AFP/KNU Dooplaya District
Myanmar junta forces detained dozens of protesters amid searches and arrests of protesters over the past 24 hours, including a schoolteacher and a former ward administrator who were participating in the civil disobedience movement, witnesses said Thursday.
Though security forces have cracked down on protesters in Kalay, killing at least a dozen people in a siege of demonstrators’ barricades early this month, daily demonstrations have continued. Protest leaders said at least 25 people had been arrested in the past few days for joining street protests in that Sagaing region city known for heavy resistance to the junta.
Police and soldiers are searching for homemade weapons, mobile phone apps, saved photos, and social media accounts, a Mandalay resident who is under investigation by junta forces told RFA Thursday.
Prominent Protest Leader Escapes Arrest by Myanmar Junta
Ko Tayzar San at a protest on April 14 in Mandalay.
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By The Irrawaddy 20 April 2021
One of Myanmar’s most prominent anti-regime protest leaders has escaped arrest after junta security forces failed to capture him at his home on Monday.
Soldiers and police some in plainclothes arrived at Ko Tayzar San’s apartment in Mandalay and forcibly entered by smashing down the door.
The protest leader was not there at the time of the raid as he has been in hiding elsewhere.
The failed attempt to detain the 32-year-old comes a few days after the regime seized another protest leader Ko Wai Moe Naing in Sagaing Region’s Monywa. His mother said she has lost contact with her son since then and is worried about his safety.
Activists hold a portrait of Myanmar s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi while standing on portraits of the country s military general Min Aung Hlaing during a protest outside the United Nations University building in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2021, AFP
The charges that Myanmar’s junta has piled on leader Aung San Suu Kyi since deposing and arresting her in February – ranging from possession of unlicensed walkie-talkie radios, to taking bribes, to sedition – lack legal merit but appear designed to end her political career, lawyers and analysts said Thursday.
The 75-year-old Nobel laureate has a 3-0 record of landslide election victories against military proxy parties in 1990, 2015 and 2020, and was overthrown hours before lawmakers from her National League for Democracy (NLD) were to convene the parliament elected in November with a huge majority.
80 killed in Myanmar crackdown as UN envoy calls for strong action
AFP
10th April, 2021 09:20:54
Reports emerged Saturday (April 10) of more than 80 killed in the latest bloodletting by Myanmar s military, as the country s own ambassador to the United Nations called for strong action against the junta.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February, with protesters refusing to submit to the junta and demanding a return to democracy.
After over two months of military rule, efforts to verify deaths and confirm news of crackdowns have been greatly curtailed by the junta s throttling of mobile data within the country - shunting most of the population into an information blackout.
Scores Killed In Myanmar Crackdown As UN Envoy Calls For Strong Action
04/10/21 AT 10:01 AM
Reports emerged Saturday of more than 80 killed in the latest bloodletting by Myanmar s military, as the country s own ambassador to the United Nations called for strong action against the junta.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February, with protesters refusing to submit to the junta and demanding a return to democracy.
After over two months of military rule, efforts to verify deaths and confirm news of crackdowns have been greatly curtailed by the junta s throttling of mobile data within the country shunting most of the population into an information blackout.