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Pro-military protesters marched in Rangoon on Saturday (August 3rd) to protest US sanctions imposed on Major-General Min Aung Hlaing. REUTERS / Ann Wang

In Burma, several hundred nationalists walked the streets of Rangoon this Saturday, August 3. They denounced US sanctions against the Burmese army chief and several generals. On July 16, the United States banned them from entering the United States for their role in "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Reportage.

With our correspondent in Rangoon, Sarah Bakaloglou

On the platform, two portraits of the army chief face the crowd. " The United States, out, " repeat protesters, in a country where the Muslim minority Rohingyas is very little supported by the population.

This 19-year-old student came to defend the military: " I do not want the United States to intervene in our political affairs and what they say is wrong. The military is a bulwark in our country, and it is impossible to live without them. "

In the crowd, there is also opposition to any modification of the Constitution, also supporting the military. A text dating from 2008 and that the leader Aung San Suu Kyi wants to amend to diminish the power of the army in particular. Unable to accept for this protester of sixty years: " We need the military in Parliament, because we are only at the beginning of the democratic transition. And Aung San Suu Kyi wants to change the article of the Constitution that prevents her from becoming president because her children are foreigners, and that, I can not accept it. "

In recent months, rallies of nationalists in support of the military have multiplied in the country, encouraged by the head of the Burmese army.

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