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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is thought to have renamed the controversial bridge in Mon State in an effort to gain support for his coup.

Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing also acknowledges in a TV interview that the opposition caught him by surprise.

The move comes after the regime's electoral body said it was considering dissolving Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, which won last year’s vote in a landslide.

Most students boycotted the first day of school, a suspected junta informant and an ex-NLD official were killed and EAOs fought the military four months after the coup.

Originally named after independence hero General Aung San, the junta has chosen a new name in an effort to gain support in Mon State.

The junta plans to abolish the National League for Democracy party for alleged voter fraud in last November’s election.

The regime’s election body repeated its claim that the party, whose landslide 2020 election win has been endorsed by international poll monitors, ‘rigged’ the vote.

The projects are part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative but plans to implement them come as anti-China sentiment is increasing.

In recent days, a number of NLD politicians from Rakhine State have been detained by the military regime.

From Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to elected lawmakers to civil servants to anti-regime protesters, nearly 4,000 are still being detained and arrest warrants have been issued for another 1

The NUG says guiding principles must be in line with democratic norms, human rights and key values of federalism while putting the armed forces under civilian oversight.

The 80-year-old veteran of pro-democracy politics will go on trial at a court in Naypyitaw Prison on May 14.