Myanmar junta ramped up mass killings, air strikes: UN rights office

In this photo taken on July 11, 2023 members of the anti-junta Karenni Nationalities Defence Force prepare to search for landmines planted by the Myanmar military during demining operations near Pekon township. - AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Myanmar's military escalated its use of mass killings, air and artillery strikes in the past year as it struggles to crush resistance to its coup, the UN's rights office said on Tuesday (Sept 26).

The military's ousting of Aung San Suu Kyi's government in 2021 sparked a huge backlash and it is now battling opponents across swaths of the country.