Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup

Updated 31 July 2021

As of 31 July, (940) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. AAPP compiled and documented (1) fallen hero today. This (1) fallen hero from Mogoung Township in Kachin State was killed and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.

As of July 31, a total of (5444) people are currently under detention. (255) people have been sentenced in person, of them 26 have been sentenced to death (incl. 2 children). 1964 are evading arrest warrants. 118 people have been sentenced in absentia, of them 39 sentenced to death in absentia. In total 65 sentenced to death, in person and absentia. We are also continuing to verify the recently released detainees. 

Moe Kyaw, a local villager from See-Din-Yan village in Kachin State’s Mogoung Township, was shot dead to the head from an artillery shell fired by terrorist junta’s artillery battalion based near Mogoung Town after clashes between KIA and the junta on the early morning of July 31 at  See-Din-Yan village which is located west of Namti Town in Mogoung Township. 

17 year-old Zin Myo Khant was arrested when junta troops wearing plain clothes used a private car to crash in to a motorbike driven by three youths protestors including Zin Myo Khant who were returning home after the Mandalar University Boycott Column had left at Mandalay Region’s Maha Aung Myay Township on the early morning of July 31. In addition to this, it is reported that 11 youths including a young man who was shot and injured, were detained when the terrorist junta raided a home where youth protesters stayed together in Patheingyi Township in Mandalay Region. The junta opened fire during the arrests this morning. The 11 youths are from Mya Taung, Phayargyi and Mandalay Youth Boycott Columns. 

While University Students Union (Yangon) and township strike groups were staging a protest in Yangon Region’s Tamwe Township on the evening of July 30, the terrorist junta wearing plain clothes had already arrived in a private car and opened fire in a brutal crackdown, at least three youths were beaten and arrested. 

AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heroes in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses: fatality-data@aappb.org  detention-data@aappb.org 

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