{"id":1320346,"date":"2023-11-09T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/myanmar-war-crimes-most-top-officers-responsible-for-rape-torture-sfm-report"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:00:05","slug":"myanmars-military-commanders-responsible-for-rape-and-torture-war-crimes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/09\/myanmars-military-commanders-responsible-for-rape-and-torture-war-crimes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s military commanders responsible for rape and torture \u2013 war crimes report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearances<\/p><p>New research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in the Myanmar military, many of whom hold powerful political positions in the country, were responsible for crimes including rape, torture, killings and forced disappearances carried out by units under their command between 2011 and 2023.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/myanmar.securityforcemonitor.org\/\">The research<\/a>, by the Security Force Monitor (SFM), a project run by Columbia Law School\u2019s Human Rights Institute, states that 64% \u2013 51 of 79 \u2013 of all Myanmar\u2019s senior military commanders are responsible for war crimes. It claims that the most serious perpetrator of human rights violations is <a href=\"https:\/\/myanmar.securityforcemonitor.org\/explore\/c771c291\">Gen Mya Tun Oo,<\/a> Myanmar\u2019s deputy prime minister, former defence minister and a member of the ruling military council.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/myanmar-war-crimes-most-top-officers-responsible-for-rape-torture-sfm-report\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/myanmar-war-crimes-most-top-officers-responsible-for-rape-torture-sfm-report\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearancesNew research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in the Myanmar milit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1333,6,640,1589,238,1305,2038,166,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320348,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320346\/revisions\/1320348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}