A man rides a bicycle past a branch of Myawaddy Bank in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 23, 2021.
Social unrest in Myanmar has been increasing recently. As the number of people killed by the military and police in protests against the military coup continues to rise, violent attacks against military institutions have also been frequent. On Sunday (11), a bomb attack on a bank in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, killed one of the bank’s guards. Myanmar police are investigating the attack.
According to AFP, a bomb attack on the Mandalay branch of Myanmar’s Myawaddy Bank killed a guard on the morning of April 11, local time. A large police presence was subsequently deployed in the area and an investigation into the attack was launched.
The Mandalay branch of Myawaddy Bank, which is affiliated with the Burmese military, is the largest and one of several banks that have been boycotted by the Burmese public.
On Sunday, some university students and university professors continued to demonstrate in Mandalay and Meiktila, calling on the United Nations to intervene in Myanmar as soon as possible to prevent more bloody clashes in the future.
As Myanmar’s military and police have escalated their bloody crackdown on protesters, violent attacks by civilian forces against the military government have also been frequent in recent days. Before dawn on April 10, an armed ethnic Burmese group attacked a police station in northern Shan State in eastern Burma, killing at least 10 police officers.
In the early morning of April 9, Burmese security forces launched raids in three areas of Pegu Township. Military police used explosives and rifle grenades and other explosives to destroy roadblocks set up by protesters, killing at least 82 protesters in the raid.
Video footage verified by AFP showed demonstrators hiding behind sandbagged barricades and wielding clay guns as explosions were heard in the early morning hours of the 9th.
A demonstrator in Pegu town told foreign media on the 10th that the military and police started firing at 5 a.m. and continued throughout the day, “We were surrounded everywhere and could not even bring back the remains of our fellow demonstrators who were shot.” “They [the military police] shot at everything that moves,” a local resident said in a media interview.
According to data released by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) in Burma, 701 protesters have been killed in the military’s forceful crackdown since the coup erupted on Feb. 1.
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