Local residents have condemned the attack on Myanmar's Japan government-backed health facility this month, saying the military attacked it with helicopters and burned down rooms and medicines.
The Myanmar military, which came to power in a coup d'état two years ago, attacked a village in the central Magway region on May 2, accusing pro-democracy forces of hiding there, and local media reported that a health facility built with the support of the Japan government was damaged.
Footage of the facility after the attack obtained by NHK shows the charred building and discolored plaques that say they were donated by the Japan government.
There is also a scene in which a man who worked at the facility explained the circumstances of the attack, saying that the distribution room and the medicine he had stockpiled were burned down.
In the video, a village man said, "The facility was the home of a pregnant woman, but the army attacked her with a helicopter, the facility did not belong to any armed group and prohibited the bringing of weapons," and accused the military of having two volunteer doctors, a nurse and a nurse, being detained by the military and still missing.
According to JICA = Japan International Cooperation Agency, this facility was built with grant aid from the Japan government with the aim of improving maternal and child health services, and the local Japan embassy has asked the military to provide information, but so far there has been no response.