I. War Crimes 46 bunker. I tried to peep out once, and another [jet] was on its way, so I had to hide back in the bunker again. It was quiet for a time. After that, I ran out of the bunker with my baby … and hid in the area [surrounding the village]. 62 She explained why she believed the junta bombed the school: “They [the military junta] are scared that students will be educated. They find it repulsive. That is why they bombed the school. … I’m still afraid of it [the airstrike]—when I hear a jet, I become quite terrified.”63 Airstrike on a Hospital in Demoso Township, Karenni State November 20, 2023, 12:40 a.m. On November 20, 2023, and again one month later, junta airstrikes damaged a hospital in the western part of Demoso Township in Karenni State. Fortify Rights visited the location of the airstrikes in February 2024 and documented the destruction. During the visit, Fortify Rights spoke with two doctors and a patient who survived the airstrikes on the hospital. A 27-year-old doctor told Fortify Rights what she witnessed during the airstrike on November 20: [When the airstrike hit], the patients were here. … The labor room, operation theater, and patient ward were damaged. No patients were injured during the [first] airstrike. … I heard the fighter jet. I was not afraid of the jet at that time. Since Operation 1111, there have been a lot of attacks. There are many jets flying overhead. That day, the jet actually hit the area surrounding the hospital. The jets flew three times over the hospital and [another location]. People were panicking. … [W]e saw eight fighter jets flying overhead in a V-shape [formation]. … The military knows the location of the hospital, as it is a former government-controlled hospital.64 Fortify Rights took photographs when visiting the hospital in February 2024. The photographs show the ceiling of the surgical ward partially destroyed.65 The doctor confirmed that at the time of the airstrike on November 20, there were four patients at the hospital, including a 57-year-old grandmother and her grandson, 15, who were being treated for severe injuries resulting from an airstrike on their village earlier the same day.66 The grandmother told Fortify Rights about the airstrike on her village that led to her hospitalization: [The first airstrikes happened] on the midnight of [November] 19 … early November 20. It was around 12:40 a.m. I didn’t hear the jet fighter. But I heard the bomb blast, “Shhh boom.” It sounded like pieces of shrapnel were being spread everywhere. … I woke up and realized I lost my leg. It was a feeling of being very hot. It felt hotter than fire. I was shouting for help, “Help me, help me.” … [S]ome medical volunteers in our village … gave me first-aid treatment right away. They put a stick to keep my leg together. My leg was badly damaged. I saw that my grandson’s legs were both injured and bleeding from below the knee. Later, my grandson lost both his legs [to amputation].67 On the same day, within the span of 24 hours, the 57-year-old grandmother and her grandson experienced another airstrike while they were getting treatment at a hospital in Demoso Township, Karenni State. She told Fortify Rights: 62 Fortify Rights interview with E.F., Demoso Township, Karenni State, Myanmar, February 22, 2024. 63 Ibid. 64 Fortify Rights interview with E.I., Demoso Township, Karenni State, Myanmar, February 23, 2024. 65 Photographs on file with Fortify Rights, February 2024. 66 Fortify Rights interview with E.I., Demoso Township, Karenni State, Myanmar, February 23, 2024. 67 Fortify Rights interview with D.B., Demoso Township, Karenni State, Myanmar, February 24, 2024.