I tried to arrest… Citizen’s backlash broke
The Myanmar military has stepped back against civil opposition after arresting medical personnel participating in the civil disobedience movement. After the protests by medical staff at the National Hospital, the number of public officials participating in the protests against the coup is increasing.
According to local media such as Irrawaddy on the 13th, the police raided the home of Mandalay Medical School President Kin Maung Lewin, who supported the civil disobedience movement, in Mandalay, the second city of Myanmar the morning of the previous day, and tried to arrest President Lewin without a warrant. However, he stepped down when neighbors tapped pots and pans and protested strongly.
Prior to this, on the night of the 11th, the police in the central Magwe area tried to arrest the head of the medical department of Aunglan Hospital, but were destroyed by opposition from neighbors.
Around the same time, two plain-clothed police officers in northern Shan State were reported to have struck the home of a surgeon participating in the civil disobedience movement.
On the same day, in the southwestern Eyawadi region, a doctor who participated in a civil disobedience movement and treated patients free of charge in a private clinic was captured by the police on closed circuit TV (CCTV).
Hundreds of medical staff, including doctors and nurses, initiated a civil disobedience campaign in places like Yangon and Mandalay, the largest cities of Myanmar, on the 3rd, when protests took place for the first time since the military coup, local media said. Said.
Myanmar’s military government held a coup on the 1st, saying that serious misconduct occurred in the general election held in November last year, but the government did not properly investigate it.
Protesters in Myanmar set out on the streets despite banning assembly of more than 5 people./AP Yonhap News/ Reporter Park Seong-gyu [email protected]