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This Photo Set presents photographic evidence of Burma Army air strikes conducted on local communities in Southeast Burma from January to December 2025. KHRG received more than 3,600 photographs displaying the impacts of the Burma Army’s indiscriminate and targeted air strikes during the reporting period. Since the 2021 coup, and throughout 2025, air strikes have resulted in civilian deaths and injuries, the destruction of numerous community buildings (including schools, monasteries, and churches), as well as plantations and rice fields, and have caused massive displacement. In 2025, at least 66 villagers, including 18 children, were killed, and 176 villagers, including 66 children, were injured by Burma Army air strikes in Southeast Burma. As a result of these attacks, fear has become widespread in the communities, severely impacting villagers’ security and livelihoods. Air strikes have also significantly disrupted villagers’ access to healthcare, education, and other essential services. The constant risk of further attacks has left villagers unable to continue working on their farms, and many have fled to forests and caves to find refuge.
Since 2021, the Burma military regime[1] has increasingly used air strikes in Southeast Burma, resulting in widespread civilian deaths and injuries, destruction, and displacement. Based on KHRG documentation, in 2025, the Burma Army used different types of weapons, including machine guns, mortars, and various bombs, when conducting deadly air strikes on communities in the seven districts of locally-defined Karen State[2]: Doo Tha Htoo (Thaton), Taw Oo (Toungoo), Kler Lwee Htoo (Nyaunglebin), Mergui-Tavoy, Mu Traw (Hpapun), Dooplaya, and Hpa-an districts.[3] Air attacks were conducted with or without active fighting near villages, without warning or other precautionary measures before the attack.[4] Often, air strikes followed air reconnaissance. A high number of air strikes impacted community buildings, such as schools, monastery compounds, and churches, which are often clearly identifiable from the air, as well as villagers’ homes, farms, and plantations.
This Photo Set includes 83 photos (selected from a total of 3,662 photographs received in 2025), providing evidence of impacts faced by local villagers in the aftermath of Burma Army air strikes in Southeast Burma. 74 of the included photographs were taken by local community members trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions in their areas, and nine were taken by local villagers and authorities. The photos show casualties, destruction, displacement, and the different types of weapons used by the Burma Army during air attacks. The names of the victims, their photos, and the exact locations are censored for security and sensitivity reasons.