“They (the army) don’t think of us as people and treat us like animals”, said 35-year-old ethnic Chin.
Her husband went missing in September following the 2021 military coup.
The 215-page complaint alleges that the military “systematically killed, raped, tortured, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured and committed other acts amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes”. was carried out,” campaign group Fortify Rights, which is leading the legal case, said in a statement.
The rights group said the complaint is based on more than 1,000 interviews conducted by Fortify Rights since 2013, as well as documents and information leaked from Myanmar’s military and the desert.