SAC-M welcomes NUG’s dissolution of Myanmar junta-controlled MNHRC

On 18 February, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) issued a statement welcoming the stance of the National Unity Government (NUG) to dissolve the junta-controlled Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC).

The text of the SAC-M statement is as follows.

SAC-M urges the NUG to establish a new, impartial and independent National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) to replace the defunct MNHRC without delay.

The MNHRC was formed in 2011 under the quasi-civilian Thein Sein government and has been complicit in the horrific violence committed by the Myanmar military in the years that followed, including since its attempted coup on 1 February 2021.