‘A normal tactic’: Myanmar’s aid workers vow to press on despite Christmas Eve massacre

Attacks such as the one in which two Save the Children staff died are a harsh fact of life under the junta, say humanitarian workers

The events of last week are just par for the army's inhumanity and immorality."

So says Michael Isherwood, chair of the Burma Humanitarian Mission and program director of Backpack Medics, after Myanmar's junta massacred more than 35 people, including two Save the Children workers, on Christmas Eve. At the time, the attack garnered international headlines, with the children's charity calling it absolutely horrifying", and the UN urging an investigation.