The Myanmar military junta is deliberately targeting medical facilities and medical staff with airstrikes, raids by soldiers and the burning down of buildings, using a map of public hospitals and clinics they drew up in 2019, according to a new report shared exclusively with Sky News.

Myanmar Witness, a project run by the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience that collects, analyses, verifies, and stores evidence related to human rights abuses in Myanmar, has identified 16 separate attacks on medical infrastructure and staff in just three months at the start of this year.

Earlier this year, Sky News obtained exclusive access to the last remaining hospital in one area of Myanmar.

This report confirms that the eyewitness testimony, interviews, and physical evidence gathered and recorded by Sky News in June of this year is indicative of a nationwide attack by the military on medical facilities.

 

Analysing data from eyewitnesses, Myanmar Witness claims the junta's "strategic use of fire and airstrikes has been a mainstay of the conflict in Myanmar".

 

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To the National Unity Government of Myanmar:  Please get you act together, meet with representatives of the many ethnic groups and armies that have successfully resisted central government domination for decades, agree on a republican form of democracy that protects the rights and interests of the many ethnic groups, then form a unified fighting force to kick the Tatmadaw to hell!

 

If you have a unified movement with credible plans for a post-military government, you might get more than lip-service support from other countries.  So long as Myanmar appears to be composed of groups with no interest in cooperating you are on your own.

Edited September 21, 20232 yr by heybruce