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Up to 80 people were massacred after they were subjected to ‘horrific and insidious’ torture in far west Myanmar by drunken soldiers, which anti-regime forces say were deployed by the military, prompting calls for the country’s expulsion from the United Nations and ASEAN.Seven Pakistan soldiers killed in bombing: army
Much of the global community is yet to respond to the killings but a group of 203 Arakanese communities and alliances are demanding “effective action” be taken against the junta. Independent sources aligned with the NUG also confirmed the massacre, telling UCA News that soldiers with a “brutal reputation” had been deployed to the region and that “the nature of what has happened was horrific and insidious, even by the standards of this revolution.”
Soldiers also burned down homes and robbed villagers of gold, cash, mobile phones, motorcycles and “brutally tortured the men, sexually assaulted some women, and murdered a total of 51 villagers.” “There was no strategic reason for this extreme brutality. It is a typical junta strategy — to terrorize the local population, an act to serve as a warning to others,” Paul Greening, an independent analyst based in Mae Sot on the Thai-Myanmar border, said.
“It also seems to be revenge. That is a common reaction by the junta when they are losing. Apparently, some troops came from previous fighting in northern Shan and wanted revenge,” Greening added. Shan state fell to anti-regime forces in January., Australia and New Zealand, which has been touted as a potential location for a war crimes tribunal, in the wake of its battlefield successes.
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