Last week’s violent earthquakes tore through a part of the country that had already borne the brunt of a brutal campaign by the country’s military junta to root out resistance.

The devastating earthquake has put further strain on the embattled military regime as it fights a civil war. It is unlikely to collapse imminently, but the country’s crisis will only get worse.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck Myanmar on Tuesday afternoon, followed by another quake of magnitude 4.5 in the evening, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). As per the NCS, the first tremor,