country faces a vortex of repression, violence and economic collapse," she said.įaced with the "overwhelming repression of fundamental rights", the armed resistance movement was growing. Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's government was ousted by the military in February, sparking a nationwide uprising that the junta has tried to crush.Īttacks on troops have increased since lawmakers ousted by the generals called for a "people's defensive war" earlier this month.īachelet said the human rights situation had deteriorated significantly as the effects of the coup "devastate lives and hopes across the country". Michelle Bachelet told the United Nations Human Rights Council that time was running out for other countries to step up efforts to restore democracy and prevent a broader conflict.
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