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2024 February Feb 5 Locations: Daw Si Ei and Loi Nan Pha villages, Demoso Township, Karenni State 10:15 a.m. Junta airstrikes simultaneously hit two schools in Daw Si Ei and Loi Nan Pha villages, Karenni State. At one school, four boys aged between 12 and 14 were killed, and at least 15 children were injured. At the other, an airstrike killed a local rice mill owner and injured several children. School in Daw Si Ei Demoso Township, Karenni State Crater left by airstrikes on a school in Loi Nan Pha village, Demoso Township, Karenni State. ©Min Htet San, 2024 February 5, 2024 10:15 a.m. Killed: 4 Age and Sex: Children: 4 12 13 14 14 4 Injured: 19 Parents hold framed photographs of their deceased son, El Le Tha, 14, and a photograph of the tombstones of child victims killed in the Myanmar military’s February 5, 2024 airstrike on Daw Si Ei school, Demoso Township, Karenni State. ©Fortify Rights, 2024 Significant Structures Affected: School Bawlakhe Karen (Kayin) Shan State Karenni (Kayah) State Pekon Township Hpasawng Airstrikes on the "Bangkok" internally displaced persons camp in Pekon Township, September 5, 2024 Feb 21 Location: Loikaw town, Loikaw Township, Karenni State Despite there being no reported clashes in Loikaw town in Karenni State, junta drones dropped incendiary bombs. Junta forces also fired artillery shells, destroying civilian homes in the Shwe Taung, Mingalar, and Poe Zar quarters of Loikaw town. 24 Airstrikes on the same camp in Pekon Township, November 18, 2024 Bago Airstrikes on Daw Si Ei village, Demoso Township, February 5, 2024 Loikaw Loikaw Mese Demoso Demoso Airstrikes on Loi Nan Pha village, Demoso Township, February 5, 2024 Hpruso

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Military Coup

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Date Published: Sep 4, 2025

Abstract: Four years after Myanmar’s military junta staged an illegal coup d’etat, the country remains entrenched in a nationwide armed revolution for democracy and human rights, with armed conflict directly affecting nearly 97 percent of its 330 townships. As of late 2024, the military junta maintains full control over an estimated 21 percent of the country’s territory, with the remainder either under resistance control or contested. The junta has lost control of more than half of its bases in many parts of the country, marking unprecedented territorial setbacks. In retaliation and desperation, the junta has escalated its use of indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian communities. This report documents ten specific, indiscriminate, and retaliatory airstrikes targeting civilians in Kachin and Karenni (Kayah) states—two of Myanmar’s fourteen administrative states and regions—that have faced relentless junta assaults since 2021. While the junta’s airstrikes against civilians have been widely documented, far less is known about the individuals who may be criminally liable for these alleged war crimes. This report identifies 22 junta officials who should be investigated and potentially prosecuted for their roles in war crimes in Kachin and Karenni states. It also names eight military commands linked to the airstrikes documented in this report and identifies 12 military units responsible for artillery attacks in Kachin and Karenni states that may amount to war crimes. This report is based on 63 interviews conducted between 2022 and November 2024 with individuals from Kachin and Karenni states—including survivors, displaced persons, aid workers, and ethnic resistance members—as well as Myanmar military defectors interviewed in Chin State, Myanmar, and locations in India and Thailand.

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