A Senior UN official asked Myanmar authorities to investigate the murder reported from at least 35 civilians that opposition activists blamed government soldiers, by saying he was “horrified” in violence.
The powerful military has not commented on the murder near Mo So Village in Kayah State on Friday and several calls since Saturday to the spokesman Zaw Min Tun spokesman missed.
Media State reported on Sunday that the army had opened fire and killed a number of “non-determined terrorists” in the village.
It did not say anything about civilians.
The United Nations under the Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Aid Coordinator Martin Griffiths said There are credible reports, including at least one child, forced from a vehicle, killed and burned.
He did not describe why he considered credible reports.
“I was horrified by a report on the attack on civilians …
I condemned this pain and all attacks on residents Civil across the country, which is prohibited under international humanitarian law, “he said in a statement.
Griffiths called on” comprehensive and transparent “investigations so that the perpetrators can be taken to court.
The US Embassy in a post on Twitter was” surprised by this savage attack ” “We will continue to suppress accountability for KEK campaigners The ongoing Zasan against Burma, “he said, used another name for the country.
Two citizens and Karenni human rights groups, who operate in the area, said the army had killed more than 30 civilians.
They said the details were vague but it seemed that the victims were in the vehicle, including at least one truck, which was stopped on the road.
They were killed and binds on fire, said residents and groups of those rights.
Help workers who lost a villagers who refused to be identified for security reasons said he knew there was a fire on the site on Friday but could not go there because there was a shooting.
“I went to see this morning.
I saw a body that had been burned and also the clothes of children and women spread,” he told Reuters by telephone on Saturday.
The photos posted by the rights group showed a charred body, some behind the burning truck.
Reuters cannot verify the authenticity of the image independently.
Myanmar has been in chaos since the military on February 1 overthrew the selected government from the Nobel Laureate Prize Aung San Suu Kyi.
Some military opponents have raised weapons, some connect with ethnic minority guerrillas for years have fought the government for self-determination in various parts of the country, including the country of Kay in the east.
Save the Children Aid Group said the two workers, traveled to their home village for the year-end holiday, had been lost in the attack.
It suspends operations in the United States and parts of the state of Karen and the Magway region.
Murder and burning of corpses in the country of Kayang followed similar violence in the Central Brother region on December 7 when the villagers said the army rose 11 people, shot them and then burned their bodies.
The military government has not commented on the incident.
Because Myanmar’s military launched the coup, more than 1,300 people were killed in crackdown of protests and more than 11,000 had been imprisoned, according to calculating with the association of political resistance rights groups.
The military denied the group killed.
The battle also flared in Karen’s country, also in the East, between the Army and the National Union rebel group Karen (KNU).
The Thai authorities said more than 5,000 villagers from Myanmar had escaped across the border river with the salvation of the Thai region since December 16.