US EditionUN-backed investigators allege torture and sex crimes in Myanmar detention facilities
The UN report details abuses including electric shocks and fingernail removal by Myanmar forces and names senior commanders responsible, based on over 1,300 sources, investigators said.
- UN-Backed investigators allege torture and sex crimes, including beatings, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts, in Myanmar detention facilities.
- The investigators are working to identify perpetrators, who include security forces, militias and armed groups, with the aim of prosecuting them.
- The report highlights an increase in atrocities in Myanmar, where civil war has raged since the military seized power in 2021.
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·Ankara, Türkiye
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The United Nations condemns human rights violations that include panic attacks, electrical shocks, rapes, collective violence, close parties fire and other forms of sexual violence.
·Portugal
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svt NyheterElectric shocks, gang rapes and extrajudicial executions. A group of UN-backed investigators paints a dark picture of detention facilities in civil war-torn Myanmar.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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