[4][5] During Schraner Burgener's tenure, in December 2019 Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where she defended the Burmese military, also called Tatmadaw, against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.
[6][7] As she had never clearly acknowledged the persecution and killings perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people, Aung San Suu Kyi had increasingly received global criticism, including calls to revoke her Nobel Peace Prize.
In my view, this was the right strategy, because my task was to bring the Burmese government closer to the U.N.” She also explained that the U.N. is unable to "openly promote the imposition of sanctions before the U.N. Security Council, [as] it is up to member states to make such decisions.
In this final year of her mandate, Schraner Burgener also spoke out against "the ongoing killings by security forces turning against their own citizens, including children, youth, and women" and warned "A bloodbath is imminent.”[9] In an article about Schraner Burgener's tenure, The Irrawaddy newspaper, published by Myanmar journalists in Thailand,[10] deemed the aims of the UN Special Envoy using nonviolent and peaceful approaches of talks and phone calls "ineffective" and a "diplomatic graveyard" given the ruthless and oppressive history of the Myanmar military junta.
Following an interview with Channel NewsAsia (CNA) on 31 January 2022, where she had mentioned a "power-sharing arrangement" between the State Administration Council (the military junta put in place by the Tatmadaw following the coup d'état) and the democratically elected government, she was heavily criticized by Myanmar civil society organizations.
In her address to the session, she spotlighted the "urgency for a coherent international response built on regional unity" and insisted that more needed to be done to support local networks and to build community-based resilience.
According to a report in Al-Jazeera, "she called for an immediate end to the violence and the release of all political prisoners, including former Aung San Suu Kyi's adviser Sean Turnell, an Australian economist.
It is further mandated to prepare files in order to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings, in national, regional or international courts or tribunals that have or may in the future have jurisdiction over these crimes."