When the government made the promise to halt offensives, it alerted the myriad of cultural and anti-coup rebel groups it is fighting that it would respond if they advanced.
Locals claimed that fighting had forced some civilians from their homes during the ceasefire, and that opposition armed groups had attacked towns along a lucrative southeast trade route to Thailand.
The United States Geological Survey reported that the earth cutting up to 6 meters in some places, which was the strongest earthquake to have occurred on Myanmar’s continent since 1912.
This year, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies predicted that the nation would need two years to recover completely from the crisis.