POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS
• The military council issued a new law last week enabling them to force members of Myanmar’s police to join the fight against anti-coup resistance forces across the country (Source: Myanmar Now)
• Myanmar’s junta Lieutenant General Yar Pyae meets five members of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in Naypyidaw (Source: The Chindwin News Agency)
• Chinese Embassy in Myanmar has announced Kyin San Kyaw Gate (Muse – Wan Thing – Man Mai main road) – one of the border trade gates between China and Myanmar has been reopened on 27 March (Source: The Chindwin News Agency)
• The military regime announced it will reopen movie theaters after months of closure due to Covid and the Political situation
CHIN STATE
• Hakha: a military helicopter crashed injuring 5 soldiers on board
• Mindat: clashes between Resistance fighters and regime troops
• Kanpetlet: clashes between Resistance fighters and regime troops on March 27th
SAGAING
• Pale: regime troops fired artillery shells at Lat Pu Kan Village, hitting civilian houses and killing 45-year-old Win Htay
• Parami village: the body of U Nyunt Shwe (67) was burned by regime soldiers
• Yinmarpin: 5 houses in Bangbwe village have been burned by regime soldiers forcing residents to flee. The Burmese army ordered to the civilians to return to their homes
KARENNI (KAYAH) STATE
• Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) is said to have cleared several landmines planted at the paddy farms by Myanmar junta army. (Source: The Chindwin News Agency)
• Demoso: 2 civilians have been killed by artillery shelling in Daw Taw Ku village
KAREN (KAYIN) STATE
• Myawaddy: clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and regime troops near Paledo village. A bus driver was killed on the Myawaddy-Kawkareik Asia Highway Road yesterday
Saw Htee: Burmese soldiers abducted and tortured 3 civilians from Kyauk Ma Oo village
• Thaton: a child was killed during a shootout between a KNLA/PDF alliance and military troops on the Yangon-Mawlamyine Expressway near Kamasai village (Source: DVB)
MAGWAY
• Gangaw: hundreds of home have been destroyed and nearly 3,000 people have been displaced due to raids by the Burmese military
ARAKAN (RAKHINE) STATE
• Buthidaung: an 18-year-old muslim was killed after accidentally stepping on an unexploded ordnance. A 20-year-old was injured
AYEYARWADY
• Hinthada: Ko Zin Ko Aung, a motorcyclist, was shot dead by gunmen at a checkpoint on Myo Shaw Road on March 24th
YANGON
• Thanlyin: young activists Ko Aung Kaung Myat & Ko Hein Zarni Aung were shot & arrested on March 27th
TANINTHARYI
• Dawei: a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to 10 years of prison for allegedly donating to the armed Resistance
MON STATE
• Bilin: Resistance fighters attacked a military vehicle
BANGLADESH
• Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees in a further blow to the educational prospects of thousands of children stuck in vast camps in the country’s southeast (Source: Mizzima)
COVID DAILY (as reported by the military-controlled Ministry of Health. Real figures are believed to be higher than officially reported)
• 254 new cases and 0 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:
• 1,719 killed (+5)
• 13,024 total arrests (+35)
• 1,974 evading warrant (+0)
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