The UN stated on Friday it feared a good more human rights disaster in Myanmar amid reviews of lots of troops massing withinside the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos considering the fact that a February coup.

“We ought to all be prepared, because the human beings on this part of Myanmar are prepared, for even greater mass atrocity crimes. I desperately wish that I am wrong,” stated UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews.

More than 1, one hundred civilians had been killed withinside the country’s bloody crackdown on dissent and greater than 8,000 arrested for the reason that coup, consistent with a nearby tracking group

Mr. Andrews, who changed into supplying the findings of an annual human rights document on Myanmar to the General Assembly, stated that he had obtained statistics that tens of lots of troops and heavy guns had been being moved into restive areas withinside the north and northwest.

The findings, he stated, additionally indicated that the junta had engaged in all likelihood crimes in opposition to humanity and struggle are crimes.

“These techniques are ominously paying homage to the ones hired through the army earlier than its genocidal assaults in opposition to the Rohingya in Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017,” Mr. Andrews stated.

About 7,40,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar’s Rakhine country in 2017 after safety forces released a clampdown that the UN has stated can also add quantity to genocide.

Mr. Andrews advised nations to disclaim Myanmar’s army junta the money, guns, and legitimacy it desired, bringing up a prisoner launch in advance withinside the week as proof that strain turned into working.