Burma Coup Watch for the Month of October 2024: Thailand, China Aid Desperate & Increasing Brutal Junta

• As of 31 Oct, there were at least 38,315 armed clashes and attacks against civilians since 1 Feb 2021. As of 4 Nov, there were at least 3,177,100 displaced people since 1 Feb 2021. Junta troops continued their violent crimes.
• A year after Operation 1027: junta loses 85 towns, at least 2,500 positions, incl. N. Eastern HQ.
• Junta beheads, disembowels, mutilates and burns alive victims of Budalin massacre.
• Thailand detains over 200,000 Burmese migrants in four months.
• Thai officers allow junta to select conscripts from immigration detention.
• KIA seizes rare earth mining area along Chinese border from Kachin BGF.
• Chinese border shutdown and junta crackdown on black market imports worsen nationwide shortages.
• Junta census endangers workers, fails to finish in time.
• Junta drones bomb KNU 7th Brigade HQ after loss of Myawaddy base.
• Children and IDPs fleeing junta raids in Tanintharyi killed after overcrowded boat capsizes.
• Canada, UK and EU announce fresh sanctions on junta industry minister, BGF head, and crony companies.
• Smugglers in Thailand, Indonesia leave hundreds of Rohingya refugees for dead.
• Displaced nuns and girls stuck in limbo due to lack of support

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