Myanmar’s junta has once again shown its true self: calculated, despicable, and violently unrestrained. Last night, warplanes dropped two 500-pound bombs onto a crowded hospital in Rakhine State. The blast tore through the building with surgical cruelty, sending glass and metal through wards where patients slept. Dozens were killed instantly; others bled out in the darkness as the hospital collapsed around them.

Many of the victims were children and infants. This wasn’t a tragic misfire

Many of the victims were children and infants. This wasn’t a tragic misfire, nor a reaction to combat nearby. It was a targeted strike: planned, ordered, and executed in the dead of night.

The generals in Naypyidaw chose their moment with perverse intent. They carried out this massacre on International Human Rights Day, sending a message they knew would be heard far beyond Myanmar’s borders: we will continue to do this, and nothing, no principle, no global norm,........

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