July 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
More than 10,000 Burmese citizens have been seen leaving the Sagaing region in northern Burma, fleeing airstrikes carried out by the military regime that has ruled the country since the February 2021 coup.
This new offensive by the military authorities of the Asian nation in four villages in the town of Tabayin have already claimed the lives of at least two people -a woman and a man in their 50s-, while two others have been wounded, as reported by the newspaper ‘The Irrawaddy’.
According to the aforementioned newspaper, on Thursday afternoon the military forces entered the village of Namyar by helicopter, while two other Russian-made Mi-35 helicopters attacked the village for at least 40 minutes.
According to sources from the local group that helps the displaced Tabayin’s Brothers, this offensive by the authorities has been in response to the arrival of combatants from the Kachin Independence Army ethnic armed organization.
After leaving Namyar, regime soldiers stormed the village of Yin Khyay this Friday, opening fire as they passed, while another detachment raided and burned houses in the village of Kone Tel, after doing the same in Nayakan.
IDPs are currently in urgent need of food and medicine, as residents often have to flee their homes due to military junta raids and airstrikes, a member of the Association for Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Tabayin.
Last June, the Ministry of the Interior and Immigration of the civil government of Burma reported that the forces related to the military regime committed almost 2,800 war crimes throughout the country from December to May 31 of this year.
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