BBC investigation reveals military's involvement in mass killings in Myanmar
Note : this is a google translation and can have a lot of mistakes Rebecca Henchke and Kelvin Brown BBC - World Service December 20 2021 Myanmar's military carried out a series of mass killings of civilians in July, killing at least 40 men, according to a BBC investigation. Witnesses and survivors said the soldiers, some of whom were as young as 17, arrested the villagers before separating the men and killing them. It appears that video footage and photos from the incidents show that most of the dead were tortured first and then buried in shallow graves. The killings occurred in four separate incidents in the town of Kani, an opposition stronghold in central Myanmar's Sagaing district. The military has faced resistance from civilians since it seized control of the country in a February coup and ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The BBC spoke with 11 witnesses in Kani and compared their accounts to mobile phone screenshots and photos collected by
