Exiled National Unity Government says figure is a rise of 78% on last year, following February 2021 coup
, Kean said, and according to a spokesperson at the NUG’s Ministry of Women, Youths and Children Affairs, the military regime is intensifying their bombing and airstrikes, targeting schools operating in NUG controlled areas.
The increased reliance on artillery and air power is down to stretched manpower, Kean said, but also serves as collective punishment for communities believed to be supporting the junta’s opponents. There have also been reports of children being beaten, cut, stabbed, burned with cigarettes and having fingernails pulled out, Thomas Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, said in June.
A UN report released in June, put the number of children tortured since the coup at 142 with more than 1,400 arbitrarily detained. As of 27 December the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners listed a total 2,660 people as having been murdered since the start of the coup.
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