Release International, which supports persecuted Christians worldwide, said the military stepped up its campaign against the mainly Christian Kachin people in April.
They launched attacks using artillery, helicopter gunships and infantry. Troops have displaced thousands, driving them from their burning homes.
The military have also occupied churches and interrogated entire congregations.
There are reports that the soldiers are using rape as a weapon of war and are deliberately targeting camps for the displaced, which is a war crime. They are also said to be sowing landmines to make villages uninhabitable.
Andrew Boyd, spokesperson for the charity, told Premier the oppression amounts to war crimes.
“We’re talking about something like 10,000 people displaced and what we saw happening with the Rohingya Muslims, all of the brutality of that, exactly the same kinds of tactics, we’re now seeing happening with the largely Christian Kachin people,” he said.
“People have been displaced. They’ve been moved from their homes to camps, they’ve been moved from one camp to another camp. If that’s true, and the evidence certainly points in that direction, these are war crimes.”
According to Release International, conflict between the controlling Myanmese people and other peoples erupted after World War Two. Some Christian tribes, who…
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