AdvertisementAdvertisementA policeman walks on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, on Jul 19, 2025. (Photo: AFP)13 Aug 2025 02:55PM (Updated: 13 Aug 2025 02:56PM) Bookmark Bookmark WhatsApp Telegram Facebook Twitter Email LinkedInRead a summary of this article on FAST.Get bite-sized news via a newcards interface. Give it a try.Click here to return to FAST Tap here to return to FASTFAST YANGON: UN investigators say they have recorded "systematic" torture in Myanmar's military-run detention facilities including beatings, electric shocks and gang rape.Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military deposed the civilian government in a 2021 coup, with troops fighting an array of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic armed groups.The fighting has been accompanied by a crackdown which has seen nearly 30,000 people arrested, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners monitor group.A report by the UN's Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had identified "serious abuses during interrogations and in detention facilities".Myanmar's figurehead president Myint Swe diesMalaysia to lead ASEAN delegation to war-torn MyanmarA junta spokesman could not be reached for comment on the allegations laid out in an IIMM annual report released on Tuesday, drawing on testimony from nearly 600 eyewitnesses.It said there had been "systematic commission" of torture including "sexual slavery", the "burning of sexual body parts with cigarettes or burned objects", and fingernails being pulled out with pliers.It also found evidence "indicating that children - ranging from two to 17 years of age - have been detained, often as proxies for their parents"."Some of the detained children have been subjected to torture, ill-treatment or sexual and gender-based crimes," it added.Myanmar junta ends state of emergency in election run-upMyanmar ethnic group vows to block elections in its enclaveIIMM chief Nicholas Koumjian said the organisation had seen "a continued increase in the frequency and brutality of atrocities" but had made "headway in identifying the perpetrators"."We are working towards the day when the perpetrators will have to answer for their actions in a court of law," he added.The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has already requested an arrest warrant for junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted and jailed elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.That warrant request relates to alleged atrocities committed by the military on Myanmar's Rohingya minority in 2017.All sides in Myanmar's civil war have been accused of committing war crimes, and the IIMM report said it had also identified cases where opposition groups had committed summary executions of captives.Source: AFP/ecNewsletterMorning BriefSubscribe to CNA’s Morning BriefAn automated curation of our top stories to start your day.Sign up for our newslettersGet our pick of top stories and thought-provoking articles in your inboxSubscribe hereGet the CNA appStay updated with notifications for breaking news and our best storiesDownload hereGet WhatsApp alertsJoin our channel for the top reads for the day on your preferred chat appJoin hereAlso worth readingContent is loading...Expand to read the full storyGet bite-sized news via a newcards interface. Give it a try.Click here to return to FAST Tap here to return to FASTFAST