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At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a camp for displaced people in Myanmar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The camp is located close to a military camp of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an insurgent group fighting the country’s ruling military Junta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A spokesman for the KIA told the BBC that all the victims were civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Myanmar has been embroiled in conflict since a 2021 military coup displaced the country’s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exiled National Unity Government (NUG), has blamed the Junta for the attack on the camp, describing it as a “war crime and crime against humanity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The BBC has approached the military for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The military has increasingly used air strikes against their opponents since seizing power from the civilian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Images shared by local media showed bodies being pulled from the rubble and dozens of body bags lying side by side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attack late on Monday night happened in the Mong Lai Khet Quarter – some two miles away from the KIA’s headquarters in the town of Laiza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The area has witnessed conflict for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, locals say that there has been no fighting take place near the camp in recent times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It sits close to the Chinese border and is home to many civilians living in internal displacement camps in and around the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The KIA is one of the largest of dozens of ethnic insurgent groups that have been battling the military for decades, even before the coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colonel Naw Bu of the KIA told the BBC that a total of 56 people had been injured in the latest attack, 44 of whom had been taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last October, more than 60 people were killed when the military launched airstrikes on Antpa in Kachin State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a camp for displaced people in Myanmar. The camp is located close to a military camp of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an insurgent group fighting the country’s ruling military Junta. A spokesman for the KIA told the BBC that all the victims were civilians. Myanmar has been embroiled in conflict since a 2021 military coup displaced the country’s government. The exiled National Unity Government (NUG), has blamed the Junta for the attack on the camp, describing it as a “war crime and crime against… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35432,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions\/35432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}