The violent photos circulated online show the remains of bodies on burnt-out truckbeds near Mo So village of Hpruso town in eastern Myanmar.
More than 30 people, including women and
children, have been killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar’s
conflict-torn Kayah state.
Karenni Human Rights Group said they found the burnt bodies
of internally displaced people, including elders, women and
children killed by the military that rules Myanmar, near Mo So
village of Hpruso town on Saturday.
“We strongly denounce the inhumane and brutal killing which
violates human rights,” the group said in a Facebook post.
The Myanmar military said it had shot and killed an
unspecified number of “terrorists with weapons” from the
opposition armed forces in the village, state media said.
The
people were in seven vehicles and did not stop for the military,
it said.
Photos shared by the human rights group and local media
showed the charred remains of bodies on burnt-out truckbeds.
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The Karenni National Defence Force, one of the largest of
several civilian militias opposing the junta that led a Feb. 1
coup, said the dead were not their members but civilians seeking
refuge from the conflict.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew
the elected government of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
almost 11 months ago, claiming fraud in a November election that
her party had won.
International observers have said the ballot
was fair.
Civilians enraged by the coup and subsequent crackdown on
protesters have been taking up arms.
Many local resistance
forces have sprung up across the country.
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Source: TRTWorld and agencies
Women, children and elderly brutally killed in Myanmar’s Kayah state
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