Myanmar protests junta with shoes, as celebrity is arrested over support
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Update 1: Adds shoe protest, changes headline
Bangkok, Apr 8 (efe-epa).- Rows of shoes adorned with flower bouquets served Thursday to remember the almost 600 dead at the hands of Myanmar’s security forces during demonstrations against the military junta.
“We will never stop walking. The coup must fail,” is one of the messages that accompany the photographs published on social media.
The procession of footwear is the latest idea hatched by the civil disobedience movement to challenge the military, which took power Feb. 1, and avoid the violent response of authorities, who have fired live rounds at unarmed protesters.