THE country’s military has consistently targeted civilians and their communities as a form of collective punishment in Myanmar’s southeast since the army seized power in early 2021, a rights group said in a report.
Documented airstrikes on villages examined by researchers from the Karen Human Rights Group based in Myanmar’s southeast are emblematic of a broader assault on civilians across the war-torn nation, said James Rodehaver, the Bangkok-based chief of the Myanmar team of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He spoke on Friday in an online panel discussion accompanying the release of the new report.
