A spokesman for the Burmese military government claims that demonstrations have gradually decreased, but clashes between police and civilians continue to break out across the country. Yesterday (9), 19 protesters suspected of killing members of the military were sentenced to death by a Burmese military court, and on the same day clashes between police and civilians broke out in towns near Yangon. On the same day, clashes between police and civilians broke out in the towns near Yangon.
According to foreign media reports, police clashes broke out yesterday in Bago, near Yangon, with the military firing rifle grenades at protesters and witnesses saying that at least 10 dead bodies were piled up in a local pagoda. In response, Myanmar’s independent English-language media, Myanmar Now and online news magazine Mawkun, said the exact number of dead and wounded could not be known because the military had cordoned off the area near the pagoda, but at least 20 people were killed.
Myanmar’s military media Myawaddy TV reported that a military court yesterday sentenced 19 people to death in the March 27 attack by protesters on a captain’s deputy in North Okkalapa, Myanmar’s largest city, where martial law has been imposed.
Ethnic armed groups attack police station today, 14 police officers killed
Myanmar’s domestic media reported that 14 police officers were killed in an early morning attack on a police station in Shan State by a coalition of Rakhine Army and other ethnic minority forces. There has been no response from the military government.
As of April 8, 614 people, including 48 children, had been killed by the military and more than 2,800 arrested, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP) in Burma. The ambassadors of Britain, the United States and 18 other countries in Burma also issued a joint statement calling on the military to stop the violence and restore democracy.
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