While torture in recent years was most often recorded in ethnic regions, its use has now returned across the country, AP's investigation found. The Myanmar military has a long history of torture, particularly before the country began transitioning toward democracy in 2010. Multiple military units and police were involved in the interrogations, their methods of torture similar across Myanmar. Some were detained for protesting against the military, others for no discernible reason. The prisoners interviewed came from every corner of the country, and ranged from a 16-year-old girl to monks. The AP identified a dozen interrogation centers in use across Myanmar, in addition to prisons and police lockups. While most of the torture has occurred inside military compounds, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, has also transformed public facilities such as community halls into interrogation centers, prisoners said. Since its takeover of the government in February, the Myanmar military has been torturing those it has detained in a methodical and systemic way across the country, The Associated Press has found in interviews with 28 people imprisoned and released in recent months.īased also on photographic evidence, sketches and letters, along with testimony from two military captains and an aide to a high-ranking commander, the AP investigation provides the most comprehensive look since the takeover into a secretive detention system that has held more than 9,000 people.
"I'm going to die," the young man told himself, stars exploding before his eyes. The young man and his friend, randomly arrested as they rode their bikes home, had been subjected to hours of agony inside a town hall transformed by the military into a torture center.
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