At least 10 people died in Myanmar military police shooting… Netizens appeal for help “This is a battlefield”

Input 2021.03.03 22:49 | Revision 2021.03.03 22:50

Major foreign media such as Reuters and AFP reported that the Myanmar military police again fired live ammunition at the anti-coup protesters on the 3rd, killing more than 10 people.

Tensions are rising again as a massive bloodshed occurred three days after’Blood Sunday’, where at least 18 people were killed by police indiscriminately firing across Myanmar on the 28th of last month.

According to Reuters, at least 13 military officers fired on that day, including one teenage boy in Myingyan, one woman and four men in Monywa, two in Mandalay, three in Yangon in the capital, and two in Hpakant. He was shot dead.

AFP reported that at least 10 people were shot and killed, including 7 in Monyuwa, 2 in Mandalay and 1 in Mingzan.

Myanmar netizens uploaded pictures and videos of bleeding citizens on social media and appealed for help, saying, “The police and soldiers are shooting live ammunition. This is a battlefield.”

A photo of a 19-year-old woman who participated in a Mandalay protest was shot and killed, and a video of a military police beating emergency personnel from an ambulance was also widespread. In Myanmar, after the coup on the 1st of last month, more than 30 citizens have been counted to have lost their lives. The number of deaths is expected to increase over time due to the large number of injuries.

It was also reported that six domestic and foreign reporters who reported on the protests in Myanmar were charged with violating the Public Order Act. Media groups demanded that they be released immediately.

The Associated Press reported that Tain Jo (32), a photojournalist of its own, was arrested while covering the scene of a protest in Yangon on the 27th of last month. He said it was applied. Earlier, the Myanmar military government increased the sentence last month for violating the Public Order Act from a maximum of two years to three years.

On the other hand, Pope Francis mentioned the situation in Myanmar at the end of the general meeting of demand this night and expressed deep concern, saying, “Conversation over oppression and harmony over discord. Myanmar’s people’s wishes cannot be dampened by violence.”

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar wrote on Twitter that “all major cities are in the same state as Tiananmen Square in China.” This means that the situation in Myanmar is the same as the Chinese government’s bloody suppression of citizens who demanded democratization and political reform at Tiananmen Square in 1989 with tanks and armored vehicles.

Myanmar’s military did not care even though ASEAN (the Southeast Asian Nations Federation) called for “violence restraint”.

The night before, ASEAN held a videoconference with its foreign ministers, but reaffirmed its principled position, “I urge all parties to refrain from promoting any further violence and to resolve the situation peacefully through dialogue and reconciliation.” did.

Meanwhile, Aung San Suu Kyi’s national advisory side is establishing a confrontation with the military regime, such as appointing a minister by itself following a special envoy.

The CRPH (Federal Assembly Representative Committee), a meeting of members of Suu Kyi’s advisors who were elected in the general election in November last year when the military government declared invalidity, made a statement the previous day and made a statement the day before. Has been appointed.

Earlier, on the 22nd of last month, CRPH appointed Sasa, a doctor who runs the charity medical foundation, as an envoy to the United Nations, and Tin Lin Aung, who was imprisoned after participating in the student movement for democracy in the 1990s, as representatives of international relations.