Since the takeover six weeks ago, Myanmar has been under a nationwide state of emergency, with its civilian leaders ousted and detained and military leaders in charge of all government. Hlaing Thar Yar was the location of 22 civilian deaths Sunday, according to the aid group, which said more than a dozen civilians were wounded and described a large number of junta forces engaged in the township. Those fleeing carried one injured person and tried to revive two others, one who seemed to be dead or dying, the footage from independent Democratic Voice of Burma showed.
Video from Hlaing Thar Yar township showed people running away after gunfire was heard. Most of those killed - 34 - were in Yangon, where two townships, Hlaing Thar Yar and neighboring Shwepyitha were being placed under martial law. She has rejected all the charges to date.YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in parts of the country’s largest city as security forces killed more protesters in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to last month’s military coup.Īt least 38 people were killed Sunday and dozens were injured in one of the deadliest days of the crackdown, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent group tracking the toll of the violence. Suu Kyi, 76, faces a dozen cases against her including incitement and violations of COVID-19 protocols. Wars with ethnic minority insurgents in remote frontier regions in the north and east have intensified significantly since the coup, displacing tens of thousands of civilians, according to United Nations estimates. The election commission has dismissed the assertion. It says it staged the coup because a November election won by Suu Kyi’s party was rigged. The military has said that protesters who have been killed instigated the violence. Some were seriously injured with head wounds and unconscious, according to the witnesses.Ī spokesman for the ruling junta did not answer calls seeking comment on Sunday. Fortunately, I escaped,” a protester who asked not to be identified for security reasons told Reuters by phone.Ī car occupied by soldiers hit the crowd from the back, two witnesses said, and followed the scattered protesters arresting and beating them. Then he immediately shot at me as I ran away in a zig-zag pattern. A soldier beat me with his rifle but I defended and pushed him back.
“I got hit and fell down in front of a truck. In the incident, a “flash mob” protest in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, was rammed minutes after it started, witnesses said. “We will strongly respond to the terrorist military who brutally, inhumanly killed the unarmed peaceful protesters,” the National Unity Government’s defense ministry said in a statement on social media after Sunday’s attack. The opposition’s shadow government said it was heartbroken to see peaceful protesters crashed and shot to death. The scattered protests are often small groups voicing opposition to the overthrow of an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the return of military rule. Another protest was held in Yangon in the afternoon despite the morning violence.Īnti-military protests are continuing despite the killing of more than 1,300 people since the Feb.