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. 21 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 22 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 23 January 6, 2022. ေလးေက့ေကာ်ေဒသကိ( စစ်ေကာင်စတ ီ ပ်များ အင်အားြဖည်တ ့ င်း ထပ်မံဝင်ေရာက်လာ. Democratic Voice of Burma. Available at http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/509932 Note: Photos were retrieved from following addresses and the credit goes to the original posters: https://mawkun.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/unnamed-5-1024x683.jpg https://startsomegood.com/the-civil-disobedience-movement-cdm-in-myanmar https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fpurplewingsmm%2Fstatus%2F 1357614305902952448&psig=AOvVaw2xWBWIx3sTl93ITnCo4fDp&ust=1642249933151000&source=im ages&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCKiN8cifsfUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=303736 https://twitter.com/nnwyl/status/1358338700799660037 8

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