The United States said it was “horrified” by the killing of dozens of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar on Saturday. The secretary of state Antony Blink he accused the military of “a reign of terror” that “sacrificed people’s lives to serve the few”.
With the US also the defense ministers of 12 nations – including Great Britain and Australia – condemned the violent repression by the military junta against demonstrators who demand the restoration of the civilian government of Myanmar, deposed on February 1 by the army, which arrested the leader Aung San Suu Kyi and dozens of politicians. While on Twitter it was Enrico Letta, Secretary of the Democratic Party, to write: “I see the palms today and I cannot but join mine, our cry of pain for the innocent victims of the bloody repression in Myanmar. Stop the generals. Enough blood.”
Day of the Armed Forces in Myanmar, is a massacre: 91 killed, there is also a 5-year-old child
Yesterday, the military shot dead at least 90 people, including seven children, on what was the bloodiest day since the coup, a massacre that coincided with the party of the armed forces.
The death toll from the repression of demonstrations that have challenged the coup army for two months has thus risen to at least 423 victims. According to local sources, the toll from Saturday’s massacre would be even heavier and would amount to at least 114 dead.
Myanmar, Molotov cocktails against Aung San Suu Kyi’s party headquarters
Diplomatic delegations from eight nations, including China and Russia, attended the grand military parade in the capital Naypyidaw. Images broadcast on television show the Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, Alexander Fomin, in the audience of the parade, during which the head of the junta, General Min Aung Hlaing attacked the demonstrators, calling them “terrorists”, and promised the restoration of democracy after new elections. The US embassy in Yangon urged American citizens to limit their travel after yesterday’s gunfire was fired at a US cultural center. “A professional army follows the rules of international conduct and its responsibility is to protect – not to strike – the people it serves”, reads the joint note of the twelve defense ministers, “we urge the armed forces of Myanmar to work to restore the respect and credibility lost with their actions in front of the Burmese people “. The population took to the streets again to commemorate the victims of Saturday’s massacre. New protests were reported in the cities of Bago, northeast of Yangon, and in Moe Kaung, in the state of Kachin.
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