Hell in 2021: Myanmar Under the Military Junta After the Coup
in December.21 However, it is truly evident that such cruelty gives rise to people’s agony and outrage,
ergo the revolution has gathered momentum till it has been for a rather long time.
The Military Led by Min Aung Hlaing Urgently Needs to Be Designated as Terrorist Organisation
Myanmar military that, prior to the coup, had already been notorious for many decades for its
violence and mass human rights violations in ethnic minority areas since more than 70 years ago, have
been acting arson attacks on houses of the entire village, burning innocent people alive to death, seizures
and ransacks of people’s property, attacking civilians with helicopter gunships, tortures to death in
interrogation centres in a monstrous, systematic and widespread manner since the coup. In a recent
atrocity on 25 December, regime troops burned around 49 civilians detained alive to death in Hpruso
township, Kayah State (Karenni State).22 The military’s airstrikes in the offensives against Karen
National Liberation Army (KNLA) near Lay Kay Kaw, Myawaddy township in Karen State also left
more than 5,000 local residents fleed and taking refuge in shelters in Thailand.23 The atrocities in 2021
clearly indicate that the Myanmar military’s acts do not comply with the characteristics and ethics of
an army in line with international standards but those of a terrorist organization. As Myanmar people
refrained from calling Myanmar’s Armed Forces “the military” and started branding it “the terrorist
organization” instead of after realizing its inhumanity since February, we recommend in this report that
international organizations should designate the military as a “terrorist organization”. It is undeniable
that inadequate actions of the United Nations and major powers are unintentional enforcement for the
junta to commit more atrocities against humanity.
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December 2021. ဆားလင်းNကီး ဒံး( ေတာရွ ာမHာ လJ ၁၁ ဦး မီး^I ိ Oသတ်ြဖတ်ခရ
ံ . Radio Free Asia. Available at
https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/myanmar-soldiers-setfire-killed-11-men-in-salingyi12072021071737.html
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January 4, 2022. ဖ^J ဆတ
(ိ င
ွ ် အစ(လက
ိ( အ
် ြပံUလိက
( ် မီး^I ိ Oအသတ်ခရ
ံ မI ၄၉ ခန်ထိ
H ာ&ိင
( .် Irrawaddy. Available at
့ Sိလ
https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2022/01/04/248635.html
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January 6, 2022. ေလးေက့ေကာ်ေဒသကိ( စစ်ေကာင်စတ
ီ ပ်များ အင်အားြဖည်တ
့ င်း ထပ်မံဝင်ေရာက်လာ.
Democratic Voice of Burma. Available at http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/509932
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