At least Eight people, including two children, were killed and dozens injured in an aerial bombardment by the Burmese Army. He is in Chin state in western Burma this Thursday, after the military regime warned on Monday that it would “absolutely appease” the resistance fighting the army.
According to independent Burmese media ‘The Irrawaddy’, the attack took place on Thursday morning in the town of Kwarpho in Chin state, Burma, when two jets surprisingly bombed the village. kill eight people, two of whom were children, at the sceneand injured dozens of people. A resistance member told The Irrawaddy, “One house was directly hit by bombs. Eight people were killed immediately and dozens were injured. Some houses were set on fire.”
Compared to the majority of the country’s Buddhist population, in the ethnically Christian state of Chin of the same name, ethnic minority guerrillas operating The public defense forces (PDF) that emerged after the February 1, 2021 coup were added.
The leader of the military regime, Min Aung Hlaing, warned that he would “absolutely appease” the “terrorist” groups forming the resistance at a military parade in the capital, Naypyidaw, to mark Armed Forces Day last Monday. . . The military said, “The Government of National Unity (NUG) and PDF need to stop their violence completely. Tatmadaw and the national government will decisively pacify this terrorist group that is destroying the nation and killing people.”
The junta, which came to power after the coup that overthrew the government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, branded the NUG, which claims to be the legitimate authority of Burma and was founded in part by former lawmakers Suu after the coup, as terrorists. Kyi’s legislature and armed wing, which has gained ground from the Army in recent months PDF.
The escalation of military violence
This latest attack came as the military escalated violence: In the middle of the month, about thirty people were killed near the capital, after 15 more were killed in the central region of Sagaing, according to rebel groups.
The February 1, 2021 coup plunged the country into a deep political, social and economic crisis, and opened a spiral of violence with new civilian militias, exacerbating the guerrilla warfare that the country has been going through for decades.
Last week, UN Rapporteur for Burma Thomas Andrews denounced that more than 3,000 civilians, including Suu Kyi, have been killed since the coup, 1.3 million people have been forced from their homes and 16,000 are political prisoners.