Churches, temples and monasteries regularly hit by airstrikes in Myanmar: Activists

Debris is seen in the St Peter Baptist Church-Kanan, which was struck by the suspected military's aerial attacks in Kanan village, Khampat town, Sagaing region on Jan 8, 2024. - AP

BANGKOK: A study issued Tuesday (Jan 24) by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist-dominated country’s sole Christian-majority state.

The 10 reported attacks on churches in the western state of Chin examined by the researchers are part of a broader assault on religious communities across the war-torn nation, other religious and human rights workers said.