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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Kate Mayberry

Myanmar military’s human rights abuses a ‘system exercised from the top’

The Myanmar military has been accused of human rights violations going back years [File: Lynn Bo bo/Pool via AFP]

Early one morning in March, a group of Myanmar soldiers marched into a village in the country’s east near the border with Thailand.

They had been engaged in days of intense fighting with armed groups opposed to the February 2021 coup – in which the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders and took power – subjecting the area to intense shelling and aerial bombardment.

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