Myanmar rebels bury greater than 30 folks killed in ‘barbaric’ assault

A Myanmar rebel group stated it has buried the stays of greater than 30 individuals who have been killed and had their our bodies set ablaze, because the UN Security Council known as for accountability and a direct finish to violence within the nation.
Opposition activists have blamed Myanmar’s military for the Dec 24 assault close to Mo So village in Kayah State during which the Save the Children assist group stated two of its workers have been killed.

A spokesman for the junta has not commented on the assault however state media in military-run Myanmar has beforehand reported that troopers had fired on and killed an unspecified variety of “terrorists with weapons” within the village.

“We buried every body we found at the scene,” stated a commander of the Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF), one of many largest civilian forces shaped to oppose a Feb 1 army coup.
Photographs that media posted on-line confirmed KNDF members burying the stays in graves lined with concrete blocks. Flowers have been scattered over the our bodies and candles lit beside the graves
The commander, who declined to be recognized for safety causes, stated whereas it was tough to establish any of the our bodies buried on Wednesday he believed they included the Save the Children workers.  A spokesperson for Save the Children declined to remark, however the group has beforehand confirmed that two of its staff, each younger fathers, have been killed within the assault.
The worldwide neighborhood has expressed shock over the assault with the US embassy in Myanmar describing it as “barbaric”. In a press assertion printed on Wednesday, the UN Security Council stated its members condemned the reported killing of no less than 35 folks, together with 4 kids and two workers of Save the Children. It stated the Security Council confused the necessity to guarantee accountability for the act and “called for the immediate cessation of all violence and emphasized the importance of respect for human rights and of ensuring safety of civilians.”

Myanmar has been in turmoil because the army overthrew the elected authorities of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Some opponents of the army have taken up arms, at occasions linking up with ethnic minority guerrillas who’ve for years been preventing the federal government for self-determination in numerous elements of Myanmar, together with Kayah State within the east.
Since the coup, greater than 1,300 folks have been killed by safety forces and greater than 11,000 have been jailed, in line with a tally by the Association for Assistance of Political Prisoners rights group. The army disputes the group’s dying toll.