On August 18, The Institute for Strategy and Policy - Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar) issued a report indicating that the Military Council's troops since the coup, and have intensified their operations and increasingly targeting civilians in the course of engaging revolutionary forces. This report reveals that the Military Council's troops carried out military operations without
Nearly 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been driven from their homes in Karen State by more than a month of fighting between the junta forces and the allied group of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People's Defense Forces (PDF), Saw Nanda Sue, a spokesman for the Karen Human Rights Group, told Mizzima.
Nearly 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been driven from their homes in Karen State by more than a month of fighting between the junta forces and the allied group of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People's Defense Forces (PDF), Saw Nanda Sue, a spokesman for the Karen Human Rights Group, told Mizzima.
More than 200 troops entered Lay Kay Kaw new city near Myawaddy, which has become a magnet for regime opponents; an NLD lawmaker was among those detained.