More than 30 people were killed at a monastery in Burma’s Shan State in an attack by the military junta. The BBC reported, citing the Karenni rebel militia. According to reports, army air force and artillery bombed the southern village of Nan Nein on Saturday and then executed the residents who were hiding in a monastery. The number of victims is currently 30 dead, including 3 monks. Video from a rebel militia shows at least 20 bodies, some wearing the orange robes of Buddhist monks, gathered outside the monastery.
The bodies appeared to have multiple gunshot wounds and the video also shows the walls of the monastery full of bullet holes. Some surrounding buildings and houses were also burned down in the military attack on the village, Karenni rebel militia said.
“It was as if the military lined them up in front of the monastery and shot everyone at close range, including the monks,” a spokesman for the Karenni militia told local newspaper the Kantarawaddy Times.
Since the junta seized power in a coup two years ago, deadly clashes between the army and armed resistance groups have increased in Burma. Some of the fiercest fighting took place in Shan State, which borders the capital Naypyidaw and Thailand.
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