At least 51 people were fatally shot over the weekend, but the nationwide protest movement against Myanmar’s military coup a month and a half ago shows no sign of waning.
Two districts in Yangon were placed under martial law after large protests on Sunday, including in Hlaingthaya, where 31 people were killed — the highest daily death toll in one location since the coup.
Mahn Win Khaing Than, one of the leaders of a self-declared civilian government formed in hiding, urged ethnic rebels who have fought the army for decades to join the protest movement. He called this “the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close.”
Soldiers and police officers under the authority of the army’s top commander have fired into homes and crowds of protesters, beaten demonstrators in the streets and arrested many hundreds of people, some of whom were also tortured, victims and witnesses have said. So far, the bloodshed has only solidified the resistance.
source The New York Times