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

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.

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.