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Myanmar military intensifies crackdown on protesters following coup
15 Feb, 2021 10:52 PM
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An anti-coup protester dressed in a Batman costume outside the Central Bank of Myanmar building in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo / AP
An anti-coup protester dressed in a Batman costume outside the Central Bank of Myanmar building in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo / AP
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Security forces in Myanmar have cracked down on anti-coup protesters, pointing guns toward civilians and attacking them with sticks. The military seeks to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the junta that seized power this month to reinstate the elected government.
More than 1000 protesters rallied in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country s second-largest city, when at least 10 trucks full of soldiers and police arrived and immediately started firing slingshots toward the protesters, according to a photographer who witnessed the events.
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