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In the six months following its February 2021 coup d’état, the Myanmar junta committed acts against civilians that amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new report released by the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School and the human rights organization Fortify Rights.
Rights organisation, Fortify Rights, has released “Nowhere is Safe”: The Myanmar Junta’s Crimes Against Humanity Following the Coup d'État, a 193 report detailing junta crimes against humanity in the first six months following the coup on 1 February 2021.
"Dr Phi Phi", a senior emergency doctor in Myanmar, remembered treating a patient with a gunshot wound to his chest and abdomen in Yangon last March. "We managed to put in the chest tube, but there was a lot of bleeding. One litre of blood came out, and there was a lot of blood in his abdomen, in every part...
Myanmar's junta chief created a special command a day after last year's coup that was solely responsible for deployment and operations of troops in urban areas, and authorised lethal attacks on...
YANGON, March 24 — Myanmar’s junta chief created a special command a day after last year’s coup that was solely responsible for deployment and operations of troops in urban areas, and authorised lethal attacks on unarmed civilians, human rights investigators said. The group Fortify Rights and...