GENEVA—UN investigators on Thursday said serious international crimes had been committed in the four years since Myanmar’s military coup, warning that the violence would only worsen unless the perpetrators faced justice.
Nicholas Koumjian, head of the United Nations’ Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators to commit further violence.
Myanmar’s ruling junta seized power in a coup on Feb. 1, 2021 that ousted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, ending a 10-year experiment with democracy and plunging the Southeast Asian nation into bloody turmoil and a humanitarian crisis.
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