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| Protesters condemning a military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on the 15th (local time) are setting up barricades on the streets. © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Dongmyeong Woo |
Clashes between protesters and military governments in Myanmar protesting a military coup continue. As the military government continues to threaten firing against private houses, the anti-coup forces on the side of Aung San Suu Kyi joined hands with minority armed groups.
According to local media Myanmanau and Irawadi, Myanmar soldiers threatened to fire at private homes if they did not remove barricades installed on the road through loudspeakers in Yangon and Mandalay on the 17th (local time).
In a video spread through social network service (SNS), a voice is heard saying, “I will overturn the whole residential area and shoot if I see a barricade on the road next time.”
Even in Hlaing Taya in Yangon, one of the areas where the massacre took place, when soldiers threatened to shoot people’s homes, they eventually removed the barricades from the roads.
One resident refuted to Nau, Myanmar, “If they hadn’t fired, we wouldn’t have needed a barricade.”
From the night before to this day, at least six people, including three men in their twenties who died in Gaying, in the northwest were shot and killed. To date, the cumulative death toll is at least 216, Irrawaddy said.
Meanwhile, the “Federal Assembly Representative Committee” (CRPH), which acts as the provisional government of Myanmar against the military government, announced that it would be in solidarity with minority armed groups.
The CRPH, made up of elected members of the Democratic National Alliance (NLD) led by advisor Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a statement that minority armed groups were removed from the list of illegal and terrorist groups.