Myanmar: 38 more killed during anti-coup protests as security forces intensify crackdown Updated Mar 15, 2021 | 08:34 IST
According to an advocacy group, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, at least 126 people have been killed due to violent and arbitrary crackdowns, and casualties are drastically increasing. A man cries on the coffin of Saw Pyae Naing in Mandalay, Myanmar, Sunday, March 14, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP
Naypyitaw: At least 38 more people have been killed on Sunday as security forces in Myanmar intensified their crackdown against anti-coup protesters to crush demonstrations calling for the reinstatement of the elected government.
According to an advocacy group, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), at least 126 people have been killed due to violent and arbitrary crackdowns, and casualties are drastically increasing in number.
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Protesters watch as a video showing Min Ko Naing, a leader of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, is projected on a screen during a night-time demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on Saturday. STR/AFP
Three Myanmar protesters die as hundreds defy junta curfew
Mon, 15 March 2021
At least three people were killed when demonstrators took to the streets again across Myanmar on March 13, after a deadly overnight crackdown as hundreds defied a curfew to hold vigils in honour of those killed since the military seized power.
The junta has deployed increasing force against daily protests since the February 1 coup, with more than 70 people killed according to the UN’s top rights expert on the country.
Myanmar's ruling junta has declared martial law in a wide area of the country's largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to last month's military coup.