Above: Anti coup protesters in Yangon on Sunday
Reuters – March 28, 2021
Myanmar security forces opened fire on mourners gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military coup on 1 February, according to witnesses.
There were no immediate reports of casualties at the funeral in the town of Bago, near the commercial capital, Yangon, according to three people who spoke to Reuters.
“While we [were] singing the revolution song for him, security forces just arrived and shot at us,” said a woman called Aye, who was at the service for Thae Maung Maung, a 20-year-old student who was shot on Saturday. “People, including us, run away as they opened fire.“
Two people were killed protests on Sunday in separate incidents elsewhere, witnesses and news reports said. One person died when troops opened fire overnight on a group of protesters near the capital, Naypyitaw, Myanmar Now reported.
So far on Sunday, there were no reports of large-scale protests in Yangon or in the country’s second city, Mandalay, which bore the brunt of the casualties on Saturday, Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day. Funerals were held in many places.
At least six children between the ages of 10 and 16 were among those killed on Saturday, according to news reports and witnesses.
The latest bloodshed drew renewed western condemnation. The UN special rapporteur for Myanmar said the army was carrying out “mass murder” and called on the world to isolate the junta and halt its access to weapons.
Foreign criticism and sanctions imposed by some western nations have failed so far to sway the military leaders, as have almost daily protests around the country since the junta took power and detained the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
“We salute our heroes who sacrificed lives during this revolution and we must win this revolution,” one of the main protest groups, the General Strike Committee of Nationalities (GSCN), posted on Facebook.
Saturday also brought some of the heaviest fighting since the coup between the army and the ethnic armed groups that control swathes of the country.
Military jets had killed at least three people in a raid on a village controlled by an armed group from the Karen minority, a civil society group said on Sunday, after the Karen National Union faction earlier said it had overrun an army post near the Thai border, killing 10 people. The air strikes sent villagers fleeing into the jungle.
Fighting erupted on Sunday between another armed group, the Kachin Independence Army, and the military in the jade-mining area of Hpakant in the north. The Kachin forces attacked a police station and the military responded with an aerial assault, Kachinwaves media reported.
There were no reports of casualties.
A junta spokesman did not answer calls seeking comment on the killings or the fighting.
Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the junta leader, said during a parade to mark Armed Forces Day that the military would protect the people and strive for democracy.
Saturday’s dead included 40 people in Mandalay and at least 27 in Yangon, Myanmar Now said. The casualties took the overall number of civilians reported killed since the coup to more than 440.
Countries including the US, Britain and the European Union strongly condemned the violence.
The UN special rapporteur, Tom Andrews, said it was time for the world to take action – if not through the UN security council then through an international emergency summit. He said the junta should be cut off from funding, such as oil and gas revenues, and from access to weapons.
“Words of condemnation or concern are frankly ringing hollow to the people of Myanmar while the military junta commits mass murder against them,” he said in a statement.
The UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, and the UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, called the killings “shameful, cowardly, brutal actions of the military and police, who have been filmed shooting at protesters as they flee, and who have not even spared young children“.
The top military officer from the US and nearly a dozen of his counterparts said in a statement that a professional military must follow international standards for conduct “and is responsible for protecting – not harming – the people it serves“.
The military took power saying that November elections won by Suu Kyi’s party were fraudulent, an assertion dismissed by the country’s election commission. Suu Kyi remains in detention at an undisclosed location and many other figures in her party are also in custody
UFO STORY
people talk about all the government lies about W W 2 the Jewish Holocaust
Immigration Moon Landings Covid etc. lie after lie.
But one of the biggest areas where the public are lied to is UFOs
The RAF has disgraced itself again and again with its bullshit excuses for UFO
sightings and has become a laughing stock to the public.
I knew a man, Steve Colby who lived rough a lot and used to go poaching at Rendlesham Forest, he would often run round the perimeter with a rucksack filled with sand.
One night the police patrol stopped him and told him he could not run round the perimeter in the early hours, he said i have done this on and off for years i am harming no one and you cant stop me.
He was a strong well built guy and the two policeman wanted to handcuff him which he refused, they said they would set the police dog on him, he replied if you do i will kill it then the both of you.
The police thought the better of it and went back to the car, but never the less
when Steve would run round the perimeter fence he was always watched
So one night Steve was behind the fence poaching for rabbits,
and claimed he saw this UFO and his version was very different
from the published version.
He claimed he hid in the undergrowth watching the goings on
and 3 small figures came out of the craft, which had no seams it was like made in one piece
and he saw one airman go right up to examine it.
He said there was a short interchange between the airmen and the small figures.
Steve Colby had a wife and children in Snettisham, he was known as a local nutter
and had few friends, but he would not shut up about what he saw.
The police made several visits to tell Steve keep his mouth shut or it would be the worse for him.
it was a short time later Steve committed suicide with his own shotgun.
I knew Steve quite well and often wondered if he really did kill himself or whether it was a murder to silence.
None of our business. Believe me, we have enough problems of our own.
Governments can do this with impunity when they have a disarmed population.
I don’t wish to offend anyone – or sound callous or insensitive about this matter regarding security forces opening fire on mourners gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day – but at least these Myanmar security forces are more open about killing/murdering their own citizens. In other countries, they just give you an untested vaccine for a virtually harmless virus for your own good, of course. As for the statement that…The top military officer from the US and nearly a dozen of his counterparts said that…a professional military must follow international standards for conduct “and is responsible for protecting – not harming – the people it serves”. This seems a bit rich considering what governments worldwide are doing to their own citizens right now.
Hmm.. Myanmar ANTIFA don’t have it easy, as like in our “free” western Democracies ??
This Reuters article, the author who can be forgiven as English is not first language reports that the resistance is armed. Probably another “colour revolution” then.
No indignation from Zionist media when Israelis kill Palestinians who are not armed. And how many tin-pot dictators in Africa backed by the USA are doing the same thing that we suspect is happening but is not being reported?
Is the West planning to take down the military in Myanmar?