Report: Myanmar forces fire on funeral; crackdown continues

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar security forces opened fire Sunday on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, local media reported.

The escalating violence — which took the lives of at least 114 people Saturday, including several children under 16 — has prompted a U.N. human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticize the international community for not doing enough to stop it.

But it has not so far stopped either the demonstrations against the Feb. 1 takeover — or the violent response of the military and police to them. Local outlet Myanmar Now reported that the junta’s troops shot at mourners at the funeral in the city of Bago for Thae Maung Maung, a 20-year-old killed on Saturday. He was reportedly a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Union, which has a long history of supporting pro-democracy movements in the country.

According to the report, several people attending the funeral were arrested. It did not say if anyone was hurt or killed. But at least nine people were killed elsewhere Sunday as the crackdown continued, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which has been tallying deaths during demonstrations against the coup.



Anti-coup protesters run around their makeshift barricade they burn to make defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Protesters in Myanmar returned to the streets Sunday to press their demands for a return to democracy, just a day after security forces killed more than 100 people in the bloodiest day since last month's military coup. (AP Photo)


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[mobeau69]

1. This could've been us if he wasn't such a loser tyrant.

[maxsolomon]

2. Be grateful we're not Burma.

The Junta has ruled the nation since 1962.

[mountain grammy]

3. They are so brave.

Like the Civil Rights movement, still on going, still met with violence, maybe not on this scale but has been in the past.
Escalation is always possible and expected from the authorities. Takes so much courage to know that going in but do it anyway, I'm thinking of Selma, but there's been so many.
I've thought about how the Jan 6th traitor mob would have reacted to a more violent pushback by the CHPD. When they overwhelmed the cops, they kept going, but when a cop shot at someone coming through the door into the House Chamber, they retreated, and fast. The House of Representatives was not entered. When reinforcements showed up the mob left. They just left. That they weren't all arrested on the spot blows my mind.In Selma they were beaten and dragged off to jail.

Fighting for democracy in Selma, like in Myanmar. I hope they prevail. In America, the fascist mob folded.

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