{"id":73408,"date":"2025-08-12T23:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/12\/myanmar-army-detaining-two-year-olds-proxies-parents-witnesses-un"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:27:28","slug":"myanmar-army-detaining-two-year-olds-as-proxies-for-parents-witnesses-tell-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73408","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar army detaining two-year-olds as proxies for parents, witnesses tell UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators warn in a report that \u2018frequency and brutality\u2019 of atrocities in the country are continuing to escalate<\/p>\n<p>Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar\u2019s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, which was set up to document and share evidence of abuse with national, regional and international courts, <a href=\"https:\/\/iimm.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/IIMM%20Annual%20Report%202025%20EN.pdf\">said in a report<\/a> that the \u201cfrequency and brutality\u201d of atrocities inside the country had continued to escalate, more than four years after the military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">seized power in a coup in February 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/12\/myanmar-army-detaining-two-year-olds-proxies-parents-witnesses-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators warn in a report that \u2018frequency and brutality\u2019 of atrocities in the country are continuing to escalateChildren as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar\u2019s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison fac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,82,61,949,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-torture","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73408\/revisions\/73409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}