The National Unity Government (NUG)

• According to the Mekong News, the NUG will confiscate the permit issued by the military junta related to the use of part of the Shanyoema Ground in Tachileik.
• In honor of World Intellectual Property Day, the NUG Ministry of Economics and Commerce organised a round-table discussion with Union Ministers.

Revolutionary Activities

• In Degu in South Korea, there was a prayer event for peace together with a protest against the military dictatorship in Myanmar. There, Degu Sayardaw recited a poem called ‘Spring
• Chanting’ and said that financial support played a vital role in the revolution.
• According to the Myaung Education Network, revolutionary forces managed to open 25 schools for interim education in Myaung Township in Sagaing Region.
• In Salingyi, Monywa University Students’ Union protested against the Fascist Army on Thursday, hanging a banner that said ‘Stand with prisoners’at the entrance of the town.
• Salingyi GZ PDF captured a truck carrying products made by junta-related firms, so they destroyed those products.
• In Myaung Township, the 26 th middle school against the junta’s slavery education was opened. 
• In Shwebo Township, villagers marched for the NUG and against the military dictatorship on Thursday.
• On their 414 th day of protest, a combined rally from Salingyi and Yinmabin marched against the military dictatorship on Thursday.
• In Khin-U Township and Shwebo Township, a local guerrilla force called Royal Tiger conducted bomb attacks with drones on the junta army and Pyu Saw Htee on Tuesday and Wednesday. Reportedly, three Pyu Saw Htee members, including a junta-appointed administrator, died.
• According to Kani PDF Brigade (2), there was an event after they completed their special refreshers’ training Batch (2) on 11 March.
• In Kalay Township, there was fighting on Wednesday. According to a local PDF, 18 junta soldiers died, many others ran away and weapons were confiscated.
• In Myaing Township in Magwe Region, junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee members raided Saigone Village at about 11:00 am on Thursday. Reportedly, they demolished people’s
• houses and chicken farms.
• At about 7:10 pm on Wednesday, the junta army was attacked with 10 mines by guerrilla forces on the Pakkoku-Myaing Road. Reportedly, a military truck was blown up and no less
• than five junta soldiers might have died.
• In the Yaw Area, junta soldiers were attacked while taking a bath. Reportedly, six of them died and two others ran away.
• In Pauk Township, a troop of 50 junta soldiers entered Thit Nyinaung Village at 5:00 pm on Wednesday. Reportedly, they set fire to people’s houses from 8:30 am the following day.
• In Longlone Township in Tanintharyi Region, the rural community expressed its disapproval of the military dictatorship on Thursday morning, calling on soldiers and police to join the
• public.
• At about 7:00 am on Thursday, Dawei Defense Team (DDT) assassinated a woman, allegedly a Pyu Saw Htee member, in Pandale Village in Longlone Township.
• Somewhere on the Ye to Dawei Road, there were exchanges of fire between the junta army and a local PDF on the night of 24 April. Reportedly, a local PDF member lost their life.
• In Myeik, the junta army arrested a young man in Kankaung Ward on 25 April, accusing him of being a student leader. Reportedly, they charged him under Section 505 (a). 
• In Bago Region, a local PDF assassinated Win Naing, a Kawa Township police officer.  
• On Thursday, the Force for Federal Democracy – FFD released a video, taken by drone, in which two junta soldiers had to run away as the mortar rounds they fired fell back on
• them.
• In Ngazun Township in Mandalay Region, Aye Ko, the administrator of Kula Village and allegedly a junta informer, was assassinated on Wednesday.
• On Wednesday evening, the junta army arrested Daw Ywet Nu Aung, a lawyer and former EC member of Mandalay District NLD.
• At about 11:00 pm on Wednesday, the junta army arrested U Khant Naing, the husband of Actress Khine Thin Kyi.

Ethnic Armed Organizations

• In the Monepaw Area of Shan north, there was fighting between the junta army and the MNDAA on Wednesday. Mortar fire by junta soldiers set fire to local people’s sugarcane
• fields.
• According to the Chin National Organisation, they successfully conducted their first conference. They stated that serious action would be taken against those working for the
• military junta.
• In Kachin State, the KIA set fire to a camp of the junta People’s Army at the entrance to Chaungwa Village to the east of Indawgyi Lake.
• In Matupi Township in Chin State, eight junta soldiers died and many others were injured in fighting on the Matupi-Mindat Road, according to a local CDF.

The Military Council

• The military junta arrested Eden U Chit Khine, the Chairman of the Myanmar Initiative Bank, and the Chief Executive Officer and charged them with corruption. Following the arrests the
• junta Central Bank announced that those who had savings with the Myanmar Initiative Bank need not worry.
• According to a letter from the junta Central Bank to the Myanmar Banks’ Association, Inwa Bank and Myawaddy Bank, owned by the junta army, would open accounts at Russian banks
• soon. It also stated that there would be a meeting in May between five Russian banks and Myanmar banks.
• According to Pinlone locals on Wednesday, the junta armed forces withdrew from the neighborhood of Sanin Mountain and there were just a few soldiers left.
• The junta propaganda leader Zaw Min Tun said that the foreign investments in the electricity sector from 34 businesses was worth $19.3 billion USD.
• U Khin Maung Oo, a member of the junta Union Election Commission, said that they would wait for a while before inspecting the National League for Democracy Party.
• The junta propaganda leader said that they would not invite the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) to their peace discussion.
• On Tuesday, the junta Central Bank announced that the China-Myanmar and Thai-Myanmar border trade importers and exporters are exempted from the policy of having to exchange
• foreign currency into Myanmar kyats within a day.

Summary on 29 April

• The military junta arrested U Chit Khine, a top businessman, and they worried that the public would rush to withdraw their savings from his banks. Because they were concerned that the
• banking system might collapse because of all the withdrawals the junta Central Bank had to issue explanations.
• The junta army led by Min Aung Hlaing lacks the military standards of a normal country. They just seem to do whatever they are told to do by a military lobbyist named Han Nyein
• Oo. In addition, the junta propaganda leader talked nonsense and said stupid things at the junta press conference. Judging from that, the qualifications of the military leadership have
• sunk to very low levels during the administration of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.