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.
Myanmar military carries out overnight raids following demonstrations
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The military in Myanmar on Sunday night reportedly deployed troops in hospitals and universities and arrested people during raids in several townships in the country’s largest city, Yangon.
According reports by local media including Myanmar Now, Mizzima News and Radio Free Asia, the military deployed troops in over 10 hospitals across the country, including in Yangon, and in some of the country’s universities.
Security forces arrested more than 100 people in the Shwe Pyithar township in Yangon, according to a report by Myanmar Now.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing shots and of people being injured.
(Reuters) - Three demonstrators were killed in Myanmar on Monday, witnesses said, while shops, factories and banks were closed in the main city Yangon in protests against last month s military coup. Security forces were also deployed at hospitals and universities, state media said. Two of the victims died of gunshot wounds to the head in the northern town of Myitkyina, the witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who fired on the protesters although both police and the military were at the scene. Photos posted on Facebook showed the bodies of two men lying on the street. Witnesses said they were taking part in a protest against the coup when police fired stun grenades and tear gas. Several people were then hit by gunfire from nearby buildings. One witness, who said he helped move the bodies, told Reuters two people were shot in the head and died on the spot. Three people were wounded. How inhumane to kill unarmed civilians, said the witness, a 20-year-old man. We must have our righ
YANGON: Thousands of Myanmar anti-coup demonstrators defied an ongoing military crackdown on Sunday, following overnight raids in Yangon in which an official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party was beaten to death and several others were detained.
Myanmar has been rocked by unrest since a Feb 1 coup ousted civilian leader Suu Kyi from power and triggered a mass uprising of people opposed to the new military junta.
Wednesday was the deadliest day so far, with the United Nations saying at least 38 people were killed when security forces fired into crowds, shooting some protesters in the head.
The UN rights office also said it has verified at least 54 deaths since the coup though the actual number could be far higher and more than 1,700 people have been detained.