Continued bombings from the military junta after the earthquake
The heavy earthquake, which on Friday shook Myanmar and its neighboring countries, has required 1,644 lives, according to the military junta. 3,408 people have been injured and 139 are still missing. However, the death toll is expected to rise further in the next few days, as the rescue work in the masses continues with international help efforts.
On Sunday, on the other hand, reports will have the military junta to have continued to bomb parts of the country even after the quake, writes BBC.
Seven people are reported to have been killed in an air tree against Naungcho in the Shan state in eastern Myanmar. The attack took place on Friday at 15.30, local time, less than three hours after the earthquake.
Prodemocratic Rebel resistance groups have also reported on several airbags in Chang-U in the northwestern Sagaing region, where the Epicenter of the Earthquake was. Several flight attacks should also have taken place near the Thai border.
The opposition shadow government says in a statement that its armed branch will start a two -week ceasefire from Sunday in the areas affected by the earthquake. The termination applies to all military operations, with reservation for the « right to defense ». According to the Shadow Government, they will also cooperate with the UN and other aid organizations in the ongoing rescue work, the statement states according to Ap.
The UN has described the continued The attacks as « incredibly outrageous and unacceptable ». The world community has previously warned that Juntan commits both war crimes and crimes against humanity against its own people.
The earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.7, takes place after four years of civil war in Myanmar. The starting shot was a military coup in 2021, which caused huge protests where thousands of protesters went out on the streets daily and demanded that democracy be restored. What started as a civil disobedience campaign has since developed into a widespread resistance movement consisting of both prodemocratic and ethnic rebel groups, which were later involved in the civil war.
Both Russia and China have sent attack aircraft to the military junta and also trained it to fly with them. At the same time, the resistance groups lack the capacity to fight from the air. After several losses, on the other hand, the junta has lost a lot of territory and currently checks only less than a quarter of the country, according to the BBC’s review. Ethnic groupings and other resistance groups, in their part, control over 42 percent of the land. The Sagaing region is primarily governed by prodemocratic resistance groups.
Neighboring Thailand was also hit by the powerful quake. On Saturday, the death toll in Bangkok rose further to 17 people. Ten of them were killed when a high -rise building under construction totally collapsed in the Chatuchak area in the Bang Book.
The other seven were killed in other places. 83 people are still missing, according to Thai authorities.
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