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Students, reporters, monks and celebrities were among those rounded up nationwide this week; some showed signs of severe torture in images released by the regime.

The military regime continues to target the country’s medical community with raids, arrests, and violence, preventing Myanmar doctors from treating the wounded.

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.

Charities in Bago were told to split up the memorial to 14 civilians killed by the junta and to remove inscriptions praising the “Heroes of the Revolution.”

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

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.

Nearly 100 of the regime’s soldiers killed in battle with Kachin Independence Army over base near the Chinese border.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet says ‘states must not allow the deadly mistakes of the past in Syria and elsewhere to be repeated.’

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.

While the CRPH demanded Beijing’s support, an embassy official expressed concern for the safety of Chinese citizens, investments in Myanmar during a phone call last week.

Regime’s forces attack protesters in Sagaing and Bago regions as civilians attempt to fight back.