Burma-Myanmar: New Burma army offensives across Kachin and Shan States, civilian casualties
Reports are emerging of a series of small scale attacks by Burma Army forces against Kachin Independence Army positions throughout Kachin State, and on the Shan-Kachin State border.
Free Burma Rangers, a frontline humanitarian aid agency, has reported that the attacks have led to “several” civilian casualties including a 60-year-old woman, killed and a 7-year-old girl, badly injured by gunfire.
A Kachin Independence Army official speaking to FBR reported that KIA forces had suffered six casualties in the intense fighting between 17th and 18th of April.
Images provided by FBR showed a village damaged by artillery fire.