Burma Army Attack Kills 23 Cadets – “Unprovoked,” says Kachin Group

Karen News;

An artillery attack against the Kachin Independence Army’s Military Academy, that left at least 23 officer cadets dead and a further 20 injured, was unprovoked and endangers the push for a nationwide peace agreement, a Kachin advocacy organisation has asserted. A statement by the Kachin Alliance, a network of Kachin community organisations based in the United States, condemned the attack as “heinous and cowardly.” “The attack

unprovoked and deliberate, and is in blatant violation of the agreement reached between the government and the KIO, to de-escalate military tensions,” the Kachin Alliance said. Free Burma Rangers, an organisation that delivers frontline humanitarian assistance to Burma’s conflict zones, said that the artillery attack occurred on 12:15pm, November 19 at the KIA’s military academy, not far from Laiza city. FBR added that Burma Army Light Infantry Battalion 390 fired the 105mm artillery shells....