Regime troops and Pyu Saw Htee allies attacked a Monywa Township village on Saturday in response to a series of resistance strikes around the regional capital.  

Junta blockade has also caused severe fuel shortages, while restrictions on movement are preventing charities from delivering aid, residents say.

He trotted out the military’s old ‘three national causes’ rhetoric in a bid to persuade the public the junta is all that stands in the way of national disintegration.

Industrial zones have been told to secure their own fuel as the junta can no longer afford to subsidize imports.

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The KNLA and PDFs pushed all junta forces out of Mone after fierce clashes, it said. The town is strategically located on roads leading to Naypyitaw and the Thai border.

The Karen National Liberation Army says it is attacking junta positions in Mone town, Kyaukkyi Township.  

The junta said deserters would not be punished for minor crimes, highlighting the military’s shortage of troops as resistance offensives inflict mounting losses on it.

The shot and charred bodies of the civilians were found after Kya Paing Village was raided by regime soldiers and allied militia groups on Saturday, locals said.

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Dozens of residents have been detained in the two weeks since the Arakan Army opened a new front in the nationwide resistance offensive, locals say.

The junta’s Central Bank of Myanmar can no longer afford to offer fuel importers its official exchange rate of 2,100 kyats per dollar.

Kawlin in Sagaing Region is rapidly rebooting its health, justice and education services following almost three years under military rule.

Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said Bangkok was monitoring the situation after fighting flared near the border and called on all parties to cease hostilities.

More than 600 civil society groups issue joint statement calling on the regional bloc to respect the will of Myanmar citizens and hold the junta to account for its atrocities.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army is now focused on removing the junta from territory near the border with China, but its objective is to free Myanmar from military rule.

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Also this week, the junta boss played up relations with Beijing just a week after anti-China rallies, and five major claims about Operation 1027 were debunked as lies.

The National Unity Government says more than 44 billion kyats were seized by resistance forces from private banks in Kawlin when the Sagaing Region town fell last month.

Junta boss Min Aung Hlaing tells his cabinet that he and Myanmar are being betrayed and undermined by ethnic armed groups, foreign drone whizzes, bank staff, laziness and a former general. 

The Karenni capital’s remaining residents said regime air strikes and shelling were intensifying, and reported a huge blast at a junta arms depot.

Than Tun, chair of the New National Democratic Party, was shot dead by two men outside his Thingangyun Township house in Yangon.

Despite a heavier presence of troops in the country’s commercial capital, urban guerrilla groups are testing the junta’s strength and warning residents to steer clear of regime targets.

Panic rises as blockades and unharvested fields spark shortages of fuel and food as well as safety warnings from the Arakan Army.

Vietnamese charity Blue Dragon said victims lured to work in scam compounds in Shan State must sell organs if they fail to meet quotas.

The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup covers incidents in Shan State and Yangon, Bago, Mandalay and Sagaing regions over the past four days.

Surrender of entire battalion in Konkyan Township in northern Shan State on Tuesday was the end of the line for the Myanmar military in the area bordering China, ethnic army says.

The university rector is accused of collaborating with Myanmar’s regime as resistance groups battle to seize the state capital. 

The isolated regime has quickly reversed course a week after junta-backed nationalists staged protests against China’s perceived support for an ethnic military offensive.

Resistance forces say weakened regime ground forces in the Karenni State capital are forced to use airstrikes and shelling.

After fleeing Laukkai Town to save their lives, thousands of IDPs are now sleeping on roads outside Lashio as junta troops block them from entering the town where transport home awaits.

While recognized for helping to open US-China ties, the ex-secretary of state’s legacy of realpolitik, which saw the US support ruthless regimes, is controversial.

The former Thein Sein government official was sentenced to 10 years in prison under incitement laws for spreading ‘wrong information’ on Facebook.

Min Aung Hlaing claimed the experts had helped ethnic armed groups use «drones with advanced technology» to attack military outposts in northern Shan State.

The regime’s propaganda chief has peddled five major false claims as the resistance offensive makes sweeping gains across the country.