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Terrorists conduct disruptive acts against education sector development in Hpakant Township to create uneducated classes in the society

     The national government is opening basic education schools to ensure the full utilization of the right to education in order to prevent the education of the future generations from being left behind. 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 CRPH, NUG and their subordinates so-called PDF terrorists, 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; heavy weapon attacks, dropping bombs using drones, arson and bombing attacks on educational buildings. 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 12 November at 11:45 PM, a report indicated that an explosion occurred at the Basic Education High School in Satemu Village of Hpakant Township in Kachin State. Security personnel promptly arrived at the scene and conducted an inspection. Upon inspection, it was found that a homemade mine, planted by a KIA insurgent group and a so-called PDF terrorists, had detonated in front of the school. As a result of the explosion, a six-foot block brick fence covered with wrought iron and seven window glasses of a school hall within the school compound were damaged, 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 in accordance with necessary security measures, it is reported.