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REUTERS: Myanmar authorities exhumed the body of a 19-year-old woman who was shot to death wearing a T-shirt that read “Everything will be fine” and her examination exonerated police from the murder, state television MRTV said on Saturday. March). ).
Kyal Sin, known as Angel, was shot to the head on Wednesday when protesters were attacked by security forces trying to end the demonstrations against the February 1 coup. It has become an icon of the protest movement.
The exhumation of Kyal Sin has sparked renewed outrage from opponents of the coup, who accuse the junta of trying to hide the fact that her forces killed her.
State television said police, a judge and doctors exhumed the body and carried out a surgical investigation.
They found a penetrating wound to the back of the head and a 1.2 cm by 0.7 cm chunk of lead in the brain and said it was different from the bullet tips used by the police.
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State television said that police had been face to face with protesters and that the wound was on the back of the head and that the object that killed Kyal Sin could be shot with a pistol capable of firing .38 caliber bullets.
“Therefore, it can be assumed that those who do not want stability carried out the assassination,” MRTV said.
On social media, opponents of the coup described the exhumation as yet another insult to Kyal Sin and his family, with the intention of giving a false account of what happened.
A military spokesman did not respond to calls seeking comment. Reuters was unable to reach police for comment.
State television said authorities had asked the family for permission to exhume the body, but did not say whether it was granted. Reuters was unable to contact the family.
Protesters at the rally site in Mandalay on Wednesday said they had been targeted by live bullets at the time Kyal Sin was killed.
Images released by Reuters show that Kyal Sin had her neck turned towards the line of security forces moments before she was killed.
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Residents said Kyal Sin’s body had been exhumed on Friday by a team that arrived under police and military guard and kept people away from the grave. The grave was sealed with fresh cement and discarded rubber boots and gloves and plastic surgical gowns covered the site on Saturday.
Kyal Sin was one of at least 38 people killed on Wednesday, the bloodiest day yet in attempts by security forces to stop protests against the coup that has sparked daily demonstrations for more than a month.
The military says it has been restricted in the use of force, but will not allow protests to threaten stability.
The army said it overthrew and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi after the electoral commission rejected her allegations of fraud in a November election that her party had overwhelmingly won.
The protesters reject the army’s promise of new elections and demand the release of Suu Kyi and other detainees.
