Local news media coverage; From February 1, 2021, to mid-April 2022, 38 monks across the country, including a nun, were killed in the massacre, according to data compiled by locals based on local statements and statements by the military council. Thirty-three monks were killed and seven others were injured in an attack on PDFs, the military council said on April 3, 2022. RFA could not independently confirm this statement. 

    According to a separate list compiled by RFA based on local news and local reports, five monks have been arrested and killed by the military. Another 38 monks are being held in various prisons. On the 3rd of this month, Mandalay Division, Madara Township. Locals and monks' organizations say that in retaliation for the killing of a monk by a local PDF group for informing the military council in Kinywa, the army entered the village and arrested and interrogated Sayadaw U Pya Wun Tha, in-charge of the monastic school. Than Lone, a member of the Minkin Township People's Defense Force, said that with the exception of groups such as Pyu Saw Htee, who informed the military, innocent monks were never killed. 

    "When it comes to religion, other people, It used to be red. Spy or spy. As long as it is not Dalan. If it weren't for Pyu Saw Htee, no comrade in Minkin Township would have dared to commit such killings. Everyone is connected. Dalan will be clear. Then I will clear the Pyu Saw Htee. The rest are never done. 

    " He said the PDFs were designed to protect the people and would never do anything that would upset the people. Yesterday, April 24, Wontho Township, Sagaing Division. Residents in Thapyethar village say soldiers shot and killed the abbot because the village abbot forbade him to do so when the army set it on fire. A military council spokesman, General Zaw Min Tun, said the arrests of monks were rare. 

     "The so-called PDF terrorists are killing people," he said. The associated monastic community already knows. When it comes to arrests, the government rarely arrests monks. In some places, so-called PDF terrorist groups are operating in the guise of monks. "Once we find out what they are wearing and avoiding, we have to take legal action." Earlier this year, video footage of some nationalist monks joining forces with the Pyu Saw Htee after the military coup took place on social media. 

    A woman in Monywa, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said the deaths of 38 monks in more than a year after the coup were a consequence of the monks' failure to stop the military crackdown after the coup. 

     "The worst thing is that the monks themselves should not be training with guns," he said. I do not see myself as a monk. Sitagu Sayadaw is a famous abbot. Regarding what is happening in Myanmar, Prohibition of evil deeds in connection with the killings; "It's really unfortunate not to hear the prohibitions." 

    More than a year after the coup, monks were killed. Arrests; RFA contacted the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Group in Rangoon by telephone and Facebook today to comment on the allegations made between the military and the PDFs, but did not respond. The monks are armed with nationalism. 

    Ashin Rajadhamma, a member of the Sangha Union in Mandalay, said that information should not be provided in collaboration with the military. “National politics means that the monks have nothing to do with the armed struggle. 

    The current involvement of the monks is historically non-violent. We stand by doing the right thing. That is why we are expressing our will in a non-violent way. I am protesting against it. That is why the monks are still involved in national politics. ” 

     The arrested monks are from Mandalay and Mandalay. Sagaing Bago Tanintharyi The Irrawaddy Magway and Yangon Divisions, followed by Mandalay Division. On the day of the military coup, U Thaw Bita (Alinka Kyay) and U Tay Zaniya (foothills of Mandalay), who had close ties to the NLD, were arrested. 

    Among them, Sayadaw U Thaw Bita was sentenced to two years in prison by a prison court. There are over 500,000 Buddhist monks and 600,000 nuns in Myanmar. There are pro-democracy activists among the monks, as well as many who support military action for the sake of the nation and religion.