Myanmar’s military commanders responsible for rape and torture – war crimes report

The Guardian
Thaslima Begum
Thu 9 Nov 2023 

Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearances 

Soldiers parade in the capital, Naypyidaw, on Union Day last year. An international criminal court investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by Myanmar has stalled. Photograph: AFP/Getty

 

New research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in the Myanmar military, many of whom hold powerful political positions in the country, were responsible for crimes including rape, torture, killings and forced disappearances carried out by units under their command between 2011 and 2023.

Torture in Myanmar: Don’t Let the Junta Normalize Cruelty

THE I DIPLOMAT 

By Tomas Max Martin, Ergun Cakal, and Hannah Russell
JULY 13, 2021

Torture – and the fear that it engenders – has been central to the military junta’s efforts to quell popular resistance.

On June 26, CNN reported the story of American-Burmese journalist Nathan Maung, who was released by the Myanmar military after three months of detention, during which time he experienced severe torture. On June 22, Human Rights Watch published the account of a 17-year-old boy, who endured repeated beatings with a bamboo stick filled with cement, blows to the head with the butt of a rifle, and burial up to his neck in a mock execution.

Villager Dies in Military Custody in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy 
By Min Aung Khine
26 June 2019

Family members retrieve the body of a man who died during military detention from Kyauktaw Township Hospital. / Ko Kyaw Hla Myin

SITTWE—A resident of the village of Pauk Taw Pyin in Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township died while being taken to a hospital by the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) on Tuesday, four days after soldiers arrested him.

Family members said they only became aware of the man’s death after his body arrived at Kyauktaw Township Hospital.

Saudi Arabia torturing detained Rohingya Muslims on hunger strike

ABNA
April 18, 2019

 

 Saudi Arabia is torturing hundreds of Rohingya detainees to force them to end a hunger strike they have staged to oppose their indefinite detention or potential deportation from the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom, a report says.  

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Saudi Arabia is torturing hundreds of Rohingya detainees to force them to end a hunger strike they have staged to oppose their indefinite detention or potential deportation from the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom, a report says.

Saudi Arabia accused of torturing Rohingya detainees to end hunger strike

MIDDLE EAST EYE
By Areeb Ullah

Published date: 17 April 2019

Rohingya detainees began the hunger strike to oppose their deportations and indefinite detention in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has continued to deport Rohingya detainees despite UN calls to give them refuge (Supplied)

Scores of stateless Rohingya refugees detained inside a Saudi detention centre have gone on hunger strike to demand an end to their indefinite detention in the Gulf kingdom.