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Dozens dead in airstrike on market in Myanmar
A rebel group says the government army carried out a bombardment in the state of Rakhine, where an uprising against the regime is being waged.
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Dozens of victims have fallen in northwestern Myanmar in a bombing on a market. According to a local aid worker, at least 33 people were killed, and 36 people were injured.
The attack took place in Rakhine state, where the local population has been engaged in a struggle against the military regime of the Southeast Asian country for years. According to aid workers, this was a bombing by the government army at a location far from the front line.
It cannot be independently verified who is behind the violence, but during the civil war the army more often carried out attacks in which civilians were also killed. The army maintains that it always tries to spare the civilian population as much as possible.
The country has been in turmoil for years. Cautious democratic reforms were radically reversed in 2021 by the military rulers when the opposition was on the verge of winning the parliamentary elections. Opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi was detained.
Meanwhile, several ethnic conflicts in the country flared up again. Multiple population groups are fighting against the junta in the capital Naypyidaw for more autonomy.
Due to the violence, tens of thousands of people have already been killed, and millions of civilians have fled their homes.
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