Victims of attack in Kachin state include children, according to media and local activists
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    A Kachin activist based in Laiza, who spoke anonymously, earlier told the Guardian 33 people had been killed, including 13 children.

    The attack took place on the same day that Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun, told a UN committee that, since the coup, the military has imported more than $1bn-worth of arms and raw materials for a “scorched-earth policy that has murdered more than 4,000 civilians including women and children, forcibly displaced around 2 million and destroyed or burned down over 75,000 homes”.

    Kyaw Moe Tun – who has remained loyal to the civilian government and does not represent the junta – cited data from researchers that indicated there was an average of 30 airstrikes a month in Myanmar from January to June this year, and urged member states and the security council to impose comprehensive arms embargos against the military.

    The KIA has offered sanctuary to protesters, politicians and others fleeing military abuses, and has trained fighters from newer groups that oppose the coup.

    The conflict has forced 2 million people to flee their homes, an unprecedented number in the country, according to the UN, caused soaring poverty and the collapse of education and health services.

    Aung Myo Min, the minister for human rights in Myanmar’s national unity government, which was set up in opposition to the junta, said the military was committing war crimes, and with more cruelty.

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