Myanmar police open fire on anti-coup protesters, killing at least 9

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MYANMAR LATEST: Myanmar forces opened fire on protests against military rule Wednesday killing 9 people, witnesses and media report, a day after neighboring countries called for restraint and offered to help Myanmar resolve the crisis, Reuters reports.

The security forces resorted to live fire with little warning in several towns and cities, witnesses said, as the junta appeared more determined than ever to stamp out protests against a"They marched towards us and fired tear gas, marched again and used stun grenades," Si Thu Maung, a protest leader in the central town of Myingyan, told Reuters.Protesters holding homemade shields as they run during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday.

"The country is like the Tiananmen Square in most of its major cities," the Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, said on Twitter, alluding to the suppression of student-led protests in Beijing in 1989. Video posted on social media showed lines of young men, hands on heads, filing into army trucks as police and soldiers stood guard. Reuters was unable to verify the footage.Images of a 19-year-old woman, one of the two shot dead in Mandalay, showed her wearing a T-shirt that read"Everything will be OK".

While united in a call for restraint, only four members - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore - called for the release of Suu Kyi and other detainees. Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has said the intervention was to protect Myanmar's fledgling democracy and has pledged to hold new elections but given no time frame.

 

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The security forces resorted to live fire with little warning in several towns and cities, witnesses told Reuters, as the junta appeared more determined than ever to stamp out protests against a Feb. 1 coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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