SAC Jets Drop ~50 Bombs on Mee Zar Village in Paletwa Township — Arakan Army-Administered Chin State Targeted

On April 22, 2026, Myanmar Air Force jets dropped approximately 50 bombs on Mee Zar village in Paletwa Township, Chin State — territory under Arakan Army (AA) administration since AA captured Paletwa in January 2024. Paletwa Township lies along the Kaladan River corridor connecting Rakhine State to India's Mizoram border, a route of strategic importance for both AA supply lines and India's Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project. The scale of the bombardment — approximately 50 bombs dropped in a single operation on a single village — is unusually large, suggesting the SAC targeted either a significant AA logistics node or conducted punitive area denial strikes. Casualty figures were under investigation at the time of initial reporting. The strike on AA-administered Paletwa follows the SAC's pattern of using airpower as a last-resort tool in territories it has lost on the ground: having ceded physical control of Paletwa to the AA in January 2024, the junta retains no ground presence but can still strike from the air. The April 22 Paletwa bombing, coming on the same day as the SAC jets killing 4 teenagers near Letpadan and resistance forces capturing a junta outpost near Naypyidaw, reflects the breadth of simultaneous SAC aerial operations across Myanmar even as the junta's ground position continues to deteriorate. India has been watching the Kaladan corridor situation closely, given its transit infrastructure investment and geopolitical interest in maintaining a Myanmar land route to the Indian Ocean.