Anti-coup protesters scatter after police fire sound grenades and fire rubber bullets in Yangon, Myanmar. Image: AP/PA Images Anti-coup protesters scatter after police fire sound grenades and fire rubber bullets in Yangon, Myanmar. Image: AP/PA Images MYANMAR’S MILITARY IS likely committing “crimes against humanity” in its attempt to stay in power, a UN expert has said, as the junta claimed that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments of cash and gold.
These crimes likely include “acts of murder, enforced disappearance, persecution, torture” carried out with “the knowledge of senior leadership”, including junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, Andrews said. In the capital Naypyidaw, junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said the detained chief minister of Yangon admitted giving Suu Kyi $600,000 in cash, along with more than 11 kilograms of gold.
The AA has been fighting the army for years, with hundreds killed and some 200,000 civilians forced to flee their homes.