YANGON: Myanmar’s powerful army vowed to launch an investigation into the apparent abuse of new recruits after a video of young soldiers being thrashed by senior officers went viral.
Mobile phone footage showing a line of uniformed soldiers being repeatedly punched and kicked inside what appears to be a Myanmar army barracks was watched by over half a million people and shared more than 50,000 times since it was posted on Wednesday.
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