The Myanmar junta has complained to the United States government over a report issued this week detailing human rights abuse in the country.

Late Wednesday the junta's foreign affairs ministry said it had lodged an objection with the United States embassy in Yangon over the State Department's annual report on human rights, which was published Tuesday.

The document - which said there were credible reports Myanmar security forces had committed abuses including torture and extra-judicial killings - was "merely a propaganda tool to mislead... with one-sided accusations from unreliable sources," the junta ministry claimed.

More than 1,700 people have been killed in a military crackdown since the February 2021 coup, according to a local monitoring group.

AFP, Mizzima