Karen National Union says more than 100 air and artillery strikes killed 20 residents across its territory during the regime’s 20-day ‘ceasefire’.

The massive earthquake on March 28 razed centuries of Myanmar’s sacred history, including the all-white Nagayon Pagoda in Mandalay dating from the early 1800s.

Thousands of survivors shelter in makeshift caps amid a shortage of aid as junta bombardments of opposition strongholds continue despite a nominal truce.

The US funding freeze threatens the existence of Myanmar’s independent media, whose absence would widen the information void left by the junta’s crackdown on the press.