The military regime in Myanmar carried out a systematic murder of dozens of innocent civilians on Christmas Eve (Friday), a local human rights organization claimed on Saturday.
According to the report, which is also based on testimony from separatist elements who oppose the military rule that ousted the civilian government by force in February this year, military personnel systematically rounded up people near the Mo Mo already, including women and children, and shot dead more than 30 of them.
The bodies were then allegedly set on fire.
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According to the local militias, these are refugees who were on the run from the army forces who were on their way to the battlefield.
The photos, which Western media sources have not yet been able to verify, showed the remains of burnt bodies, and one person living in the area told the AP that the people were forcibly collected and then massacred on their way to refugee camps on the eastern side of the area.
Another person told Reuters he had seen "cremated bodies, and it could be seen that these were women's and children's clothes everywhere."
The establishment newspaper Myanma Alinn did not comment on these reports, but noted that fighting broke out in the area after separatist groups were identified as traveling in "suspicious" vehicles and even attacked security forces when asked to stop and identify themselves.
Also, these people were defined in the paper as "terrorists with weapons."
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