GENEVA — Myanmar's military stepped up aerial attacks on civilians before an election held last December and January, and all sides in the country's civil war committed war crimes and serious abuses including torture and sexual violence in the past year, United Nations (UN) investigators said on Tuesday.
"Over the past year, the Mechanism’s investigations showed that the frequency and intensity of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military and by various armed groups continued to escalate," the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said in a report.
