A License to Torture ? This analysis recalls the historical background of the Myanmar military’s torture practice against political prisoners and innocent civilians in armed conflict areas. This analysis also highlights the situation in interrogation centers, police detentions, prisons and areas of armed clashes in the context of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Equality Myanmar has documented more than 200 cases of human rights violation mainly related to torture in which political detainees, political prisoners and innocent residents in areas affected by clashes between the armed resistance groups and the regime troops, have experienced. 11 Equality Myanmar