Army attack killed 13 people in Myanmmar

According to media reports and residents 13 people were shot dead in a school of Myanmar after the initiation of fire by army helicopters. The rebels were using the school building to attack the forces. Last year army had overthrown the elected government. Since then Myanmar is suffering in the clouds of violence.

The military of Myanmar has been facing opposition in the form of various movements and attacks by several armed forces. The officials are bound to use lethal force to curb this opposition. Reuters failed in digging out the details of the violence that occurred in the village of Let Yet Kone in the central Sagaing region on Friday.

As per the reports of RFA (Radio Free Asia), Mizzima and Irrawaddy news portals, the affected school was situated in a village was accommodated in a Buddhist monastery. Some individuals got slayed on the spot including seven childrenwhile the rest got killed following the entry of troops in the village. Two unidentified residents informed over call about the transportation and burial of the dead bodies in a town 11 km away by the military officials and around 2000 residents of the area left their home.

Earlier the security force which was engaged in a secret inspection was attacked by PDF and the KIA inside houses and the monastery. A military official stated “the Kachin Independence Army, a rebel group, and the People's Defence Force (PDF), an umbrella organisation of armed guerrillas that the junta calls terrorists, had been hiding in the monastery and using the village to transport weapons in the area”.

Bullet holes and blood stains at the distorted school building are clearly visible in the images posted in social media. The injured villagers are undergoing treatment in hospitals. The opposing armed groups were blamed for using the villagers to safeguard themselves. Also 16 handmade bombs were reportedly discovered later.

After violence, Myanmar's pro-democracy shadow government which is named the National Unity Government (NUG), alleged the junta of "targeted attacks" on schools and asked to release those 20 students and teachers who were arrested after the air strike. Violent attacks on schools increased from 10 in 2020 to around 190 in 2021 in Myanmar as per the records of Save the Children, a non-governmental organisation.