In the last week of November, Joint Chief of Staff, Lt-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and three high-ranking military officers had made a 3-day inspection of front line bases in Shan State East and North from 24 to 26 November.
In the meantime, a 16-year-old girl from Shan State South's Langkhurh Township was raped by a local-based junta soldier and both of her parents were murdered as well, Shan Herald Agency for News reported. A 43-year-old local man identified as Sai Swe from Quarter No.4 was shot dead on the night of November 22 by Burma Army soldiers from the Mongnawng-based Military Operations Command (MOC)- 2, while he was on the way to buy medicine for his wife Nang Soi.
However, Brig-Gen Tint Lwin, Commander of MOC-2 and G1 Lt-Colonel Wai Lin Aung apparently ordered police and local authorities to tell family members not to appeal the case to the top ranks and not to leak the information; otherwise the town would be leveled to the ground.
The violations are expected to continue since the Burmese junta has guaranteed itself blanket immunity from prosecution and placed itself above the law through the 2008 constitution.
Since 1962, the military has violently seized power and has committed countless crimes: looting country's natural resources by using brutal dictatorship, launching warfare against dissenting ethnic nationalities, keeping down civil and political liberties, downgrading the nation's educational facilities, neglecting public health-care and causing widespread hunger.
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