March 11
2023
Pinlaung Massacre
On March 11, 2023, Myanmar military forces and allied militia killed at least 22 civilians, including Buddhist monks, at the Nan Nein village monastery in Pinlaung Township, Shan State. The atrocity, part of Myanmar’s escalating post-coup conflict, drew international condemnation and stands as one of the conflict’s most notorious civilian massacres. Read more
2012
The Kandahar Massacre
On March 11, 2012, in southern Afghanistan’s Panjwayi District, US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales left his outpost twice during the night and murdered 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, in the rural villages of Alkozai and Najiban. The massacre shocked both Afghanistan and the world, fueling outrage, upending fragile relations, and forcing reckonings about war, trauma, and military oversight. Read more
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