28th-29th June, 2021

 

In the country’s largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay, people suspected of having links to the junta are being assassinated on a daily basis. Khit Thit reported that a gunman shot dead a policeman in Yangong’s Tamwe Township, a female clerk in South Dagon 72 ward, and an informant in Thingangyun Township on 28 and 29 June. One bystander was killed, and a woman was wounded as the junta troops opened fired after the Tamwe incident. In Singu Township, Mandalay Region, policeman killed his commanding officer and escaped. In Nyaung Oo Township, a schoolteacher was stabbed and seriously injured on the way home from school. A clerk at the Taungtha Township General Administration Office was also shot dead on 29 June, and the Taungtha youth guerrilla group told Myanmar Now that they are responsible for this attack.

On 28 June, Yangon residents wrote on social media that several sound bombs exploded in many parts of the city. According to Khit Thit Media, loud explosions were heard in Thaketa, South Dagon and Thanlyin Townships. A message circulating among netizens today said that Yangon-based underground groups have urged the public to collaborate with them by not posting the exact location online in the event of a bombing as the junta troops could block the escape routes of them.

NUG Minister of Education and Health Dr. Zaw Wai Soe announced on his social media page that the D-Day attack on the junta troops is imminent, saying the Spring Revolution is evolving, and it has reached the fourth of seven stages of the process. “The NUG, EAOs and PDFs are getting stronger and the junta troops is getting weaker,” he wrote. However, there has been criticism that constant talking and campaigning about D-Day can lead to false hope and misinformation.

Twenty-four artists, who were charged under article 505 (a) in connection with anti-coup protests, have been dropped, the junta-controlled television announced tonight, saying that they are believed to be involved, not by personal opinion, but by the motives of others. There were rumours in the past that artists have to pay hundreds of thousands of kyats to those associated with the junta to drop the case.

In Namkham Township, northern Shan State, the vice chairman of the Namkham Shan Youth Group was arrested and killed by the SSPP/SSA on charges of being affiliated with another Shan armed group RCSS/SSA, according to Mizzima. A bomb exploded during the public rally against the SSPP on 28 June, killing two people. The SSPP has later denied any involvement in the bombing.

There is a growing tension between the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the RCSS in Kyethi Township in southern Shan State, and the UWSA has deployed about 2,000 troops in the region, Mizzima reported. Displaced civilians in the area have been warned to evacuate to the town as soon as possible. The RCSS is also fighting in northern Shan State with the UWSA allies: the SSPP and TNLA.