MizzimaOn 20 September, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) issued a statement urging United Nations Member States, currently gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, to impose a global arms and jet fuel embargo on Myanmar’s military junta. In a recent attack on 11 September 2025, the military junta killed at least 22 high school students and injured 26 others in Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State. This is just the latest of many deadly airstrikes against civilians by the military junta who has killed at least 284 civilians across Myanmar in August alone. “Junta airstrikes have repeatedly struck schools, monasteries, and displacement sites in civilian areas,” said Kyaw Win, executive director of Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN). “UN member states should press the Security Council to impose a global arms embargo and an end‑to‑end ban on aviation fuel to Burma’s military.