Both are now being treated for their injuries at a military hospital and have been denied contact with lawyers and family members, MPA founder Jay Paing told RFA on Monday.
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Myanmar journalists Hmu Yadanar Khet Moemoe Tun and Kang Set Lin are shown, left to right.Īmong those arrested by Myanmar security forces after Sunday’s attack were Myanmar Pressphoto Agency (MPA) TV correspondent Hmu Yadanar Khet Moemoe Tun and photojournalist Kaung Set Lin. resident coordinator in Myanmar - calling for “those responsible for the use of excessive and disproportionate use of force against unarmed civilians” to be held to account. “We stand with the people of Burma in their aspirations for freedom and democracy and call on the military regime to end the use of violence, release those unjustly detained, and respect the will of the people,” the embassy said.Īlso in a statement, the United Nations on Monday demanded Myanmar’s military rulers take action against those involved in the ramming attack, with Ramanathan Balakrishnan - the U.N. “The military’s widespread use of brutal violence underscores the urgency of restoring Burma’s path to inclusive democracy.” “We support the right of the people of Burma to protest peacefully,” the embassy said, referring to Myanmar by its colonial-era name. Embassy in Myanmar also denounced the military’s attack on unarmed civilians on Sunday, saying it was “horrified” by reports of the violence. Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) in a statement released on social media quickly condemned the violence, promising a “strong response” to the country’s military, which had “brutally, inhumanly killed the unarmed peaceful protesters.” Injured protester lie in the road after a vehicle ramming attack by Myanmar security forces against a protest in Yangon, Dec.
1 military coup that overthrew civilian rule in Myanmar was attacked only minutes after it began, and was followed by another protest in the city later in the day, media reports said.Įleven protesters, including some of those injured in the attack, were also arrested, state television said. The flash-mob demonstration against the Feb. The attack in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon scattered protesters and left bodies lying in the road, local news outlet Myanmar Now reported following the assault. Under the junta, 640 people have been arrested, charged or sentenced, with 593, including Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, still in detention, according to the independent Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.At least five people were killed and dozens injured in Myanmar on Sunday when a military truck slammed from behind into a group of peaceful protesters and soldiers emerged from the vehicle to attack others in the crowd, according to witnesses and media reports. Suu Kyi came to power after her party won a 2015 election, but the generals retained substantial power under a military-drafted constitution. The coup was a major setback to Myanmar’s transition to democracy after 50 years of army rule that began with a 1962 coup. The election commission that affirmed the victory has since been replaced by the junta, which says a new election will be held in a year’s time. 1, claiming the elections last November, won by Aung San Suu Kyi's party in a landslide, were tainted by fraud.
The junta prevented Parliament from convening Feb. The workers, like railway workers and truckers and many civil servants, have joined the civil disobedience campaign.
Earlier Sunday, crowds in Myanmar’s capital attended a funeral for the young woman who was the first person confirmed to have been killed in the protests, while demonstrators also mourned two other protesters who were shot dead on Saturday.ĭemonstrators turned out in force in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city, where security forces shot dead two people on Saturday near a dockyard where the authorities had been trying to force workers to load a boat.