At least 29 dead, including 12 children, in a military attack in Burma

At least 29 people have died, including twelve minors and an eleven-month-old baby, in an alleged attack by the Burmese Army in the northern state of Kachin that has reached a camp for displaced people.

According to sources from the rescue team, the majority of the victims, among whom there are also fifty injured, are women and children.

The data is in line with that collected by local media and the Kachin National Organization, which indicated on its Facebook account that more than twenty civilians, including children, died during an artillery attack by the Burmese Army shortly before last midnight in a area near Laiza and next to a camp for displaced people.
decades of conflict

The United Nations delegation in Burma (Myanmar) was “deeply concerned” on Tuesday about reports of civilian deaths following this alleged attack by the Burmese Army.

For its part, The National Unity Government (NUG), which proclaims itself the legitimate authority of Burma, described what happened as a “war crime.”

A guerrilla of the homonymous ethnic group operates in Kachin that has been fighting the Burmese Army for decades, a conflict that worsened after the coup d’état of February 1, 2021, which ended a decade of democratic transition and has engulfed Burma (Myanmar). in semi-anarchy.

A year ago, this state was already the scene of one of the worst attacks by the Burmese armed forces.

The Army bombed a music festival organized to mark the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), killing more than fifty people.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned at the end of September that the brutality of the Burma Army in its attacks against civilians only increases day by day, with thousands of murders and war tactics used against the defenseless population, in order to stay in power. With EFE

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