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MYANMAR ethnic rebel group the Karen National Union (KNU) reported the capture of a military base close to the Thai border today as fighting in the east of the country intensified.
“We could hear from the other side, we could hear the bullets,” said Hkara, a long-time resident of Mae Sam Laep, on the Thai side of the border.
“We saw five or six Burmese soldiers run down to the river and then we saw KNU shoot them, but it was very dark.”
The KNU has fought against the Myanmar military for decades and bitterly opposes the coup regime, which seized power on February 1.
April 27, 2021
Reuters
Myanmar security forces shot dead a man in the second city of Mandalay on Monday (April 26), national media reported, two days after Southeast Asian leaders said they had reached consensus with the junta on ending violence.
Activists opposed to military rule called on people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans and to keep their children away from school, adding to doubts about a regional bloc’s push to end Myanmar’s post-coup crisis.
The man was shot dead at a fried rice shop in Mandalay late on Monday and some other people were wounded, three Myanmar media reported. Mizzima news service also said a woman had been shot dead on a motorcycle in the southern town of Dawei.
April 27, 2021
published at 7:08 AMReuters
A handout photo. Myanmar s junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing arrives as he attends the Asean leaders summit at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) secretariat building in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 24, 2021.
Reuters via Indonesian Presidential Palace.
Myanmar s junta will give careful consideration to constructive suggestions from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on ways to resolve violent turmoil triggered by a Feb. 1 coup, the junta said. The suggestions would be positively considered if it . serves the interests of the country and was based on purposes and principles enshrined in Asean, it said in a statement published on Tuesday.