In a single unverified graphic image, a body can be seen with its head blown and brain debris spilled on the road.
“He said he deserved to die,” she said. “He is worried that people will not join the protest. If so, democracy will not return to the country.”
More than 2,000 people have been arbitrarily detained from the coup, according to the AAPP, many of them keeping their distance from family and friends, their condition or the known location.
CNN cannot independently verify AAPP’s arrest numbers or deaths.
Myanmar’s state-run newspaper published a notice on Wednesday that reinforces the army’s narrative that it uses minimal force against protesters.
On Thursday, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews said in a statement to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that a “growing body of reports” indicated that the junta’s security forces were committing “acts murder, imprisonment, persecution and other crimes as part of a coordinated campaign against a civilian population, in a widespread and systematic manner, with the knowledge of the junta leadership. “
“The brutal response,” he said, is “therefore likely to reach the legal threshold for crimes against humanity.”
He called on UN member states to stop the flow of revenue and weapons to the reeds, saying multilateral sanctions “should be imposed” on senior leaders, military-owned and controlled enterprises and the state-owned energy company Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise.
His statement came after rights group Amnesty International released a report saying the military was launching a “deadly crime” in Myanmar, using increasingly deadly tactics and weapons normally seen in the field. fight against peaceful protesters and spectators.
Reviewing more than 50 videos of the ongoing crackdown, Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Laboratory confirmed that security forces appear to be implementing planned and systematic strategies, including increased use of lethal force, indiscriminate spraying of live ammunition in urban areas, and that many of the documented killings amount to extrajudicial executions.
“These military tactics in Myanmar are far from new, but their killing attacks have never been broadcast live for the public to see,” said Joanne Mariner, Amnesty International’s director of crisis response. “These are not the actions of overwhelmed individual officers who make poor decisions. They are unrepentant commanders already involved in crimes against humanity, deploying their troops and methods in the open air.
Fleeing to India
There is evidence that violence is forcing people to flee the country. Between 200 and 300 people crossed the border from Myanmar to the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, fleeing unrest, Mizoram’s chief minister told CNN.
This number includes police officers, civil servants, their family members and other civilians, and the number of people fleeing has increased daily, according to Chief Minister PU Zoramthanga.
“We (the Mizoram government) are not sending them back as a humanitarian point of view. When someone enters the country, at the border of the country, for fear of their lives we can not simply send them back. They are not criminals. It’s a political issue, “he said.
Zormanthanga added that people are provided with food and shelter, and many have families in Mizoram. He said it depends on the central Indian government on how to deal with people crossing the border.
Suu Kyi accused of bribery
Military spokesman Brig. Gender. Zaw Min Tun told a news conference that Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments worth $ 600,000, as well as gold, while in government, according to Reuters.
The spokesman added that the information was verified following a complaint from a former regional minister in Yangon, and an anti-corruption committee was investigating.
Suu Kyi’s lawyer, Khin Maung Zaw, told CNN “the allegations are a complete fabrication.”
“I have been in politics in Myanmar for almost 40 years and in all these years I have not witnessed such shameless accusations,” he said. “We are in a country where people have seen a lot of corruption in the past and a lot of bad behavior, but Aung San Suu Kyi is not in that realm of corruption.”
He added that although he had “many misunderstandings” with Suu Kyi, “when it comes to corruption, bribery, greed – this is not her, she is not the kind of woman.”
Along with Suu Kyi, the ousted president of Win Win, his wife and several cabinet ministers were investigated for allegedly asking for and accepting “money from some entrepreneurs,” the spokesman said, without clarifying, according to Reuters.
Suu Kyi and Win Myint remain under house arrest.
The army, led by coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing, took full control of the country last month, eliminating the democratically elected government of Suu Kyi, which won a landslide in the November 2020 elections.
The military justified its action by choosing widespread electoral fraud in that poll – only the second democratic vote since the previous military junta began a series of reforms in 2011.
In a video statement sent to the UN Human Rights Council, Myanmar’s permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chan Aye, said: “In recent days, the authorities have paid attention to maintaining law and order in the country, and” the authorities have exercised the utmost restraint to deal with the violent protests. “
Chan Aye also said that the military leadership remains dedicated to “free and fair multiparty democratic elections.”
In a statement, China’s ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, said that “it is important for Council members to speak with one voice. We hope that the Council’s message would be conducive to easing the situation in Myanmar.”
Kyaw Moe Tun said the message “did not live up to people’s expectations”, saying against the brutality of the army “we all feel helpless” and called on the international community for protection.
CNN’s Sarita Harilela, Vedika Sud, Richard Roth and Radina Gigova contributed to the reporting.