Myanmar junta detained children as young as two years old and subjected them to torture, sexual abuse, and beatings to often use them as proxies for their parents, a United Nations-led investigation has found.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) – covering a period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 – has found evidence of “war crimes and crimes against humanity committed” in Myanmar with an increasing frequency since the 2021 military coup.