Bangkok (EFE) Sagaing (to the northwest).
As confirmed to EFE by a NUG spokesperson, the air strike by the Burmese armed forces (the Tatmadaw) was directed against an inauguration ceremony for an administrative office linked to the NUG in the town of Pazigyi, in Sagaing (one of the main rebel strongholds). in the country).
“Our current estimates are of at least 50 fatalities,” the spokesman told EFE, who prefers to remain anonymous.
The figure coincides with that of independent local media such as The Irrawaddy, which adds that the military planes dropped two bombs. while a hundred people attended the inauguration of what he calls the People’s Authority Office in Pazigyi.
blood attack
This is one of the bloodiest attacks on record since the Army carried out a coup on February 1, 2021, ending a decade of democratic transition and plunging the country into a spiral of violence and semi-anarchy. , with the military controlling barely a quarter of the nation.
The NUG spokesman compares the magnitude of this bombardment with the airstrike carried out in October during a music festival in the north of the country to mark the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), allies of the NUG. , and left about 80 dead.
On March 27, the leader of the military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, warned that he would “firmly appease” the resistance, targeting in particular the NUG and its armed wing, the People’s Defense Forces (PDF), during a military parade for Armed Forces Day.
Scale of violence against the resistance
The NUG, which operates semi-clandestinely, was partly formed by former deputies of the government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was overthrown by the military, while the PDF emerged shortly after, nurtured above all by young people who joined the armed struggle and were trained by the ethnic minority guerrillas that have operated in the country for decades.
In line with what was announced, the armed forces have escalated violence recently: at the end of March at least eight people died, including two children, after a shelling in the state of Chin.
Two weeks before, some thirty were assassinated near the capital.
The UN rapporteur for Burma, Thomas Andrews, denounced in March that more than 3,000 civilians have been killed, 1.3 million have had to flee their homes and 16,000 have become political prisoners since the coup, including Suu Kyi.