GENEVA: Myanmar’s navy authorities has ramped up killings and arrests in an obvious bid to silence opponents and recruit troopers in an escalating battle, with tens of hundreds detained for the reason that 2021 coup, a UN report stated on Tuesday (Sep 17).
The navy got here to energy in February 2021 after deposing the elected civilian authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering nationwide road protests that it violently crushed.
The protest motion has since morphed right into a widening armed riot and preventing has flared on a number of fronts, prompting authorities to introduce conscription in February.
The report by the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, based mostly partly on distant interviews with tons of of victims and witnesses since investigators are denied entry, stated that 5,350 civilians have been killed by the navy for the reason that coup.
Of these, 2,414 died within the interval lined by the UN report between April 2023 and June 2024, with tons of killed by airstrikes and artillery assaults, amounting to a rise of fifty per cent versus the earlier reporting interval.
A Myanmar junta spokesman didn’t reply to calls looking for remark.
The report additionally revealed the dimensions of detentions throughout the nation, with practically 27,400 people arrested for the reason that coup together with greater than 9,000 within the newest reporting interval. Many are regarded as in navy coaching centres, it stated.
