Let Yet Kone massacre

Let Yet Kone massacre
Part of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and Myanmar civil war (2021–present)
Site of massacre is located in Myanmar
Site of massacre
Site of massacre
Site of massacre (Myanmar)
LocationLet Yet Kone, Sagaing Region
Date16 September 2022
Deathsat least 13 (including 8 children)
Perpetrators
ChargesNone

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]

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