Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say
- Aug 11
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Myanmar’s military stepped up aerial attacks on civilians before an election held last December and January, and all sides in the country’s civil war committed war crimes and serious abuses including torture and sexual violence in the past year, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday.
“Over the past year, the Mechanism’s investigations showed that the frequency and intensity of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military and by various armed groups continued to escalate,” the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said in a report on Aug. 11.
The mechanism was formed in 2018 to investigate abuses in Myanmar since 2011, including crimes committed against the mainly Muslim Rohingya minority in 2017 when hundreds of thousands were forced to flee a military crackdown and other abuses since a military coup in 2021.
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