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Albert, who had been working as a security manager for a company for six months, was shot through the window of his flat.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since a 2021 coup, with attacks by ethnic minority armies and resistance fighters challenging the rule of the military, which has responded with air strikes and heavy weapons, including in civilian areas.
On Tuesday, Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) Commander Major General Jone Kalouniwai said the military would "like to raise its concerns with regards to the sweeping changes of the current government to establish a firm transition of power and democratic control as the government of the day."
He was the first western journalist sentenced to prison in recent years in Myanmar, where a military coup had overthrown an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The military dissolved a transitional government that had been set up to guide the country to democracy following the overthrow of long-ruling autocrat Omar al-Bashir in a popular uprising two years ago.
Many residents of the town have fled, according to accounts on social media.
Myanmar's junta said on Friday they would hold elections within two years, the first timeframe it has given for a return to democracy since its February 1 coup.
Children were among those killed on Saturday, Myanmar's Armed Forces Day, according to news reports and witnesses, in a crackdown that drew renewed criticism from Western countries and was denounced by the US envoy as "horrifying".
"It was horrible. People were shot before my eyes. It will never leave my memory," said one photojournalist on the scene who did not want to be named.
India shares a 1,600 km land border with Myanmar, where more than 50 people have been killed during protests against the coup.