(Reuters) - Thousands of residents fled an industrial suburb of Myanmar s commercial capital on Tuesday, after it was placed under martial law by the ruling junta following bloody anti-coup protests over the weekend. Here is like a war zone, they are shooting everywhere, a labour organizer in the Hlaing Tharyar district told Reuters, saying that most residents were too frightened to go outside. More than 40 people were killed by security forces in protests in Hlaing Tharyar on Sunday and several factories were set ablaze. The families of many of the victims attended their funerals on Tuesday. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military staged the coup against Aung San Suu Kyi s elected government on Feb. 1 and detained her and other members of her party, drawing widespread international condemnation. France said the European Union would approve sanctions against those behind the coup next Monday. The junta, meanwhile, charged the international envoy of the ousted government with tre
The families of dozens of people killed in clashes between Myanmar security forces and anti-coup protesters prepared to hold funerals on Tuesday after candle-lit vigils overnight in defiance of a curfew.
Myanmar's military has charged the international envoy of the country's ousted government with treason, according to an announcement on Tuesday on army-run television.
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