Fortify Rights makes call for urgent action by ASEAN to ban aviation fuel sales to Myanmar’s military

Mizzima

In the wake of the deadly school bombing by the Myanmar Air Force on 12 May, Fortify Rights issued a statement on 14 May calling on Malaysia, as the current chair of ASEAN, to urgently bad the sale and transfer of jet fuel to the military junta.

The statement by Fortify Rights continues below.

On May 12, at approximately 9:35 a.m., while children were attending school, a Myanmar military junta jet dropped at least two bombs on a school in the village of O Htein Twin, Tabayin Township, Sagaing Region, killing at least 22 children between the ages of seven and 16, as well as two adult teachers. At least 100 others were reportedly wounded in the attack.