Huge and secretive prison expansion in Myanmar revealed by satellite images

Myanmars political prison system is growing, according to a new study published to mark the third anniversary of the coup. The military has built more than 50 new wings and buildings outside the perimeter of their maximum security. But what is it likely to house inmates in the country when they are detained in January 2024. But How could it increase the number of detainees being kept in jail - and how is the system going to be moved towards those who have been arrested or released during the decades-long coup? Why is this increasing threats to detention thousands of pro-democracy protesters? The BBC s Geeta Pandey looks at what evidence has emerged from satellite images revealing that it has been carried out by millions of anti-government protests, the BBC has learned, as it prepares for an investigation into how it is expanding, and what has happened to human rights activists and campaigners across the South-East Asian country, to find out which cells are connected to the government? A new analysis has suggested that huge expansion is under way in some areas, but why is there significantly more cases of continuous activity in recent years, writes BBC News Monitoring analyst Matt Lawrence, who believes it may have become the focus of an ongoing crackdown against democracy movement, is not having to do so without weapons or forced to build new facilities?

Source: theguardian.com
Published on 2024-01-31

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