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Mothers and children of Let Yet Kone recount horrors of the day when 13 people including seven children were slaughtered by junta gunships and troops.   

Female former political prisoners told The Irrawaddy of their traumatic experiences while locked up, and of their determination to see all political inmates freed.

Memories of three young activists haunt Nyaung Kan in Sagaing, two weeks after unprovoked ambush by regime soldiers.

Hunger is on the rise after two years of surging inflation and poor productivity blamed on junta mismanagement. 

Once confined to the ethnic states, minefields now litter central Myanmar as junta forces booby-trap raided villages and outgunned resistance forces use them in ambushes.

Electricity and water outages menace households and entrepreneurs as country slides further into chaos under military rule.    

Many of the 170-plus victims, including children eating rice before school, simply vanished due to the sheer explosive force of the junta’s bombs and machine gun fire. 

Villages across Upper Myanmar, normally busy preparing for novitiation and other ceremonies at this time of year, have fallen silent since the coup.

With the support of well-wishers, weavers in Sagaing who lost everything in regime arson attacks hope to rise from the ashes.

Due to repeated raids and arson attacks by junta troops, villagers in central Myanmar are unable to build new houses and are forced to live in low-cost palm huts.