Burma: junta opponents protest with eggs
On social networks and in the streets of the country, opponents of the coup in Burma protested with eggs.
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Opponents of the coup in Burma challenged the military regime on Sunday with anti-junta Easter eggs.
Pope Francis expressed his “closeness” to the country's youth and his democratic aspirations.
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The Burmese civil disobedience movement has found a new way to protest the military coup.
On this Easter Sunday, he chose to broadcast on social networks photos of eggs decorated with messages against the regime: "Save Burma", "We want democracy", "Get out of MAH", the powerful leader of the Min Aung Hlain junta.
Easter Eggs Strike @Larshio, Shan State #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Democracy #CDM #SpringRevolutionMyanmar pic.twitter.com/5YPaLyKHpc
- Thu Thu Aung (@thuttag) April 3, 2021
In his Easter message, Pope Francis expressed his "
closeness (...) to the young Burmese who are committed to democracy by making their voices heard peacefully
".
"
Jesus is risen: Alleluia, Burma will rise again,
" tweeted Charles Bo, the first cardinal of the predominantly Buddhist country.
Four civilians were shot again on Saturday and a 30-year-old man was shot dead on Sunday in Kachin state, in the far north of Burma.
The junta assured state media that the security forces "
were showing the utmost restraint
".
Burmese generals are turning a deaf ear to Western condemnations and sanctions.
They cut off internet access for a large majority of the population, ordering the suspension of mobile data and wireless connections.
Arrest warrants have been issued for 60 Burmese celebrities - singers, models, influencers on social networks - accused of disseminating information likely to provoke mutinies in the armed forces.
Support from 10 rebel factions to opponents
More than 550 civilians, including women and children, have been killed by security forces since the February 1 coup that overthrew the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to the Association for Assistance to Prisoners policies (AAPP).
The toll could be much higher, as some 2,700 people have been arrested.
Many, held incommunicado, without access to their relatives or a lawyer, are missing.
This repression led ten of the main rebel factions of the country to
review their ceasefire with the army
in force since 2015. Meeting for two days, they gave this Sunday their support to the civil disobedience movement, without questioning at this stage the agreement signed with the military.
One of them, the powerful Karen National Union (KNU), seized a military base in the southeast of the country last week, killing ten soldiers.
The army responded with air raids, the first for 20 years in this region, causing several victims and many displaced.
Other rebellions have threatened to take up arms against the military, causing the UN to fear an “
unprecedented
” risk
of “
civil war
”.
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