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Thousands Hold Street Protests In Myanmar After Paralysing Strike
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Thousands of pro-democracy activists took to
the streets in Myanmar on Thursday, a day
after a nationwide silent strike saw
businesses shut and people stay at home in
protest against the military coup in the
Southeast Asian country.
Street protests were held in the commercial
capital Yangon, the central city of Monywa
and several other towns, according to
witnesses and social media posts.
“Are we united? Yes we are,” protesters
shouted in Monywa. “The revolution must
prevail.”
Nant Khi Phyu Aye, one of the those on the
street, said many of the protesters were
youngsters. “They want to protest every day
without skipping one day,” she told Reuters.
Police broke up a street demonstration in the
city of Mawlamyine and arrested 20 people,
the Hinthar Media Corp said. At least two
people were injured but there were no other
reports immediately of casualties elsewhere.
At least 286 people have been killed as
security forces resorted to lethal force as
they tried to quell weeks of unrest since the
Feb. 1 coup, according to the Assistance
Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)
activist group.
In a sign of growing international pressure,
the United States is planning to impose
sanctions on two conglomerates controlled
by Myanmar’s military, sources familiar with
the matter told Reuters.
Wednesday’s silent strike left normally
bustling areas of commercial hubs like
Yangon and Monywa virtually deserted.
While the scale of the street protests had
been dropping in recent days, activists have
called for big demonstrations on Thursday.
“The strongest storm comes after the
silence,” protest leader Ei Thinzar Maung said
in a social media post.
Candle-lit vigils took place across the country
again overnight, photographs on social media
showed.
In Thanlyin on the outskirts of Yangon,
protesters held up placards reading: “We
don’t accept military coup”, while medical
staff wearing white coats held a dawn march
in the second city of Mandalay.
Five more people were wounded overnight in
Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, Myanmar
Now media outlet reported.
A 16-year-old man later died after being shot
in the back, the outlet said.
The funeral of a seven-year-old girl killed on
Tuesday, the youngest known victim of the
crackdown, took place on Wednesday in
Mandalay.
A spokesman for the military, which said on
Tuesday 164 protesters had been killed, did
not answer calls seeking comment.
The junta on Wednesday freed hundreds of
people arrested in its crackdown on protests
against the overthrow of the elected
government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi.
There was no word from authorities on how
many prisoners were let out, but AAPP said
628 people were released on Wednesday out
of more than 2,900 arrested since the coup.
About 1,000 people have been freed in all, it
said.
The junta has faced international
condemnation for staging the coup that
halted Myanmar’s slow transition to
democracy and for its deadly suppression of
dissent.
It has tried to justify the takeover by saying a
Nov. 8 election won by Suu Kyi’s National
League for Democracy (NLD) was fraudulent
– an accusation the electoral commission
has rejected. Military leaders have promised a
new election but have not set a date and
have declared a state of emergency.
The European Union and the United States
imposed sanctions on Monday against
individuals involved in the coup and the
repression of the demonstrators.
Meanwhile, a move by the U.S. Treasury to
blacklist two conglomerates controlled by the
military – Myanmar Economic Corporation
(MEC) and Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd
(MEHL) – and freeze any assets they hold in
the United States could come as early as
Thursday, sources said.
The military controls vast swathes of
Myanmar’s economy through the holding
firms and their subsidiaries.
Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1991 for her campaign to bring democratic
civilian rule to Myanmar, has been in
detention since the coup and faces charges
that her lawyer says have been cooked up to
discredit her.
Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian
Balakrishnan is due to meet his Indonesian
counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on a
trip starting on Thursday that is expected to
include discussions on Myanmar.
Malaysia and Indonesia are seeking an urgent
meeting of Southeast Asia’s ASEAN regional
grouping, of which Myanmar is a member, to
discuss the crisis.
REUTERS

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