At least 22 people were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.
A spokesman for Myanmar's junta, which staged a coup two years ago to depose the elected government, said its soldiers had been involved in clashes with rebel fighters in the Pinlaung region of southern Shan state but had not harmed any civilians.
