Yangon Command News Today

Also this week, ex-generals scrambled to sell land after Min Aung Hlaing’s warning, and Thailand went ahead with meeting on Myanmar despite regional split.

U Wirathu and fellow monk notorious for hate speech receive Thiri Panchiya conferred by junta boss as regime seeks to weaponize religion.

Senior members of the junta were among those gathering ahead of the regime’s planned general election next year.

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

Lieutenant Generals Myo Zaw Thein and Aung Soe have been handed senior Union Solidarity and Development Party positions as the regime plans an election for next year.

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

After the attack in Sagaing’s Tabayin Township, junta forces removed and cremated the bodies and took the injured away to another township, locals said.

The dictator has revived ancient beliefs in the auspicious properties of white elephants and rubies; to Myanmar people, it is just another sign that he is unfit to rule.

Business tycoon Zaykabar Khin Shwe and his son Zay Thiha were arrested at their home in Bahan Township, Yangon, by police on 22 March and then sent to Insein Prison on the same day, according to local news reports.

U Khin Shwe, a prominent business partner of the previous regime, was arrested along with his son following a dispute over a stalled Yangon building development.