Overview

• Investigators documented widespread torture methods including beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, fingernail removal and sexual violence that in some cases proved fatal.
• The report reveals that children as young as two were detained as proxies for missing parents and subjected to torture and gender-based crimes.
• Both Myanmar security forces and opposition armed groups are implicated in summary executions of detainees captured during the civil war.
• IIMM drew on evidence from more than 1,300 sources, including hundreds of eyewitness accounts, forensic analyses, documents and photographs.
• The mechanism has shared its findings with the ICC, ICJ and British authorities but faces ongoing refusal of access by the junta and looming UN funding cuts.