At least 14 people were killed in the central region of Burma during a new massacre against civilians and opponents perpetrated by the Army, denounces the parallel government opposed to the military regime.
The spokesman for the self-styled Government of National Unity (NUG), which declares itself the legitimate government of Burma, denounced on social networks this Sunday the “atrocious” massacre in the municipality of Yin Mar Pi, in the Sagaing region, one of the areas where the military junta meets with the most resistance.
According to the account of the NUG spokesman, known as Sasa, the soldiers attacked the town in the middle of the night on Friday with heavy weapons.
The fatalities, according to what residents of the attacked municipality told the newspaper The Irrawaddy, are 11 civilians and three members of the rebel People’s Defense Force (PDF), created by the parallel government.
Three of them were beheaded by the military.
“The genocidal military junta hides behind secrecy, evading international scrutiny. But we cannot remain silent observers; we must take decisive action now,” the spokesman urged in a statement dated the day before.
Sasa urged the international community to take concrete steps to cut off the “flow of money and weapons”, the latter provided mainly by Russia and China, and to strip the military junta of any sign of “legitimacy”.
According to the parallel government, made up of parliamentarians overthrown in the military coup on February 1, 2021, and activists from the country’s ethnic minorities, since the military uprising the military regime has perpetrated more than 70 massacres.
“With each passing day it becomes more unbearable for us to hear about the brutal massacres, the crimes against humanity, the atrocious violations of human rights and the unthinkable genocide committed by the military junta with absolute impunity against the Burmese people,” the NUG said in another statement.
The military uprising has plunged Burma into a deep political, social and economic crisis and has opened a spiral of violence with new civilian militias that have exacerbated the guerrilla war that the country has been experiencing for decades.
At least 3,819 people have died from the brutal repression carried out by the security forces, who have shot to kill peaceful and unarmed protesters, according to data from the Burmese NGO Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners.
