Hell in 2021: Myanmar Under the Military Junta After the Coup off the citizens’ property. The junta decreed the legal amendments with an aim to commit human rights violations and hinder the fundamental rights of people. Amendment of Ward and Village Tract Administration Law and Reintroduction of Guest Registration The military junta, on 13 February, amended the Ward and Village Tract Administration Law which was also known as “Guest-Registration Law” and had been amended by a bill revoking the overnight guest registration system from the law in the Hluttaw under the civilian government led by NLD in 2016, to reintroduce the system then took actions over the incompliance in some areas. In the aftermath of the resurrection, several townships in Yangon Region were forced to report the overnight guests to the local authorities.7 Furthermore, in Shan State’s Aungban township, Ma Ei Ei Nyein, the wife of Ko Bo Bo Han, a fugitive and former political prisoner was taken as a hostage following a raid which more than 40 security forces and policemen described as “overnight guest inspection” and seizure of his three computers, a Wi-Fi router and closed-circuit television cameras installed at the home.8 These incidents indicate that the military practiced arbitrary trespasses with the excessive force of troops to ensure that CDM supporters, campaigners, participants, and protesters who stayed hidden were easily arrested anytime. Crackdowns on Protests in Prison Political prisoners in the Insein Prison manifested their solidarity with the people staging different forms of protests against the military junta across the country by means of their strikes in the prisons. In spite of violent clampdowns on myriad protests, people still mounted anti-junta protests with guerilla-like tactics in major cities and rural areas, and the detainees in the Insein Prison held protests, on 23 July, shouting anti-junta chants and denouncing the prison authorities’ ignorance of the COVID19 surge and severity among the prisoners, lack of health care for Prison Department staff and exclusion of political prisoners in the amnesty issued on 30 June. The prisoners also sang “Thway Thitsar'' (Faith of blood or Pledge in blood in Burmese) and demanded three situations as follows: (1) unconditional release of political prisoners, (2) access to medics and health care system for the inmates, and (3) ease of draconian prison regulations. After the morning protest, the soldiers entered the prison and beat the protesters, throwing 21 prisoners including Ko Zaw Htet Naing alias Sitt Naing, a member of the central executive committee of All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) into solitary confinement, eventuating in at least eight critically injured victims and several others with other severe bruises according to independent media sources. As more regime troops were stationed at Obo Prison in Mandalay Region on 23 July for the purpose of preventing potential repercussion of Insein Prison’s protests, there reportedly prison rules were tightened, families found it more difficult to meet and provide essentials including food to their beloved ones in the prison and some inmates were transferred to remote prisons. On International Human Rights Day observed on 10 December, political prisoners joined the nationwide silent strike movement again, which, however, saw the prison authorities reportedly beat 89 inmates from exclusive jail room (1) and (2) for partaking in the strike with the protest leaders reportedly 7 March 22, 2021. ရန်ကန ( 2် မိU Oနယ်အချိU Oတင ွ ် ဧည်စ ့ ာရင်းတိင ( ရ ် န် ဖိအားေပး. Myanmar Now. Available at https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/6216 8 Khin Khin Ei. April, 2021. ြပည်သေ J တွ ဧည်စ ့ ာရင်းဥပေဒနဲ ဖိ ိH ်ခရ ံ မIပိမ ( ျားလာ. Radio Free Asia. Available at ့ &ပ https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/administration-law-04142021062022.html 4