they have enormous influence on the junta. china and russia among them. but countries that has spoken out in favour of the people of myanmar in opposition to thejunta, criticising attacks like today, they have influence, but my problem, my concern is that the response of the international community has been fractured, it has been disorganised, it has not been strategic, and unlike the response to the attack on ukraine, for example, in which a coalition of countries gathered together and formed a very clear, coherent, co ordinated plan, no such co ordination, no such coalition, has been built with respect to confronting this horror that has been just subjecting the people of myanmar day after day, so, i think, frankly. tom, if i canjump in there, why is it that no such action is been taken, co ordinated action? well, sumi, that is a very, very good question. i frankly do not know that. i get asked that by people in myanmar all the time.
and what that means is that soldiers that the junta puts on the ground are more and more susceptible to attack, so, as a result of that, the junta is using these helicopter gunships, these aircraft that are dropping bombs over these civilian areas more and more. we ve seen a significant uptake in the use of aircraft for these attacks over the last year. that means that more and more civilians, innocent people, including those that were killed earlier today, are going to be suffering, including many, many children. you are the un special rapporteur in human rights, as we said, in myanmar. how difficult is it for you to access independent information? we know that there are regular blackouts in myanmar? well, i ll tell you, sumi, thejunta, they are like mushroom, they thrive in the dark and they do everything that they possibly can to hide what they are doing, particularly the atrocities that they are committing