This week, Myanmar’s democratically elected National Unity Government (NUG) and the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) will present new evidence of genocide and massacres to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul as part of an ongoing investigation launched by the Turkish authorities in June 2022, after MAP submitted evidence of crimes committed by the junta.
The NUG evidence centres on the 2023 Pazigyi Massacre, which saw 157 civilians killed and dozens more injured. The single deadliest mass killing since the coup in February 2021, it cries out for accountability.
