Nine Killed in Myanmar as Regime Seeks to Crush Anticoup Protests

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At least nine people were killed as Myanmar’s new military rulers continue to unleash a lethal campaign to suppress protests against the Feb. 1 coup

SINGAPORE—At least nine people were killed as Myanmar’s new military rulers, who overthrew its democratically-elected government Feb. 1, continue to unleash a lethal campaign to suppress protests against the coup that have swept the country for nearly a month.in which at least 18 people died after police opened fire. Many protesters sustained gruesome bullet injuries, with images of faces streaked with blood and streets filled with tear gas circulating widely.

The killings on Sunday and Wednesday indicate that the generals are turning to the same approach used during decades of army dictatorship to crush dissent: bloodshed, mass arrests and nightly raids to strike terror. The commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, who is now in control, has shown no willingness to compromise or respond to the widespreadof the military regime’s actions. He has said authorities are acting with restraint.

On Wednesday, police responded to protests with live ammunition in numerous cities, according to demonstrators and medics responding to the violence. Two people were killed in Mandalay in central Myanmar, including a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the head, according to two rescue groups at the scene.

 

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Update Total 52 were killed

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