Myanmar Airstrikes Kill Over 30 as Ceasefire Crumbles

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Myanmar’s military junta has launched deadly airstrikes across civilian areas in Sagaing Region and Chin State, killing more than 30 people this week in one of the bloodiest assaults since it declared a ceasefire less than two weeks ago.

 

On Wednesday, warplanes bombed Nankham village in northern Sagaing, targeting a food court and an internet café near a public hospital. Eyewitnesses say children were among the dead and injured, with the military returning to strike during rescue efforts. Independent monitors suggest at least 20 people were killed in that attack alone.

 

A day later, fighter jets dropped two 500lb bombs on a school in In Pin Hla village, Kawlin Township, killing three people, including a child. 

 

Elsewhere, six civilians — among them a pastor and an eight-month-old baby — died in an airstrike on Pwi village, Mindat Township, in Chin State. A separate bombing that same night in Saizang village reportedly wiped out a family of six.

 

The aerial campaign comes in the wake of mounting resistance successes. Earlier in the week, ethnic and pro-democracy forces, including the Kachin Independence Army and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, seized Indaw town, 46km north of the targeted Sagaing villages. In Chin State, resistance fighters from the Chin Brotherhood coalition took control of Falam town on Monday.

 

Despite announcing a ceasefire on 2nd April following a devastating earthquake, the junta has continued to launch attacks across the country. The National Unity Government’s Human Rights Ministry recorded 92 strikes and shelling incidents between 28th March and 8th April, leaving at least 72 dead and nearly 100 wounded.

 

A junta spokesman claimed anti-regime forces had attacked military positions in several regions this week, but stopped short of addressing the latest civilian casualties.

 

With ceasefire promises shattered and civilian death tolls rising, international concern is once again mounting — but the junta appears undeterred, pressing forward in its brutal campaign to hold power.

 

-2025-04-11