At least 20 dead in Myanmar after an attack by the Burmese Army

An attack by the Myanmar insurgent army left 29 dead in an internally displaced persons camp in northern Myanmar, the AFP the spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area.

“We found 29 bodies, including children and the elderly (…) 56 people were injured,” said the colonel. Naw Buof the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), who stated that the attack occurred late on Monday night.

“We did not hear any aircraft,” Bu said, noting that they are trying to determine if the military used a drone to attack the camp near the town of Laiza, in the border with China.

As reported by the news group Kachin The displaced persons camp was “destroyed.”

The Kachin National Organization, for its part, points out on the same social network that more than twenty civilians, including children, They died during the artillery attack by the Burmese Army, which is located in an area near the city of Laiza, next to the border with China.

In Kachin a guerrilla operates of the homonymous ethnic group 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 that has plunged Burma (Myanmar) into semi-anarchy.

This state was the target a year ago of one of the worst attacks by the Burmese armed forces since the military uprising, when at the end of October they bombed a music festival marking 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 is only increasing day by day, with thousands of murders and war tactics used against the defenseless population with in order to stay in power.

The organization indicated that, in the period between April 1, 2020 and last July 31, The military murdered a minimum of 4,108 civilians and three military tactics (aerial bombings, massacres and burning of villages) were used against the population.

Last week, the National Unity Government (NUG), which calls itself the legitimate authority of Burma, reported that at least twenty-one children were injured, seven of them seriously, after the Burmese army opened fire on a village in a rebel stronghold in the northern region of Sagaing, bordering Kachin, reaching a school.

(With information from EFE)