Survivors of the military’s crimes need pyschosocial support

Aid workers assisting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Myanmar told DVB that survivors of massacres, attacks, and human rights violations, committed by pro-regime forces since the 2021 military coup, need psychosocial support for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“The wife of one of [a man killed by the military] told us that she could not sleep and felt insecure because she witnessed her husband killed in front of her,” an aid worker from Myinmu Township, providing psychosocial support to IDPs in Sagaing Region, told DVB on the condition of anonymity.