Thursday, 22 Apr 2021 08:13 AM MYT
Flowers hang during a nationwide flower campaign against the military coup in Yangon April 2, 2021. — Reuters pic
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YANGON, April 22 — The Myanmar military’s crackdown on anti-coup protesters has displaced close to a quarter of a million people, a United Nations rights envoy said yesterday.
The junta has stepped up its use of lethal force to quash mass demonstrations against a February 1 coup which ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
At least 738 people have been killed and 3,300 are languishing in jails as political prisoners, according to a local monitoring group.