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One the protesters gunned down in a crackdown in Yangon on Sunday morning is carried away.
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BREAKING: At least two people were killed and six were injured as police and soldiers used live ammunition while attacking peaceful protesters near a shipyard in Mandalay on Saturday afternoon. Stay tuned for the full story.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#militarycoup
#2021uprising
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People in Myanmar launched what is being called “Easter Egg Strike” on Sunday, painting and writing anti-military slogans on eggs as a symbol of defiance.
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UPDATE: At least six injured and 10 people arrested so far in an ongoing crackdown by the police and soldiers using rubber bullets to disperse a protesting crowd near a shipyard in Mandalay.
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Hundreds of pro-military supporters are holding a big rally in downtown Yangon. The police has removed barricades to allow for the rally. Some residents of the town responded to the rally by banging on pots & pans. One of the bystanders were beaten up by pro-military supporters.
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Ko Wai Moe Naing, leader of the main protest movement in
#Monywa
, was arrested by coup regime’s forces this afternoon (Apr 15) while riding a motorcycle. Plainsclothes gunmen in a normal car hit him and also arrested a woman who was with him.
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The riot police fire rubber bullets into a protesting crowd in Mandalay. A few sustained injuries. A tense confrontation is going on between anti-coup protesters and security forces.
#WhatisHappeningInMaynmar
#2021uprising
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The junta’s armed forces have been attacking a key protest stronghold in Bago’s Ma Ga Dit Road since 5am on Friday. Sources told Myanmar Now the gunfire is ongoing. “They have been shooting with heavy weapons. I can still hear sound of gunfire now,” a Bago resident said. Photo-CJ
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Myanmar Now's multi-media reporter, Ms.Kay Zon Nwe, was taken away by the police while she was live-streaming a protest crackdown around noon at Myaynigone Junction in Yangon. We are still trying to find out her whereabouts.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Video: Soldiers gunned down a few protesters in Yangon crackdown on Sunday
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A protester was believed to be shot with live ammunition by security forces at Hledan in Yangon on Sunday morning. Photos here show the protester lying on the ground covered in blood and was later carried away by other protesters.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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BREAKING: Two people shot dead after security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in Mandalay on Wednesday. The two victims are 37-year-old Myo Naing who was shot in the chest and 19-year-old Kyel Sin who was shot in her head.
#whatshappeninginMyanmar
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The first anti-coup protest took place in Mandalay and is being met with severe state repression. The protesters are now fleeing into all the directions, chased by riot police.
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BREAKING - Our tally shows that as of 1630 Myanmar time, 91 civilians in 40 towns across
#Myanmar
have been killed today (Mar 27) by the coup regime’s armed forces.
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Aung San Suu Kyi taken from her Naypyitaw home to undisclosed location
“We don’t know where she’s being kept anymore,” a senior NLD source said.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#Myanmarcoup
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As horrific reports of the coup regime’s brutality are coming in, we have also been receiving images of large-scale anti-coup protests happening today. In Pale, in Sagaing, more than 100,000 people, including monks and nuns, estimated to have taken part.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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In the backdrop of historical Sule Pagoda, tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters converge in Yangon today.
#2021uprising
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At least 114 people were killed in brutal attacks by the junta's armed forces in more than 40 cities across Myanmar on Saturday. Our reporting has been updated to reflect these figures.
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Police report filed in
#Singapore
against Excellence Metal Casting Pte Ltd + STE Global Trading Pte Ltd for "breaking UN sanctions on North Korea enabling the Burmese military to procure weapons from the country". We salute the courage of the complainant
#MyanmarCoup
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Residents in Mandalay’s Chanmyatharzi township staged an anti-coup protest on Wednesday morning.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Posters with anti-coup slogans are found in some places in Yangon on Saturday morning.
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Several major businesses closed today as the Myanmar public in multiple cities– including Falam, Kalay, Kyaukme & Yangon– observe a nationwide “Silent Strike” to counter the regime’s effort to reopen government offices and the economy.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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100s of "pro-army" supporters are going around Yangon, some seen in army motorcars. During the 2007 Saffron Revolution, the military used plainclothes thugs to crackdown on anti-government protesters.
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Breaking: A combined force of soldiers and police is now raiding a residential compound for railway workers in Yangon’s Minglar Taung Nyunt township. Workers of the state railway have joined the civil disobedience movement against the military coup.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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People marched in an anti-coup protest through downtown Yangon on Friday, the first in days through the heart of the city. Demonstrators were seen holding a banner that read, 'What is this? We are Yangon people’ as they rallied on Anawrahtar Road. (Photos- EPA)
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Anti-regime messages are written on clay pots placed on the streets of Yangon on Tuesday to welcome Myanmar's New Year. The pots are a traditional offering to the 'nat' or spirit of the New Year Water Festival in what is this year being called
#RevolutionaryThingyan
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A shootout broke out between the Mandalay People’s Defence Force and regime troops in Chanmyatharzi Township on Tuesday morning after an attempted raid by the junta on the civilian guerrilla group’s location. The situation was still unfolding at the time of reporting.
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Soldiers broke up the protest site in western Kalaymyo today, killing a 28-year-old father of three and a 25-year-old, both male. Soldiers took one injured person away, another is in critical condition and more than 10 people were hit, locals said.
#WhatsHappeningInMaynmar
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Heartbreaking images of a one-year-old baby in Thamine, Yangon, who was shot in the eye with rubber bullet as he was playing by the coup regime’s armed forces today (Mar 27). Dozens have been killed across the country.
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Anti-coup protesters burn a paper copy of the 2008 Constitution in Yangon's Hlaing township today, following an announcement by the CRPH-- a body representing some of Myanmar's elected lawmakers-- that the Constitution has been abolished.
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Police fired around 50 rounds of rubber bullets and used water cannons to crackdown on protesters in Naypyidaw.
#2021uprising
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BREAKING: People in townships across Yangon are breaking the military’s nighttime curfew to take pressure off of protesters who are trapped in Sanchaung by security forces.
#WhatshappeninginMyanmar
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People in Myanmar launched what is being called a “Flower Strike” on Friday by placing flowers around public places such as bus stops, in remembrance of those killed by the junta.
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Five people were injured and one arrested in Bagan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as security forces fired live ammunition at anti-coup protesters on Sunday morning.
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Peaceful protests continued in parts of Yangon today. These photos are from Sanchaung and Tharketa.
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Some of the protesters got injured in Naypyidaw after the police used water cannons to disperse them.
#2021uprising
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Residents in Kyaukmyaung, Yangon, held an evening protest against the military dictatorship around 1930 this evening (Apr 2).
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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According to data from three hospitals--Yangon General, Hlaing Tharyar & Thingangyun Sanpya--at least 59 people were killed & 129 injured in Yangon alone during Sunday's crackdown by security forces. The actual toll is believed by doctors and rescue workers to be much higher.
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Security forces attacked a crowd of protesters on 57th St in Mandalay on Monday morning, injuring at least 6 people. Two—Mya Thway Chel, 22, and Han Lin Aung, 15—are in critical condition, according to a volunteer rescue team. We are still gathering further information.
#Myanmar
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BREAKING - One person killed and several injured in War Yaung village, Sagaing, this morning (Apr 10) after at least five military vehicles came and broke up an anti-coup protest. "It is a small village. There is no Wi-Fi, no electricity,” said a local.
#WhatsHapppeningInMyanmar
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At a United Nations meeting held in New York today, Myanmar's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, condemned the Feb. 1 coup and called on the international community to use "any means necessary" to get the ruling military council to "return the state power to the people."
#Myanmarcoup
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Nearly 200 protesters were detained in a crackdown in Yangon's suburban township of North Okkalapa on Wednesday. Residents have blocked the roads so that the police vans carrying the detainees cannot leave the area.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmarNow
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Youth in Mandalay welcomed the newly formed National Unity Government (NUG), an interim cabinet established by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw- CRPH. Protesters wore masks featuring the face of Dr Sasa, NUG minister and former special envoy to the UN under the CRPH.
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မြန်မာ့အသံ၊ မြဝတီသတင်းဌာနတို့ကို ဆန့်ကျင်သည့်ကမ်ပိန်း မန္တလေးတွင်ပြုလုပ်။
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Security forces are attacking the protesters on Yangon's Insein Road with stun grenades and tear gas on Tuesday morning.
#WhatsHapppeningInMyanmar
#2021uprising
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The regime’s forces are found to be abusing a pedestrian who refused the order to clear sandbags and other barricades on a road in Yangon’s Tamwe township today.
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Monks from the Sangha Union Mandalay who have been taking part in anti-coup protests also took part in the “Silent Strike” this afternoon and expressed support for
@CrphMyanmar
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At least 4 people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in the regime’s nighttime raids in Mandalay on Sunday, according to family members & locals. Another person was killed in Chanmyathazi Tsp when armed forces fired on locals who were stopping them from removing barriers.
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Breaking: Myanmar’s acting vice-president Mahn Win Khaing Than was appointed interim prime minister on Friday by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, a body formed by elected lawmakers from Myanmar’s ousted civilian government. 1/2
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Yangon-based Japanese freelance journalist Yuki Kitazumi was detained by the junta on Sunday night and is now in Insein prison, Kyodo News reported, quoting the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar. Japan's PM Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that the embassy is seeking further information.
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So far, 22 people have been killed in
#Myingyan
, and last night the coup regime’s armed forces arrested people, but this morning (Apr 3), people have again come out to protest the military dictatorship.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Several firefighters in Mandalay also joined
#2021myanmaruprising
to protest against the
#militarycoupinMyanmar
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Students and residents from Mandalay’s Chanmyathazi Township participated in a march on Sunday morning to protest the coup regime.
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“Flash Strike” in Ayeyarwady and Mandalay regions this evening (Apr 11).
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UPDATE - As of 21:30 tonight (Mar 27), we have confirmation that 114 civilians have died in 44 towns across
#Myanmar
at the hands of the coup regime’s armed forces. The numbers include 40 deaths in
#Mandalay
and 27 deaths in
#Yangon
.
#WhatsHapppeningInMyanmar
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Defiant protesters started chanting slogans on Yangon's Insein Road.
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Nearly 60 dead in one day in junta’s brutal assault on Yangon
Doctors and rescue workers fear that the death toll will continue to rise as further information becomes available.
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Boisterous protest against the military coup in front of the Chinese embassy in Yangon this morning
#2021uprising
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The coup regime's forces killed at least two people and injured seven others when they attacked a protest in Monywa on Saturday morning. A rescue worker told Myanmar Now that soldiers abducted two people who were severely injured with bullet wounds.
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Despite lethal crackdowns, the protesters keep returning to the streets across Myanmar. Here is the mass protest against the military junta on Friday morning in Mandalay.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#2021uprising
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1/3 Myanmar's campaign for
#BlueShirtDay2021
launched on Wednesday, demanding the release of all political prisoners detained by the coup regime. The blue shirts are a tribute to veteran journalist and activist Win Tin, who spent 19 years in prison and died 7 years ago today.
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School teachers and student unions in Mandalay hold a sit-in protest at the corner of 84th and 30th street on Wednesday morning.
#whatshappeninginMyanmar
#Mar3Coup
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A doctor in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township confirmed on Tuesday morning that her hospital had received a total of 51 bodies of people killed by the junta’s armed forces in the March 14 crackdown on the area.
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Students and youth continue to march in Mandalay to protest the military regime on Monday, April 5, despite deadly crackdowns on protests nationwide.
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Hundreds of university lecturers in the University of Yangon protested against the military coup today as part of the nationwide “civil disobedience” campaign. They called for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and others and a respect for the results of November elections.
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Anti-coup protesters launched the "Padauk Revolution" in Yangon on Monday. The yellow flower locally called "padauk" is one of the primary symbols of Myanmar's New Year water festival.
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Youth in Yangon’s Tamwe Township urge the public to observe a “Silent Strike” in honour of fallen protesters on Friday—the last day of Myanmar New Year Water Festival—by not going outside after 12pm.
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An evening protest in North Oakkalapa, Yangon where shoes are filled with flowers in memory of fallen protesters.
#MarchingShoesStrike
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Monks from the Mandalay Sangha Union recited prayers to spread loving kindness and in support of the National Unity Government (NUG) today (Apr 18).
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1/2 Myanmar’s security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township in Yangon, on Sunday afternoon, killing at least 11 people and injuring 20, according to a source at a hospital nearby and a rescue worker.
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Many would have seen video of the distraught father hugging and crying after his son Htoo Myat Win, 12, was shot and killed by the coup regime’s gunmen yesterday. His funeral was held today (Mar 28). Neighbours said he was to be novitiated in April.
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During the crackdown at 5:30 pm in Mandalay, a woman was killed on the spot as the security forces opened fired on the protesters.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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A tense situation in North Okkalapa township in Yangon where at least 10 anti-coup protesters shot dead and dozens injured yesterday.
Today, protesters there have set up barricades on the road. Security forces deployed in the town were reinforced with members of naval force.
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Two injured as police and soldiers raided a shipyard in Mandalay on Saturday afternoon. Residents from the area started protesting after learning that the authorities pressured shipyard employees joining the civil disobedience movement to return to work.
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Fresh protests re-start in Mandalay on Monday, despite the murder of more than 100 people by the regime nationwide since coup resistance began.
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Anti-coup protesters gather around Sule and Pansodan street in downtown Yangon despite crackdowns and arrests.
#WhatshappeninginMyanmar
#Mar3Coup
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Security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters using force at four places in Mandalay Friday afternoon. Details of the injuries are still unknown but emergency workers are giving treatments to four protesters including one whose leg has been shot.
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Members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions were joined by monks as they rallied in Mandalay today, as nationwide anti-coup protests continued in the face of the regime’s mass killings.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The "Two Five" general strike against the military rule on 22.2.2021 are growing hour by hour in the downtown Yangon marked by ancient Sule Pagoda.
#2Fivegeneralstrike
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Anti-coup rallies continue in Mandalay on Wednesday—the second day of Myanmar’s New Year Water Festival, also known as Thingyan. People cancelled public celebrations this year due to the coup, instead launching the
#RevolutionaryThingyan
campaign.
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More than 10,000 Karen people living in KNU-controlled areas have been displaced as a result of the coup regime's airstrikes. In the four days between Mar 27 to 30, these strikes killed 20 civilians and wounded at least 14.
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Captain Tun Myat Aung, who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement in March, says it is vital that the uprising forms a federal army.
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Two protesters were killed and dozens injured yesterday in Mandalay. Yet, hundreds of thousands of its residents comprising doctors, nurses, engineers, students & teachers gathered near Zeygyo market, one of the hallmarks of the city, on Sunday to protest against the regime.
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Around 100 people marched at UNESCO World Heritage site Bagan on Tuesday morning to protest the military dictatorship.
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At 5 pm today (Apr 9), student unions from different universities staged an anti-military dictatorship rally in front of Myanmar Plaza in Yankin township, Yangon.
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အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ကောင်စီ အလိုမရှိကြောင်း ရွှေဘိုခရိုင် တန့်ဆည်မြို့
ပြည်သူများက ယနေ့မနက်တွင် အင်အားသိန်းချီကာ ဆန္ဒပြခဲ့ကြသည်။
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Soldiers and police used rubber bullets and slingshots to crack down on protesters in Mandalay this afternoon. At least three people were injured. It’s still unclear how many people were arrested.
#WhatsHappeningInMaynmar
#militarycoup
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Residents of Amarapura, home of the famous U Bein Bridge, in Mandalay Region staged a rally at dawn.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Soldiers and police indiscriminately opened fired on the protesters in the town of Dawei in southern Myanmar. Here is one of the protesters shot in the back. At least two of the protesters in the town are confirmed dead,according to local media.
#2021uprising
#myanmarcrackdown
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A "night strike” was held in Tamwe, Yangon, this evening (Apr 11) to protest against the military dictatorship.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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People from several Yangon townships launched a “Blood Strike” campaign on Tuesday, spraying red paint on public places to symbolise the blood of those who have been killed on streets across the nation by the junta’s troops.
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Members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions held an anti-coup rally in Mandalay on Thursday despite the junta’s intensifying efforts to crush the pro-democracy movement across the country.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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