I had actively participated in the protests for many days and in many ways. And for that, I had lived in fear for days wondering when I would get arrested or face torture.
They threatened to shoot in the back and in the head and were not bluffing. The Burmese Military Junta has definitively removed its mask and, without an iota of modesty, represses the population with blood and fire. In the bloodiest day since the coup on February 1 , more than a hundred pro-democracy protesters died on Saturday from repressive fire.
The massacre of civilians has coincided with the celebration of Armed Forces Day , led by Min Aung Hlaing. The count of people killed during the two months of repression exceeds 400. While the coup leader presided over the military parade in Naipiyidó, his henchmen fired at the civilian population in forty cities of various regions and states, with particular virulence in the capital. , Rangoon.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar’s major cities Saturday, the sixth day of military rule, as the junta shut down internet and mobile phone service lines in the country of 54 million people and rumors swirled about deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts.
In a move that rights groups warned would leave millions vulnerable to abuses and cut off from coronavirus pandemic information, the Ministry of Transport and Communications cut off all telephone and internet service, following the suspension of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram over the past three days.
The clampdown on social media aimed to stop information that could “damage the stability of the state and undermine the interest of the people, a ministry directive issued Friday said.