Myanmar military junta ‘deliberately bombing medical facilities’ with secret jungle hospital now being sought

The Myanmar military junta is deliberately targeting medical facilities and medical staff with airstrikes, raids by soldiers and the burning down of buildings, using a map of public hospitals and clinics they drew up in 2019, according to a new report shared exclusively with Sky News.

Myanmar Witness, a project run by the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience that collects, analyses, verifies, and stores evidence related to human rights abuses in Myanmar, has identified 16 separate attacks on medical infrastructure and staff in just three months at the start of this year.

Earlier this year, Sky News obtained exclusive access to the last remaining hospital in one area of Myanmar.

All the others had been bombed or burnt down.

Read more: Sky News (UK)