GENEVA — War crimes dedicated by Myanmar’s army, together with the bombing of civilians, have turn into “increasingly frequent and brazen,” a crew of United Nations investigators stated in a report printed on Tuesday.
The report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), which coated the interval between July 2022 and June 2023, stated there was “strong evidence that the Myanmar military and its affiliate militias have committed three types of combat-related war crimes with increasing frequency and brazenness.”
These crimes embrace the indiscriminate or disproportionate concentrating on of civilians utilizing bombs and the burning of civilian properties and buildings, ensuing at instances within the destruction of complete villages, it stated.
The report additionally cited “killings of civilians or combatants detained during operations.”
“Our evidence points to a dramatic increase in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the country, with widespread and systematic attacks against civilians, and we are building case files that can be used by courts to hold individual perpetrators responsible,” stated Nicholas Koumjian, head of the IIMM.
Since a junta seized energy two years in the past, Myanmar has been plunged into chaos, with a resistance motion preventing the army on a number of fronts after a bloody crackdown on opponents that noticed Western international locations re-impose sanctions.
A spokesperson for the junta couldn’t be reached for touch upon the findings made by UN investigators.
The junta has beforehand denied atrocities have taken place, saying it’s finishing up a reliable marketing campaign in opposition to terrorists.
Although it has justified bombings as assaults in opposition to army targets, UN investigators stated the Myanmar army “should have known or did know” that numerous civilians have been in or across the alleged targets when the assaults came about. — Reuters
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