Citizens opposing the coup in Mandalay, Myanmar on the 13th, ride motorcycles to participate in a rally. Mandalay=AP Yonhap News
While protests by citizens against the military coup in Myanmar continued on the 8th day, the military began to crack down on medical staff participating in the disobedience movement. The protests by medical staff at the National Hospital set fire to the widespread participation of public officials, and the fact that the police fired live ammunition at the protesters was also known to the world through medical staff exposure. The atmosphere of resistance in Myanmar is intensifying as news that the military has kidnapped citizens.
According to local media on the 13th, police raided the home of Mandalay Medical School President Kin Maung Lewin, who supported the civil disobedience movement, in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, and tried to arrest him without a warrant. However, it is reported that the neighbors stepped back after a strong protest by tapping pots and pans.
On the night of the 11th, the police tried to arrest the head of the medical department of Aunglan Hospital in the central Magwe area, but were defeated by opposition from neighbors. Around the same time, in northern Shan State, two plain-clothed police officers struck the home of a surgeon participating in the civil disobedience movement. Closed circuit (CC) TV was filmed of a doctor arrested by the police, who participated in protests in the southwestern Eyawadi area and treated patients free of charge in a private clinic.
On the 3rd, in the emergency room of a general hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, medical staff are wearing red ribbons on personal protective equipment as a symbol of resistance to the coup. Yangon = EPA Yonhap News
The reason the military aimed at the medical staff was that they believed they played a leading role in the protests. Hundreds of medical staff, including doctors and nurses, went to the streets in Yangon and Mandalay, the largest cities of Myanmar on the 3rd, when protests took place for the first time since the military coup.
On the 12th, more than 1,000 doctors in Yangon dressed in gowns and marched through the city center, urging the release of civilian government officials, including national advisor Aung San Suu Kyi. It is also known as a doctor that the police fired live ammunition at the protesters in the capital Naepido on the 9th, and informed the local media and foreign media that two people were in critical condition.
Not only doctors are arrested. Citizens’ opposition is growing even more as news and related videos are spreading on the social network service (SNS) that the military is attempting to arrest or arrest people who oppose the coup one after another. On that day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights pointed out that “after the coup, more than 350 people, including politicians, civil activists, journalists, monks, and students, have been detained, and most of them did not follow legal procedures.” Myanmar’s Political Prisoners Support Association feared that “the situation is that they don’t know what kind of charges, where their loved ones have been taken, and what state they are in.” Amidst thousands of protesters gathered in Yangon on this day in such an atmosphere, it is known that a hand sign with a message saying’Stop night kidnapping’ appeared.
Heo Gyeongju reporter [email protected]
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