Myanmar’s military has escalated airstrikes against civilians, UN investigation finds

Myanmar’s military has increasingly used low-cost aircraft such as motorized paragliders and gyrocopters in escalating aerial attacks that kill civilians in its conflict with armed resistance groups, a U.N. investigation said in a report Tuesday.

Separately, a major ethnic armed group fighting the government in Arakan State said 20 civilians had been killed in strikes by the military so far this month.

Myanmar’s regime did not immediately respond to either the U.N. probe or the allegations by the Arakan Army. In the past, the military has said it only attacks legitimate targets of war, accusing the resistance forces of being terrorists.