A new UN report on Thursday revealed how recent junta violence in Myanmar has devastated the lives and rights of disabled persons living within the country.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, said that discriminatory barriers for disabled persons have grown since the nation’s military coup in 2021. The group has been particularly affected by the violence, not only because of an inability to flee when warning of attacks are heard, but also from imbedded cultural stigma. Andrews reported:

The primary drivers of exclusion for persons with disabilities are not their impairments but the social, cultural, political, and physical barriers pervasive throughout Myanmar society… The widespread belief that impairments result from misdeeds in a past l

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