the bbc has also seen evidence of brutal violence against young protesters, specifically in chin state, and yogita limaye, along with camera journalist, sanjay ganguly, and producer aakriti thapar, gained rare access to the region. their report does contain distressing descriptions, of torture. a land where a fragile democracy was crushed by a coup. now the militaryjunta has been pushed out of parts of myanmar by an armed resistance. we re driving into the western chin state to see how the military has tried to suppress a people s uprising. it s accused of burning and bombing tens of thousands of homes. in this village, we saw evidence of it. fighting here farmers, students, truck drivers, labourers. this isn t a professional, well equipped army. it s propelled by the courage
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By Rajini Vaidyanathan
image captionThese officers are among the first defectors to share eyewitness accounts of what they say is happening inside Myanmar
Police officers from Myanmar have told the BBC they fled across the border into India after refusing to carry out the orders of the military which seized power in a coup last month. In some of the first such interviews, more than a dozen defectors told us they escaped, fearing they d be forced to kill or harm civilians. I was given orders to shoot at protesters. I told them I can t.
For nine years Naing - whose name we have changed for his safety - served as a policeman in Myanmar, also known as Burma.