Myanmar's civil war causes devastating rise in attacks on schools

FILE - Smoke rises from debris and corrugated roofing of a school building that was burned to the ground in Taung Myint village in the Magway region of Myanmar on Oct. 16, 2022. FILE - A teacher and students wearing face shields and masks attend a class at a high school in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 21, 2020. Student enrollment in Myanmar dropped 80% from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 through 2022, a year after the military took over.

An intensification of fighting in Myanmar’s civil war has brought a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools, a group that monitors armed conflict in the Southeast Asian nation said in a report Saturday.