Mawlamyine residents confirmed hearing loud explosions at the command on Monday and Tuesday during Soe Win’s visit to oversee operations near the Thai border.
The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the steps taken by the regime over the past month culminating in nationwide training for the first batch of conscripts.
The generals also complained they had yet to hear from the world body regarding its appointment of a new special envoy.
The Political Prisoners Network Myanmar says the junta is increasingly denying medical care to indirectly kill inmates.
The KNLA and PDF groups launched an attack on the last junta battalion defending Myawaddy on Tuesday afternoon and were reportedly making their way into the town.
The United League of Arakan reports that over 350,000 people have also been displaced by fighting in the western state.
The Thai leader convened a high-level meeting on the Myanmar crisis Tuesday, vowing to work with all stakeholders to achieve peace and stability in the country.
Businesses in Mandalay say workforce in some sectors has halved as conscription teams hunt down young men for depleted military.
The civilian National Unity Government has warned people to take care after a Yangon resident died of apparent heat exhaustion.
The latest exodus of reluctant exiles from Myanmar comprises young people forced to leave everything behind to escape what they see as certain death at the junta’s barbaric frontline.
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