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An air attack in Myanmar kills 17, including children, but the military has denied responsibility

BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.

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context: As of September 2022, 1.3 million people had been internally displaced, and over 13,000 children have been killed. By March 2023, the UN estimated that since the coup, 17.6 million people in Myanmar required humanitarian assistance.
Everyday I learn about more mass scale atrocities happening all over the world and it's beyond insane to comprehend that our species lives like this and does this to itself.
We are beyond redemption when every single generation has uncountable made made horrors it repeatedly inflicts upon itself like this. We can't protest away or reform the human nature to inflict suffering and mass murder, if this was something we were capable of as a species, we would have done it by now.
Complete climate collpase cannot come soon enough, we need to die off.
- Complete climate collpase cannot come soon enough, we need to die off.
  By all means feel free to start with yourself.
  The rest of us will continue trying to make a better world as we continue to do each and every day.
  
  We have been trying to make a better world since we evolved into humans and yet we're still like this.
  If anything we've gotten worse as technological advancements have increased and that made enslaving, colonising, genociding, wars, mass murders and all the other horrible shit people do to each other, easier; maximising the suffering caused.
  Telling people to kill themselves for being upset with the status quo, because you're trying to make the world "better", is hilarious.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.
The military government in the past two years has stepped up airstrikes against two enemies: the armed pro-democracy Peoples Defense Force, and ethnic minority guerrilla groups that have been fighting for greater autonomy for decades.
But analysts for the United Nations and non-governmental organizations have gathered credible evidence of large-scale human rights abuses by the army, including the burning of entire villages and displacement of close to 2 million people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis.
A district capital and two small towns, including Khampat, have been seized in the past few months by a coalition of resistance forces and the Kachin Independence Army, one of the stronger ethnic rebel groups.
Salai Mang Hre Lian, a program manager of the Chin Human Rights Organization, also confirmed the number of the victims and charged that it was a deliberate attack by the military on the civilians and children at the school.
The independent Myanmar Pressphoto Agency and Shan media reported that at least five people, including three teachers, were killed Sunday in an airstrike on Namhsan township, which was captured last month by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, a members of the Three Brotherhood Alliance that launched the October offensive.
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