- The toll for injuries rose to 4,850, and another 220 people were missing.
- Government leaders reiterated Modi’s plan to hold “free and fair” elections.
- Modi demanded that the ceasefire be permanent after the ceasefire.
Myanmar media said on Saturday that the death toll from the devastating earthquake in Myanmar climbed to 3,354, with 4,850 injured and 220 missing.
The leader of the junta, senior Min Aung Haing, senior king, went back to the capital Naypyitaw after a rare foreign trip to attend a summit in Bangkok in the southern and southeast Asian countries, where he also met with leaders from Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Bhutan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and India respectively.
Myanmar media said Min Aung Hlaing reiterated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to hold a “free and fair” election in December.
A spokesman for India’s foreign affairs said on Friday that Modi called for a ceasefire after the ceasefire in Myanmar’s civil war and said an election must be “inclusive and credible”.
Critics will ridicule the planned elections to keep the generals powered through the proxy.
The military has been working to run Myanmar since the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Prize winner Aun San Suu Kyi in 2021, which exacerbated the March 28 earthquake.
The UN said the civil war after the coup displaced more than three million people, a widespread sense of food insecurity, and more than one-third of the population needed humanitarian assistance.
UN Aid Director Tom Fletcher spent Mandalay, the second largest city near the earthquake center in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, on Friday night, and posted a response from humanitarian and community groups with “courage, skill and determination” on X.
“Many people have lost everything themselves, but continue to support survivors,” he said.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner’s Office said Friday that the junta restricts aid supplies to geological areas where communities do not support their rule.
The UN Office said it is investigating 53 government attacks on opponents, including air strikes, with 16 people following the ceasefire announced on Wednesday.
