UN expert warns of violence after troops sent to Myanmar city amid protests
The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military's seizure of power.
U.N. rapporteur Tom Andrews said he had received reports of soldiers being transported into Yangon, the biggest city, from outlying regions.
"In the past, such troop movements preceded killings, disappearances, and detentions on a mass scale," he said in a statement issued by his office in Geneva. "I am terrified that given the confluence of these two developments? planned mass protests and troops converging we could be on the precipice of the military committing even greater crimes against the people of Myanmar."
