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Myanmar Women Leadership Role In Time Of Crisis
The red word “This revolution shall not succeed without women” on the white background manifests the Spring Revolution. The anti-coup protest column led by young women in Mandalay chanted “Root out the fascist army which commits sexual violence, Come out! Come out! to drive out the power-hungry people”.
Taking a look at the images of the Spring Revolution from February 6th till date, amazing Myanmar women’s elan and sacrifices is out of this world. With a lump in the throat, we all witness Myanmar women’s sacrifices from Ma Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing, 19, who was shot in the head in Nay Pyi Taw to Ma Panthee who jumped from a high-rise building on 44th Street in Yangon.
This week, the Myanmar Peace Monitor’s weekly review ( Sept 23-30) mainly focuses on the role of Myanmar women involved in the Spring Revolution.
Word “Myanmar women”
Here women means that all women from each ethnic races in Myanmar, who have been engaging in the fights for gender equality, non-discrimination and oppression against women and an end to domestic violence. According to the nationwide census, females account for 26.66 million of 51.49 million total populations in Myanmar. There are about two million more women than men in the country.
It is noticeable that the thoughts and thinking ability of the women takes a center stage in building peace and making important decisions for the country with decades-long civil war. Former British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party Margaret Thatcher said: “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country”.
Spring Revolution and the images of women
We can see the images of females with the age of five to over 70 years in the Spring Revolution six days after the coup till date. Females are participating in every anti-coup activity such as the peaceful protest columns, Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and banging pans and pots at night.
Women are defying the military regime in different forms and chants in the changing situation of the Spring Revolution with the activities such as “Challenging voice of women to end the military dictatorship” and Tear Boycott “ End the power-hungry people with the people’s tear drop” in Karenni State, “Women who will end the military, Raise hands behind bars” in Kalay and “Crush the fascist army with the use of women power” and “Root out the military regime with our hands that rock the cradle “ in Moywa of Sagaing Region, the women protest column in which women stage a march protest by hoisting women longyi in Pyinmana and they chanted “Let women come to the forefront to cast house watchdog out”.
The people around the world praised the nationwide activities like “Myanmar Thanatkhar Revolution” on February 25th and “Let’s hoist our women longyi to overthrow the military regime” on the International Women’s Day on March 8th..
Women who sacrifice their lives
Among thousands of people killed by the military council’s troops during the coup, hundreds of women have sacrificed their lives, according to the Burmese Women’s Union (BWU). According to the record by the BWU on September 27th, the number of women detained by the military council reached up to 1,176.
It can be said that coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his cohorts are carrying out oppression, arrests and killings of the dissidents indiscriminately, regardless of gender and age. It is difficult to measure the women’s sacrifices during the Spring Revolution.
Among thousands of people killed by the military council’s troops during the coup, hundreds of women have sacrificed their lives, according to the Burmese Women’s Union (BWU). According to the record by the BWU on September 27th, the number of women detained by the military council reached up to 1,176. Among the female victims arrested and killed by the military council’s troops are underage girls and pregnant women. We can see it in daily news.
According to the joint statement by the UNFPA and the UN Women on August 1st, Six months since the military takeover in Myanmar, the country faces a compounded political and public health crisis, on top of intensification of conflicts, putting the lives of even more women and girls at serious risk with the deteriorating socio-economic situation adding hundreds of thousands of people to those in need of humanitarian assistance in the country who were not previously targeted for humanitarian support.
The impact on women workers has already been pronounced with 580,000 women estimated to have lost employment since February 1. Women and girls experience challenges to access sexual and reproductive health services due to the collapsed health system, with attacks on hospitals, financial barriers and movement restrictions further jeopardizing their health and well-being.
Over 685,000 women are currently pregnant in Myanmar and it is estimated that nearly 250 preventable maternal deaths may occur in the next month alone if they are not able to access appropriate emergency obstetric care. Furthermore, the adolescence of over five million girls (10 to 19 years old) in Myanmar has been seriously disrupted by public health, loss of school-year, and security-related restrictions and fears.
Review
The world’s famous Time Magazine issued the 100 most influential people for 2021 and chose two Myanmar youths who led the Spring Revolution.
It is difficult to find the words to honour the unity and leadership of Myanmar women in order to root out the military dictatorship. The world’s famous Time Magazine issued the 100 most influential people for 2021 and chose two Myanmar youths who led the Spring Revolution. Two youths are Kachin activist Esther Ne Zaw and Shan-ni ethnic Ma Ei Tinzar Maung. They led anti-coup protests in Yangon. Likewise, the Time Magazine chose Dr. Mi Mi Aung who led the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity project.
Of the 17 ministries of the National Unity Government (NUG) which emerged with the Spring Revolution, eight women are the Union ministers and deputy ministers. It is found that the NUG formed the Ministry of Women, Youths and Child Affairs to pay attention to Myanmar women’s affairs. Ma Ei Thinzar Maung who led the anti-coup protests is appointed Deputy Minister for Women, Youths and Child Affairs. Myanmar women’s sacrifices in the Spring Revolution are beyond compare.
Among the images of the Spring Revolution on March 8th, men defied the military coup and honored the role of women in the Spring Revolution by tying women longyi to the forehead, covering women longyi on their bodies and using the longyi as flag. We shall have to accept the fact that we all have a duty to end oppression, discrimination and violence against women when the Spring Revolution succeed after rooting out the military dictatorship.
Among the images of the Spring Revolution on March 8th, men defied the military coup and honoured the role of women in the Spring Revolution by tying women longyi to the forehead, covering women longyi on their bodies and using the longyi as flag. We shall have to accept the fact that we all have a duty to end oppression, discrimination and violence against women when the Spring Revolution succeed after rooting out the military dictatorship.
We shall place emphasis on the women’s thoughts and concepts of women for building up a federal democratic union and decision-making to recognize their role during the Spring Revolution.
A young woman who led the anti-coup protest in Mandalay on July 10th said: “This revolution shall root out the military regime, ensure gender equality and revolutionize the deeply-rooted minds that women are underdogs in the successive eras.”
Part-II
What happened in the week?
Chin State
The news emerged on September 26th that the military council would crush civil defense forces in Chin State within two weeks. Currently, the military council has cut off the internet in eight of nine townships in Chin State. Officials of the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) have responded that the military would get the answer when the military council’s troops, which are carrying out indiscriminate firing on the houses in downtown, arrive in the CDF-controlled areas.
Officials of the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) have responded that the military would get the answer when the military council’s troops, which are carrying out indiscriminate firing on the houses in downtown, arrive in the CDF-controlled areas
At least five members of the military council’s troops were killed and many others injured in the fighting in Htantalan Township on September 27th. More than 30 members of the military council’s troops were killed in the fighting in Htantalan Township on September 18th, according to a statement by the CDF (Htantalan).
Many houses were destroyed by artillery shells fired by the military council’s troops in Mindat and Kanpetlet Townships, according to the Mizzima News. Due to indiscriminate shooting by the military council’s troops stationed in the compound of the National Races Youth Development Training School in Mindat Township, a female staff of the military-backed General Administration Department was wounded. She died from the gunshot wound on September 23rd.
Due to fighting between the military council’s troops and a combined force of the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) and the Chin National Front/Chin National Army (CNF/CNA), hundreds of Chin locals are fleeing to the India-Myanmar border every day. Around 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking shelter near Mindat face a shortage of food, an official of the Mindat IDP Rescue Committee told the Mizzima.
Arakan State
The military council and the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) are trying to control the administrative sector in Arakan State. Since the 2020 General Elections, the military council has made a ceasefire with the ULA/AA in Arakan State. The military council has warned village administrators in the northern Arakan State, not to accept the administration sector run by the ULA/AA.
The village administrators said on September 23rd that the battalion commander of LIB-535 stationed on the top of Zayditaung Pagoda in Piywat village in Buthidaung Township has accused that the people in Ngaryantchaung village-tract are providing the ULA/AA with ration. At around 1 am on September 25th, the military council’s troops abducted the village heads from Seinnyinpyin and Gutarpyin villages in Buthidaung Township.
On September 6th, Commander of the LIB-375 Aung Thura Ko and Major Kyaw Min Aung of the Military Operations Command-9 told the heads of Muslim village administrators in Kyauktaw Township not to make cooperation with the judicial and administrative affairs of the ULA/AA and warned that the military would take action if they made cooperation with the ULA/AA.
Shan State
There was intense fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and a combined force of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP) near Hukwat village in Kyaukme Township from 6 am to 11 am on September 25th. The monastery and some houses were destroyed and two monks wounded in the fighting, according to the NMG. It has been nearly two months since the RCSS/SSA has deployed the troops near Hukwat village. A combined force of the TNLA and the SSPP is stationed along Panlin village. There is military tension between the RCSS and the TNLA+SSPP, according to locals.
A man selling the brooms by motorbike was shot dead by two gunmen in Mankhaing village in Pang Hseng Township in Muse District, on the morning of September 22nd, according to the Shan Herald News Agency. A local died after stepping on a landmine planted by the military council’s troops in Phaungsaing in Mongkoe sub-township, according to the KNG. On September 24th, a staff member who repaired Mytel tower was wounded after stepping on a landmine planted by the military council’s troops near the mobile tower in the 105th mile lower Namhwal village.
Around 9.30 am on September 26th, the fighting took place between the military council’s troops and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) (Kokang) between Namhu village and Mandaung village in Namton village-tract in Lashio Township, according to locals. Due to the fighting, there was a temporary traffic jam, travelers said.
At around 10 pm on September 27th, a nine-year-old child in Mankhar village in Mongkoe Township was hit by an artillery shell fired by the military council’s troops based in Laukkai on the east bank of the Thanlwin River. The victim died at around 4 pm on September 28th as she could not be admitted to the hospital
In the afternoon of September 29th, fighting took place between the military council’s troops and the MNDAA (Kokang) between Kaungdat village and Kaunglon village in Mongkoe Sub-Township for nearly four hours. A man who tended the buffalos was wounded by artillery shells in the field due to the encounter, according to the KNG. At around 10 pm on September 27th, a nine-year-old child in Mankhar village in Mongkoe Township was hit by an artillery shell fired by the military council’s troops based in Laukkai on the east bank of the Thanlwin River. The victim died at around 4 pm on September 28th as she could not be admitted to the hospital.
From September 13rd to September 23rd, 97 IDPs and five volunteers were infected with COVID-19, at the IDP camps in downtown Mongkoe in Muse District, according to the official of the IDP camp. The IDPs from Nawgu village in Mongkoe Sub-Township face a shortage of food, according to the KNG.
On September 25th, the military council’s troops arrested an office staff of the Lashio-based Ta’aung Students and Youths Organization (TSYU) and five teachers from the Ta’aung Philanthropic Education Center, for no apparent reason. The families have not got any contact yet with six detainees until the morning of September 26th.
At 3.30 pm on September 27th, Phalkhone Battalion of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) attacked the military convoy of the military council, near Saungpyaung village in Pinlaung Township. The KNDF ambushed a convoy of 45 military vehicles which were supposed to do reinforcement in Demawsoe Township, on its way from Kalaw to Phalkhone. At least 20 soldiers of the military were wounded in the ambush while there were no reports of casualties from the KNDF (Phalkhone Battalion), according to the KNDF.
At 5 pm on September 24th, the military council’s troops arrested Ko Aung San who is a member of Taungyoe Youth Supporting Group, at his home in Salkhaung village in Tigyit village-tract in Pinlaung Township and seized his properties worth Ks-15 million, according to the Shan Herald News Agency.
Karenni (Kayah) State
There is intense fighting between the military council’s troops and a combined force of the Karenni Army, the KNDF and the People’s Defence Force (PDF) in Demawsoe Township in Karenni State.The 66-Division of the military council torched 35 houses in Konethar and Thaysuele villages in Demawsoe Township on September 25 and 26. A total of 15 houses were destroyed by artillery shells fired by the military council’s troops, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group which is monitoring human rights situations amid the local armed conflict. Due to fighting, a 70-year-old man from Konethar village died from a gunshot wound. A vehicle carrying the body of the victim was destroyed as it stepped on a landmine planted by the military council’s troops on the way to the cemetery.
In the third week of September, the military council’s troops arrested two volunteers helping the IDPs and two locals in Loikaw Township. From August 27th to September 12nd, more than 30 civilians were arrested. The military has not released 23 detainees yet, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group.
The Karenni State Police (KSP) arrested and interrogated nine men and one woman who are supposed to be the military informants, in cooperation with relevant organizations. The KSP said it would continue to detain five men and take action against them, according to the statement on September 30th.
The Karenni State Police (KSP) arrested and interrogated nine men and one woman who are supposed to be the military informants, in cooperation with relevant organizations. The KSP said it would continue to detain five men and take action against them
Kachin State
At around 10.30 am on September 23rd, fighting took place between the military council’s troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near Lawah and Mayankahtaung villages in Namati Township. There was intense fighting between the military and the KIA as the KIA ambushed a military column heading to Tanai, between Khwansiyan and Dwanban villages. On September 25th and 26th, according to the KNG.
On the afternoon of September 26th, there was an encounter between the KIA and the military council’s troops in Tarponegyun village in Shwegu Township. A cow from Tarpone village was killed and a hut destroyed by the indiscriminate shooting by the military council’s troops from a ship sailing Ayayawaddy River upstream, according to locals.
Three soldiers of the military were severely wounded in a bomb blast near the concrete pole at the junction of Kyauksakhan in Moemauk Township on September 27th, according to the KNG. The People’s Defence Force (PDF) from Putao Township announced that it would fully cooperate in the security and defence duties of Kachin State under the leadership of the KIO/KIA.
South-East (Mon, Kayin and Tanintharyi )
The military-backed Border Guard Force (BGF) arrested around 300 civilians including children and women from four villages in Belin Township in Thaton Distirct. The BGF forced them to carry rations and military equipment’s and used them as human shields, said Padoh Saw Soe Myint, Secretary of KNU Brigade-1 (Thaton District) on September 24th.
The military council is planning to give the basic military training and invesigation course to the members of military-backed PyuSawHtee in some townships of Mon State, a person close to the military council’s troops told the Than Lwin Time. Fighting took place between the Brigade-1 of the Karen National Union (KNU) and the military council’s troops near Htonebogyi-Htonebolay village in Thaton Township on September 23rd and near Wiyaw village bridge on September 24th. Two soldiers of the military council were killed by the KNU’s sniper.
Locals told the Than Lwin Time that the antimony processing plant in Mawlamyine industrial zone was running 24/7. The military council has threatened that it would revoke the license of the mining industry in Mon State if entrepreneurs fail to pay their taxes at the end of September.
The military council has threatened that it would revoke the license of the mining industry in Mon State if entrepreneurs fail to pay their taxes at the end of September.
On September 21st, a man was wounded after stepping on a landmine near Chaungkway village in Kyaikto Township and a man got severe wounds after stepping on a landmine between Saungnainggyi village and Maeyone village, according to the NMG. On the evening of September 29th, the military council’s troops arrested and tortured two innocent locals in Mayangone village in Thaton Township.
Fighting took place between the LIB-432 of the military council and Battalion-17, Company-2 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) near Wawmar village in Kyarinseikgyi Township in Karen State, leaving one soldier of the military council dead and two wounded. Locals have fled to safer places due to indiscriminate shooting by the military council’s troops stationed in the compound of a monastery in Taungzun village in Kyarinseikgyi Township at around 8 pm on September 25th, according to the KIC.
On the morning of September 22nd, a bomb exploded in front of Kawkareik Township Development Affairs Office. Locals were concerned as the military planes were flying in the sky of Kawkareik Township on September 25th, according to the KIC. On September 27th, the LIB-407 under the Military Operations Command-8 of the military council led by Lt-Col Zaw Min Htet carried out indiscriminate firing of heavy shells via Narkunar in Dwalloe Township. Saw Mya Maung, 56, got the head injury due to artillery shells near Kalawhtar village.
Deputy Chief of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) Lt-Gen Saw Steel was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the DKBA, at the emergency meeting of the CEC. The Chair of the Karen State Administration Council, accompanied by the Karen State Border and Security Affairs, went to Soneseemyaing where the DKBA headquarters is located, for the issuance of NRC cards. Security was tightened along the road, according to the KIC.
A military convoy of the military council was ambushed near Marlakarchaung village in Thayetchaung Township in Tanintharyi Region on September 25th, wounding more than 10 soldiers, according to the Than Lwin Time. On September 26th, the military council’s troops arrested five NLD supporters from Hyinmaw village and three women including a 16-year-old girl from Konezayat village in Launglon Township in Dawei District, according to locals.
The military council issued a letter that it would carry out a test-firing of heavy weapons near Dawei River, Yaylae Island, Kudoeseikhaung Island, Dani Island and Shwe Island from September 28th and 30th.
Upper Myanmar (Mandalay, Magway and Sagaing )
The military council’s troops fired a shot at the leg of Ko Thein Tun Oo (aka) Ko Fatty who is an old member of the 89-90 Student’s Union in Mandalay and a former political prisoner and took him to No.7 Police Station. On September 26th, the military informed his family that he died. At 12 pm on September 23rd, Ko Paukgyi from Mandalay Seinpan ward was shot dead by the military council’s troops and military-backed PyuSawHtee.
The military council’s troops fired a shot at the leg of Ko Thein Tun Oo (aka) Ko Fatty who is a former political prisoner and took him to No.7 Police Station. On September 26th, the military informed his family that he died.
At least 10 people were wounded in a bomb blast at the Directorate of Road Transport Administration Department Office in Mandalay on September 27th, according to the Mizzima News. On the morning of September 25th, a soldier and two women were wounded in a bomb blast at the Shwegyin Inspection Gate in Aungmyeythazan Township. On September 28th, the plain-clothes soldiers of the military council raided the monasteries in Mahaaungmyay, Chanayethazan and Pyigyidagun Townships, arrested some monks and seized vehicles and motorbikes. A Mandalay-Pyin-Oo-Lwin railroad near 115th street and 116th street between 56thX58th Street in Kanthayar ward in Chanmyathazi Township, was blown up at around 7 am on September 28th.
On September 26th, three soldiers were killed and two wounded in a bomb blast near Swanlun Bridge in Myingyan Township, according to locals. Artillery shells fired by the military council killed four family members and severely wounded two others including a two-year-old child, in Shawphyu (middle) village in Natogyi Township. The military council evicted nearly 200 houses in Ngwetaung, Naungwon and Yayhtwet villages in Singu Township, citing that they were living on the military-owned land.
According to the People’s Revolution Army (PRA), it could help two soldiers from the tank battalion based in Magway who joined the CDM, join the People’s Embrace through the NUG, in early September. Police head Myat Tun Aung from Kan region police and four police members joined the CDM with full equipment in Gangaw Township on September 27th and two police members from Yaw Township defected to the public on the morning of September 28th.
It could help two soldiers from the tank battalion based in Magway who joined the CDM, join the People’s Embrace through the NUG, in early September
On September 25 and 26, the mobile towers owned by the MPT and Mytel in Magway and Yesagyo were blown up. The military council’s troops arrested road construction workers and more than 50 locals as the MPT towers were blown up near Kanthar- 18th Street in Magway, according to the DVB. Four soldiers of the military council planted mines near the Mytel tower in a village of Myaing Township.
On the afternoon of September 27th, the military council’s troops torched four houses including a house owned by the Hteelin PDF leader in Htanpingone village in Hteelin Township. On September 26th, the military council’s troops arrested three CDM teachers in Sinchaung village in Yesagyo Township. On September 21st, the military council’s troops rearrested the NLD’s Regional MP U Thet Khaing from No.2 Constituency in Salin Township, who was freed with a pledge that he shall not contact the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and the National Unity Government (NUG). On the morning of September 29th, a combined force of local defence forces and Gangaw PDF ambushed a military convoy. Around 20 soldiers were killed and many others wounded in the ambush attack, according to the statement by the Gangaw PDF.
On September 29th, the military council’s troops torched houses in Hnankhar village in Gangaw Township for the third time. Eight houses were burnt down. The military council torched 36 houses in Hankhar village on September 10th and 16 houses on September 13rd.
On September 29th, the military council’s troops torched houses in Hnankhar village in Gangaw Township for the third time. Eight houses were burnt down. The military council torched 36 houses in Hankhar village on September 10th and 16 houses on September 13rd.
On September 21st, fighting took place between local defence forces and the military council’s troops in Nwein village in Pale Township in Sagaing Region. Around 50 soldiers of the military council entered the village and abducted 14 villagers on September 22nd. On September 14th, the military council’s troops arrested U Kyaw Min Oo, 40 from the Industrial Zone ward in Kalay on September 14th. Later he died at the interrogation camp of the military council. The military council’s troops did not hand over his body to the family and cremated it, according to the KMG. On the morning of September 26th, three sleeping youths who were guarding the village at a house near Kansu village in Banbway village-tract in Yinmarbin Township, were shot dead by the military council’s troops. The military council’s troops arrested one wounded youth, according to the Mizzima News.
The military council’s troops blocked Monerway-Kyemon village in Monywa Township and shot locals on September 27th. Two people were killed and at least 10 people arrested, according to locals. On September 29th, the military council’s troops arrested a monk from a monastery in Kwaybagan village in Ayardaw Township for no apparent reason.
On September 23rd, two people on a vessel were injured as the military council’s troops fired shots at a vessel in Monywa. The military council’s troops entered Aungtha, Gyunlal and Hmantaw villages in KhinU Township in Shwebo District by five vehicles and 15 motorbikes. Two villagers were shot dead by the military council’s troops. At around 2 pm on September 28th, the military council’s troops torched two houses in Magyeeboke village and two houses in Magyikhwa village on Pakokku-ChaungU road in ChaungU Township, according to the RFA.
On the morning of September 23rd, a military vehicle carrying soldiers was ambushed at Uhnauk junction between Mintaingpin village and Kandaunt village in Pale Township. Due to the ambush, the military may suffer heavy casualties, according to locals.
At around 4 pm on September 22nd, fighting took place between the military council’s troops and local PDF on Mu River-crossing Bridge in Pinlebu Township, leaving many soldiers including a captain dead. Local PDF seized many weapons from the military.
A police vehicle from Kanhtooma police station, which came back after arsons and shooting in Kyikone village in Tanze Township, was ambushed near Taungboeyin Bridge in the west of Paekhingyi cemetery on YayU-Kalaywa road. Six police members were severely wounded in the ambush attack, according to a local from Tanze.
On September 25th, Taungdwin PDF ambushed a military column near Gonenyin village beside Kalaywa-Monywa Asia road in Minkin Township. On the morning of September 26th, artillery shells fired by the military council’s troops killed 15 PDF members and civilians, according to the Taungdwin PDF. At night on September 26th, fighting took place between local PDFs and the military council’s troops near Layeainsu village and Sebingyi village in the south of Kalay, killing at least three soldiers of the military council and injured many others, according to the Mizzima News. On the morning of September 28th, there was an encounter between the military council’s troops and Naungpoaung-PDF on Uru creek-crossing Bridge in Naungpoaung village in Homanlin Township. There were no reports of any casualties in the shooting. Soon, many soldiers arrived on Uru Creek-crossing Bridge and did not allow the people to cross the bridge.
Lower Myanmar (Yangon, Bago and Ayeyawady)
On September 25th, the sounds of gunfire were heard on Myaynigone overpass in Shanchaung Township, along with the report of death. The military council issued a statement that there were encounters. But some eyewitnesses said the military council’s troops arrested two persons from Shankone street beside Dagon Center near the overpass, tortured and killed them.
The video footage which emerged on September 26th is identical to the words of eyewitnesses. The video footage shows that the soldiers fired shots at the youths on the tarred road. A soldier kicked the youths laying on the street several times.
According to the news released on September 28th, two of three youths killed by the military council’s troops are: volunteer Dr. Zin Lin and nurse Ma Khin Khin Kywe. The military council’s troops also arrested Dr. Zin Lin’s wife.
On September 25th, four bombs exploded near Nyaungbinthar monastery beside Insein Prison in Yangon. At around 3 pm on September 26th, military informant Hsan Min Oo in plainclothes was shot dead in the trishaw and motorbike gate at No-4 junction in I-Market in North Okkalapa Township, according to the Mizzima News.
At 7.30 am on September 28th, a bomb exploded on the first floor of Kyauktada Township Police Station near Sule-Shangri-La Hotel on Sule Pagoda Road in Kyauktada Township. After the bomb blast, a video emerged of plainclothes soldiers who were aiming the gun at the vehicles on the road.
At 7.30 am on September 28th, a bomb exploded on the first floor of Kyauktada Township Police Station near Sule-Shangri-La Hotel on Sule Pagoda Road in Kyauktada Township. After the bomb blast, a video emerged of plainclothes soldiers who were aiming the gun at the vehicles on the road.
At least two soldiers were killed in a bombing attack on a military vehicle, on 14th Street between the A-Block and B-Block in Yuzana Garden City at 9.30 pm on September 29th. The military council’s troops arrested some youths from the free funeral services association on 6th street in B-Block in connection with the attack. On September 28th, two soldiers were killed in an attack on the military vehicle in South Dagon Township on September 28th. The military council’s troops fired shots at three youths who refused to get inspected in Hlegu Township. A youth and a trishaw driver were injured due to shooting.
The military council’s troops arrested a 63-year-old palsied former political prisoner from Kangyidaunt Township in Ayeyawaddy Region, for no apparent reason, according to the NMG. At around 8 pm on September 21st, around 30 members of the military raided a small camp of the urban guerrilla force in the forest near Magugyun village in Kangyidaunt Township. There were no reports of casualties, according to locals.
At night on September 24th, bomb blasts were reported beside Yangon-Pathein Road near Tarkway village in Nyaungdon Township and No.3 ward. The military council’s troops would equip 20 people included on the name list of informants issued by the PDF in Yaykyi Township, according to the NMG which quoted the words of some administration members.
On September 28th, the military council’s troops arrested the deputy head of the Ayeyawaddy Region Administration Council for no apparent reason. In early September, the military council’s troops arrested the deputy head of Kangyidaunt Township for apparent reason, according to the DVB.
On September 26th, fighitng took place between the military council’s troops and the ethnic alliance including the Bago-PDF between Kaungpyar and Mywaytaw in Mone of Kyaukgyi Township in Bago Region. The military council’s troops suffered heavy casualties. The PDFs could seize the bodies of 12 soldiers and weapons, according to the BPDF-Yoma.
On the morning of September 23rd, the military council’s troops arrested a man and his son on Zeyaaungmyay street in Hinthargone ward in Bago, for no apparent reason. On the evening of September 27th, a grenade was thrown into the house of a 100-household head in Innwin ward in Bago. The 100-household head got leg injury, according to locals.
National Unity Government Vs the Military Council
National Unity Government
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Military Council
- Military council announced it extended the ceasefire for an additional five months.
- Terrorist military council objected to the allowance of Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun to attend the R2P meeting.
- Monks and nuns are to report night-stay.
- The military council has opened the case against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s ex-bodyguard under Section 505 (a).
- The military council objected to the discussions at the UN Human Rights Council.
- Number of towns which face internet shutdown has reached 25.
- The military council has warned that foreign embassies need to scrutinize the facts before the release of the statements.
- The terrorist military leader said he did not want to govern the public by bullying the people with weapons and creating fear.
- The military council put pressure on officials to install CCTVs which can scan faces, at the highway bus terminals in Mon State.
- The terrorist military leader said some EAOs are involved in the terror acts.
International
Former US Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel said at a panel discussion on “Events since the coup in Myanmar” organized by Yale University in US, that it is not the right time to solve the problem through a dialogue with the coup leaders. The military council shall hold a dialogue only when they know that they are not in a position to win.
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with the Thai Foreign Affairs Minister in Washington DC. They called on the military council to immediately stop violence and release all detainees in Myanmar. The Thai Foreign Affairs Minister also held a talk with the Indian External Affairs Minister on the Myanmar crisis, in New York.
The leaders of the QUAD member countries of Australia, India, Japan and the US held an in-person meeting at the White House for the first time. The QUAD leaders issued a joint statement, calling for the end to violence in Myanmar, the release of all political prisoners including foreigners, engagement in constructive dialogues, and the implementation of five-point ASEAN consensus.
UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the humanitarian crisis was worsened by the military coup and COVID-19 pandemic. The UN has received nearly half of funds for humanitarian assistance required for Myanmar people. The most vulnerable are families living in urban areas, mainly in Yangon and Mandalay, as well as people affected by conflict in south-eastern and western Myanmar.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet issued a statement via the UN Geneva Office that the international community must act urgently to prevent a further disintegration of Myanmar before it’s too late.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews criticized that the human rights situation in Myanmar has deteriorated significantly after the military coup. The international community fails to prevent human rights violations.
Counselor Derek Chollet of the US Department of State met with Myanmar’s UN Permanent Representative U Kyaw Moe Tun in New York on September 23rd. He also met with representatives of the NUG including the NUG’s Foreign Affairs Minister via online, according to a statement by the US Embassy Yangon. The discussions highlighted the importance of a swift return to democracy and rule of law in Myanmar, as well as respect for human rights and equality, including members of all ethnic and religious groups. He reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support for all those working toward the peaceful restoration of Myanmar’s democratic path to democracy.
He reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support for all those working toward the peaceful restoration of Myanmar’s democratic path to democracy.
The Danish Embassy’s new head of mission Mr Anders Graugaard who arrived in Yangon on September 26th said he would continue the Danish government’s efforts at such a critical time of supporting the restoration of Myanmar’s path to democracy.
Chairman of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Mr Song Young-gil, said he would not recognize the military council. He would fully support the NUG.