The Interim Chin National Consultative Council (ICNCC), an organisation formed by former legislators sacked in the military coup, civil society groups and the Chin National Front (CNF), has criticised the military’s recent airstrikes on the CNF headquarters in Camp Victoria in northern Chin State.
In a statement, the ICNCC said that the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, which killed five CNF soldiers, damaged a clinic and destroyed a medical supply depot at the headquarters in Thangtlang Township, saddened the Chin community but also strengthened their resolve to fight to overthrow the military regime.
ICNCC wrote: “The military’s air strikes on…Camp Victoria are politically wrong. It has left a lasting trauma in the minds of the people.” The military has taken power in the country by force, “against the will of all ethnic peoples, including the Chins”. The attacks have demonstrated that the regime “isn’t willing to resolve political differences through dialogue”.
The junta’s recent announcement of a ceasefire across the country is nothing but a farce, writes the ICNCC.
On 10 January, fighter jets dropped at least five shells on the camp, killing the soldiers. In the second attack the next day, the clinic was damaged and the medical camp destroyed.