The youngsters killed have been boys between 12 and 14 years of age.
“UNICEF strongly condemns any strikes in opposition to faculties and locations of studying, which should at all times be secure areas for youngsters,” Debora Comini, UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific, stated in a statement.
“Assaults in opposition to faculties are a grave violation of youngsters’s rights and worldwide humanitarian legislation.”
In accordance with media stories, over 100 kids have been current on the time of the assault. These killed and injured have been amongst many operating to bunkers as navy aircrafts dropped bombs and fired machine weapons.
Over 90 per cent of the varsity was reportedly destroyed.
The varsity is in an space not too long ago marked by intense clashes between navy forces and armed teams opposing the junta, in accordance with media stories.
Intensified conflicts
The strikes got here because the military coup marked its third anniversary on 1 February amid a deepening humanitarian disaster that has left 18.6 million folks throughout the nation depending on help.
For the reason that navy takeover in 2021, armed conflicts throughout Myanmar have intensified, together with indiscriminate airstrikes leading to quite a few civilian casualties, mass killings of detainees, dismemberment, desecration of our bodies, rape and the intentional burning of total villages
The Impartial Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to gather proof of great crimes, revealed that the sample of such crimes pointed to an “organizational coverage” of the junta.
“The proof reveals a sample that signifies that these will not be remoted crimes, however quite a manifestation of an organizational coverage applied on a widespread and systematic foundation by the navy regime,” Nicholas Koumjian, head of IIMM stated in a statement final week.
“Nobody has but been held accountable for these crimes, which has deepened the tradition of impunity within the nation,” he added.