War in India's neighbourhood: Amid Ukraine conflict, Myanmar sees fighter jet bombings, violence

While the war in Ukraine has grabbed the attention of almost everyone across the globe, another place in India's neighbourhood is seeing extremely intense fighting, but is yet to gain attention.

The military dictatorship in Myanmar is being accused of unleashing its full might on people opposing its rule. Civilians who have reportedly formed militias to fight against the tyrannical junta, are facing rocket attacks by fighter jets and attack choppers.

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Free Burma Rangers, an organisation reportedly working to provide aid in the area, claimed to have captured the junta government's assaults on camera. FBR's David Eubank told Associated Press, "The worst fighting I think since World War II is happening in Burma and up in Kachin it's been going on for a few years – sporadic – but what I saw in Karenni I had not seen in Burma before. Air strikes, not like one or two a day like they do in Karen State, but like two MIGs coming one after the other, these Yak fighters, there was one after the other, Hind helicopter gunships, Russian planes, and then just brought hundreds of rounds of 120mm mortar. Just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."

On February 1, 2021, the military staged a coup after elections in which Aung San Suu Kyi's party claimed to have won by a landslide. The army supported the Opposition which claimed electoral fraud. The charge was dismissed by the election commission. After the coup, Suu Kyi was jailed on various charges.