# Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 11 April 2023 Myanmar’s air force struck a gathering at Pazigyi village, Kanbalu Township, Sagaing, during a community opening. The Secretary-General condemned the attack and called for those responsible to be held accountable. Junta spokesmen said they had carried out a precision strike on People’s Defence Force stores. Early UN and AP reports spoke of at least about 100 dead; later local and NUG figures ran higher. Those are estimates.

## Context

Tom Andrews, the Special Rapporteur, linked the strike to continued weapons supply. He is not minted. Casualty integers remain contested between first-day UN/AP language and later NUG/local tallies.

Morning strike 11 April; later same-day reports of further fire. Store as one Pazigyi cluster. Keep Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack on 2023-04-11 separate from neighbouring 25 August 2017 Rakhine operations, 1 February 2021 coup, 25 July 2022 hangings, 11 April 2023 Pazigyi strike, 10 February 2024 conscription, and 3 April 2026 parliamentary elevation.

The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services from 2011, SAC chairman from 2 February 2021 to 31 July 2025, and president from 10 April 2026 can order clearance operations, a coup, hangings, airstrikes, and a draft. That office does not sit as an ICC judge, does not write an ICJ order, and a contested casualty estimate is not converted here into Contribution.size.

## Evidence and sources

UN News carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is junta atrocity: a completed aerial attack on a named gathering, with death totals left as estimates.

## What is established and what is not

Established: An airstrike hit Pazigyi on 11 April 2023; the Secretary-General condemned it; AP recorded early reports of as many as 100 dead; the junta described a strike on PDF targets.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Junta spokesmen confirmed a strike. This page does not claim he sat in the cockpit.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack, not a later speech about Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack on 2023-04-11 is not a licence to treat every later UN News communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Air force strikes a gathering at Pazigyi village, Sagaing; Secretary-General condemns the attack into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The air force is the CinC’s service. Junta spokesmen confirmed a strike. This page does not claim he sat in the cockpit. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Min Aung Hlaing: https://factrail.ai/people/min-aung-hlaing

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space
- Min Aung Hlaing junta atrocity (Myanmar): https://factrail.ai/drivers/min-aung-hlaing-junta-atrocity

## Sources

- https://apnews.com/article/airstrikes-military-myanmar-village-918fd636bb81153928ab7481e06423e5
- https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135522

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-pazigyi-airstrike-2023