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The Burmese Army fired this Sunday live ammunition against several protesters in Bagan, the historic city in the central area of the country, causing a slight injury, one of the organizers of the protest told Efe.
Thousands of Burmese returned to protest against the military junta in other cities such as Mandalay and Rangoon where the security forces fired tear gas, with the uniformed increasingly isolated from the international community.
Clad in plastic helmets and metal shields on which many have written the word “People”, The protesters try to prevent the advance of the police and the military with barricades in the streets despite the harsh repression.
Sources from the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, reported on Facebook that one of their representatives in Yangon, the country’s largest city, He died after being arrested the day before by police and soldiers.
NLD MP Ko Si Thu Maung claimed that the deceased, identified as 58-year-old Khin Maung Latt, would have been tortured while being interrogated in his cell.
Funerals are held in various localities for the killed by the shooting of police and soldiers, including 38 dead just last Wednesday.
In Yangon, family and friends showed their grief at the funerals of 19-year-old Htet Aung and 21-year-old Min Oo, while some raised their arms with three raised fingers, the gesture of resistance against the military inspired by the saga of “The Hunger Games”.
At least 54 protesters, including five minors, have died and hundreds have been injured due to the shooting of the police and soldiers in the protests against the coup d’état on February 1 that are repeated daily throughout the country.
In addition, more than 1,500 people, including politicians, activists, journalists and monks, have been detained since the military uprising and more than 1,200 remain arrested, including Suu Kyi, 75 years old and incommunicado.
Disinformation campaign
The military junta continues with a disinformation campaign in the pro-government media, where insists there was electoral fraud in the elections of last November, although they were validated by international observers, and in the correct performance of the security forces.
According to the official media “Global New Light of Myanmar”, the authorities unearthed the body of Kyal Sin, a protester who died last Wednesday, and concluded after conducting an autopsy that she had died from a shot fired by a weapon that he was not from the police or the army.
This contradicts the testimonies of numerous protesters who witnessed the incident, which took place during protests in the city of Mandalay.
Kyal Sin, 19 years old and nicknamed Angel, has become one of the symbols of the resistance against the military, who they ruled the country with an iron fist between 1962 and 2011 before beginning a transition to a “disciplined democracy”.
Internet outage
The military junta takes weeks cutting off internet access every night as part of the crackdown against the population, which has launched a civil disobedience movement against the uniformed.
Days after the military uprising, during which part of the elected government of Suu Kyi, the military junta, was arrested cut off access to social networks like Facebook and Twitter to prevent citizens from organizing and sharing videos, but many bypass the blockade using VPN programs.
The protesters demand that the Army allow the return to democracy and recognize the results of the elections last November, in which the National League for Democracy, which already won with a large majority in 2015, swept away.
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