Destruction and loss of life have swept central Burma, driven by an earthquake and relentless government airstrikes. Photo courtesy of Burmese ethnic social media.
“‘His brains jumped out of his head,’ cried a distraught woman from central Burma, describing a man crushed to death when a building collapsed on him during the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, killing and wounding thousands.
That disaster was just the start—the government’s relentless air and drone strikes against civilians have only piled on the suffering.
“Burma army airstrikes continued through the night and into the next day,” reported the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), an aid organization on the ground, as government bombs hammered the exact epicenter of the earthquake that just ravaged Myanmar.
This isn’t just a natural disaster—it’s a crime against humanity. The junta’s drones and jets relentlessly target areas already littered with the dead and wounded, while civilians, isolated from help, claw through rubble with hand tools in 41-degree heat to rescue what could be thousands trapped beneath.
A doctor from the civil disobedience movement estimates the official death toll of 1,700 is a lie—perhaps one-tenth or less of the real body count.
Before the ground even shook, Burma (Myanmar) was a humanitarian wreck: 20 million people needed aid, and 3.5 million were displaced by the regime’s endless attacks.
Now, the earthquake’s aftermath has exposed the junta’s brutality on a new level. They’re not just bombing the wounded and dying—they’re choking off survival.
The government has cut down the internet speed, phone service has been reduced to almost nothing, and international aid workers, observers and reporters are barred from entry, all to silence the truth.
Earth Mission Asia, a faith-based group running a free medical school training physician assistants and providing free medical care in Burma’s war zones, blasted the junta’s hypocrisy in a statement.
They pointed out that the same regime begging for international aid is waging “military attacks—direct military action against its own people,” relentlessly pounding civilians with air and artillery strikes while large-scale and government-to-government donations pour into military hands for weapons, not relief.
Earth Mission warned that “any aid given through official Myanmar channels will go to support the military,” feeding soldiers and pilots bombing civilians—not victims—a pattern proven time and again.
“Don’t do that,” they urged, insisting that despite good intentions, “it kills more than it helps.” Instead, they pressed the international community to support small ethnic and faith-based organizations like the Jesuits, Caritas, Earth Mission Asia, and Free Burma Rangers (FBR) as the best shot to get aid where it’s needed.
Across the border, a Burmese diaspora leader in Thailand spoke of the heartbreak: “Some families, already torn apart by war, now post photos on social media of collapsed apartment buildings, crying, ‘My family is still inside—my mom, my children.’”
He said the junta’s airstrikes hitting the earthquake’s epicenter pile “troubles over troubles” on a suffering people, calling the generals’ actions beyond words. “They made all these bad situations, and they still don’t regret it—they’re still doing it,” he fumed, wondering how they even think.
Yet he clings to hope: “We’ll keep praying for everybody back home, and I hope God protects them. Maybe this gets the world to finally care and do something—I pray it’s the trigger.”
In the ethnic states, where homes were already ash from years of military assaults, people darkly joke, “We didn’t notice the earthquake—everything was already destroyed.”
That grim humor masks a horrifying reality: the junta has cut off an entire population from the outside world, turning a natural catastrophe into a crime against humanity.
Field updates from the Free Burma Rangers in Karenni State document the regime’s violence piling onto the disaster, a relentless campaign against a people who refuse to break.
How to Help: Donation Options
Bank transfers sent to Myanmar get seized by the junta, so here’s how to get aid to the people who need it. For Free Burma Rangers, contact via this link or contact at giving@freeburmarangers.org.
Earth Mission can be reached at this link or by email info@earthmission.net for details. The Jesuits route aid through their Manila account (Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific, Eastwest Bank, Account #300001300311, Swift: EWBCPHMM) or, in Thailand, the Thai Jesuit Region account with “MYN” in the memo—notify treasurer@jcapsj.org, sec2@jcapsj.org, and mynprocur@gmail.com to ensure it reaches the ground.
These groups defy the junta, risking their lives and freedom to deliver aid where it matters. Please pray for their work and for the people of Burma.
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