Myanmar, SAEDNEWS, Feb. 8: Protesters took to the streets of Myanmar’s largest city for a third-consecutive day on Monday, as police used water cannon in the country’s capital in the face of escalating nationwide demonstrations denouncing last week’s military coup and calling for the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Yangon again, holding signs saying “Say no to dictatorship” and “We want democracy”. They flew multicoloured Buddhist flags alongside red banners in the colour of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) as they marched with saffron-robed monks.
Another sign read: “Release Our Leaders, Respect Our Votes, Reject Military Coup.”
Activists are also calling for a general strike, urging government employees to stop work as part of the effort to “tear down the military dictatorship”, the Yangon-based Myanmar Now newspaper quoted activist Ei Thinzar Maung as saying.
Heeding that call, nurses, teachers and civil servants joined Monday’s protests, according to local media reports (Source: AlJazeera).
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