Among the most targeted areas during the reporting period was Bhamo, which has been contested by the junta because it lies in a strategically significant location near the Irrawaddy River, a key supply route to its lucrative jade mines. Waimaw has also been heavily targeted, though the KIA has seized almost all of it as of 2024.18 This area lies along the main trade highway that leads to Kanpeikti on the Chinese border. In August 2025, the junta launched an offensive to regain control, but it has remained unsuccessful. To ensure the junta’s survival and protect its assets, China has been providing both covert and overt military and technical assistance, including arms sales, drone technology, and digital surveillance equipment. The terrorization of civilians has subjected the most vulnerable to deeply inhumane suffering. Women, children, and the elderly are being forced to live in rural areas where they are at risk of disease and malnutrition. The impending attacks by the junta have left conflict-affected communities traumatized and living in uncertainty, anticipating the next attack. Their minds and bodies are paralyzed with fear, trapped in an unending cycle of warfare that has subjected the nation's most innocent to debilitating harm. Of immense concern is the ongoing lack of accountability for the soldiers of the Myanmar Army, who continue to commit these crimes without consequences. Military impunity has shielded criminals and isolated survivors of the violence, who are denied pathways to reparations and justice. As indicated in the cases documented by KHRW, patterns of systematic and widespread violence speak to the deprivation of the humanity of local people. Air terror expands in Kachin State, The Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), 23 December 2025 18 12 | "Inhumane Acts" by KHRW