MYANMAR: In one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the return of military rule, an military strike that hit a refugee camp close to Myanmar’s border with China has killed at least 29 people, including women and children, according to media and publications on Tuesday( Oct 10 ).
According to the sources, the shooting occurred on Monday around midnight in Kachin State when weapon struck the station about 5 kilometers from a foundation in the border town of Laiza( Kia ), which has long been at odds with Myanmar’s military.
According to Kachin media outlets, 30 people were killed and the war was blamed for the artillery attack. The death toll was not independently verified by Reuters, and representatives for the coup and KIA could not be reached right away for opinion.
Following a revolution in 2021, Myanmar has been engulfed in bloody turmoil across several areas, with weight movements and ethnic minority armies battling to overthrow military rule in response to security forces’ ferocious crackdown.
According to the UN, there have been more than 1 million displaced citizens.
The world must act to stop the atrocities and bring Myanmar’s generals to justice, according to the shadow National Unity Government( NUG ), which denounced what it called a vicious attack on civilians.
An assault at the border with China showed the coup did not respect its neighbor’s desire for peace and stability, according to NUG voice Kyaw Zaw, adding that” this work of military government is war murder and crime against humanity.”
Kachin Media posted a number of graphical images of death on Facebook, but Reuters was unable to confirm them right away. One had more than a hundred body bags lined up, and the other had deaths on the floor.
Another depicted soldiers searching through the debris while carrying a young child’s body.
Since an airstrike in Myanmar’s tumultuous Sagaing place in April that claimed the lives of dozens of people, including civilians, the incident was the deadliest.
Typically, the army denies attacking civilians and attributes crime to” terrorists.”
The money of KIA, one of the many cultural groups that have been engaged in military conflict for years, is Laiza.
It is home to some civilians who reside in displacement camps in and around the city and is situated close to the Chinese borders.
Khon Ja, a native advocate for the Kachin Peace Network Civil Society, reported to Reuters that she visited the neighborhood hospital and was informed that 29 people had died and 59 had been injured.
The community was completely destroyed and vanished because the weapon was very powerful, she claimed.