YANGON – Since February 1, the toll of demonstrators killed by Burmese security forces during anti-coup demonstrations, according to activists from the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (App), has reached at least 250.
Also yesterday two people were killed and dozens were injured. In Monywa, security forces opened fire on protesters erecting barricades in the city center, killing one person and wounding several others. Another protester was killed by officers in Mandalay.
Myanmar, the military attack a hospital. The ethnic guerrillas in the field against the coup leaders
by Raimondo Bultrini
During the night and during the day on Monday, cars in Yangon began to cross the streets of the city, honking in protest and to avoid arrests and killings. The call came through social media to celebrate a month since the mass protests began.
In the city of Mindat, demonstrators stuck posters with photos of the coup leaders on the ground. And they marched trampling them with the cry: “We want democracy”. On Saturday the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, he reiterated that the UN “strongly condemns the brutal violence of the armed forces of Myanmar”. The violence in the country, continues the note released by the secretary general, “continues to ignore the appeals, including by the Security Council, to put an end to the violations of fundamental human rights and return to the path of democracy”.
The European Union joined the UN, which announced that it “will sanction eleven people involved in the coup d’état in Myanmar and in the repression of demonstrators”. This was stated by the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, upon his arrival at the Foreign Affairs Council. The names of these sanctioned individuals will be made public at the end of the meeting.
Meanwhile, the BBC has made public the release of Aung Thur, the journalist arrested in Myanmar on March 19 while following a demonstration in front of the Naypyitaw court. The British broadcaster reports it, recalling that forty journalists have been arrested in the country by the military coup. The junta also revoked the five-media license.
The Pope: “I too kneel on the streets of Myanmar”
by Paolo Rodari
The Burmese military junta continues not to respond to international condemnations. And he reiterates that force has only been used where necessary.
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