During the two-week period from 26 February to 11 March 2026, armed conflict intensified across Myanmar, while aerial attacks by the military junta also increased compared to the previous reporting period. During the same period, civilian fatalities resulting from aerial strikes exceeded 300. Notably, an aerial strike targeted a detention facility in Arakan State where the Arakan Army (AA) was holding captured junta officers and personnel.
According to data collected by BNI-Myanmar Peace Monitor, the junta has carried out nine aerial strikes targeting detention facilities operated by resistance forces where their personnel, including officers, were being held. Across these incidents, 287 prisoners of war (POWs) were killed and 177 injured.
The 8 March 2026 airstrike an Arakan Army’s POW detention camp in the Dalet Chaung area of Ann Township, Arakan State, resulted in the highest number of prisoner fatalities, including POWs, with 116 killed and 32 injured. 1
“I’m just so shocked and shaken that they used a jet to attack us like this, especially when they knew exactly where we were,” a wounded prisoner of war said, recalling the airstrike on the detention camp.. 2
On 20 January 2026, the junta also bombed a prisoner detention camp located west of Chaung Tu (also known as Saung Don) Village, located on the border of Kyauktaw and Ponnagyun townships. The attack killed 21 people, including POWs and their family members, and injured 30 others. The detainees at this camp were Prisoners of War from the junta’s Artillery Regiment-377 and Light Infantry Battalion (LIB)-539, who had been captured during the AA offensive on Ponnagyun. 3
The junta airstrike on 8 March 2026 against the Arakan Army’s POW detention camp in the Dalet Chaung area of Ann Township was an act of extreme brutality, especially given their full knowledge that the facility held high-ranking personnel, including the Deputy Commander of the Western Regional Military Command, Brigadier General Thaung Tun, and the Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Kyaw Kyaw Than, along with captains, other officers, and their family members.
The aerial strikes carried out by the Senior General Min Aung Hlaing-led junta against their own soldiers, officers, and their families currently held by resistance forces may constitute the deliberate targeting of their own captured personnel. This raises serious concerns that the regime is endangering not only civilians but also its own captured personnel.
POWs currently held in the custody of resistance forces, including the AA, have called for an end to such attacks.
Daw Thida Soe, the wife of Warrant Officer II Zaw Tin Moe – a POW whose body remains missing following the Dalet Chaung detention camp bombing-stated:
“I don’t think they should have done this. I feel like the leaders on the junta’s side shouldn’t just use people when they need them and then discard them when they don’t. Maybe it’s because we are no longer needed… I just don’t have any words left to say.” 4
1..Over 100 POWs killed in junta airstrike in Ann’s Dalet Chaung area, Mizzima, 11 Mar 2026.
2..Statement from a captain wounded during junta airstrike on Dalet Chaung POW detention camp, One Nation News, 12 Mar 2026
3. 21 POWs and family members killed, 30 injured in junta airstrike on AA detention camp
4. Personal account from wife of missing POW whose body remains unrecovered following detention camp bombing, One Nation News, 11 Mar 2026