The political extremists of terrorists are planting mines at and attacking schools using grenades/IEDs and small arms as well as threatening and brutally killing the teachers and education staff as they are not willing to see the brighter future of the youths with higher education.
In this regard, the following incidents took place in Yangon and Sagaing regions on 1 and 2 February:
- In Tharkayta township of Yangon region, an IED planted by PDF terrorists near No.(6) Basic Education High School exploded leaving a window glass of a school building shattered.
- In Kawlin township of Sagaing region, two PDF terrorists threw two homemade grenades into the house of U Kyaw Thein, a deputy education officer of the township. The incident took place when the officer and his wife were going outside. The explosion left one refrigerator, four tin boxes and other furniture damaged.
- Similarly, Ko Myo Min Tun, a resident of Mingalar ward was shot to death by two PDF terrorists on 2 February in Taik Kyi township of Yangon region while he was sending his son to Myoma Basic Education High School. He died on the spot with the gunshot wounds.
With the aim of the utter devastation of the State, political extremists of terrorists are intensifying their violent acts and sabotages. In this regard, they are senselessly doing the nefarious acts such as blowing up and burning down the schools and other education infrastructures and brutal killings of innocent civilians and education staff who are cooperating for the better education of the children. As the terrorists commit such acts in order to disrupt the learnings of the youths who are the future of the Nation, the people across the country want the international communities to denounce them.
Security forces are making efforts to identify and take actions against the perpetrators of the terror acts in the above-mentioned incidents in line with law.
- In Tharkayta township of Yangon region, an IED planted by PDF terrorists near No.(6) Basic Education High School exploded leaving a window glass of a school building shattered.
- In Kawlin township of Sagaing region, two PDF terrorists threw two homemade grenades into the house of U Kyaw Thein, a deputy education officer of the township when the officer and his wife were going outside. The explosion left one refrigerator, four tin boxes and other furniture damaged.
- Ko Myo Min Tun, a resident of Mingalar ward was shot to death by two PDF terrorists on 2 February in Taik Kyi township of Yangon region while he was sending his son to Myoma Basic Education High School.