BANGKOK: Myanmar's military used a "vacuum bomb" in an air strike on a village that killed dozens of people in a likely war crime last month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.

Fighting has ravaged large tracts of Myanmar after a military coup in February 2021 sparked renewed clashes with ethnic rebel groups, as well as the formation of dozens of "People's Defense Forces" now battling the junta.

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