‘Landmine use amounts to war crimes’

Destruction: A ruined home in Daw Ngay Khu village in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar. Amnesty said the military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah. — AP

The junta troops are committing war crimes by laying landmines on a “massive scale” around villages where they are battling anti-coup fighters, rights campaign group Amnesty International said.

Fighting has ravaged swathes of the country since last year’s putsch, which sparked renewed clashes with ethnic rebel groups and the formation of dozens of “People’s Defence Forces” now battling the junta.