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Friday, 12 Mar 2021 07:52 AM MYT
Protester run from police during a protest against the military coup in Yangon March 8, 2021. Reuters pic
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YANGON, March 12 Myanmar’s military is likely committing “crimes against humanity” in its attempt to stay in power, a UN expert said yesterday, as the junta claimed that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted illegal payments of cash and gold.
At least 70 people have reportedly been “murdered” since the February 1 coup, said Thomas Andrews, the UN’s top expert on rights in Myanmar.
Photo: RFA
Violent suppression of Myanmar demonstrations killed 15 people Thursday, raising the death toll from five weeks of street protests to 73, as the military junta announced a corruption investigation of leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top officials from the deposed civilian government.
Accusations by the military regime that Aung San Suu Kyi had accepted U.S. $600,000 and more than 25 pounds of gold, swiftly dismissed as “totally baseless” by an MP from her National League for Democracy (NLD), add to a list of charges imposed on the 75-year-old leader since she was ousted and detained on Feb. 1.
While the military pressed its case against Aung San Suu Kyi and other top NLD figures at a news conference in Naypyidaw, violent crackdowns by police and soldiers killed at least 15 protesters in the cities of Yangon, Myaing, Mandalay, Myingyan, and Bago. The confirmed death toll is now 73, according to an RFA tally.