Myanmar Anti-Coup Protesters Defy Ban, Take to Streets for Fifth Day
Anti-coup protesters in Yangon on Wednesday / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 10 February 2021
YANGON Throngs of anti-coup protesters again poured onto the streets across Myanmar on Wednesday, undeterred by the military regime’s assembly ban and speculation that more crackdowns were imminent after a number of incidents on Tuesday in which riot police violently confronted demonstrators.
In the country’s capital Naypyitaw, where protesters were gunned down with live and rubber bullets a day earlier, nearly 500 government employees from four ministries took to the streets to protest against military rule. Their participation added fuel to the country’s ongoing Civil Disobedience Movement, in which civil servants are refusing to work in order to express their opposition to the coup. Unlike Tuesday, protesters didn’t experience any resistance from the police on Wednesday. A 20-year-old woman who sustai
The protesters are demanding that power be restored to the deposed civilian government and are seeking freedom for the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi
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