YANGON—A Myanmar rebel group said on Friday its members beheaded two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling junta to
maintain control of the country’s western borderlands.
In a two-minute clip that circulated on social media, around seven men—some wearing AA uniforms and holding firearms—kicked and beat two shirtless men on the ground. Khaing Thu Kha admitted on Friday that the videos were authentic and the perpetrators were members of the AA ethnic armed group.It came under the global spotlight after a bloody 2017 army crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh.
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