The NGO Save the Children has announced that two members of his staff were “missing”. According to the junta, it is a violence that broke out after soldiers tried to stop these vehicles.
Le Monde with AFP
The remains of about thirty people, including women and children, were found in calcined vehicles on Saturday, December 25 in Burma, according to a rebel manager and an NGO, who accuse the junta of killing them.
The NGO Save The Children has announced that two members of his staff in Burma were “missing”. “We have the confirmation that their private vehicle was attacked and burned”, during an attack on Friday in the state of Kayah, in the east of the country, said the organization of the rights of the child in a statement. The two employees returned home after a humanitarian mission in the region, according to Save the Children, which specifies having suspended his works in several regions.
“clashes” for power military
Saturday, photos have been broadcast on social media, showing two trucks and a car burned on a road from the Township of HPruso, with bodies inside. A manager of the rebellion opposed to the military junta in power, the defense forces of the people (PDF), said his fighters had found vehicles in the morning. “When we went to check in the area this morning we found corpses burned in two trucks. We found 2 cadavers,” he told the France-Presse agency (AFP) under anonymity .
Another witness said that “27 skulls” were identified, “but there were other corpses in the truck, so calcined that we could not count them.” According to the Myanmar Witness observatory, “35 people, including children and women, were burned and killed by the military on December 24 in the canton of HPruso”.
A junta spokesman, ZAW Min Tun, said that clashes broke out in HPruso Friday after soldiers tried to stop seven cars leading “suspiciously ” They killed a number of people during these violence, told AFP the spokesman, without giving more details.
Exactions of the junta and rebellions
Burma has fallen in the chaos from the putsch of the 1 February, which ended a democratic transition of ten years. Since the military coup against his government, the former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize, lives assigned to residence.
In ten months, more than 1,300 civilians were killed, according to a local NGO, the Assistance of Assistance to Political Prisoners, which reports cases of torture and extrajudicial executions. In response, PDF citizen militias have emerged in the country and regularly inflict on the powerful Burmese army.