The ruling junta in Myanmar has acknowledged that it carried out an airstrike on a village on Tuesday (11 April) that resulted in the deaths of at least 100 people, many of them children and journalists.
The crowd gathered outside Pazigyi hamlet in Kanbalu township of the Sagaing region to witness the opening of a local office of the nation’s opposition movement. At around 8 am (local time) on Tuesday (11 April), a fighter plane dropped bombs directly upon a crowd of about 150 people.
Those killed included leaders of locally organized anti-government armed groups and other opposition organizations, as well as women and 20 to 30 children.
