UN chief decries violence in west Myanmar as two dozen villagers are reported killed in airstrikes

By GRANT PECK
Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar after reports and residents of the country’s western Rakhine state said military airstrikes killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children. Tuesday’s reports said the attack the previous day targeted the village of Thada, north of Minbya township, and that another 25 people were wounded. The military government had no immediate comment on the reports of the Monday morning attack. The military is increasingly using airstrikes to counter the widespread armed struggle against its rule since it seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.