Seven Myanmar army soldiers on trial at a military court in the northern part of Myanmar’s Shan state have admitted to playing a part in the killing of five unarmed civilians, according RFA on 11 August quoting local sources.
The trial of the military officers and low-ranking soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 362 began on Tuesday at a nearby military base in Lashio township.
The report quoted Sai Kaung Kham, a Mong Yaw resident who served as a translator during the trial as saying, “The soldiers admitted that they killed the villagers, and military officers admitted that they ordered soldiers to kill them,”
During the court martial, the soldiers who killed the five villagers said they informed their commanding officers when they arrested them, and the officers issued the command to kill them, villagers who attended the court proceedings told RFA.