The United Nations has accused the military junta in Myanmar of ramping up mass killing of civilians in the period between April 2022 and July 2023.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in latest report on Myanmar that it had found a “seemingly endless spiral of military violence” between April 2022 and July 2023.
Through interviews and open source data it had found “a sharp rise” in serious human rights violations “including the increase of incidents in which 10 or more individuals were killed”.
Investigators had now documented 22 instances of mass killings of 10 or more people, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk.
The OHCHR cited an air strike on a gathering in a village in an opposition stronghold last April it said killed about 150 people, and the bombing last October of a concert in northern Kachin state that killed dozens.
The OHCHR said it had regularly received reports of torture, violence, and deaths in prisons or during prison transf
ers.
Myanmar has witnessed bloody violence since a military coup in 2021 ousted the government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The United Nations accuses the junta of conducting security campaigns against the opposition, resulting in casualties.
Source: Qatar News Agency