YANGON: The Myanmar military junta has committed a grave violation of international humanitarian law by conducting an airstrike on a hospital in Mrauk-U city, located in the western Rakhine State. The brutal, late-night attack resulted in the deaths of 31 people and left 68 others severely wounded.
According to rescue workers, targeting a sensitive, non-military location like a hospital exposes the military regime’s ruthlessness and disregard for global conventions.
Rescue personnel on the ground have expressed serious fears that the official death toll will continue to climb as they work to manage the scores of injured victims and retrieve more casualties from the site of the attack.
This relentless military aggression is ongoing even as the Myanmar regime has announced its intention to hold nationwide elections on December 28th, highlighting the sharp contradiction between the junta’s political maneuvers and its violent campaign on the ground.
