MYANMAR: Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Kokang Army announced that junta’s council started military operations with the name “counter war” in the beginning of September and launched airstrikes throughout Myanmar without caring about the security and safety of the civilians and their properties.
The information about the airstrike by the junta’s council and the deaths of civilians due to the junta’s council’s several air assaults over Lashio, captured by MNDAA, was announced as above on September 30. It was reported that (3) civilians died and (39) were wounded due to the junta’s air assaults on Lashio in a month.
Lashio, gradually being alive with the civilians and ease of doing business, became the target of Junta’s air forces led by coup leader Min Aung Hlaing.
It was reported that the fighter jet by Min Aung Hlaing’s coup army performed the air assaults over Laship for (9) times from the end of August to the early morning of September (30). During the last week of September frequent airstrikes were reportedly carried out.
The local people reported that some civilians from Laship had fled for lives due to the air strikes. Moreover, Lashio resident Ms. Naw Phaw said that nine civilians were killed and over 40 civilians were wounded which was much more than the number of casualties announced by MNDAA due to the junta’s airstrikes.
Ms. Naw Phaw continued that there were some civilians who had been displaced, being afraid of the airstrikes in the current situation. She said that inhumanely targeting the airstrikes over civilians, which are not the military targets, is brazenly committing the war crimes. She demanded not to perform airstrikes, targeting civilians as there were only civilians’ casualties.
As the junta’s council targeted the airstrikes on the civilians in the other areas in Northern Shan state, Karenni, Karen, Arakan, Sagaing, Mandalay, and Magway except Lashio in September, there have been civilian casualties, including the deaths of hundreds of civilians and many to get wounded.
