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India urged to close airspace to Myanmar warplanes after attacks

Two Myanmar military jets fire missiles during combined exercise by Myanmar army and air force near Magway in January 2019 [File: AFP]

India should stop Myanmar’s warplanes from entering Indian airspace during operations by the military regime to bomb targets in areas near India’s border, an international human rights group has said.

Fortify Rights claimed that Myanmar’s air force had “dropped bombs on both sides of the Myanmar-India border” in deadly attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday against an ethnic-Chin rebel group.

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