Silence Is Complicity in the Myanmar Junta’s Massacre of Children

How many more Myanmar people, including children, must sacrifice their lives before the international community intervenes to halt the barbarity that the country’s military regime is committing against its own people?

Lest the world forget how brutal it is: Myanmar’s murderous military junta on Monday bombed a school in a resistance stronghold in upper Myanmar, killing at least 20 students, some as young as 7 years old, and two teachers.

The deadly bombing of the school—where around 100 youngsters were studying—in O Htein Twin Village in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township was just one of the most recent of the regime’s frequent indiscriminate air raids against civilians. On Tuesday, a junta airstrike in Rathedaung in Rakhine State killed 13 civilians, including children. The majority of the state is now under the control of the anti-regime Arakan Army.