According to Labour News, Workers at the Latwar (3) Garment factory are forced to work on weekends, and are being deducted up to 10,000 kyat from their wages if they fail to show up at work on Sundays. According to the 2021 ITUC Global Rights Index, Myanmar is one of the worst 10 places for workers in the world due to brutal repression of strikers and protesters, repressive laws and arbitrary arrests. After some timid improvements during the past decade, workers in Myanmar have seen their conditions deteriorating after the coup, with workers’ unions being outlawed, and many leaders being jailed.
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS
• Myanmar’s military killed as many as a dozen civilians and arrested nearly 30 others in restive Magway region in the month of March alone, while junta troops torched more than 700 houses in 18 of the region’s villages over the same period, residents said Friday. (Source: RFA)
• Ayeyarwady: Lonma Nyein Chan, the daughter of renowned Burmese poet Maung Aung Pwint, has committed suicide by poisoning at her home in Pathein, local sources claim. (Source: DVB)
• Ko Raza, who was arrested on March 2nd at the HIV care home in Dagon Myothit, has been charged under the anti-terrorism law for allegedly funding the anti-military Resistance.
CHIN STATE
• Mindat: clashes between Resistance fighters and regime soldiers intensify. A video shows a military convoy headed to Mindat being attacked with landmines. The Chinland Defence Force – Mindat claims to have killed over 50 soldiers
SAGAING
• Ayadaw: Resistance fighters seized a military post in Thitgyikyi village, allegedly killing 5 regime soldiers.
KAREN (KAYIN) STATE
• Mudraw: according to the KNU Brigade 5, there were 359 clashes with the Burmese army in March. According to the KNU, 118 regime soldiers and 10 KNLA soldiers were killed.
MANDALAY
• Pyin Oo Lwin: 5 soldiers killed by an explosion near the gate of the military academy
MAGWAY
• Yesagyo: a woman was shot dead and her house burned during a raid in Ye Lay Kyun
TANINTHARYI
• Myeik: 5 workers from Shwe Kyin Township, Bago Division, were killed by a landslide in Thabaleik Village
COVID DAILY (as reported by the military-controlled Ministry of Health. Real figures are believed to be higher than officially reported)
• 135 new cases and 1 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:
• 1,723 killed (April 1st)
• 13,047 total arrests ()
• 1,976 evading warrant ()
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