The UN child rights committee said it had received "credible information" that 75 children had been killed and around 1,000 arrested in Myanmar since February 1.
"Children are exposed to indiscriminate violence, random shootings and arbitrary arrests every day," Otani said.The committee is made up of 18 independent experts who are tasked with monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Myanmar signed onto in 1991. The experts also slammed the widespread arbitrary detention of children in police stations, prisons and military detention centers.
Access to safe drinking water and food for children in rural areas had also been disrupted, they said.
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