Myanmar military firing kills four “The 33rd Division of the Rohingya Massacre”

In the midst of intensifying protests against the military coup in Myanmar, military police fired at the protesters, killing more than four people. Despite national protests and criticism from the international community, the military is expected to respond hard and the bloodshed will worsen.

According to local media and foreign media on the 21st, military police indiscriminately shot live ammunition and rubber ammunition in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, killed at least two people, including teenage boys, and injured more than 40 people. In the process of dismantling 1,000 protesters gathered at the Yatanarfon Shipyard in Mandalay and trying to return to work, the military and police wielded clubs and shot water cannons, rubber guns, tear gas, and slingshots, and later fired, the New York Times reported. I quoted and conveyed. On social media, a man who appears to have been killed by being shot in the head is bleeding, according to NYT.

The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by state adviser Aung San Suu Kyi, detained in the military, criticized in a statement that “the repression of violence in Mandalay is a crime against humanity.”

Local media frontier Myanmar said the soldiers who fired at the protesters belonged to a unit involved in the massacre of the Rohingya tribe, a minority in Myanmar. According to the media, the Mandalay Police are supported by the 33rd Guards Division, which was involved in the 2017 massacre of thousands of people in the village of Indin, a Rohingya settlement, and is currently stationed in Mandalay. This massacre is the only massacre recognized by the Myanmar military. At that time, soldiers belonging to the division killed the Rohingya in Indin village and buried the village on fire. For this reason, the United States and the European Union (EU) placed high-ranking officials of the 33rd Guards Division on sanctions.

On the night of the 20th, a private vigilante was shot and killed in Yangon, the largest city, according to the Myanmar version of Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA). On the 9th, a 20-year-old woman, who participated in a protest against the coup in Myanmar’s capital Naepido, died ten days after she was struck by a live ammunition shot by the police and fell into a brain dead state.

Reuters reported that the military government arrested famous actor Lu Min at home, one of the six people who were wanted for incitement to participate in the protests. Lu Min’s wife said on Facebook that “the police came to Yangon and forced the door to open and then took her husband.” The Myanmar Political Offender Support Association (AAPP) announced on the 1st that 569 people have been arrested by the military government since the outbreak of the coup. Facebook issued a statement that day and announced that it had deleted the Facebook page of the Myanmar military government promotional media.

The US and Europe raised their voices of criticism as the number of deaths came out one after another due to the fire of government forces. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Twitter on the 20th, “We are deeply concerned about reports that the Burmese (Myanmar) military police are firing on protesters and detaining and attacking protesters and others.” “We are on the side of Burmese citizens.” said. “I strongly condemn the military violence against peaceful civilian protesters,” said Josef Borrell, senior representative of the European Union’s diplomatic and security policy. “Myanmar forces should immediately stop violence against civilians.” Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) along with Myanmar, said in a statement that it was “a surprise” and “using weapons of destruction against unarmed civilians is unacceptable.”

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