With the aims to create an uneducated society following the loss of children’s rights to education as well as to support them by making people very frightened, the NUG, CRPH, and their subordinates so-called PDF terrorist Groups, which the Government has declared as terrorist organizations, are conducting various kinds of destructive activities across the country such as intimidation and coercion against students, teachers and parents; abductions and killings of students, teachers and parents; arson and bombing attacks on schools. In addition to the acts aforesaid, so-called PDF terrorists, with destructive emotions, are making acts of vandalism against the government’s efforts on education sector development such as putting textbooks and teaching/learning aids to the torch; and taking those forcibly.
Since they are committing such terrorist acts, on 3 June at 11:00 PM, a so-called PDF terrorist group (total number- under scrutiny) set fire to and destroyed the No. 1 Basic Education High School in Nyaungkone (5) Ward of Pekhon Township, Southern Shan State. As a result of the burning, a single-story school building consisting of eight rooms, measuring 210 feet in length, 30 feet in width and 22 feet in height. The building was constructed with zinc roofing, plank walls and floors, was destroyed by the fire. The school had only recently opened on 1 June and a total of 40 teachers were serving and a total of 1058 students were learning at the school, it is reported.
Security personnel are doing required investigations to find and apprehend those terrorists involved in the aforementioned threats and to take legal action against them. The public was urged to oppose the NUG and so-called PDF terrorist groups who committed nefarious acts and participate in protecting security for the future of children by providing the information about terrorists’ movements to concerned administration bodies, it is reported.
So-called PDF terrorist group (total number- under scrutiny) set fire to and destroyed the No. 1 Basic Education High School in Nyaungkone (5) Ward of Pekhon Township, Southern Shan State.
