BANGKOK—Soldiers in Burma (also known as Myanmar) rampaged through several villages, raping, beheading, and killing at least 17 people, residents said, in the latest of what critics of the ruling military say are a series of war crimes since the army seized power two years ago.
The bodies of 17 people were recovered last week in the villages of Nyaung Yin and Tar Taing—also called Tatai—in Sagaing region in central Burma, according to members of the anti-government resistance and a resident who lost his wife. They said the victims had been detained by the military and in some cases appeared to have been tortured before being killed.
