BANGKOK: Myanmar junta troops are committing war crimes by laying landmines on a "massive scale" around the villages where they are battling anti-coup fighters, rights campaign group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Fighting has ravaged swathes of the Southeast Asian country since the February 2021 putsch, which sparked renewed clashes with ethnic rebel groups and the formation of dozens of "People's Defense Forces" now battling the military government.

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