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By Francis Khoo Thwe
After a night blocked by the security forces at gunpoint in the Sanchaung neighbourhood, most of the trapped activists and students managed to escape this morning.
According to eyewitnesses the soldiers withdrew around 6 in the morning. But not everyone is free. A list of 40 people has been posted to social media, mostly students from East Yangon University, who were arrested.
Yesterday, in an attempt to reduce pressure on activists in Sanchaung, several groups organized impromptu demonstrations to distract law enforcement.
So far, the junta has killed over 60 people and arrested at least 2,000. But violence as a deterrent does not seem to stop the population. Even today there are demonstrations in many cities. In North Okkalapa (Yangon), medical university students have called for the release of the minister of the democratic government Zaw Wai Soe.
Students, protesters undaunted despite deaths in crackdown
Students and civilians are still gathering in the streets to reject the 1 February military coup in Myanmar despite a death toll that reached 38 on Wednesday after the military cracked down violently on peaceful protesters.
Some 90% of students and teachers from 40 universities across Myanmar have joined the civil disobedience movement and student protesters are among those who have been killed. Students and academics have been abducted after the military raided homes.
This week the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) – the elected lawmakers of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy – appointed four acting ministers including education minister Zaw Wai Soe, a former rector of the University of Medicine (1,2), who has already spoken out, urging people to join the ongoing civil disobedience movement.
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