On Wednesday evening (10/12/2025), “the military junta dropped two 227-kilogram bombs from a warplane against a public hospital providing medical care to civilians in Mrauk-U township of Rakhine State, killing 33 civilians” and “injuring scores of civilians and health workers,” the Union Assembly Representative Committee (CRPH) noted in X.
The CRPH is made up of former lawmakers from Myanmar’s democratic government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was deposed by the military in the February 2021 coup. The former leader has now been arrested.
Most of the victims were patients
An aid worker at the scene said most of the victims were patients at the bombed hospital and that several of them were seriously injured in the attack, independent Myanmar media also reported.
The bombing comes just weeks before phased parliamentary elections that the military junta led by Min Aung Hlaing, in power since the coup, plans to hold on December 28. The main opposition leaders are imprisoned or exiled and there is no real opposition in the elections.
The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), made up of Southeast Asian parliamentarians committed to human rights and democracy in the region, condemned the attack and regretted that it took place on the same day as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was observed.
Rakhine state, where the bombing took place the day before, is largely controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), a guerrilla fighting the military junta in western Burma.
The AA had controlled several strongholds in Rakhine for years and took up arms against the junta in October 2023 along with two other powerful ethnic guerrillas, the Burma Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). Together they formed the Brotherhood Alliance, which succeeded in wresting large areas from the military.
The military coup in 2021 ended ten years of democratic transition and triggered a spiral of violence that has intensified the guerrilla warfare that the country has experienced for decades. Thousands of young people joined armed groups fighting the army.
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