TENS of thousands of people have been detained since the 2021 coup, according to a UN report released on Tuesday ( Sep 17 ), in an apparent effort to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict.
After absolving Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected civilian authorities and stoking its violent defeat, the military took control of the country in February 2021.
Since then, the rally movement has expanded into an expanding armed rebellion, and fighting has broken out on numerous sides, causing authorities to impose recruitment in February.
According to a report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, which was based primarily on rural conversations with thousands of sufferers and witnesses since investigators have been denied admittance, 5, 350 citizens have been killed by the military since the revolution.
In the UN report’s investigation, 2, 414 people died between April 2023 and June 2024, with thousands of others killed by strikes and artillery problems, an increase of 50 % over the preceding reporting time.
A spokeswoman for the Myanmar junta did not respond to requests for comment.
The document also revealed the volume of detentions occurring throughout the nation, with almost 27,400 people being detained since the coup, including more than 9, 000 during the most recent reporting period. Many are thought to be in defense training facilities, it said.