The public response to the airstrike on a Buddhist festival in Myanmar is overwhelmingly negative, characterized by outrage and sorrow over civilian casualties. Many commenters express frustration toward the Myanmar military junta's actions and the apparent lack of international intervention and media coverage regarding the humanitarian crisis.

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From the article: In a statement on Tuesday, Amnesty International said that the junta's use of motorised paragliders to attack communities was part of a "disturbing trend" in the area.

BBC Burmese recently reported that the junta were increasingly opting for paramotors amid a lack of aircraft and helicopters. International sanctions over the past few years have made it harder for the junta to procure military equipment.

Joe Freeman, Amnesty International's Myanmar researcher, said the attack "should serve as a gruesome wake-up call that civilians in Myanmar need urgent protection".

AppleTree98

Horrible stuff, my sympathies go out to the victims.

shady8x

It’s disheartening to see just how little coverage the Civil War in Myanmar has been receiving.

Khamvom

Niorba

It’s para**motor**, not paraglider.

Same with the Hamas attacks, nobody seems to get this right. Headlines like this will get regular paragliding banned, wich is completely impractical for terrorist attacks.

ReimhartMaiMai

Jee, paragliding into a festival killing people, I wonder where they got this "disturbing trend" Idea. Also, I heard you don't get to choose how freedom fighters resist... /s

The_BooKeeper

Weak-Abbreviations-9

So sad. My condolences to them and their family and friends. Rest in peace.

_mully_

[Here](https://archive.is/ieS2k) is a backup link, in case you can't see it on the BBC site.

AreThree

...and the world will move on, no one will get out to protest, because Myanmar isn't on their radar, have no idea where it is on a map and it has no one military to go after, meanwhile the citizens there have been massacred for five years and the blank stares is enough to show me how this is just fluff that won't move anyone because their own country isn't somehow involved

machstem

Portbragger2

It’s amaIng as how there is no coverage on the euro side of news for this issue. (BBC world, cnn intl, Al Jazeera intl). It’s crazy and sad to be honest, and it makes me mad at the media.

MoodooScavenger

Just....why. 

Are other mammal species this defective? I feel like this pervasive level of batshit insane behavior is unique to humans.

mayormcskeeze

Whenever a military starts attacking the civilians of the nation it claims to be the military for, is when you know the entire power structure is illegitimate.

You definitely shouldn't read into this to interpret what Trump has been doing to American cities, either. Nope, no sir.

Tim-Sylvester

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yosisoy

&gt; The military government has in recent months augmented its air force with new drones acquired from China - which is now fully supporting the junta - as well as technical assistance from Russia.

RipleyVanDalen

This is the sort of brutal atmosphere that most inhabitants in the county have to endure.

Raj_Valiant3011

what a headline (my condolences to the victims tho)

No_Tumble

Throwing bombs on families can only be achieved with the help of really severe mental illness

retecsin

kbasante265

This has been becoming a trend? that’s crazy.

alexbruns

AnomalyNexus

The weakest most fragile regimes fall to such tactics. I am worried that they won't stop but hope the opposition forces able to provide aid and protection or if the people could find more ways to protect themselves even if it's unlikely.

hyenathecrazy

I know that Hasbara is gonna pull these up only when people talk about Palestine, but jfc we actually do need to talk about these alongside Palestine.

mayonnaiser_13

Can we honestly not catch a damn break.

Like really.

Literally 24 fuckin hours.

Heck it's not even been 12 hours.

Can all you crazy assholes just go away for one freakin day and let the world breathe?

thrice_twice_once

Sorry to hear. Myanmar Junta must be destroyed

Droiddiddy

A Myanmar military strike on a festival and demonstration has killed more than 40 people, according to local reports. 

People were gathering for the festival and an anti-junta protest when bombs killed more than 40 people and injured about 80 others.

AudibleNod

jyukaku

jfc the military just bombing a festival. China and Russia are backing the military.

BillionDollarBalls

Where is the UN? Where is the ICC? Where is the outrage? How many more people must die in Myanmar before anything is done?

asiantechno19

This... seems very similar to the attack on the Supernova festival in Israel.

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Mathemodel

Damn. People are using their creativity in all the wrong ways.

SK-86

Democratic Voice of Burma an independent news agency based in Norway reported there were PDF rebel fighters in the crowd. 

[https://english.dvb.no/thirty-killed-by-paramotor-attack-in-sagaing-region-airstrike-destroys-monastery-in-northern-shan-state/](https://english.dvb.no/thirty-killed-by-paramotor-attack-in-sagaing-region-airstrike-destroys-monastery-in-northern-shan-state/)

It's not cool to attack religious ceremonies. 

Still I wonder why the BBC report omitted the presence of combatants and the junta's warnings to civilians about increased attacks in rebel areas.

Advanced-Pumpkin-917

An attack during a Buddhist festival in Myanmar resulted in numerous civilian casualties, raising alarms over military actions against civilians in ongoing conflicts.

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