KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — The Malaysian Advisory Group on Myanmar today condemned the military junta there over an airstrike on Pazi Gyi Village in the Kanbula Township of Sagaing Region that killed over 100 people including women and children and wounded at least 30 others.

Group chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said that the attack on April 11 was followed by several rounds of gunfire from a Mi-35 combat helicopter, causing further damage to the already affected community.

"According to local sources, children aged two and three years’ old were among the youngest victims of the attack, as they were gathered in the area where the air strikes occurred,” he said in a statement.

He said the incident was just one example of the escalating violence in Myanmar since the military coup in February 2021, breaching international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.

"The conflict in Myanmar has resulted in widespread and systematic attacks on civilians by the security forces. This includes killing protesters, enforced disappearances, torture, sexual abuse, rape, and mass detentions.

"Many of the 1,200 people killed since the coup were unarmed protesters and bystanders. Security forces have used lethal force, even when there was no apparent threat,” he added.

Syed Hamid said the international community must take urgent action to put an end to this crisis and hold the Myanmar regime accountable for its actions.

"The indiscriminate use of force against civilians is a violation of international law and human rights.

"We stand in solidarity with the people of Myanmar in their struggle for peace, justice, and democracy,” he added.

He also said the failure to stop the violence against civilians in Myanmar was the clearest sign that the Asean Five-point Consensus was failing.

"We call for all Asean members states to assert the strongest possible pressure on Myanmar to immediately sees all forms of violence against civilians before more innocent lives are slaughtered,” he said.