I posted this story from Irrawady yesterday: https://lemmy.ca/post/52965387. The numbers are much higher.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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So, 32-min dead, 5 from the people who'd been providing protection, some from the non-violent group & some from the junta-resistance group,
& the rest were all just candlelight-vigil Buddhists, participating in a normal periodic festival,
AND the junta also returned to bomb again,
AND the junta also bombed other 2 other regions in the Northern Shan State, according to that story..
Given today's "journalism", I don't expect this to even exist according to the West's reporting.
For context, for people who don't follow the violences in Buddhist regions of the world, in this case I'm defaulting to siding with the Buddhists, but .. please keep in mind that the Buddhists in Sri Lanka apparently have been good a genociding Tamils, & the "Buddhists" of Pol Pot's regime certainly made effective/murderous communists, or whatever they were "identifying" as ( that country was as Buddhist as any country could be, until then, ttbomk ) .. so, same as with Africa, the only default-position that automatically is going to be right, is that line from the youtuber of Africa who tries explaining African politics/wars/genocides for the outside-world.. "it's complicated".
< digging >
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/myanmars-junta-doesnt-have-to-win-it-just-has-to-wait/
Right.
So, the junta's dismantling gov't-by-the-people-for-the-people.
Their action demonstrates that they're the bad-guys, then.
That article, however, caused me to see that IF a government isn't ruling entire-regions of a country, THEN .. it shouldn't be recognized as government of those regions, should it?
Shouldn't locally-legitimate government be a global civil-right, at some point/degree of dispute?
Making international-law so the rabies that Assad was enforcing in Syria, automatically can't be treated-as "legitimate" by world governments?
( he was ethnic-minority, genociding Syria's majority, because as soon as he caved, then the ethnic-majority would be retaliating against his ethnic-minority again..
which means that the country has, objectively, to be carved into ethnic-regions, & deemed to be distinct countries, instead-of kept in its if-this-side-is-ruling-they-are-genociding-the-other/if-the-other-side-is-ruling-they-are-genociding-the-1st-side political-rabies.
Obviously, this also indicates that enforcing non-partisan gov't, UN-neutral, would be also strategic & wise, & could even prevent carving-up-countries, if held long-enough, but .. it costs outside-countries, so they aren't likely to be investing in that, are they?
but since when has either world-strategic or wisdom had ANY say in human geopolitics??
Bah and Humbug, on all this ego-driven butchery-addiction! )
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This is what people feared would happen if man took to the sky... When flight was first invented.
The article title is extremely misleading, making this look like a terrorist attack during a random religious festival. The rest of the article describes this instead as violence perpetrated by the military junta on a small protest.
Good god, never could I have imagined I’d read a headline like this in my lifetime. So many news stories are deeply disturbing. There is something about the combination of terrorism via a novel and whimsical delivery method is absolutely horrifying.
This was a military operation.
Like they said, terrorism.
So state sponsored terrorism
Still a terrorist attack, if you ask me. The terrorists just happen to be state sponsored.
You're correct, but states usually have a monopoly on violence, and state sanctioned terrorism is rarely called such. If you're using violence and fear to achieve a political goal, that's terrorism. Every state employs it to some extent. (Usually not this obviously though.)
As most are.
Myanmar's military government bomb small protest against them, with victims including children
mods should take down this post for the bs misleading title not matching the article content
Real headline is always in the comments. Thank you for your service 🫡
Pretty sure Myanmar has had civil wars ever since its inception.
Kind of a weird place to be in the world.
What the AF. 😖
I fly a paraglider. I was paranoid about getting shot before the Hamas attack on October 7. This just worries me more.
It's all so sad.