Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest are reported to have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children.

BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.

  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    context: As of September 2022, 1.3 million people had been internally displaced, and over 13,000 children have been killed. By March 2023, the UN estimated that since the coup, 17.6 million people in Myanmar required humanitarian assistance.

  • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
    91·
    10 months ago

    Everyday I learn about more mass scale atrocities happening all over the world and it’s beyond insane to comprehend that our species lives like this and does this to itself.

    We are beyond redemption when every single generation has uncountable made made horrors it repeatedly inflicts upon itself like this. We can’t protest away or reform the human nature to inflict suffering and mass murder, if this was something we were capable of as a species, we would have done it by now.

    Complete climate collpase cannot come soon enough, we need to die off.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      73·
      10 months ago

      Complete climate collpase cannot come soon enough, we need to die off.

      By all means feel free to start with yourself.

      The rest of us will continue trying to make a better world as we continue to do each and every day.

      • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
        5·
        10 months ago

        We have been trying to make a better world since we evolved into humans and yet we’re still like this.
        If anything we’ve gotten worse as technological advancements have increased and that made enslaving, colonising, genociding, wars, mass murders and all the other horrible shit people do to each other, easier; maximising the suffering caused.

        Telling people to kill themselves for being upset with the status quo, because you’re trying to make the world “better”, is hilarious.

        • Deceptichum@kbin.social
          42·
          10 months ago

          We’ve only been globally connected to each other for ~50 years. We’ve made huge strides in quality of life and liberty for a large portion of the world, and this trend is still continuing. We even fucking have people coming together from across the world and living in space together in harmony, but nooo we’ve not gotten it completely perfectly yet so we should all be wiped out!

          And I find it fucking hilarious you have to the gall to complain about being asked to lead by example when you literally wish for the genocide of our entire species. If you want to doom and gloom yourself go for it, but don’t drag us into your shitpit.

          • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
            31·
            10 months ago

            I’m not wishing for it, it’s happening. Humans are polluting themselves into extinction by choice.

            And all these wars are only going to increase as climate refugees try to migrate and we run out of resources. By 2030 we’re going to be 40% over capacity globally on fresh water.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.

    The military government in the past two years has stepped up airstrikes against two enemies: the armed pro-democracy Peoples Defense Force, and ethnic minority guerrilla groups that have been fighting for greater autonomy for decades.

    But analysts for the United Nations and non-governmental organizations have gathered credible evidence of large-scale human rights abuses by the army, including the burning of entire villages and displacement of close to 2 million people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis.

    A district capital and two small towns, including Khampat, have been seized in the past few months by a coalition of resistance forces and the Kachin Independence Army, one of the stronger ethnic rebel groups.

    Salai Mang Hre Lian, a program manager of the Chin Human Rights Organization, also confirmed the number of the victims and charged that it was a deliberate attack by the military on the civilians and children at the school.

    The independent Myanmar Pressphoto Agency and Shan media reported that at least five people, including three teachers, were killed Sunday in an airstrike on Namhsan township, which was captured last month by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, a members of the Three Brotherhood Alliance that launched the October offensive.

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