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While street protests condemning the Myanmar coup continued on the 20th day, protesters from the Provincial Forces also took part in street protests. There are also concerns that supporters of the military come to the streets to deliberately induce violence and give the military a cause for bloody suppression.
According to local media and foreign media on the 25th, about 1,000 pro-military demonstrators gathered in downtown Yangon, the largest city on the day. Immediately after the coup, supporters of the military got into cars and walked around the city waving military flags, but it was known for the first time that such a large-scale demonstration was launched.
On social media, photos were posted that the military police, who blocked the path of the protesters condemning the coup, cleared the barricade and opened the road in the procession of the pro-military protesters. Some of them threw stones or slingshots at citizens who criticized them, Reuters reported. There was also a picture of a man who violated while fighting with a citizen, and a man threatened the other with a weapon. Netizens also raised suspicion that some of them were people who had received the command from the military, saying they had earphones in their ears. Some of the gangs came out of police vehicles, and there were also articles saying that they were trying to riot in protesters. There is also a video spreading that a gangster swung a knife on the side of the road and one was injured.
From this point of view, there is also a view that relates the appearance of pro-military demonstrators and violence to the military government’s blitz pardon on the 12th. At the time, doubts were raised about whether it was attempting to force them to attack protesters protesting the coup after releasing a large number of military supporters, mainly on social media. On social media, netizens said, “We don’t use violence,” and called for attention to the’military key protesters’ who incite violence.
In the midst of this, a man in his 20s who injured his knee in a shooting by military police during the Mandalay protests on the 20th was reportedly killed the day before. Local media Myanmar Now, on a phone call with his wife, reported that the man died in the Mandalay Military Hospital the morning of the previous day and was cremated immediately the afternoon. The wife said, “I tried to take the body home, but the hospital didn’t allow it, and I said that I had to make up right away.” The hospital explained that the cause of death was a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), but claimed that the cause of the death was that the husband was shot in the knee and severely beaten by the military police.
As a result, the number of people who died in direct connection with the protests condemning the coup increased to four. In addition to these four, the Myanmar Political Offender Support Association (AAPP) found that four people were killed by military and friendly personnel, including a vigilante on the outskirts of Yangon on the 20th. I said I did.
/ Reporter Kim Yeon-ha [email protected]
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