At least 50 people were killed in a bomb attack by the Burmese army. against this Tuesday Government of National Unity Act (NUG)Declared the legitimate authority of Burma in the Sagaing region (to the northwest) after the 2021 rebellion, as confirmed to the EFE by a NUG spokesperson.
Burmese armed forces airstrike (Tatmadaw) for the opening ceremony The spokesperson, who preferred not to be named, said he came from an administrative office linked to the NUG in the town of Pazigyi in Sagaing (one of the main rebel strongholds in the country).
“Our current estimates are at least 50 deaths,” he added to EFE.
The figure matches that of independent local media like The Irrawaddy. military planes dropped two bombs while there were a hundred people They were attending the opening of what he called the Office of the People’s Authority in Pazigyi.
This is one of the bloodiest attacks recorded since the Army’s coup on February 1, 2021.ending a decade of democratic transition and dragging it into a spiral of violence and semi-anarchy, in which the military controls only a quarter of the nation.
A spokesperson for the NUG compares the magnitude of this bombing to an October airstrike during a music festival in the north of the country to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO).He claims the NUG left around 80 dead from the ethnic group of the same name and their allies.
On March 27, the leader of the military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, warned: It will “definitely appease” the resistanceHe specifically attacks the NUG and its armed wing, the People’s Defense Forces (PDF), during a military parade for Armed Forces Day.
Operating in a semi-secret manner, the NUG was founded in part by former lawmakers in the government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. while it was overthrown by the military, the PDF emerged soon after and was nurtured above all by youths who had participated in the armed struggle and were trained by ethnic minority guerrillas who had been operating in the country for decades.
Consistent with what has been said, the armed forces have recently increased violence: at least eight people, two of them children, were killed after a bombardment in Chin province at the end of March, and about thirty people were killed near the capital two weeks ago. .
UN Burma rapporteur Thomas Andrews denounced that more than 3,000 civilians were killed in March, 1.3 million people were forced from their homes and 16,000 people had been politically detained since the coup, including Suu Kyi.