29th-30th August, 2021

 A series of bomb blasts shook Yangon city in the morning of 30 August. Locals told Khit Thit that seven explosions were heard in the North Okkalapa Township alone. The junta has announced that special inspection will be carried out in 49 townships across the country to prevent Covid-19, according to Mizzima.

Villagers told they found several bodies shot dead by the junta troops in Ka Paung Kya village, Taze Township, Sagaing Region, DVB reported. The junta troops stormed the village on the morning of 26 August, killing at least seven people. On the night of 28 August, the junta raided the home of NLD Ward Chair Kyaw Oo in Maha Aung Myay Township, Mandalay, and attacked his family members and took more than 15 million kyats worth of properties, Mizzima reported. 

On August 29, a soldier shot himself after killing his commander who was reading a propaganda telegram to the soldiers who wanted to join the CDM in the 140th Infantry Division in Matupi, Chin State. The telegram stated that the country will be back to normal as the military is going to release Aung San Suu Kyi and hold election very soon, a local told Khonumthung Burmese.

On 30 August, a Dawei People Defense Force base in Dawei Township, Tanintharyi Region, was raided and set on fire by the junta troops, costing about 100 million kyats, a PDF member told The Irrawaddy. More than 20 villagers living near the area were arrested. A member of the Kawlin PDF told The 74 Media that five military trucks were struck by landmines on the Shwebo-Myitkyina road in Kawlin Township, Sagaing Region, killing about 40 junta troops.

According to Mizzima's investigation, 60-year-old businessman U Aye Ko, a hotel and construction owner living in Thailand, was behind the plot to assassinate Myanmar’s special envoy to the UN, Kyaw Moe Tun. He owns A.K Construction and Industry Company Limited and has close ties with the leaders of the junta.