POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS
• UNICEF: Around 700,000 children in Myanmar did not receive routine vaccines in 2021, putting them at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.
• Thailand has appointed its first special envoy for Myanmar, who will be tasked with representing the country at meetings and summits pertaining to the country’s escalating crisis. The appointment of Pornpimol Kanchanalak was made in a letter dated April 25 and signed by Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. (Source: The Diplomat)
• Frontier Myanmar won merit at the FCC Human Rights Press Awards for its pieces on the Hlaing Thar Yar massacre and the burning of Kinma village in which dozens of innocent people have been brutally killed by the military regime
• A junta court sentenced deposed Yangon Region social affairs minister U Naing Ngan Lin on Thursday to 15 years in prison for five charges of alleged corruption. U Naing Ngan Lin was arrested after last year’s coup and has been detained in Yangon’s Insein Prison since then. (Source: The Irrawaddy)
• Detained Mandalay protest leader Ko Thura Aung has been transferred from Mandalay’s Obo Prison to the city’s notorious interrogation center after allegedly contracting COVID-19. The protest leader was violently beaten and arrested along with three other youth activists on February 9 and reportedly severely tortured at the interrogation center before being sent to Obo Prison. A leading monk in Mandalay’s Pyigyitagon Township has also been denied medical treatment for his injuries and sent back to the interrogation center. (Source: The Irrawaddy)
• Russian and Belarusian cargo planes landed in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw
• Daw Ywat Nu Aung, lawyer of the former Mandalay Region Chief Minister Zaw Myint Maung, was arrested by the military regime
Apex Bank’s chairman and CEO were charged under the Anti-Corruption Law on April 27 in relation to parent Eden Group’s Tigyit power plant venture. (Source: DVB)
CHIN STATE
• Matupi: Resistance fighters attacked regime troops on the Matupi-Mindat Road
KACHIN STATE
• Mohnyin: clashes between the Kachin Independence Army and regime forces reported in Indawgyi
SHAN STATE
• Muse: fighting between the Kokang Army (MNDAA) and regime troops in Naungkham village
• Hopong: A 7-year-old child was killed by an unexploded hand granade found while playing. Theree other children have been injured
• Thachileik: the military regime claims that 2 million narcotic pills and several weapons have been seized
MAGWAY
• Myaing: Sai Gaung village raided and set on fire by Burmese soldiers
• Pauk: regime troops burned houses in Thit Nyi Naung village
BAGO
• Several houses have been bulldozed by the military regime in Pyay Town
YANGON
• A group called Yangon Thwe Thout fired shots at actor Hein Htet’s house in Mingaladon Township, Yangon, on Thursday afternoon, killing his grandfather. Htauk Kyant Police Station was attacked by Resistance fighters(Source: The Irrawaddy)
• Khit Thit Media reports that 14 youths have been arrested and 1 killed by the military in Alat Chaung
MON STATE
• Bilin: clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army and the Burmese Army
COVID DAILY (as reported by the military-controlled Ministry of Health. Real figures are believed to be higher than officially reported)
• 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:
• 1,800 killed (+2)
• 13,452 total arrests (+28)
• 1,977 evading warrant (+0)
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