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Human rights organization says it has documented each of the 726 deaths at the hands of the junta and believes the number will rise as more information becomes available.

During Thingyan holidays, the regime killed at least another 26 citizens, sending the death toll since the Feb. 1 coup to 738.

As a picture of tortured Ko Wai Moe Naing went online, public concern mounted because some pro-democracy activists have died at the hands of the regime while in detention.

The man was fatally shot in the chest and four were wounded when police opened fire near Sule Mosque in a Muslim neighborhood in Maha Aung Myay Township.

Myitnge had staged daily anti-regime protests but had been spared a military crackdown until this week; national death toll climbs to at least 718.

The pair were riding a motorbike and returning home after collecting cow’s milk to sell in their community.

A single day of Bago raids took the lives of more than 80 civilians, pushing toll since the Feb. 1 coup to more than 700.

Villagers use antique percussion lock firearms in clash with security forces in Sagaing Region; regime forces use explosives against protesters in Mandalay.

Protest-related death toll climbs to 475 on Tuesday and is expected to go much higher due to the number who have been seriously wounded.

At least eight more deaths reported at the hands of security forces, pushing the death toll since Feb. 1 to at least 460.

Death toll of minors now more than 30 and is expected to climb higher because ages of several victims could not be determined.

More than 20 of the 320 dead so far were children; some had taken to the streets, some were innocent bystanders.

At least eight more were shot dead Thursday, bringing the post-coup death toll to 270 with many wounded and not expected to survive.

Mandalay residents believe that military forces want to avoid responsibility for their killing and reduce the death toll by manipulating autopsies.

Series of raids by security forces rock residential neighborhoods of Mandalay on Sunday night and Monday.