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A month after the protests began in Burma, the police continued to use massive violence against protesters. Rescue teams killed 38 people in nationwide protests.
A month after protests against the Burma coup began, the police continued to use massive violence against protesters. According to the UN, emergency services killed 38 people in nationwide protests on Wednesday. The country had experienced the “bloodiest” day since the February 1 military coup, UN envoy Christine Schraner Burgener said at a video news conference. More than 50 people have died since the protests began.
It was already the 30th day of the resistance. The security forces again used tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets, as the Eleven Myanmar portal wrote. According to activists’ estimates, more than 1,300 people have been detained, at least temporarily, since the coup in early February. Live ammunition was fired at protesters in several cities without warning, eyewitnesses reported. It was feared that the number of victims could increase.
Hundreds of arrests
According to media reports, five people were killed and at least 30 others injured in inland Monywa alone. In the metropolis of Yangon, eyewitnesses said that at least three people were killed when security forces fired automatic weapons at the crowd. Security forces broke up the demonstration and arrested about 300 participants, Myanmar Now news agency reported. There were also reports of deaths from the second largest city of Mandalay and the mining village of Hpakant in the north and Myingyan in central Burma.
In view of the ongoing violence, the UN Security Council must re-discuss the crisis. As several diplomats unanimously reported, Britain requested a closed-door session in New York on Friday. Also on Wednesday there were appeals to the United Nations on social media to help the country. Eyewitnesses increasingly call the former Burma a “war zone”.
The Greens demanded targeted sanctions against the military junta in Burma on Wednesday. “The coup plotters are evidently capable of using any means to stay in power. It is now up to the international community to prevent the country from sliding into civil war,” said Greens foreign policy spokesperson Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic.
The army had staged a coup against the de facto Prime Minister, Aung San Suu Kyi, about a month ago. The reason given by the generals was the irregularities in the November parliamentary elections. Suu Kyi won this by a clear margin. Observers did not document any signs of significant electoral fraud.
The 75-year-old man is under house arrest and must answer various charges in court. Protesters are demanding the restoration of the ancient icon of freedom. Suu Yki had been under house arrest for 15 years during the nearly 50 years of military dictatorship. At that time the army had ruled the country with an iron fist and suppressed any resistance with brutal severity.
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