Myanmar military's bombing of civilians set for record year

Amnesty International and United Nations report failure of jet fuel sanctions

20240707 Myanmar girl wounded from shrapnel bombing

A 7-year-old girl's shrapnel wound is dressed after Pasaung, a town in Karenni state in eastern Myanmar, was repeatedly bombed and set ablaze by the Myanmar Air Force on March 1. (Photo by Free Burma Rangers) 

DOMINIC FAULDER, Nikkei Asia associate editor

BANGKOK -- Two reports issued in the past fortnight have confirmed that international efforts led by the U.S. to prevent the military regime in Myanmar from importing jet fuel have failed at a time when bombing of civilians in rural areas has risen dramatically.

Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica, a Burmese nonprofit monitoring organization, closely tracks airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force. It has reported that between January and April this year, there have been a total 819 airstrikes that killed 359 civilians and left 756 wounded, many of them women and children.

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