'We need your urgent international help, please help Myanmar': Beauty pageant contestant's plea to the world
9 Apr, 2021 01:51 AM
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Myanmar pageant contender calls for urgent international aid. Video / Bloomberg
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A pageant contestant from Myanmar has used her moment in the spotlight to appeal for urgent international help for her country as security forces suppressing protests against last month's coup killed more than 100 people.
Yangon University student Han Lay made the comments Saturday night at the Miss Grand International pageant held in the Thai capital Bangkok. As she was speaking news was coming out from across the border in Myanmar that at least 114 people had been killed in the bloodiest day since the February. 1 coup.