Myanmar Anti-coup Protesters Return After Deadliest Day
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published March 04, 2021 | 10:00 AM
Yangon, March 4 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Mar, 2021 ) :Defiant anti-coup protesters returned to cities and towns across Myanmar on Thursday after dozens of people were killed in the deadliest day of the junta's crackdown, with global powers condemning the "brutal violence".
At least 38 people died on Wednesday, according to the United Nations, when online images streamed out of Myanmar showing security forces firing into crowds and blood-covered bodies of protesters with bullet wounds in their heads.
Myanmar's military staged its coup on February 1, ending a decade-long experiment with democracy and triggering a mass uprising that the junta has increasingly sought to quash with lethal force.
Wednesday's violence left the United States "appalled and revulsed," State Department spokesman Ned price said.
"We call on all countries to speak with one voice to condemn the brutal violence by the Burmese military against its own people," he said, referring to the country by its former name.
French President Emmanuel macron called for an "immediate end of the repression in Myanmar".
More than 50 people have been killed since the military takeover, UN envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener told reporters.
On Thursday, protesters hit the streets again in Yangon and Mandalay, the nation's two biggest cities, as well as other towns that have been hotspots for unrest.
"It's dangerous to be here after about 9:30am. They are shooting in the streets," one food vendor in Yangon told AFP on Thursday morning.
In a district where protests have occurred almost daily in Yangon, the protesters had built barriers with old tires, bricks, sandbags, bamboo and barbed wire.
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