How Sagaing became the epicenter of the Myanmar junta’s crackdown

rfa.org/english/news/s… In the third installment of RFA’s special report, we spoke to residents of Sagaing, an agricultural region with a rich Buddhist history, about the high price its people have paid for resisting military rule.

Content Warning: Violence/Death/Torture

“I had to cut off the head, bro”

🧵 Images obtained by RFA from the phone of a junta soldier appear to show evidence of military atrocities in Myanmar’s #Sagaing region. One of the photos on the phone shows around 30 men blindfolded with their hands tied behind their back, held by soldiers at a monastery. Two of what appear to be the same men are seen dead in photos taken a day later of five victims of an execution.