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Activists in Myanmar have splashed red paint and dye on roads and buildings to represent the blood of the hundreds of people who were killed while protesting against the military’s February 1 power grab. The display on Wednesday, the second day of the traditional New Year holiday, came as a military-run newspaper reported that at least 19 doctors were charged with incitement for participating in the civil disobedience protests. Myanmar has been in chaos since the coup, with daily protests and various campaigns of defiance, including strikes by workers in many sectors. Activists have cancell...

April 13, 2021 Share Post Anti-coup protesters march carrying slogans on pots with flowers as they mark the Thingyan festival on Tuesday April 13, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar. Activists were organizing a boycott of the official celebration of Thingyan, the country’s traditional New Year, usually a time for family reunions and merry-making. (AP Photo) April 13 (Reuters) – Opponents of military rule in Myanmar cancelled traditional new year festivities on Tuesday and instead showed their anger at a Feb. 1 coup through silent displays of defiance and small protests across the country. The five...

The Myanmar military is allegedly charging families $85 to retrieve the bodies of victims killed by its own security forces as the bloody crackdown on anti-coup protesters rages on. The Asian nation has been embroiled in unrest since the military carried out a putsch on February 1, disputing the results of an election that resulted in a pro-democracy party winning power. Across Myanmar, citizens have been pushing back against the ruling junta, staging massive demonstrations which have been met with violence by the military and led to the deaths of hundreds so far. An estimated 700 people have...

April 5, 2021 Share Post This phot taken and received on April 4, 2021 shows protesters making the three-finger salute while wearing masks that express what they say is Chinese interference in the UN’s handling of Myanmar affairs after the military coup in Yangon’s Kamayut township. (Photo by Handout / BURMA ASSOCIATED PRESS (BAP) / AFP) Two Australians who were detained in Myanmar late last month have been released and have left Yangon, Canberra’s foreign affairs department said Monday. Business consultants Matthew O’Kane and Christa Avery, a dual Canadian-Australian citizen, were pu...

Source: Highlights More than 40 people were killed by security forces in protests in Hlaing Tharyar on March 14 and several factories were set ablaze. France said the European Union would approve sanctions against those behind the coup next Monday. More than 180 protesters have been killed as security forces try to crush a wave of demonstrations. Myanmar: Thousands of residents fled an industrial suburb of Myanmar's commercial capital on Tuesday (March 16)  after it was placed under martial law by the ruling junta following bloody anti-coup protests over the weekend. "Here is like a war zo...