AT LEAST 40 people have been killed after a paraglider reportedly dropped two bombs on festivalgoers in Myanmar.
Children are among the casualties of the deadly overnight attack which is believed to have been conducted by the Myanmar military.
People had gathered across Myanmar to take part in Thadingyut full moon festivals[/caption]
The attacks echo the chilling Nova music festival ambush conducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 when terrorists invaded on paragliders to begin the massacre.
Hundreds of people gathered in central Myanmar’s Chaung U township on Monday evening for the Thadingyut full moon festival.
In a haunting seven-minute attack the military has been accused of dropping bombs onto the crowd, according to a member of the committee that organised the event.
Young children were among those killed with over 80 also left injured.
Many of those at the event were protesting against the current regime in Myanmar after years of civil unrest.
Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since 2021, when the army forcefully seized power.
A bloody civil war has been ongoing since made up of armed resistance groups and ethnic militias.
The military has responded to these rebellious attacks by launching airstrikes on the perpetrators, report the BBC.
The festival strikes are believed to related to these as it was held in the highly contested Sagaing region which has been a key battleground in the war.
Large swaths of the township are under the control of volunteer militias established after the coup.
They have been in a daily battle the country’s military government.
Human rights group Amnesty International released a scathing statement on the attack.
They said it must serve “as a gruesome wake-up call that civilians in Myanmar need urgent protection.”
Joe Freeman, Amnesty’s Myanmar researcher, added: “The international community may have forgotten about the conflict in Myanmar, but the Myanmar military is taking advantage of reduced scrutiny to carry out war crimes with impunity.”
