“The military has increasingly lost areas of control in recent months, which has only increased their use of this strategy, responding with airstrikes, shelling and so on in civilian areas,” the AAPP said in an email.
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At least 4,277 civilians, including pro-democracy activists, have been killed by security forces in the same period, the group says.
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