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Successive dictators have appointed trusted confidants to lead their spy agencies, which act to entrench military rule through brutal repression of the population.

The chief of Military Security Affairs is a close confidant of Min Aung Hlaing who has overseen hundreds of deaths in interrogation centers.

A junta flotilla was repeatedly ambushed by resistance groups as it sailed the Chindwin River.

SBDF chief Bo Thanmani, son of a Rakhine communist rebel, was killed in a clash in Shwebo while using his group’s only assault rifle to cover his fighters, members say.

Defence forces attacked eight junta ships on the Ayeyarwady River near Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, killing six soldiers with a bomb dropped from a drone on 13 June, according to a statement by the Civilian’s Defense and Security Organization Myaung (CDSOM).

The Thwe Tout group has killed at least 20 people and waged a terror campaign, forcing party members and their relatives to hide or flee the country.

In a meeting with ASEAN envoy Prak Sokhonn and current chair Hun Sen of Cambodia, Noeleen Heyzer said ‘results on the ground were urgently needed’.

Lt-Gen Than Hlaing oversaw lethal crackdowns on anti-coup protesters, before leading clearance operations that failed to pacify the country’s most restive region.

Once feared across the country, the regime’s military intelligence office is now believed to be much less capable than before.

Mandalay-based Yadanarbon Daily reporter Ko Pyae Phyo Aung was sentenced to two years in prison by the Military Council, according to a Mandalay-based journalist close to him