Statement from members of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance on the crisis in Myanmar
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Myanmar junta targets union, protest leaders – The Militant
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Security forces in Myanmar arrested the leader of an anti-coup motorcycle rally Thursday after ramming him with an unmarked car, while police and military killed eight and arrested 30 protesters nationwide in the past 24 hours, sources in the country told RFA.
The 25-year-old Muslim activist Wai Moe Naing had been one of the most outspoken leaders of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) against the military’s seizure of power from the country’s democratically elected government on Feb 1.
As Wai Moe Naing and other motorcyclists rode together in protest in the city of Monywa in northwestern Sagaing region, he was rammed by an unmarked police car, according to friends and colleagues.