COLLECTIVE STATEMENT DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR KYAW ZIN WIN, A YOUNG LGBT WHO COMMITED SUICIDE AFTER BEING OUTED AND BULLIED AT WORKPLACE

Yangon 25th June, 2019

The Myanmar LGBTIQA+ community is shocked and deeply saddened to receive the news that a young gay man named Kyaw Zin Win, working as librarian at Myanmar Imperial University – MIU committed suicide in Yangon yesterday after being forcibly outed, harassed and bullied by co-workers in a brutal case of discrimination and bullying in the workplace induced by the victim’s sexual orientation. Kyaw Zin Win, who has been described in social media as “an accomplished, honest, down-to-earth and hard-working young man” was a reserved person who didn’t disclose his sexual orientation to even close family members. However, he was forced to come out to his supervisor at Myanmar Imperial University – MIU following feedbacks from third parties. This traumatic experience led to further attacks and harassment by co-workers on social media, who ridiculed him and his sexual orientation. Among such comments, a co-worker wrote on a Viber group chat “all of you, don’t become an imbecile like him.” Moments before taking his own life, Kyaw Zin Win exposed on his Facebook profile screenshots from other co-coworkers’ conversations suggesting he should be sent into the military, among other mocking remarks. As a community, WE MOURN this tragic loss of life and demand justice for Kyaw Zin Win. WE CONDEMN Myanmar Imperial University – MIU and its management for forcibly outing Kyaw Zin Win and for allowing such despicable bullying behavior to take place at the workplace. The evidences point at a very serious case of discrimination and abuse at the workplace that amounts to human rights violation. WE DEMAND that immediate action, be it civil and/or penal, is taken against the perpetrators and that Myanmar Imperial University – MIU issues a public apology and enforces measures conducive to prevent these circumstances from repeating again. Issues around gender-based violence and abuse need to be addressed for the LGBTIQA+ community in Myanmar. This is the second case reported on social media in less than a month of young LGBT that commits suicide after suffering from bullying. It is vitally important to enforce legislation and other measures promoting equality and protecting people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. WE STRONGLY URGE the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar –

(i) To protect the LGBTIQA+ individuals through the revision and enactment of relevant legislation in accordance with the provisions set forth in International Human Rights Treaties and Conventions inclusive of but not limited to the repeal of Section 377 and the passing of an Anti-Discrimination Law.

(ii) To dedicate resources to the empowerment of LGBTIQA+ towards a harmonious society that respects the human rights of LGBTIQA+.

(iii) To allocate resources and enact policies that guarantee the access of LGBTIQA+ to psychosocial support services and mental health service providers.

(iv) To establish a clear written/informed policy in schools and workplaces for the inclusion of people with different sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

For more information : C.A.N-Myanmar Dr. Pyae Sone Hein : 097666 50624 ; OWEN : 09 4599 72 933 COLORS RAINBOW Hla Myat Tun : 09 799 576 378 ; Violaine Beix : 09968709919 Equality Myanmar Juan : 09400686387 ; Office : 09448023569 National Transgender People Alliance of Myanmar – NTPAM Naw Yaya Aye Myat : 09450009116 This statement is endorsed in solidarity with the following organizations/networks/private corporations/ individuals.

A Linn Mee Eain AGIPP Ayenyein Myitta Action Committee for Democracy Development Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization Bawathit Shaytho Group Braveheart Foundation Bright Pride Myanmar Lesbian Organization Burmese Tomboy Group Business King Myanmar (BKM) Dawn Peace Foundation (Bamaw) Diversity For Love Evergreen Lovers Free Thinkers Generation Wave Genuine People’s Servant Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP) Human Rights Defenders Forum (HRDF) International Alert Justice For All Organization Khaing Hnin Si (Monywa) Kings and Queens Lashio Tomboy and Lesbian Group (LTLG) Legal Knowledge Sharing Group Manawpanmyar Group Manushya Foundation (Thailand) Mobilizing Myanmar Program Myanmar Cultural Research Society Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State) Myanmar Youth for Peace Development

National Democratic Institute (NDI) Never End Tomorrow (NET) Ngwe Gyogyar Group Northern Shan State Change Agents Group NSS-CAG &PROUD Peace, Development & Civic Engagement (P.D.CE) Peace & Justice Myanmar Phan Tee Eain (Creative Home) Power of True Love Progressive Voice Pyi Gyi Khin Radanar Ayar Association Rainbow Alliance Rainbow Star (Dawei) Rainbow Star LGBT-CO Rainmaker Same Hands from Cherry Land Same Hands from Tamar Land Sarnarhmu Saydanar Saytanar Arrman Group Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (Malaysia) SPACE Synergy-social Harmony organization Transmen Association Myanmar Triangle Women Thapyanyo Shwebo Pan THE SEAGULL Thingaha Gender Organization Thunder – Mahlaing TRY Organization

Mee Eain Shin Lay Myar Metta Let Kann (Myeik) Mr.Lady Myeik LGBTIQA Saytanarshinmyar Group Gender Equality Network (GEN) Human Rights Educator Network Meikhtila LGBTIQA Network Myanmar Human Rights Alliance Network Myanmar LGBT Rights Network Myanmar MSM TG Network Women and peace action network (WAPAN-Shan State) Aunty Min (Make-up Artist) Craton Highways (Writer/Author) Ko John Lwin (Style and Agency) Ko Myo Khaing (Individual) Khin Moh Moh Lwin (Reporter @ Myanmar Now) Make-up Aunty Min and Group Make-up Aye Than and Group Make-up Aye Win Aung and Group Make-up December Hnin and Group Make-up Khin San Win and Group Make-up Ko Mar and Group Make-up Kyaw Moe and Group Make-up Hsue (Make-up Artist) Make-up Soe Moe and Group May Oo Maung (Taw Win Thu) Make-up Maharmyaing Min Min and Group Make-up May Oo and Group Make-up Nawarat Aung and Group Make-up Nono Fashion and Group Make-up Nyan Nyan and Group Make-up Watisoe and Group Nan Khan Yone (Individual) Nay Linn Htike (Individual) Nawarat Aung Aung (Make-up Artist) Power (Floral) Ricky James @Pyae Phyo Kyaw (Individual) Shwe Min Sett Paing (Individual) Thura Aung (Individual) Toe Toe (Best Make-up Artist Asia Award)

The Help United Women Youth Alert Amazing Yaya Business Services Co.,Ltd. Fantabulous Myanmar Tours Flavors of Myanmar Company Limited Flawless Myanmar Company limited. K.G Language Consultancy Services Magic Event Management Oh My Dog Pet Grooming Salon Seagull Spa and Beauty Center Lin Lin Floral and Group Nini Point Floral and Group Malaysia Than Myint Floral and Group Nyein Chan Floral and Group Power Floral and Group Malaysia Mommy Kyaw Floral and Group

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ျမနမာ အငပးရးယလ တကသလတြင စာၾကညတကမးအျဖစ တာဝနထမးေဆာငေနေသာ ေမာင ေကာဇငဝငးသည ၄ငး၏လငစတခယမႈအား အဓမၼေဖာထတဖြငဟေစျခငး၊ ထပါးေနာငယကခရျခငး နင အနငကငခရ ျခငးတ႔အျပင လပငနးခြငအတြငး ဆးရြားစြာ ခြျခားဆကဆမႈနင နငထကစးနငးျပမခရမႈတ႔၏ ဒဏေၾကာင မမကယကအ ဆးစရငသြားေၾကာငး ၾကားသရသျဖင ျမနမာနငငလငဝေသသလကၡဏာ၊ လငစတခယမႈကြျပားသမား လမႈအသငးအ ဝငးအေနျဖင လြနစြာ ဝမးနညးေၾကကြမပါသည။ လမႈကြနယကစာမကနာမားတြင ”ရးသား၊ၾကးစားသည လရညခြန တစဥး” အျဖစ မတခကျပျခငးခရသည ေမာငေကာဇငဝငးသည ၄ငး၏လငစတတမးညြတမႈက အနးစပဆးမသားစဝငမားကပင အသေပးချခငးမရပါ။ သ႔ျဖစပါလက ၄ငးသည၄ငးတာဝနထမးေဆာငသည ျမနမာအငပးရးယလ တကသလရ အထကအရာရတစဥးမ ၄ငး၏လငစတ တမးညြတမႈက အတငးအဓမၼေမးျမနးျပးဖြငဟေဖာထတေစခေၾကာငး လမႈ ကြနယကစာမကနာမားမတဆငသရရသည။ ယငးသ႔ အတငးအဓမၼနငထကစးနငးျပမခရသညအျပင အျခား လပေဖာကငဖကမားမလညး ၄ငးနင ၄ငး၏လငစတတမး ညြတမႈနငစပလဥးျပး လမႈကြနယကစာ မကနာမားေပၚတြင ကရ႕ရတချခငး၊ ထပါးေျပာဆျခငးမား လပေဆာငခသည။ ၄ငး၏ လပေဖာကငဖကမားမ Viber group chat ၌ ေရ းသားခသည အျပသေဘာမေဆာငေသာ သေဘာထား မတခကမားအခ ႕တြင ”ကနတသေတြအားလး သ႕လ မျဖစေစန႔” အစခ သည စာသားမားအပါအဝင ေမာငေကာဇငဝငး နင ၄ငး၏လငစတတမးညြတမႈအား ေလာငေျပာငသ ေရာသည အျခား စာသားမားလညး ပါဝငခသည။ ေမာငေကာဇငဝငးသည ေဆးဝါးမားေသာကသးျပး မမကယကအဆး မစရငမတြင လပေဖာကငဖကမားမ ၄ငးကစစထပ႔သငေၾကာငး စသျဖင ေျပာၾကားထားသည စကရငေရာ မတတမးမား က ၄ငး၏ ေဖစဘတစာမကနာေပၚတြင ပ႕စတငခသည။ ကြနပတ႔လမႈအသငးအဝငးအေနျဖင ဤသ႔ လငစတဝေသသလကၡဏာကြျပားသ လငယတစဥးအသက ဆးရးရမႈအေပၚ ယကးမရပ လြနစြာဝမးနညးေသာကေရာကရသညျဖစျပး ေမာငေကာဇငဝငးအတြက တရားမတမႈမား က လလားပါသည။ ကြနပတ႔ လမႈအသငးအဝငးအေနျဖင ေမာငေကာဇငဝငးအား အဓမၼနညးလမးျဖင ၄ငး၏လငစတတမး ညြတမႈကဖြငဟေစရနနင လပငနးခြငအတြငးအနငကငျခငးျဖငအၾကမးဖကမႈက အခြငေပးထားေသာ ျမနမာအငပးရးယ လ တကသလနင ၄ငး၏ စမခန႔ခြမႈေရးရာတာဝနရသမားကျပငးထနစြာ ရတခအပပါသည။ လမႈကြနယကစာ မကနာမားနင ကာယကရင၏ ေဖစဘတစာမကနာတြင တငထားေသာ သကေသသာဓကမားအရ ဤသ႔ျဖစပြားေ စမႈသည လပငနးခြင အတြငး ဆးရြားေသာ ခြျခားဆကဆျခငးေၾကာငျဖစျပး လ႔အခြငအေရးခးေဖာကမႈတစရပျဖစ ေၾကာငး မးေမာငးထးျပေနသည။ ကြနပတ႔ လမႈအသငးအဝငးအေနျဖင အခငးျဖစပြားေအာင အားေပးအားေျမာကျပခသမားနင ကးလြန ခသမားအား အရပသားျဖစေစ၊ နင/သ႔မဟတ ရာဇဝတမႈအားျဖငျဖစေစ ခကခငးအေရးယေဆာငရြကေပးရနနင ျမနမာ အငပးရးယလ တကသလအေနျဖင ေနာကေနာငတြင အလားတကစၥရပမးျဖစပြားျခငးမ ကာကြယရန လထေရ႕ေမာက တရားဝင ေတာငးပနခကမား၊ ပြငလငးျမငသာေသာ အေရးယေဆာငရြကခကမား ေဆာငရြကသြားရန အထးေတာငးဆ အပပါသည။

ျမနမာနငငအတြငးရ လငဝေသသလကၡဏာ၊ လငစတခယေဖာျပမႈကြျပားသမားအတြက ကားမအေျချပ၊ လငပငးဆငရာအၾကမးဖကမႈသည အေရးတၾကး ေျဖရငးရနလအပေနေသာ ကစၥရပတစခပငျဖစပါသည။ ေမာငေကာ ဇငဝငးသည လြနခေသာ တစလတာအခနအတြငး နငထကစးနငးျပခရျခငးေၾကာင မမကယကအဆးစရငသြား ေၾကာငး လမႈကြနယကစာမကနာေပၚတြင ေဖာျပျခငးခရသည ဒတယေျမာက လငစတကြျပားသလငယတစဥး ျဖစပါသည။ ျပညသမားအား လပငနးခြငနင အျခား ကယျပန႔ေသာ လမႈက႑အသးသးတ႕တြင ခြျခားဆကဆမႈမကာကြယေပး ျပး တနးတညမမႈက ျမငတငေပးသည ဥပေဒမေဘာငမား၊ လပထးလပနညးမားအား ေဖာေဆာငအသကသြငးရန လြနစြာ အေရးၾကးပါသည။ ျပညေထာငစျမနမာနငငေတာအစးရ အေနျဖင - (၁) ရာဇသတၾကးပဒမ ၃၇၇ ျပငဆငျခငးနင ခြျခားဆကဆမႈပေပာကေရး ဥပေဒက အတညျပျခငး စသည စေလာမႈရေသာ ဥပေဒအရပရပ မားက ျဖညစြကျပငဆငျခငး၊ အသကသြငးျခငးမားအား နငငတကာလ႔အခြငအေရး စာခပမား၊ ပဋညာဥမားပါ ျပဌာနးခက မားနငအည ေဆာငရြကျပး လငဝေသသလကၡဏာ၊ လငစတခယေဖာျပမႈကြျပား သမားက အကာအကြယေပးျခငးအားျဖင နငငသားမားအားလး၏အခြငအေရးက ထေရာကစြာ ကာကြယေပးရန။ (၂) လငဝေသသလကၡဏာ၊ လငစတခယမႈကြျပားသမား၏ လ႕အခြငအေရးက ေလးစားလကနာသည သဟဇာတ ျဖစေသာ လ႔ေဘာငအသငးအဝငးတစခေပၚထြနးလာေရးအတြက လအပေသာအရငးအျမစမားျဖင ၾကးပမးအားထတ ရန။ (၃) လငဝေသသလကၡဏာ၊ လငစတခယမႈကြျပားသမားအတြက လမႈစတပငးဆငရာနင စတကနးမာေရး ဝန ေဆာငမႈမား လကလမးမနငေစရန အရငးအျမစမားေဖာေဆာငျပး မဝါဒမား စနစတကခမတေပးရန။

(၄) ေကာငးမားနင အလပခြငမားတြင မတညေသာ လငဝေသသ၊လငစတခယေဖာျပမႈကြျပားသမားအားလး အကးဝငပါဝငနငေရး မဝါဒမားက ရငးလငးတကစြာ ေဖာေဆာငျပဌာနးရန။ - ကြနပတ႔ လငဝေသသ၊ လငစတခယမႈကြျပားသ လမႈအသငးအဝငးမ တစစတစေဝးတညး ဆႏၵျပ ေတာငးဆအပပါသည။ စေပါငးေၾကညာခကထတျပနသည မတဖကအဖြ႔အစညးမား

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