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Myanmar Airstrike on Displacement Camp in Rakhine Kills 12, Including a Child
By Maya Wilson
Photo: Myanmar Now News / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
A Myanmar military airstrike on a displacement camp in Rakhine state killed 12 people, including a five-year-old child, and wounded 18 others, rescuers told Al Jazeera on Saturday, November 14.
The report attributed the casualty toll to rescuers. Al Jazeera’s account did not name the displacement camp or identify the township where the strike occurred. It also did not give the time of the attack.
No statement from Myanmar’s military was carried in the report.
The available account therefore provides a limited picture of the strike beyond the reported toll. Twelve people were said to have been killed and 18 wounded, including a child among those who died, but the camp’s name, the precise location and the timing of the airstrike were not reported.
Al Jazeera reported that the strike was carried out by Myanmar’s military. The military’s account of the incident was not included, and no response from the armed forces was reported in the available information.
The attack came amid continuing conflict in Myanmar following the military’s 2021 coup. Since then, Myanmar’s military has been fighting ethnic armed groups and resistance forces.
Rakhine state has been among the areas affected by heavy fighting, including conflict involving the Arakan Army.
The reported airstrike on the displacement camp is also separate from another Myanmar military airstrike covered earlier on November 14 by The Library Media. The two incidents should not be treated as the same attack, and the casualty figures reported here apply to this separate strike on a displacement camp.
The latest reported deaths include a five-year-old child, according to the rescuers cited by Al Jazeera. No further information about the identities of those killed or wounded was provided in the report.
The report also does not establish the extent of damage caused by the strike, what happened at the camp before or after the attack, or whether the reported casualty figures could change.
For now, the available account is that a Myanmar military airstrike struck a displacement camp in Rakhine state, killing 12 people and wounding 18, according to rescuers.
What remains publicly unreported in Al Jazeera’s account is significant: the name of the camp, the township where it was located, the time of the strike and any statement from Myanmar’s military. The circumstances surrounding the attack beyond the reported casualty toll were not provided.
Maya Wilson
World Desk Lead, The Library Media
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