On February 18, Radio Free Asia tweeted that a Burmese netizen alleged that at around 8:30 p.m. on February 17, the military fired bullets at non-cooperative movement participants living in a train station dormitory in Mandalay, Burma’s second largest city, during which someone shouted “one, two, three” in Chinese. Netizens claimed that this was “evidence” that China was behind the coup in Burma.
On February 1, the Burmese military staged a coup, and on February 6, the largest protest march since the military’s coup erupted in Yangon, Burma’s largest city, with thousands of people taking to the streets to denounce the coup and demand the release of democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Burmese military has resorted to a network blockade to silence the protesters.
Photo shows a protest in Yangon on Feb. 6.
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