Civilian deaths are growing in Myanmar’s civil war amid a jump in airstrikes by the military junta, whose ground forces have faced stiff resistance from rebels and ordinary citizens who have taken up arms.
According to the independent research group Data For Myanmar, since the military coup, more than 3,700 houses in Khin-U have been burned down as of February and nearly 48,000 houses in Sagaing region as of mid-March.
Myanmar’s military has faced stiff resistance from ordinary men and women who have taken up arms to form People’s Defense Force bands to fight junta troops since the military’s coup two years ago. The Ogres’ atrocities are meant to terrorize their foes, who often have little combat training and aren’t usually well-armed.
The conflict engulfing Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 military coup has led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians and ordinary people who took up arms to fight junta troops, who have raided and razed villages, bombed them from the air and rounded up hundreds for detention, torture or immediate execution.
After months of bombings, the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is now the scene of a fierce battle. While the neighborhood is being bombarded by artillery, some locals seek refuge underground, while a few others risk their lives to work at an outdoor market where they can make a small amount of money.
Junta soldiers and pro-military Pyu Saw Htee militia have torched a Sagaing region village for the fourth time, burning down its 129-year-old Catholic church.
A junta airstrike on a village in Myanmar’s southeastern Kayin State killed five people, including a child of about three-years-old, according to David Eubank, a former US commander who founded the Free Burma Rangers
A total of 267 children have been killed in the junta crackdowns since the coup. Save the Children, an international aid organization, estimates that another 520,000 children have been forced to flee their homes in Myanmar due to the conflict.
The body of a man was discovered in a burned-out house by returning locals who abandoned their homes before a two-day raid on their village in Myanmar’s Sagaing region.
A recent documentary on the war in Ukraine is titled Mariupol: Unlost Hope. Early in November, it had its U.S. premiere and depicts the battle through the eyes of ordinary people who were able to survive