Myanmar Regime Detains Increasing Numbers and Steps Up Violence
Anti-regime protesters in Mandalay. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 8 March 2021
Yangon – More than 200 anti-regime protesters, including members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), were arrested by the security forces on Sunday during an intensified crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar.
The military regime has stepped up violence across the country, using tear gas, rubber and live bullets, deadly air-guns firing lead pellets and sound grenades.
On Sunday night, police and soldiers used hundreds of the explosives, that are used to simulate a grenade in training, and fired warning shots in several Yangon townships.