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Civil disobedience protests against the military coup in Myanmar are becoming more and more intense.
Citizens, including monks and medical staff, poured out into the streets deciding for a general strike, and the police responded with water cannons.
Reporter Jung Hye-kyung reports.
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A street in Naepido, the capital of Myanmar.
The police fire water cannons in a row at a crowd of thousands who block the road with motorcycles.
Among the protesters, a man injures his head and bleeds, and eventually, he is put on the back of another person next to him.
More than a week has passed since the military confined torture Aung San Suu Kyi and overthrown the government in a coup on the 1st, the fire of angry public sentiment is burning more and more across Myanmar.
In Yangon, the largest city, massive protests continued for three days in a row until today (8th).
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets singing folk songs with three-finger signs as symbols of resistance, and medical staff closed hospitals and joined protests.
[At all, Misan/Myanmar government hospital nurse: The goal is to carry out the civil disobedience movement and to destroy the military.
Other government officials are urged to protest.]
In addition to the monks who led the demonstration to raise oil prices in the military government in 2007, various professions such as lawyers, teachers, and factory workers are joining the protest process one after another.
The military government announced a tough response through state TV, saying that illegal actors who harm national stability should be eliminated.
As the protests intensified, the Korean Embassy in Myanmar urged local residents to refrain from going out as much as possible through an emergency notice.
(Video coverage: Lee Seung-hwan, video editing: Lee So-young)