Following the repeal of these laws, the military arbitrarily trespassed on homes to arrest political activists, protesters, and CDM members, as well as entering civilian homes without official warrants to arrest youth protesters hidden within and the house owners. In addition, the military engaged in stalking, eavesdropping on communication devices, obtaining the personal information of targeted persons from telecom operators, opening envelopes and parcels, abducting family members and spouses, and confiscating citizens’ property. A member of security forces firing at residential housings where protesters are hiding after the crackdown in Sanchaung Township, Yangon in mid March, 2021. (2.3) Amendment of Ward and Village-Tract Administration Law The Ward and Village-Tract Administration Law was amended on the same day as the privacy law was amended.19 By adding a phrase claiming that anyone failing to comply with the guest registration will be fined not exceeding ten thousand kyats or be imprisoned not exceeding seven days, the military junta attempted to prevent people from moving from one ward or village to another and make it difficult for protesters to take sanctuary. In addition to the suspension of some articles of the Law Protecting Privacy and Security of Citizens and the amendment of the Ward and Village-Tract Administration Law, the police and regime troops used excessive force to carry out arbitrary searches, beats, and arrests everywhere in contravention of the ethics of police force, which requires only two officers in uniform to enter and search homes.20 ရန််ကုုန််မြို့�့��နယ်် တချို့့���တွွင်် ဧည့့်�စာာရင်းး�တိုု�င််ရန်် ဖိိအားး�ပေး�းနေ�. (2021, March 22). 19 နိုု�င််ငံံသားး�များ�း�၏ ပုုဂ္ဂိုု��လ််ဆိုု�င််ရာာ လွွတ််လပ််မှုုနှှင့့်�ပုုဂ္ဂိုု��လ််ဆိုု�င််ရာာ လုံံခြုံ� �ံ�မှုုကိုု� ကာာကွွယ််ပေး�းရေး�း ဥပဒေ�. (2018, 18 October 7). Myanmar Law Library. https://myanmar-law-library.org/IMG/pdf/protection_of_the_citizzen_for_the_personal_freedom_and_personal_security_law_no5_2017.pdf Myanmar Now. https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/6216 From the interview. 20 14