Let Yet Kone massacre | |
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Part of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and Myanmar civil war (2021–present) | |
Location | Let Yet Kone, Sagaing Region |
Date | 16 September 2022 |
Deaths | at least 13 (including 8 children) |
Perpetrators | |
Charges | None |
The Let Yet Kone massacre was a mass killing of civilians on 16 September 2022, at a monastic school in the village of Let Yet Kone, near Tabayin in Sagaing Region, in north-western Myanmar. During the massacre, Myanmar Army and Myanmar Air Force troops killed at least 13 civilians, including 8 children.[1] The event became one of Myanmar's deadliest civilian massacres involving children in 2022, during which 165 children were killed by military forces.[2][3]