The Deputy Secretary-General of the UN has described “credible” information on the discovery of “35 bodies” in calcined vehicles in the state of Kayah.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
The Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, Martin Griffiths, said, Sunday, December 26, “horrified by the information on an attack on civilians” in Burma Friday.
Qualifying “credible” information about the discovery of “35 bodies” in calcined vehicles in the state of Kayah (is), he continues, in a statement:
“I condemn these serious facts [and] calls the authorities to immediately launch a serious and transparent investigation. (…) I ask Burmese forces and all armed groups in Burma to take all necessary measures to protect civilians . “
Save the Children has suspended its operations
Saturday, photos had been broadcast on social networks showing two trucks and a car burned on a road from the canton of HPruso, with bodies inside. A person responsible for the opposite rebellion in power, the defense forces of the people (PDF), had told the France-press agency having found at least 27 corpses.
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, admitted that clashes had erupted in this area Friday, and that the soldiers had killed a number of people, without giving more details.
The Save The Children Humanitarian Association, which had announced that two members of his staff in Burma were “missing”, said Sunday having suspended his operations. The two employees went to their original village for the end-of-year holidays when they were surprised by violence in this state in the east of the country, said Saturday night the British NGO of defense rights of the child.
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 at 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.