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Myanmar’s police and military forces have turned their attention to targeting medics and volunteers assisting wounded anti-junta demonstrators, at times using excessive force against them, witnesses, officials, and emergency medical workers said Thursday.
On Wednesday the deadliest day since the coup began on Feb. 1 police beat up, shot, and detained medics helping injured protesters in Yangon and Monywa, the largest city in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region, they said.
Security forces in recent days have destroyed ambulances, medical equipment, and internationally recognized Red Cross flags, and have injured medics, the Myanmar Red Cross Society said in a statement on Tuesday.
Myanmar’s Rescue Workers, Medical Volunteers Targeted by Security Forces
25 February 2021
A police officer points his gun at a medical worker in Yangon. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 4 March 2021
YANGON Rescue workers and social welfare organizations delivering humanitarian services to wounded anti-coup protesters in Myanmar have been attacked and arrested by the military regime.
Four volunteers of Mon Myat Sate Htar charity group who assisted protesters and residents shot by security forces in North Okkalapa in Yangon were arrested on Wednesday, the group’s chairman U Hla Kyaing told The Irrawaddy.
Video footage of the arrest shows the police kicking the heads of the crew members and beating them with the butts of their rifles. The ambulance the members were using was also destroyed by police.
Article 11 February 2021 Myanmar
Since March 2020, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in coordination with the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has adapted its humanitarian activities throughout the country to the new COVID-19 environment while supporting the Government of Myanmar and the communities affected by armed conflict and violence in their efforts to prevent and mitigate the risks associated with the pandemic.
Since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Myanmar on 23 March 2020, the ICRC, together with its Red Cross partners, has mobilized to prevent and mitigate the spread of the virus in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, with a focus on communities living in areas affected by armed conflict and violence, as well as in places of detention throughout the country.
PASAY CITY, Feb. 1 Senator Richard J. Gordon expressed extreme concern over the political unrest in Myanmar, a friendly ASEAN neighbor, which led to the detainment of several of its outstanding political leaders including Nobel Peace Prize awardee, Aung San Suu Kyi.
“I worry for her safety and wellbeing in this period of uncertainty in her country. I hope the current political situation in Myanmar will stabilize and that the country will continue on its path to national unity, democracy and prosperity for its people,” he said.
The National League for Democracy party said Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s elected leader, and other senior ruling party figures were detained in morning raids on Monday amid fears of a military coup following a disputed election.