In Myanmar, soldiers from the military junta reportedly stormed a village and burned just under a dozen people alive. There were five young people among the victims, eyewitnesses said on Wednesday. Pictures of the cremated corpses with their hands tied behind their backs could be seen on social networks.
“My brother was a student and only 22 years old,” said a man from Don Taw in the north-west of the country. “When the soldiers came, he wanted to flee, but they caught and killed him.”
About 100 military officers stormed the village of Don Taw on Tuesday morning and then first tortured eleven citizens and then cruelly murdered them, said the spokesman for the “Government of National Unity”. This is a group of former elected politicians who are now fighting the military junta from underground.
The youngest victim was 14 years old, the oldest 40, according to the group’s spokesman. “These acts represent war crimes of the highest order. They are simply acts of terrorism,” it said in a statement.
1300 fatalities since February
The “Government of National Unity” spoke of “hideous scenes” and an “escalation of terrorist acts by the military”. The sheer brutality and cruelty of the act proves “that despite the apparent relative relaxation of the past few months, the junta never intended to de-escalate its campaign of violence.”
According to the prisoners’ aid organization AAPP, at least 1,300 people have been killed since the coup in early February and around 10,000 more have been arrested.
Source: Nachrichten
