Oh, well, if the UN sez so...
Posted on 08/13/2025 4:31:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Investigators said they had found evidence of “systematic torture” at detention centers where the military government is holding children as proxies for their parents.
U.N.-backed investigators say they have found significant evidence of “systematic torture” at Myanmar detention centers, where the military government is holding children as young as 2 years old as proxies for their parents.
The Southeast Asian nation of about 54 million people has been mired in turmoil since 2021, when democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown by the military. The coup set off mass protests across the country that were violently suppressed, followed by a nationwide armed resistance movement that has displaced millions of people.
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks
Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted in 2021.Roslan Rahman / AFP via Getty Images file Investigators said Tuesday there was evidence of “a continued increase in the frequency and brutality of atrocities” across Myanmar, with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by government security forces and affiliated militias as well as armed opposition groups.
That includes an increase in crimes committed against those in detention, many of whom are being held without due process, said Nicholas Koumjian, head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
“We’ve documented torture against those in detention, including beatings and electric shocks, strangulations, pulling out fingernails, gang rape, burning of sexual body parts and other forms of sexual violence,” he told reporters in Geneva as his team released its annual report.
Koumjian said investigators had seen evidence that children as young as 2 years old were being detained, often in place of their parents if they are accused of being associated with the opposition and cannot be found.
“Some of the detained children have been subjected to torture, ill-treatment or sexual and gender-based crimes,” the report says.
Myanmar’s military government has detained about 30,000 people in the past four years, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group that tracks arrests in the country.
The Myanmar military could not be reached for comment. It has denied any atrocities are taking place and blamed “terrorists” for unrest.
At least 144 dead and hundreds injured after Myanmar earthquake 02:52 The 16-page report, which covers a one-year period up to June 30, draws on more than 1,300 sources, including nearly 600 eyewitness testimonies, photographs, videos, documents, maps and forensic evidence.
Koumjian said the Myanmar military appeared to be increasing its use of airstrikes as it loses control of more territory. They continued even after a devastating earthquake in March, he said, often against “blatantly civilian targets” such as schools, hospitals and places of worship.
“Often there’s no military target that we can identify anywhere in the area that could have been the intent of the airstrike,” he said.
Koumjian said investigators were working to determine how the airstrikes were ordered, who was in the chain of command and who flew the planes.
In addition, he said, there is growing evidence of crimes committed by opposition forces, including summary executions of captured fighters from other armed groups.
The team is also still investigating the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis, during which more than 700,000 people from the mostly Muslim ethnic minority fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh. Along with other ethnic groups, the remaining Rohingya population is again in danger as they are persecuted by the Arakan Army rebel group that now has effective control of Rakhine state, their ancestral home.
Koumjian said investigators had made progress in identifying some of the people responsible for crimes in Myanmar, including commanders overseeing detention facilities, and that “we stand ready to support any jurisdictions willing and able to prosecute these crimes.”
“We are working towards the day when the perpetrators will have to answer for their actions in a court of law,” he said in a news release.
The work of Myanmar investigators is already being used in cases before the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice and in Argentina. In November, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military government, for crimes committed against the Rohingya.
Min Aung Hlaing tightened his grip on power last month in an administrative restructuring as the junta said it was ending the state of emergency it declared in 2021. A general election is planned for December but faces a widespread boycott by critics who say it will be neither free nor fair.
And whatever you think about what's happening to Palestinians or Gazans, what's happening to the Rohingya (and Uyghurs) is worse. But the usual suspects never care about them.
The prehistoric U.N. finds this going on to 2 year olds so the deadbeat, third world dildoes write a “report”. How wonderful they are.
If anyone wants proof of Satan being real, this sort of thing is it.
Yes.
Myanmar Junta Is Detaining and Torturing Children as Young as 2, U.N. Report Says
The UN is the pot calling the kettle black.
Ridiculous charge. But then again, it came from the UN, who has no credibility.
The UN could not possibly suck more,
I was at the UN building many years ago where a friend worked.. Had lunch in the Delegate’s Dining Room. Saw reps from the poorest countries in the world walking around with $5,000 watches on their wrists.
They belong in jail. Defunding them is not enough.
Interesting that only the Muslim Rohingya are mentioned as victims. There are Christian hill tribes like the Karen and Karenni who have had their villages burned and civilians massacred by the Burmese military that are not mentioned.
This was happening in 1985 when I did some “adventure travel” into Burma from Thailand and traveled with their guerrilla armies. I also met some Kachin, Pao, Mon, Arakhan, Shan, and Wa forces also fighting against Rangoon.
Oh, well, if the UN sez so...
I don’t believe this story because
1) It’s NBC
2) Aung San Suu Kyi was Obama and Hilary’s installed leader there.
Military raids village, burns church, plants landmines around the burning church
In a follow-up report, a couple soldiers from the base shooting in the 2nd video defected, saying they were sick of shooting up civilians.
I could throw scores of videos and sitreps your way if you need them to convince you of the overwhelming evil of the Tatmadaw. Some issues are difficult, but when it comes to the Tatmadaw it really is simple. The Chinese communist government does thank you, though, for giving the junta a pass as it viciously exploits the citizenry of Burma and supplies China with rare earth minerals and other raw materials on the cheap.
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