Many, he added, were beaten during their arrests and some were tortured in custody. John Quinley, director of Fortify Rights, a group that documents rights violations in Myanmar, said his research team also found an especially high number of indefinite detentions of protesters in the Yangon and Mandalay townships, which were placed under martial law in the wake of the coup. killing people in their politically motivated fashion,” she said. “There is definitely a precedent that’s been set, and they’ve shown that they will go ahead with it if they think that they will get maximum leverage out of. With another 37 townships added to the list, she said she expects more death sentences and executions to come. Of the nearly 100 people sentenced to death by Myanmar’s courts since the coup, Manny Maung said all were arrested in townships placed under martial law after the coup, including four men executed in July. But in these particular areas, I’d say that this is a notice for us that they’re willing to take steps even further.” “They already do what they want with very, very little accountability.
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“It gives them a bit more license to do what they want,” she said. Manny Maung, the Myanmar research lead for Human Rights Watch, said martial law portends even more abuses by junta forces in the targeted townships. Rights groups accuse the military of committing mass atrocities across the country in a scorched earth campaign against the resistance that has killed nearly 3,000 civilians by their best estimates.
Its state apparatus has collapsed aside from security forces in the main towns,” said Matthew Arnold, an independent Myanmar analyst. SAC cannot govern these areas in any meaningful manner.
“This is a humiliating acknowledgement of the reality on the ground. The 37 townships, spread across the country, have seen some of the fiercest fighting in recent months between the military and a patchwork of armed resistance groups. To some, though, the move is more proof that the junta, which calls itself the State Administration Council, or SAC, has little to no control over much of Myanmar. International Media Grapples With Characterizing Myanmar Opposition Government
The announcement said the tougher rules were needed “to exercise more effective undertakings for ensuring security, the rule of law and local peace and tranquillity.” According to the announcement in state media, sentences can include indefinite prison terms and death, with no appeals except in cases of capital punishment. Martial law puts all police, judicial and administrative activity in the townships in the hands of regional military commanders, who can launch opaque military tribunals into 23 offenses, from spreading “false news” to high treason. It adds to the 12 townships the junta placed under martial law in the months that followed the February 2021 coup, mostly in Yangon and Mandalay, Myanmar’s two largest cities. The junta declared martial law in 37 of Myanmar’s 330 townships on February 2, a day after marking the two-year anniversary of the military’s overthrow of a democratically elected government, by extending emergency rule across the country for six more months. "It creates legal basis to impose martial law across the country or parts of the country without actually declaring it," Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, told ABC News.Rights groups are warning of a likely rise in arbitrary arrests, torture and executions by Myanmar’s military regime after the junta’s move last week to place swaths of the country that are home to millions of people under martial law. It was still unclear how the powers will be applied in practice, but some experts said it meant Putin had imposed a form of martial law across all Russia. Under those readiness levels, powers were granted to local authorities that closely resemble some of those under martial law. But a second decree, published at the same time, also placed all of Russia's other regions into various levels of increased "readiness." In his public address, Putin portrayed the martial law declaration as a technicality, limited to the Ukrainian regions he illegally annexed last month. But many experts said in reality Putin appeared to have laid the groundwork to apply a form of martial law across the whole of Russia, just under another name. President Vladimir Putin's declaration of martial law on Wednesday officially imposed it only in four occupied regions of Ukraine.
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