Yangon, Aug 13, 2025 (AFP) - Myanmar junta committing 'systematic' torture: UN report

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2025-08-13

UN investigators say they have recorded "systematic" torture in Myanmar's military-run detention facilities including beatings, electric shocks and gang rape. Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military deposed the civilian government in a 2021 coup, with troops fighting an array of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic armed groups. The fighting has been accompanied by a crackdown which has seen nearly 30,000 people arrested, accordi......

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