GENEVA: Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts said on Tuesday ...
Since late 2018, government troops have been battling the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group that recruits from Rakhine state, where Buddhists make up the majority.
"The practice of incommunicado detention must be immediately brought to an end," said the experts, who report to the UN Human Rights Council on Myanmar, extrajudicial executions and torture respectively. The UN statement said the rights experts had reports of at least 15 deaths in custody of men alleged to be linked to the Arakan Army, and called on the army to make public the results of its investigation and hold anyone responsible to account.
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