mizzima.com-July 20
Students at schools in Chin State’s Mindat Township, under the National Unity Government’s (NUG) Board of Education are being taught in trenches because of the risk of junta airstrikes. The children are also being given bomb awareness training by their teachers, who are all taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), and local defence forces are teaching the children how to flee and hide if they are caught up in a junta airstrike. An official of the NUG’s Mindat Board of Education said: “The NUG has requested that schools dig trenches to shelter from bombs. The teachers are giving the children bomb awareness training in accordance with NUG guidelines and Chin Defence Force (CDF) – Mindat comes to teach the children how to run and hide when they hear jet fighters.” He said not only does the junta launch airstrikes and fire artillery into villages, it also targets religious buildings and sites, medical facilities and schools in the same way, which is why children need to be taught to protect themselves in the case of artillery attacks or airstrikes. One of the teachers from Mindat said attacking students with artillery and aircraft was genocide. CDF Mindat has issued a statement advising people to dig trenches where they can safely shelter from junta airstrikes and artillery attacks. Read more at:
https://www.mizzima.com/article/chin-schoolchildren-being-taught-trenches-because-airstrikes
