Human Rights Watch has apologized for the letter, which addressed regime chief Min Aung Hlaing as “prime minister”.
Anti-regime prisoners held at Mandalay’s Obo Prison have been refusing food in protest at the executions of four pro-democracy activists.
Political parties that communicate with foreign organizations or individuals without permission face dissolution, military regime’s electoral body warns.
Regime helicopter gunships attacked the village in Yinmabin Township, wounding at least 35 residents including children and senior citizens.
The meeting in Naypyitaw came as the junta continues to detain a Japanese filmmaker and Tokyo is being urged to cut all military ties with the regime.
Sean Turnell is on trial in the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw alongside Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act.
The ex-student leader and political prisoner was an original member of the NLD; he was among those jailed by the military after winning a seat in the 1990 election.
Observers question why Thinzar Wint Kyaw and Nang Mwe San have been detained while other similar models who support the regime remain free.
They were among at least 80 regime forces killed in Chin, Kachin and Karen states and Sagaing and Magwe regions, resistance groups said.
Regime forces used helicopters and detained civilians as human shields during a series of raids and clashes across three Sagaing Region townships.
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