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Girl, 14, killed by junta shelling in eastern Bago Region

October 12, 2023/in News

The child was just the latest to lose her life in recent months due to indiscriminate attacks in the area Junta shelling killed a 14-year-old girl and injured four others in eastern Bago Region’s Pyu Township on Tuesday, according to resistance sources. The girl, ninth grader Yu Yati Khaing, suffered a fatal injury after a […]

Several children among IDPs killed in junta aerial attack in Kachin State

October 10, 2023/in News

Twenty-nine were casualties confirmed as of Tuesday morning in a suspected drone strike on an IDP camp near the KIA headquarters Nearly 30 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were killed in a suspected junta drone strike on a village near the headquarters of the ethnic armed organisation the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Laiza, northern Myanmar, […]

Girl, 14, killed by junta shelling in eastern Bago Region

October 12, 2023/in News

Several children among IDPs killed in junta aerial attack in Kachin State

October 10, 2023/in News

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Girl, 14, killed by junta shelling in eastern Bago Region

October 12, 2023/in News

The child was just the latest to lose her life in recent months due to indiscriminate attacks in the area

Junta shelling killed a 14-year-old girl and injured four others in eastern Bago Region’s Pyu Township on Tuesday, according to resistance sources.

The girl, ninth grader Yu Yati Khaing, suffered a fatal injury after a heavy artillery shell hit the village of Kyaw Hla at around 5pm, an officer of the Pyu Township People’s Defence Team (PDT) told Myanmar Now.

“A shell fell on the village at around 1pm, but no one was injured by that one. Then a second shell landed at around 5pm, and the girl was wounded in the abdomen. She died before she could receive treatment,” said the PDT officer.

Troops stationed in the town of Kanyutkwin were responsible for the incident, he added.

The other victims were members of a household living in the village of Nandamate. Further details were unavailable at the time of reporting, but a member of the Bago Region People’s Defence Force confirmed that at least of the injured was a child.

Children are often among the victims of the junta’s indiscriminate bombing in eastern Bago Region, which includes territory controlled by Brigade 3 of the Karen National Liberation Army, an armed wing of the Karen National Union.

On October 3, a nine-year-old girl and a 46-year-old man were injured by a heavy artillery shell in the village of Ngatoekhin in Mone Township, Nyaunglebin District.

Exactly one month earlier, a 12-year-old child was killed by a junta airstrike on Kyet Tet Nyaung Pin, another village in Mone Township. Six other civilians were also injured in the attack, the Karen Human Rights Group reported at the time.

In late August, a woman and her seven-year-old daughter both died while attempting to escape an artillery assault on the village of Pyin Ye Gyi in Nyaunglebin Township. At least four others were injured.

Earlier the same month, two boys were among four people killed by shelling along the Sittaung River in Kyaukkyi Township, Nyaunglebin District.

In late July, a blast at a public rest stop in In Pin Thar, a village in Pyu Township located on the Yangon-Naypyitaw highway, left four children dead and one gravely injured.

No group claimed responsibility for planting the explosive.

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Several children among IDPs killed in junta aerial attack in Kachin State

October 10, 2023/in News

Twenty-nine were casualties confirmed as of Tuesday morning in a suspected drone strike on an IDP camp near the KIA headquarters

Nearly 30 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were killed in a suspected junta drone strike on a village near the headquarters of the ethnic armed organisation the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Laiza, northern Myanmar, at around midnight on Monday.

The Myanmar army launched the attack at 11:25pm on the village of Munglai Hkyet, located around two miles from Laiza, which is on Kachin State’s border with China. Around 500 IDPs had been sheltering in a camp in the village.

KIA spokesperson Col Naw Bu told Myanmar Now that as of 8am on Tuesday, they had identified 29 casualties and 56 others who were injured. Forty-four of those wounded were undergoing emergency care at a local medical facility, he said, adding that among the victims were several children and elderly people.

The rescue team was still searching for further bodies at the time of reporting.

“We didn’t hear the sound of any aircraft flying past before the attack. We suspect that it could be a drone strike,” the KIA spokesperson said. “I was told the bomb was dropped right on the camp.”

*Munglai Hkyet IDP camp after the junta attack on the night of October 9 (Supplied)*

Col Naw Bu said that there were no KIA military camps near the village but that it had frequently been hit by artillery shells in previous junta attacks. There had been no clashes near Munglai Hkyet on Monday night, he added.

Monday’s attack was the deadliest on KIA territory since the junta’s bombing of a community event in A Nang Pa, Hpakant Township, in October last year. More than 60 people were killed in that assault.

“This is a massacre of our Kachin people through aerial bombings,” Col Naw Bu said of A Nang Pa. “It’s a genocidal act of militarism towards our ethnic people.”

*Bodies retrieved by rescue personnel after the junta attack on Munglai Hkyet IDP camp on October 9 (Supplied)*

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