At least 33 killed by airstrikes in Rakhine State; Parliamentarians from Canada reject Myanmar elections

At least 33 killed by airstrikes on hospital in Rakhine State

The Arakan Army (AA) reported that at least 33 civilians were killed and 76 others were injured by airstrikes on a hospital in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, carried out by the Burma Air Force on Wednesday. Mrauk-U, located 88 miles (142 km) northeast of the Arakan State capital Sittwe, was seized by the AA in February 2024.

“The situation is very terrible,” local aid worker Wai Hun Aung, after arriving at the scene on Thursday morning, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “As for now, we can confirm there are 31 deaths and we think there will be more deaths. Also there are 68 wounded and there will be more and more.” Twenty-seven of the injured survivors are in critical condition, local media reported. 

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) accused the regime of committing a war crime. At least 1,670 civilians, including 127 residents of Arakan, were killed in 1,834 aerial attacks carried out by the regime’s Air Force since March 28, according to DVB data.  Mrauk-U residents told DVB that at least 12 civilians were killed and 21 others were injured by two airstrikes on Daikyi Ward on Aug. 25. Read more

Parliamentarians from Canada reject Myanmar elections 

The Parliamentary Friends of a Democratic Burma, an Ottawa-based group of Canadian parliamentarians, announced on Monday that it has rejected the regime’s 2025-26 “sham” elections in Burma, which were scheduled by the Union Election Commission (UEC) to begin on Dec. 28 and continue into January 2026. 

“The military junta’s planned sham election is neither free nor fair, and must not be recognized by Canada or any [other] democratic nation,” Kelly DeRidder, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre in the province of Ontario, said in a statement.