UN / MYANMAR SPECIAL ENVOY

With more than 800 people killed and over 5300 arrested, the situation in Myanmar is “very bad,” the UN Special Envoy on Myanmar told reporters in New York on Monday. UNIFEED

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• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 24 May 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: CHRISTINE SCHRANER BURGENER
• Subject Topical: COUPS D'ETAT; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 2621858
• Parent Id: 2621858
• Alternate Title: unifeed210524d

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STORY: UN / MYANMAR SPECIAL ENVOY
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 24 MAY 2021, NEW YORK CITY

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1.Exterior shot, UN Headquarters against Manhattan skyline

24 MAY 2021, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, press room with Burgener on screen
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Schraner Burgener, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar:
“We have still a situation which is very bad on the ground. We have now more than 800 killed people. More than 5300 people are arrested, and more than 1800 warrants went out. People fled in other regions, or over the border. The situation is currently very bad in the Chin State.”
4.Wide shot, press room with Burgener on screen
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Schraner Burgener, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar:
“People who have fled are in urgent need now of food, water, shelter and access to health care. We have… due to the violence, we also have difficulties for access to the people. And this coming together, also with the COVID crisis.”
6.Wide shot, press room with Burgener on screen
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Schraner Burgener, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar:
“Protesters have started to shift from defensive to the offensive. Sometimes with homemade weapons or receiving military training from certain ethnic armed organizations.”
8.Wide shot, press room with Burgener on screen
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Schraner Burgener, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar:
“In the coming three to six months, we will probably have 3.4 million people who could be at risk of food insecurity due to the economic showdown provoked by the political crisis. And then schools should reopen on the first of June and at this state will be crucial to see if the people will go back to teaching the schools and if the parents will send the children back to school. So, all over all the situation is very bad.”
10.Wide shot, press room with Burgener on screen

Storyline

With more than 800 people killed and over 5300 arrested, the situation in Myanmar is “very bad,” the UN Special Envoy on Myanmar told reporters in New York on Monday (24 May).

“People fled in other regions, or over the border. The situation is currently very bad in the Chin State,” said Christine Schraner Burgener, who was appointed the United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar in April 2018.

Those who have fled their homes “are in urgent need now of food, water, shelter and access to health care,” Burgener said. “Due to the violence, we also have difficulties for access to the people. And this coming together, also with the COVID crisis.”

On the other hand, the protestors “have started to shift from defensive to the offensive” tactics, the Special Envoy said, using homemade weapons, but also “receiving military training from certain ethnic armed organizations.”

Burgener estimated that in coming three to six months “we will probably have 3.4 million people who could be at risk of food insecurity due to the economic showdown provoked by the political crisis.”

“So, all over all the situation is very bad,” she concluded.