Almost a month after the coup d'état in Burma, police repression intensified against opponents of the junta.
Police opened fire on demonstrators on Sunday (February 28) in Rangoon and Dawei, leaving two dead and several injured, we learned from a doctor and a politician.
According to politician Kyaw Min Htike and the Dawei Watch, one man was killed and more than a dozen people were injured in the southern city of the country.
In Yangon, a man died in hospital after being shot in the chest, according to a medical source who did not want to be identified.
Police and a Burmese military spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Burma has been the scene of major protests since the military junta took power, which detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several members of her party, the National League for Democracy (LND).
In Yangon, police used stun grenades and tear gas and fired in the air to disperse the demonstrators.
Three people have died since the start of the dispute.
According to the army, a police officer was killed in clashes on the sidelines of the protests.
The country has been rocked by a wave of pro-democracy protests since the military coup that toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1.
The authorities gradually increased the use of force to disperse them, with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and sometimes live ammunition.
In Yangon on Saturday, police used rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration at the Myaynigone crossroads, the scene of a long clash the day before.
The Burmese junta invokes to justify the coup electoral fraud during the general elections in November, the second since the dissolution of the junta in 2011 and which had been won hands down by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi.
With Reuters and AFP
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