Amid three days of NCA peace events, junta bombs multiple areas nationwide

By Admin 18 Oct 2025

DMG Newsroom

18 October 2025, Nay Pyi Taw

While the junta hosted ceremonies and “peace dialogues” marking the 10th anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) from October 15–17, it simultaneously carried out air attacks against territories held by resistance forces across the country.

Even as foreign envoys, armed groups, and junta officials gathered in Nay Pyi Taw, the regime conducted airstrikes in Kachin State, Sagaing Region, and Shan State.

Around midnight on October 16, the junta attacked Laiza, headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near the Chinese border, using a suicide drone, injuring two Chinese nationals, according to sources.

A former political prisoner criticized the regime’s duplicity: “They talk loudly about peace at the ceremony, then target civilians with multiple aircraft and upgraded drones. That’s what truly vicious people do — even with international representatives present. The world should respond strongly to this blatant criminality.”

Just hours before the NCA events began, on the morning of October 15, the junta’s air force dropped 44 bombs from a Y-12 aircraft on villages in western Pakokku Township, Magway Region, an area controlled by People’s Defence Forces (PDFs).

That same morning, the military also bombed Zayat Kone Village in Myaung Township, Sagaing, wounding many civilians, and carried out another strike using a gyro-helicopter on Ywar Thar Gyi Village southwest of Wetlet.

In northern Shan State, where the TNLA controls territory, the junta bombed Kalin Village near Hsipaw on October 15, the TNLA said. On October 16 around 7 a.m., the air force also struck Le Gyi and Pasi villages in Mogok Township, Mandalay Region.

Also on October 16, the junta dropped two 250-pound bombs on Nyaung Kon Htet Village in Mogok Township, damaging a poultry farm, according to the TNLA.

Military and political analysts say the air raids on TNLA-held areas appear intended both as warnings ahead of ground offensives and to destroy key TNLA positions.

A Myanmar student studying political science in Thailand observed: “Look at any town in northern Shan — the bombing is intense. Then ground offensives follow in places like Naungcho, Kyaukme, and Hsipaw. The strategy is to use air power to smooth the way for assaults. Resistance groups must take note; the military isn’t interested in human rights — it’s interested in protecting its own power.”

On October 17, an airstrike on Thit Cho Village in Ayadaw Township, Sagaing Region, killed five civilians and injured five more. The TNLA also reported that a morning air raid (around 8:30 a.m.) on Namtu in Shan State injured four women.