Myanmar Army still committing war crimes by killing civilians of Arakan

Local residents had already reported on September 8, 2020 that Myanmar army Light Infantry Division 66 from Ann township fired artillery shells into Nyaung Ken village in Maybom township in the morning and kill 5 civilians and wounded 9 more villagers, including 7 years old children, in Arakan, western Myanmar. After that Myanmar military is now again and again still committing war crimes, firing artillery shells into villages and boats in the river hired by ICRC.

In latest Thursday artillery firings  by Myanmar Military into two villages in Arakan resulted nine villagers, including three children,  injured. According to villagers, Myanmar Navy came with two vessels, one is big and another one is small, from which they fired into villages indiscriminately and shelled heavy artilleries five times.

According to reports, during the period of two year long war launc
hed by Myanmar Army against the Arakan Army of Arakanese people in Arakan, there are 309 civilians of Arakan dead and injured 684. And, due to Myanmar military's setting villages on fire and driving villagers out of villages, there are also 230,000 civilians of Arakan who become Internally Displaced Person without home and livelihood, staying at IDPs Camps

Myanmar Army is not only conducting its offensive military operation against the Arakan Army but also on civilians of Arakan without complying international laws therefore Thomas Andrews, the U.N’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, called for an immediate end to military assaults on Rakhine villages and decried the mounting toll of child casualties in the war in September.