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Houses burned and hundreds of villagers, including children and the elderly, from Monyway and Kyaymon are being held in monastery compounds.

The gunman entered the small government office in central Myanmar, walked up to the man in charge and shot him four times in the head. “You are the ward administrator!” the gunman shouted, according to a brief video clip that captured part of the shooting.

More than a year after Myanmar’s military seized full control in a coup, the country is at war, with some unlikely combatants in the fray.

Myanmar’s Ethnic States Rise Up in Protest Against Military Coup Anti-coup protesters march in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, on Wednesday. / TH 7.1k By Nan Lwin 10 February 2021 YANGON—One day after protesters rejecting Myanmar’s military regime held mass rallies in Myanmar’s biggest cities including Yangon, tens of thousands of people in all the ethnic dominated states also took to the streets, trying to bring down the generals who seized power on Feb 1. Residents in Kachin, K...