More than 1,000 Myanmar citizens on motorcycles and cars ride on motorcycles and cars in Myanmar’s capital Naepido on the 21st (local time) are chasing a woman in her 20s who died after being shot in the head of a police officer after participating in a protest against the military coup. [로이터 = 연합뉴스] The Myanmar military fired live ammunition at citizens protesting the coup, killing at least three people and wounding dozens of others.
As criticism from the international community is rising, local media are predicting that anti-coup protests by citizens will spread further through the funeral of the victims.
According to the testimony of the Myanmar media and local citizens’ social network service (SNS) on the 21st, the Myanmar military police fired live ammunition at the protesters protesting the military coup a day ago. As a result, at least three people, including a teenage boy, were killed and about 30 people were injured, the worst bloodshed since the military coup on the 1st.
The incident occurred at a shipyard in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, where the military and police protested the coup and confronted workers on strike. As a result, hundreds of citizens flocked to the shipyard and added taxation to pressure the military police, and immediately the military police fired rubber bullets, slingshots, and tear gas, followed by live bullets indiscriminately.
Two civilians were killed and 30 people were injured, and about half of them were shot, citing local emergency medical teams, reported by AFP. Reuters reported that 20 people were injured and moved to the hospital due to live ammunition by the military and police, and two of them, including the one who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, were wired in an emergency.
It is estimated that the citizens who died immediately after being shot in the head in the field were teenagers. When I watched a video that seems to have been posted by a Myanmar citizen on social media that day, gunfires were constantly heard confirming the firing of the military and police.
The firing of live ammunition by the military and police in Myanmar toward the citizens began in Naepido, the capital city on the 9th.
At the time, the military and police fired live ammunition with rubber bullets at the protesters, and Cain, a female college student in her twenties, fell into a state of brain death. The family were informed by medical staff that Cain was unlikely to regain consciousness, and Cain died on the morning of the 19th.
To date, at least four demonstrators, including Mr. Cain, have been killed in live ammunition by the military and police. In addition, the possibility of an additional increase in the number of deaths cannot be ruled out due to the large number of injured people receiving treatment at hospitals.
Local media claim that the soldiers who shot live ammunition on the 20th belonged to the unit involved in the 2017 Rohingya massacre.
According to a report on’Frontier Myanmar’ on the 21st, the police stationed in Mandalay are believed to be receiving support from the 33rd Light Guard Division, which was designated as a Rohingya massacre. After killing the Rohingya in 2017, the 33rd Light Guards Division was put on the list of sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union (EU) on charges of burying and burning villages.
In addition, according to the Myanmar Political Offender Support Association (AAPP), 569 people were reported to have been arrested by the military government until the 20th after the outbreak of the coup on the 1st of this month. Local media predicted that as the funeral of Cain, the first victim of the anti-coup protests (21st), and the 22nd, when mass-scale strikes and closures were scheduled, the level of resistance from citizens would become even hotter.
In addition, pressure from the international community on Myanmar’s military is increasing.
The United States strongly criticized this in Mandalay on the 20th when two protesters in the coup protests were killed and dozens were injured due to the fire of government forces. US State Department spokesman Ned Price also tweeted, “We are deeply concerned about reports that the Burmese (Myanmar) military police are firing at protesters and continuing to detain and attack protesters and others,” he said. “We are on the side of Burmese citizens.” did.
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