" The junta, still unable to gain political, territorial or economic control in the third month since its forcible and unconstitutional power grab, has engulfed the entire country in armed conflict. It has escalated military attacks on urban-based movements and border-based ethnic communities.  Security forces, including notorious units that committed genocidal atrocities against Rohingya people, unleashed lethal battlefield tactics in towns and cities, launched airstrikes on Kachin and Karen states, and shelled villages in Chin, Kachin, Karen, Shan, and Sagaing States/Regions.  During April alone, security forces killed at least 288 civilians and displaced over 27,000. The junta sentenced 26 civilians to death in military tribunals.  In total, it has killed at least 845 civilians, injured thousands more, displaced over 47,000 ethnic community members, and detained at least 4,537 politicians, activists, journalists and others, in attacks against the democracy movement.  The Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) (i.e., the elected parliament) formed an ethnically diverse National Unity Government (NUG).  ASEAN leaders invited junta leader Min Aung Hlaing—who illegally grabbed power on 1 February—to a meeting, rather than Burma’s legitimate civilian government. The meeting resolution contained “Five Points of Consensus,” including peaceful negotiation and cessation of violence in Burma, but not including the release of political detainees. The junta preceded the meeting by criminalizing the NUG, and followed the meeting by continuing its violence throughout the country.  The junta’s oppressive attempts to gain control of the country is disintegrating the economy, potentially dragging it back by 15 years. The UN projects that by 2022, 48% of the country will be in poverty.  In order to avert worse violence and create space for dialogue and negotiations, the movement in Burma and allies urge that: o The UN Security Council must work with ASEAN, to ensure it complies with UNSC resolutions on the protection of civilians, the Geneva Conventions, and international human rights standards; o The UN, foreign states, and international finance institutions (IFIs) must sanction and stop assisting the junta; and o These actors must engage with the NUG as the legitimate government of Burma, rather than the junta.....CONTENTS: 2 Burma movement demands 2 Democratic government 4 De jure and de facto authority 5 Air strikes and a new civil war 7 Offensives cross international lines 7 Attempts to stop defections 8 Junta’s violent crackdown 9 Bago massacre, Sagaing attacks 9 Tactics of fear and repression 10 Civilians sentenced to death 11 Media/information restrictions 12 Protests continue despite dangers 13 ASEAN meeting 14 International reactions, sanctions 18 Corporations pick sides 19 Coup continues to destroy economy..."