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UN expert: Myanmar's desperate military ramps up attacks including beheadings, rapes and torture

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November 24, 2024

Myanmar's desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups, carrying out beheadings, gang rapes and torture, with women, children and the elderly among the victims, the U.N. independent human rights investigator for Myanmar said in a new report.

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UN expert: Myanmar's desperate military ramps up attacks including beheadings, rapes and torture

Thomas Andrews, a former U.S. congressman from Maine, said in the report to the U.N. General Assembly circulated Friday that the junta has responded to military defeats and the loss of territory by using sophisticated weapons against civilians and seeking to destroy towns that it cannot control.

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