POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS
• The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian government has issued asylum visas for 2 soldiers who defected and joined the Civil Disobedience Movement.
• Prak Sokhonn, the Cambodian foreign minister and current ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar, will visit Myanmar for the first time on Sunday. The special envoy will hold talks with the military regime. His planned meeting with the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), a group of ten ethnic armed groups, has been canceled.
• Khit Thit Media reports that 25 soldiers have been killed across Myanmar
• Aung Myo Min, the human rights minister of the National Unity Government (NUG, the elected government that opposes the military), said that the military junta will be prosecuted in an Australian court for the December 24th massacre in Karenni State. 42 people were burned in Hpruso township including children and NGO workers
• According to Reuters, the Burmese Army gave its final approval to the sale of Telenor to a Burmese-Lebanese joint venture
CHIN STATE
• Kanpetlet: the Resistance group CDF-Kanpetlet was forced to leave its base after being attacked with artillery shells fired by the Burmese army for several hours
• Paletwa: Tin Tun Aung was charged by the military regime for releasing an interview to Western News (a Rakhine news outlet) about defecting soldiers. Two journalists of Western News were also sued
SAGAING
• Mingin: the military shot Thar Chit (80) to death in Peikkhaya Village on March 16th
• Wetlet: regime soldiers raided Taungkone village and burned several houses, killing an elderly
• Depayin: an 80-year-old man died in a fire caused by regime soldiers in Marakan village
• Htigyaing: Ye Min Zaw (21) was found dead in Kyauk Aik on Monday. He was abducted by regime troops in Bo Te Kone village and was seen by locals being carried by the military with a noose around his neck. The body was found with a bullet wound.
• Khin U: Mizzima reports that the Burmese military burned 7 villages in 12 days.
KARENNI (KAYAH) STATE
• Demoso: Resistance groups claim to have killed 4 regime soldiers in Ukuri village
• Hpruso: clashes at the Myoma police station
MAGWAY
• Kyauktaw Township: a military convoy from Pakkoku was attacked by Resistance fighters allegedly killing 8 soldiers
COVID DAILY (as reported by the military-controlled Ministry of Health. Real figures are believed to be higher than officially reported)
• 540 new cases and 2 new deaths
AAPP Burma daily update (arrests and killings connected to the attempted military coup only, does not include events related to armed conflict). Since February 1st:
• 1,687 killed (+8)
• 12,813 total arrests (+33)
• 1,973 evading warrant (+0)
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