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ksuadminFebruary 17, 2021 16 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Wednesday (17) in Myanmar to protest again against the military coup, rejecting the army’s claim that the population supported the overthrow of the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Most of the protests, among the largest since the protests began on February 6, have been peaceful. Still, security forces fired shots in the town of Mandalay, 270 km from the capital, Naypyidaw, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets. Soldiers clashed with strikers in the railway sector, according to...

UN special representative for Myanmar warns of “potential for violence on a greater scale” from growing military presence.

Demonstrators in Myanmar gathered Wednesday in their largest numbers so far to protest the military’s seizure of power, as a U.N. human rights expert warned that troops being brought to Yangon and elsewhere could signal the prospect for major violence. U.N. rapporteur Tom Andrews said he was alarmed by reports of soldiers being transported into…

Myanmar's military junta guaranteed on Tuesday that it would hold an election and hand over power, denied its ouster of an elected government was a coup or that its leaders were detained, and accused protesters of violence and intimidation.

China's ambassador to Myanmar said on Tuesday the current political situation was "absolutely not what China wants to see" and dismissed social media rumours of Chinese involvement in the Feb. 1 military coup as "completely nonsense".