The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), a human rights group, has urged the United Nations to act immediately.

Saying that Myanmar is in a state of terror and lawlessness, SAC-M has called for the United Nations Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres to act immediately.

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โ€œMyanmar is in a state of terror and lawlessness. The Secretary General must use all the authority vested in his office to pursue ways to stop the killings,โ€ said Chris Sidoti, a founding member of the SAC-M.

The SAC-M has made this request to the United Nations following the on Friday (April 9) crackdown by the โ€˜unprofessionalโ€™ Myanmar military at Bago near Yangon.

As many as 82 unarmed civilians had lost their lives on Friday in indiscriminate firing by the โ€˜unprofessionalโ€™ Myanmar military.

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โ€œThe soldiers surrounded the area and began firing continuously, shooting at anyone,โ€ SAC-M said.

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โ€œThey dragged away bodies of those killed and pilled them in a compound of a pagoda. Those injured were denied medical treatment,โ€ added SAC-M.

โ€œPre-dawn attacks, massacre, piles of bodies, bodies desecrated and evidence destroyed โ€“ this is what Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) clearance operation looks like. The junta is on a killing spree, murdering people they are supposed to protect and serve,โ€ said Yanghee Lee, founding member of SAC-M.

The SAC-M has urged the United Nations Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres to pay a visit to the trouble-torn Myanmar.

โ€œThe junta is murdering people by the hour,โ€ SAC-M said.

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Over 700 people have lost their lives in brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military since they staged a coup on February 1 and sized power in the country by overthrowing a democratically elected government.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Country team has stressed on ceasing violence in Myanmar immediately.

โ€œ[We are] following events in Bago with reports of heavy artillery being used against civilians and medical treatment being denied to those injuredโ€, the UN Country Team (UNCT) said.

โ€œThe violence must cease immediatelyโ€, it stressed.