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Handcuffed senior Myanmar military official showcased as POW by TNLA soldiers

Video footage released by the Ta’ang ethnic armed organisation shows the captured general apologising for the military’s brutality around Namhsan, northern Shan State

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has published video footage of a brigadier general delivering a spoken message after the ethnic armed organisation captured him in the battle for Namhsan, northern Shan State. 

In the video, published on YouTube on Wednesday night, Brig-Gen Min Min Tun is flanked by two TNLA fighters holding rifles, offering an apparent coerced apology to the Ta’ang people. 

While there were no obvious signs in the recording that the officer had been subjected to torture or physical abuse, Article 99 of the 1949 Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners prohibits the “moral or physical coercion” of a prisoner of war (POW) “in order to induce him to admit himself guilty of the act of which he is accused.” The Myanmar army has long been the armed actor most widely linked to such rights violations in the country. 

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