Monument to Dictator’s Colossal Vanity Rises; Regime Wedding Veils Violence; and More    

Whereas his troops are busy torching and shelling Christian church buildings in Chin and Kayah states and central Myanmar, junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has instructed state media to solicit extra donations for a marble Buddha statue – touted because the world’s largest sitting Buddha picture – which he’s having in-built Naypyitaw.

Reaching up 81 toes (24.69 meters) in peak, the Maravijaya picture is being constructed in a park of the identical title in Dekkhinathiri Township together with greater than 700 marble slabs inscribed with textual content from the Tripitaka (Pali Canon) of Theravada Buddhism. By way of its media, the regime has been always urging folks to donate funds for the development of the Buddha picture and stone inscriptions.

Talking on the 77th anniversary of state broadcaster Myanmar Radio and Tv on Wednesday, Min Aung Hlaing instructed state media together with junta-controlled TV, radio, and newspapers to proceed to advertise the Buddha statue to “arouse the generosity of donors.”

This implies there will probably be extra articles in junta-controlled newspapers glorifying Min Aung Hlaing because the “protector and promoter of Buddhism” and gushing that the junta boss should have made a lot advantage in his earlier lives to be constructing the Maravijaya on this one.

In the meantime, in eight townships in Chin State, western Myanmar, the place the regime has imposed martial legislation and banned gatherings of greater than 5 folks, Christians have to hunt approval from army authorities one week upfront for routine spiritual actions.

Elsewhere, the regime continues to kill and terrorize Buddhist and Christian civilians with indiscriminate air, artillery and infantry assaults on villages across the nation.

Blood wedding ceremony for deputy protection chief’s daughter

Min Aung Hlaing and his spouse attended a marriage reception in Naypyitaw on Saturday to witness junta Deputy Defence Minister Main-Common Aung Lin Tun’s daughter Thiri Lwin tie the knot with Navy captain Aung Myint Tun.

Min Aung Hlaing appointed Aung Lin Tun as his protection deputy shortly after the army takeover in 2021. Aung Lin Tun has since demonstrated deadly effectivity in quelling anti-coup protests and rebel, which earned him focused sanctions from the European Union. Min Aung Hlaing rewarded the 52-year-old with the title of ‘Zeya Kyawhtin’, an honor for excellent army service.

In the meantime, Aung Lin Tun’s son is an actor who makes frequent appearances in regime propaganda motion pictures, and likewise co-stars with the daughter of junta Social Welfare Minister Daw Thet Thet Khaing in adverts for Thet Thet Khaing’s gold outlets.

EVs arrive in Myanmar amid electrical energy disaster 

With the junta constructing charging stations for electrical automobiles now arriving in Yangon from China amid critical energy outages, questions are being requested about power sources.

The regime’s cupboard assembly on Feb. 9 noticed junta boss Min Aung Hlaing admit that energy cuts would proceed in Myanmar. 4 days later, his electrical energy minister U Thaung Han and business minister Charlie Than held an pressing assembly to debate setting up a photo voltaic plant within the compound of a monosodium glutamate manufacturing manufacturing unit in Daik-U in Bago Area. Based on a report on the assembly, Min Aung Hlaing has referred to as for a deal with photo voltaic power to energy electrical automobiles.

Nevertheless, the truth that the report was not printed in state-run newspapers like Myanma Alin and Kyemon, which nonetheless have a comparatively large readership, however within the army mouthpiece Myawady Day by day – which isn’t learn even by troopers – indicators that Min Aung Hlaing’s electrical automobile scheme will come to naught in the long run.