Crackdown on anti-coup protests targets aid workers in Myanmar

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Myanmar Red Cross workers arrested, intimidated and injured on the front lines as humanitarian crisis deepens amid the military's bloody crackdown on anti-coup protests

This photo taken and received from an anonymous source via Facebook shows protesters carrying sand bags to build road barricades during a demonstration against the military coup in Insein township in Yangon, March 31, 2021. military seized power

Myanmar military aircraft have started bombing positions of another group, the Karen National Union , for the first time in more than 20 years and thousands of villagers have fled from their homes, manyMyanmar has been rocked by almost daily protests since the army overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on February 1 citing unsubstantiated claims of fraud in a November election.

"Myanmar Red Cross first aiders and medics have been wrongfully arrested, intimidated or injured and Red Cross property and ambulances have been damaged. This is unacceptable," Alexander Matheou, IFRC’s Asia Pacific Regional Director, said.

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