Burma: soldiers rush by car on demonstrators
Police patrol in Yangon, the economic capital of Burma, on October 22, 2021. (Illustration) AFP - STR
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In Burma, soldiers drove in on demonstrators.
At least three people were injured.
Since the takeover of power by the Burmese military junta last February, the repression against opponents has been extremely violent.
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This Sunday morning, several people gathered peacefully in a shopping street in Yangon, the economic capital of
Burma
.
They chanted "restore
power to the people
" while waving on their sign the famous slogan of
Aung Sann Suu Kyi
: "Free
oneself from fear
".
A car then charged at the demonstrators, according to a journalist on the spot.
"
They accelerated when they reached the demonstrators, they rushed over them,
" said this journalist on condition of anonymity.
The soldiers then jumped out of their car and started shooting.
Three wounded were evacuated.
The soldiers then allegedly hit three other people on the ground and threatened passers-by with their weapons to disperse.
1,300 civilians killed in ten months
The
putsch of February 1
ended a ten-year democratic transition. The generals justified their coup by claiming to have discovered irregularities during the November 2020 elections won by the National League for Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi. A generally free and fair ballot, according to international observers. In ten months, more than 1,300 civilians have been killed, according to a local NGO which reports cases of torture and extra-judicial executions. But despite everything, these kinds of small pro-democracy demonstrations continue to take place regularly.
While the verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi's first trial on charges of inciting public unrest, is due to be announced tomorrow Monday, Agence France Presse reports that junta leader Min Aung Hlaing received a close relative on Sunday. of the former president, Tin Oo, former general and co-founder with Ms. Suu Kyi of the National League for Democracy (LND).
Very old, Tin Oo is withdrawn from political life but he nevertheless arrived at the meeting wearing a badge of the NLD notes the agency.
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