Protesters are engulfed by tear gas fired by police during a demonstration against a military coup in Yangon on March 6, 2021.
Police fired tear gas and flashbangs to disperse protesters at a protest in Yangon’s Sanchaung district during sporadic protests across Myanmar on Saturday, Reuters reported.
As the military imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. every night after the coup, protesters mostly confronted the military and police in the daytime and then dispersed to their homes after dark. But now, even staying at Home can be attacked by the military and police.
Soldiers in a military truck arrest anti-coup activists and National League for Democracy (NLD) party members in Yangon at night on March 6, 2021. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
According to local civilians, soldiers and police continued shooting in several areas of Yangon in the early hours of this morning, even arresting three people in Kyauktada Township, where many Burmese government offices and foreign embassies are located.
According to videos on social media Twitter and Facebook, the military and police were shooting at people’s homes, smashing the windows of parked cars and arresting people everywhere in Yangon during the night of the 6th.
A video on Twitter shows a woman screaming, “They’re taking my father and brother away, can someone help us? No one is taking my father and brother away! If you want to take them away, take me away too.”
According to the human rights group Fortify Rights, the military police have targeted 1,500 people for arrest. “Fortify Rights posted a video on Facebook showing military police shooting at homes and arresting people all over the road.
“Fortify Rights calculates that at least 61 people have been killed in the clashes. The government is called upon to stop attacking civilians immediately, or the civil disobedience movement will not stop.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoner said in a statement that the military police entered homes yesterday and tried to arrest more protesters, shooting at homes and destroying many of them, and that many of those arrested were beaten by the military police. Many of those arrested were beaten, beaten with batons, kicked with military boots, and dragged into police vehicles. According to statistics, as of March 6, 1,700 people had been arrested.
Thousands of people took to the streets to protest the February 1 coup, arresting the leader of the ruling party and taking over the government, only to be met with repeated bloody repression by the military and police, particularly in Yangon and Mandalay (Wa), the second largest city in Myanmar.
Heavy construction equipment (above) is used to dismantle a blockade as police, backed by soldiers, advance on protesters demonstrating against a military coup in Yangon on March 6, 2021.
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