‘We can just kill you’: Myanmar junta deploys torture, death threats in reign of terror | ChrisBarrett_
Myanmar security forces have subjected detainees to beatings with rifle butts, sexual violence, death and rape threats and even made them hold fake bombs to draw information from them, a new report reveals.
As regional foreign ministers including Australia’s Penny Wong converge on Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this week for a meeting in which Myanmar will be the central topic, Amnesty International has released new accounts of more savagery in the form of routine psychological and physical torture in the junta’s interrogation centres and prisons.
A man in his 20s who told the Associated Press that he was beaten during an interrogation session last year.They include claims of water torture, tasering of genitals and prisoners being slapped, kicked and hit with rifle butts, electrical wires and palm tree branches by jail officials. People were also allegedly threatened with death and rape and being cremated in the backyard of an interrogation centre in a bid to draw intelligence on the pro-democracy movement or elicit confessions.
“They also used a stick to beat my back. All of them sounded drunk. I was threatened that I would be hit with the butt of the gun if I looked up.” Describing an example of sexual violence, a woman quoted by Amnesty said: “One of my friends has a Nigerian boyfriend. When the interrogators found out, around five or six of them showed their male private parts to her. They asked her ‘Do you like only the foreigner’s private part better?’ They also asked her to be on all fours and hit her hip with cane sticks. They took photos of her while she was in that position.
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