The non-governmental organization Save the Children said today that two of its members in Myanmar were “missing” after more than 30 charred bodies were found inside vehicles, following an attack on Friday attributed to the junta.
“We have confirmed that their private car was attacked and set on fire” on Friday in the state of Kaya, in eastern Myanmar, according to the British organization for the protection of children’s rights. A local group of observers attributed the attack to the country’s army.
The two employees of the organization were returning home after a humanitarian mission in the area. Save the Children canceled many of its missions on the occasion of these events.
On Saturday, photos were posted on social media showing two trucks and a burned-out car on a street in Hrouso. Corpses can be seen inside the vehicles.
“When we went to verify this area, this morning we found charred corpses in the two trucks. We found 27 corpses,” a member of the People’s Defense Forces, an organization fighting the junta, told AFP. This source asked for her anonymity. Another witness said he saw “27 skulls” but there were other bodies “so charred that we could not count them”.
According to the Myanmar Witness Observatory, “35 people, including children and women, were burned and killed by soldiers on December 24 in the canton of Khrushchev.
A spokesman for the junta, Zhao Min Tun, admitted that riots broke out in Chrousso on Friday when soldiers tried to stop seven vehicles they considered “suspicious”. The soldiers killed “a number” of people, he added, without elaborating.
Myanmar is mired in chaos following the February coup that ended the ten-year transition to democracy. In ten months, more than 1,300 civilians were killed, according to a local non-governmental organization, the Association for the Relief of Political Prisoners, which denounces torture and extrajudicial executions.
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