Dipaying Township, On September 16, 2022, seeing the school that was destroyed due to the helicopter gunship of the military council in Leyet Kone village. (Photo: Citizen Journalist)
The US-based Armed Conflicts Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) announced on September 18 through the Twitter social network that the armed conflict and civilian casualties in Myanmar in the first six months of 2022 are more than any other country and the highest in the world.
The group is a partner organization of the United Nations and is systematically documenting the locations and processes of armed conflicts in more than 50 developing countries in the world, including Myanmar.
In the first six months from January to June 2022 in Myanmar, anti-dictatorship movements continued at a rapid pace, and the military council that seized power used excessive force to crack down, ACLED said. He said there were more than 6,000 political violence and protests in those six months.
"All persons who commit such crimes are the worst, Committing the highest war crime.”
deceased A total of more than 11,000 people were injured, according to ACLED. But how many dead The exact number of injured is not known.
U Kyaw Zaw, spokesperson of the NUG presidential office, said that the Burmese military is committing the biggest war crimes and will be punished without fail.
"All persons who commit such crimes are the worst, Committing the highest war crime. Those who give orders are all responsible. Because they have committed war crimes, they will surely be punished accordingly. I can't run away from crime. As a national unity government, we are trying to protect the people as much as possible."
Sagaing Division Dipaying Township, U Kyaw Zaw said that if you look at the fact that 19 local people, including six children, were killed in a single day on September 16 due to an airstrike by the military council in Leyet Kone village, there is no army as bad as the Burmese army.
U Thein Tun Oo, the executive director of the Military Strategy Study Group, which is a group of former military officers, responded to ACLED's statement that as long as those opposing the military continue to attack civilians, civilian deaths will continue.
“There will be death as long as there is space among civilians. Because according to the concept of war, no matter how many instructions are issued by the military authorities, in a war, if a bullet hits you, it is customary to shoot back at the place where the bullet came from. Then the person who is cutting in between will be hurt. This is unavoidable.”
Many civilians were killed and injured. water, U Than Soe Naing, a political analyst, said that it happened because of the attack using various air forces.
“PDFs are forces that come out of civilians. The issue of their deaths being the least is the military offensives of our military council. air strikes, Civilians are dying because of naval attacks. If you want to reduce them, then if you go to the military council and apologize, Otherwise, the military council's security forces will have to be rooted out."
According to ACLED's statement, in the first six months of 2022, Myanmar has the highest number of civilian casualties in the world due to terrorist killings by government armed organizations. The second highest is Afghanistan and the third highest is Yemen.
He said that the violence of the junta's armed organizations happened in all 14 provinces in these six months.
U Kyaw Win, director of the Burma Human Rights Network, told RFA that the NUG government needs to make the international community aware of the deaths and injuries of innocent civilians and take mandatory action against the guilty.
“The best way for the people to be the most comfortable is for the NUG to be responsible. As NUG, we need to cooperate with the international community. We need to be more effective. We need to bring in other resources; into Burma. How can we protect the people at the source? These should be prioritized. Now it's happening. The people (the military council) are already being killed as if they want to kill them with violence. I'm already doing what I want to do."
According to Burma Human Rights Network's records, the number of civilians killed by the military council is more than 100 every month. U Kyaw Win also said that during the 19 months of the coup, there have been more than 100 people.
According to the Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners (AAPP) on September 21, 2303 people died due to shootings and arrests and torture by the Military Council after the military coup in Myanmar.
As for the NUG government, the death toll across the country after the military coup is over 3,000, Acting President Duwal Shila said in a speech marking the anniversary of the armed resistance at the beginning of this month.
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