#WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

#WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

Demonstrators hold a banner that reads ‘What are we? We are Yangon people’ as they march in downtown Yangon on April 23 (EPA-EFE)
Protesters return to downtown Yangon ahead of Min Aung Hlaing’s trip to ASEAN summit 
The rally was not met with violence by police or soldiers
Published on Apr 23, 2021
A woman lays flowers in front of the photos of two people who were killed by the junta in February (Myanmar Now)
Monitoring group hits back at junta claim that post-coup death toll is ‘bloated’
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said it publishes daily lists of victims and the regime’s claim is ‘unsubstantiated’
Apr 22, 2021
Caption: The 120mm shells that landed on farmland near the Loi Kaw Wan IDP camp (SSRC)
Myanmar military artillery shells explode near Shan IDP camps
No one was reported injured but several thousand IDPs are on ‘high alert’ after the shells landed on nearby farmland, a local group says
Apr 22, 2021
Major Hein Thaw Oo, a military defector from LID 99 (Supplied)
Myanmar’s military ‘a system of monarchs and slaves,’ defector says
A major who abandoned LID 99 says a culture of fear has long stopped soldiers from leaving the army, but now feels that may change
Apr 22, 2021
Resistance leader Tayzar San at an anti-coup rally in Mandalay on April 14 (EPA)
Soldier shoots 14-year-old girl in the hand during raids on Mandalay neighbourhoods
A monk was also injured in the attacks, a rescue worker said
Apr 22, 2021
Locals in Yinmabin Township, Sagaing Region, protesting the military dictatorship on March 30 (Supplied) 
Five civilians killed in clash with junta’s forces in Sagaing’s Yinmabin Township 
Troops used drones to track locals’ location and fired at them with long-range artillery
Apr 21, 2021
A garment worker makes disposable surgical gowns at a factory in Yangon on April 30, 2020 (Myanmar Now)
Nearly a third of garment industry jobs wiped out by coup 
The impact of the military takeover has been as devastating to workers as the Covid-19 pandemic, says a leading labour activist
Apr 20, 2021
One killed in second consecutive day of regime crackdowns on Myingan protest strongholds
Troops attack anti-coup protest bases in three wards in the Mandalay Region town
Apr 20, 2021
Crackdown on village in Sagaing Region leaves at least one person dead
Local residents said soldiers used drones to locate villagers armed with hunting rifles before mounting an attack with heavy weapons
Apr 20, 2021
Regime forces are seen in Yangon on March 31 (EPA-EFE)
Two killed in separate incidents, as hundreds flee amid military build-up 
One casualty was reported in Kyaukme, in northern Shan state, while the other was in Sagaing region’s Kani township
Apr 19, 2021
Mingyan residents march on April 17 in support of the newly formed interim government by the CRPH (Myingyan Public Movement Committee)
Myingan ‘like a war zone’ as regime troops destroy protest stronghold, locals say
Hundreds of soldiers and police crush an anti-coup defence area in the Mandalay Region town, shooting indiscriminately and arresting locals, including one child
Apr 19, 2021
The monument marking a shared gravesite for 12 protesters in Bago’s Sinphyukin cemetery before it was destroyed by regime troops 
Junta soldiers destroy Bago cemetery gravesite of slain protesters
Troops dug up bodies and destroyed a monument created to honour the deceased, calling their burial ‘illegal’
Apr 19, 2021
Monywa-based activist Wai Moe Naing (centre, holding microphone)
Mother of detained activist Wai Moe Naing demands her son be granted access to healthcare
The 26-year-old activist suffers from high blood pressure, and was hit by a car before he was taken into regime custody
Apr 18, 2021

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