After the ceasefire, the area underwent an economic boom, with both the MDNAA and regional Myanmar Armed Forces ( Tatmadaw ) troops benefiting financially from increased opium harvests and heroin-refining.

Thousands, mostly monks and civilians ( primarily students ) are killed by the Tatmadaw.

In the 8888 Uprising, many monks participated and were killed by Tatmadaw soldiers.

According to Human Rights Watch, as many as 70, 000 boys serve in Burma's national army, the Tatmadaw, with children as young as 11 forcibly recruited off the streets.

The Myanmar Armed Forces, officially known as Tatmadaw (, ) is the military organization of Burma, also known as Myanmar.

In accordance with agreement reached at the Kandy Conference in September 1945, the Tatmadaw was reorganised by incorporating the British Burma Army and the Patriotic Burmese Force.

* Armed Forces Day or Tatmadaw nei ( Burma )

Since then, the KNU and KNLA have continued to fight the Burma state military ( Tatmadaw ) by forming guerrilla units and basing themselves in temporary jungle camps on the Thai-Burmese border.

Bogyoke ( General ) Aung San (, ); 13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947 ) was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, founder of the modern Burmese army ( Tatmadaw ), and considered to be the Father of modern-day Burma.

The Tatmadaw has been engaged in a bitter battle with ethnic insurgents, political dissidents and the narco-armies since the country gained its independence from Great Britain in 1948.

In August 2009, the United Wa State Army became involved in a violent conflict with Burma's military junta, the Myanmar Armed Forces ( Tatmadaw ).

On 31 January 1949, Ne Win was appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces ( Tatmadaw ) and given total control of the army replacing General Smith Dun, an ethnic Karen.

At the time of Myanmar's independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw was weak, small and disunited.

In practice, it has been claimed that the Tatmadaw regularly kidnap and conscript children and use civilians as forced labour and human mine-sweepers.

Experts say that the human rights abuses along the gas pipeline are the direct responsibility of Total S. A. and its American partner Chevron with aid and implementation by the Tatmadaw.

The human rights group Karen Women Organization documented a case of Tatmadaw forces crucifying several Karen villagers in 2000 in the Dooplaya District in Burma's Kayin State.

They were pursued by the Tatmadaw ( Burmese armed forces ) and shunned by other Karen rebels.

It has been alleged that the SPDC forcibly recruited children – some as young as 10 – to serve in its army, the Tatmadaw.

The city is also the headquarters of Eastern Command of the Tatmadaw ( Burmese Army ), and the army occupies a significant portion of the northeast area of the city.

After World War II predicted methods were invariably applied but the fall of shot usually needed adjustment because of inaccuracy in locating the target, the proximity of friendly troops or the need to engage a moving target.

The order to fire live rounds was given, and one young man was shot and killed when he ran down Chamberlain Street away from the advancing troops.

The enraged troops broke into the houses along the street and shot or bayonetted 15 male civilians whom they accused of being rebel fighters.

On top of that, there were two instances of British troops killing civilians out of revenge or frustration, at Portobello Barracks, where six were shot and North King Street, where 15 were killed.

He died alongside the body of Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader and commander of all SS troops in Norway, who had shot himself earlier.

In the speech he euologised the actions of a German Nazi and Freikorps officer, Leo Schlageter who had been shot whilst engaging in sabotage against French troops occupying the Ruhr ; in doing so Radek sought to explain the reasons why men like Schlageter were drawn towards the far right, and attempted to channel national grievances away from chauvinism and towards the support of the working movement and the Communists

The compliance of the NKVD was ensured by Zhukov's troops, and after interrogation Beria was taken to the basement of the Lubyanka and shot by General Pavel Batitsky along with Beria's most trusted associates.

* 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.

* 22-Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.

* 22-Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.

The troops shot dead 13 demonstrators, wounding another 65.

* July 16 – July 17 – Russian troops mutiny, abandon the Austrian front, and retreat to the Ukraine ; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.

* May 28 – Following the invasion of the Paris Commune by Government troops, 147 Communards, the last defenders of the workers ' district of Belleville, are shot, on the last day of the " Bloody Week " ( Semaine Sanglante ) in which the Commune is crushed.

* March 5 – Boston Massacre: Eleven Americans are shot, five fatally, by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.

* March 27 – 342 Texan prisoners are shot and killed in the Goliad Massacre along with Texan General James Walker Fannin by Mexican troops in Goliad near the Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution.

About 285 people involved with the riots are shot dead by troops.

During a gun-battle with Islamic Jihad militants whom Israel says were firing at troops from inside the UN compound, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed a UN Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) employee, Iain Hook ( 54 ) on November 22, 2002.

Musket shot marks that may come from Cromwell's troops during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms are clearly visible on the tower and apse.

Wracked with indecision, Barré moved his troops into the hills and formed a defensive line from Teboursouk through Medjez el Bab and ordered that anyone trying to pass through the line would be shot.

A Polish investigation concluded in 2004 that Polish troops had been shot at by members of the German minority and German military intelligence ( Abwehr ) agents ; around 40 – 50 Poles and between 100 to 300 Germans were killed.

Albert Peter Dewey ( October 8, 1916-September 26, 1945 ), shot by accident by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945.

As he neared the villa, he was shot in the head in an ambush by Viet Minh troops.

Particularly since the 1960s, there has been some controversy concerning the 346 British and Imperial troops — including 25 Canadians, 22 Irish and 5 New Zealanders — who were shot for desertion, murder, cowardice and other offences during the war, some of whom are now thought to have been suffering from combat stress reaction or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (" shell-shock ", as it was then known ).

Booth was fatally shot during their capture by federal troops.