An airstrike on Friday by Myanmar’s navy on a Buddhist monastery within the nation’s central Sagaing area killed 14 individuals who had been collaborating in a week-long mediation retreat, information company AP reported, quoting an opposition group and a resident.
The assault is the most recent in a sequence of frequent and lethal aerial strikes concentrating on armed pro-democracy forces and ethnic armed teams within the nation. The strikes usually trigger civilian casualties.
The assault occurred on Friday at 9am in Swel Le Oh village in Myaung township, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) west of Mandalay, the nation’s second-largest metropolis, based on Nway Oo, a spokesperson for the Civil Defence and Safety Organisation of Myaung Township, or CDSOM.
Nway Oo stated 14 folks, together with three ladies, had been killed and 20 others had been wounded when a jet fighter dropped a bomb within the compound of the village’s monastery.
The jet fighter dropped two bombs quarter-hour aside, with the second bomb damaging a home close to the monastery the place greater than 100 folks had been on a week-long retreat throughout Buddhist Lent, the AP report added, citing a neighborhood villager.
The villager, who misplaced a relative within the airstrike, stated that folks fled to a close-by group after burying the our bodies of the victims.
Myanmar navy ‘intentionally’ targets civilians, UN report finds
Based on the United Nations Human Rights Council-appointed investigators, Myanmar’s navy has carried out a sustained marketing campaign of deliberate assaults on civilians – together with airstrikes on houses, colleges and camps for displaced folks, alongside arbitrary detention, torture and sexual violence.
The findings come within the annual report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), protecting July 2025 to June 2026, printed final Tuesday.
“One of many areas that we’re concentrating on is, due to the struggling that is taking place in Myanmar, are the airstrikes [against communities] which might be occurring…We’re trying on the command construction and the way the orders can be given for such airstrikes,” the top of the mechanism, Nicholas Koumjian, stated.
“Particularly, there are lots of airstrikes concentrating on and hitting colleges. Youngsters are sometimes the victims of those airstrikes, and likewise hospitals. So our staff is amassing that proof of the place it has occurred, the sort of munitions which might be used.”
Myanmar has been engulfed in battle for the reason that navy seized energy in February 2021, overthrowing the civilian authorities and arresting prime leaders, together with President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
The coup additionally triggered nationwide protests and subsequent armed resistance actions that now management massive swathes of the fractured nation.
