The toll of the crackdown on anti-coup protests in Burma has risen to at least 91 people killed. The information site Myanmar Now reports. This is the highest daily toll ever recorded since the military coup on February 1st. The budget was released by an independent researcher in Yangon, who carries out a count of the victims of the repression of protests in real time and which generally coincides with the counts then released at the end of the day by the Association of Assistance for Political Prisoners, an association that it documents deaths and arrests and is considered the most authoritative source.
Among the victims also a child of five and one of 13. The total victims of the repression following the protest could thus reach 400, in one of the bloodiest days.
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The US embassy in Burma condemned the army for killing “unarmed civilians” in cracking down on protests that followed the February coup. “The security forces are killing unarmed civilians, including children, the very people they have sworn to protect,” reads a statement released on the embassy’s Facebook page.