Civilian slayings by the Myanmar military continue unabated while the world’s eyes are on Ukraine,a new report says.
A Myanmar court has convicted Australian economist Sean Turnell to three years in prison for violating the country’s secrets law.
Fighting has been especially fierce in the Sagaing region,where the military has launched several offensives,in some cases burning villages.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s economic advisor Sean Turnell has been locked up on trumped-up charges in Myanmar since the military seized power in a coup last year.
The country’s ousted leader,Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to an additional six years in prison,a legal official said.
Professor Sean Turnell,an economist,served as an adviser to Suu Kyi. They were both arrested when her elected government was ousted by the army last year.
As Penny Wong joins ASEAN foreign ministers to discuss the worsening crisis,a new report documents the junta’s use of psychological and physical torture.
The death sentences have drawn international condemnation,with two UN experts calling them a “vile attempt at instilling fear” among the people.
The movement to restore democracy has evolved into deadly warfare between a ruthless,well-supplied military and a broad but poorly armed resistance movement.
Convictions in the other cases could bring sentences of more than 100 years in prison in total for a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The military junta in the south-east Asian nation is stepping up its mission to “annihilate” its opponents in a campaign of airstrikes and village burnings.