At least 30 people have been killed by the AA and the Junta in two separate incidents on the same day.
Sources say Rohingyas from 20 villages who have fled fighting were sheltering inside the Buthidaung High School when an AA drone bombed it. There were no enemy soldiers in the vicinity raising questions whether the AA is following the Junta’s strategy of bombing civilian targets with the intention of terrorising them and driving them across the border. At least 18 people were killed, with the death toll likely to rise in the absence of medical care.
All the Rohingyas were cramped inside the school room expecting it to provide a safe haven, but the enclosed space and the density of the people actually led to many more deaths in what seems to be a very intentional strike by the AA drone pilots.
Meanwhile, air raids by the Junta on Buthidaung town killed at least 12 Rohingyas. The Junta’s indiscriminate bombings throughout Myanmar has killed thousands of people. Saturday’s killing of 12 Rohingyas in Buthidaung are the latest in a string of air raids that seek to collectively punish the people for opposing the Junta. Ironically air raids on Rohingyas continue even as the Junta tries to reconcile with their arch enemies in an attempt to create ethnic tensions between the two major communities of Arakan.
