and joining me now for more from bangkok as deputy director of human rights watch phil robinson fill you and special wrap it on human rights. immune ma, tom andrews called the executions a depraved act. and said, these must be a turning point for the international community. when it well, it's a very good point, and these are outrageous and unacceptable actions by the myanmar military junta. and it should be a turning point for the international community. we saw the international community basically go silent over the past year, dealing with me and mar, ah, they've just all but disappeared. and it just needs to be a new inflection point or real action. not less more statements, but we need to see action on sanctions. we need to see action on holding the military accountable for its rights abuses. we need to see action on the un security council moving to have a global arms embargo. all these things are, are issues of the people of myanmar have called for. and this act by the military contest, are trying to intimidate the burmese people. that's exactly what thereafter in it should no

phil robinson is the deputy asia director of human rights watch. he says, it's astonishing that the international community has done nothing about the military's abuses. they are, i, you know, now executing political prisoners. that's clearly what these people were. and you know, this is on top of the crimes against humanity that had been committed by military forces all across the country against the billions. it is astonishing that the international community has been sitting back and just twiddling their thumbs as myanmar has descended into this horrible situation of absolute human rights abuses occurring across the country. you know, the focus, i know is been on ukraine and other places, but the reality is we have a, an absolute disaster area in the middle of the asian region. and the international community is doing precious little to say about it. are you not even, not even really speaking up, maybe we'll see something now that these executions have taken place. but this is part of intimidation by the hunter to try to quell any sort of resist

so robinson's, the deputy asia director of human rights. what is in bangkok and is live with me now. phil, we haven't seen execution since 1989. this has to be a message from the military. johnson, not just a mystically but financial community as well. but the incidental guarantee seems a bit palace. his tiny even stopped them. well, it shows the depth of depravity that they myanmar who does prepared to descend to in order to try to get control of the situation they are ah, you know, now executing political prisoners. that's clearly what these people were. and you know, this is on top of the crimes against humanity that have been committed by military forces all across the country against civilians. it is astonishing that the international community has been sitting back in just twiddling their thumbs as myanmar has descended into this horrible situation. of absolute human rights abuses occurring across the country. you know, the focus, i know has been on ukraine and other places. but the reality is we have a, an absolute disaster area in the middle of the asian region. and the internatio

. >> so, phil, let's also play some of mark robinson's testimony from last night. part of the president's motorcade, and he's explaining what was supposed to happen, as you'll hear in just a second, after the president was done with his speech at the ellipse. >> so at the end of the speech, what was the plan supposed to be. >> so at the end of the speech, we do know that while inside the limo, the president was still adamant about going to the capitol. that's been replayed to me by the tsa agent. and so we did part the ellipse and weresponded back to the white house. however, the potus motorcade was placed on standby. so we were told to standby on the west exact until they confirmed whether or not the president was going to go to the capitol. and i may have waited -- i would just estimate, maybe 45 to -- 45 minutes to an hour, waiting for secret service to make that decision. >> what does this signify, phil? >> that's new information from last night, and it tells us that there was a possibility that even after the rioting had begun at the capitol, that the presiden