Myanmar, SAEDNEWS: Anti-coup demonstrators pushed on with protests on Sunday – as Myanmar neared its seventh week under military rule – with a group of MPs in hiding urging them to move with “invincibility” to overcome the nation’s “darkest moment”.
Witnesses and local media reported that at least two people were killed on Sunday when security forces fired on the protesters.
A young man was shot and killed in the town of Bago, near the commercial capital, Yangon, witnesses and local media said.
Kyaw Swar, a resident and protester from Bago city, told dpa news agency that a fellow demonstrator was killed by a gunshot and that several others were injured.
“Tension has increased,” he said. “People won’t stop protesting and the military forces are trying to crack down.”
The Kachinwaves outlet said another protester was killed in the town of Hpakant, in the jade mining area in the northeast.
On Saturday, four deaths were reported in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city, two in Pyay, a town in south-central Myanmar, and one in Twante, a suburb of Yangon.
Details of all seven deaths were posted on multiple social media accounts, some accompanied by photos of the victims.
More than 80 people have been killed in widespread protests against the military’s seizure of power last month, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners advocacy group said. At least 2,100 people have been arrested.
Last week, Mahn Win Khaing Than was appointed as acting vice president by representatives of Myanmar’s overthrown legislators, the Committee for Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), which is pushing for recognition as the rightful government.
“This is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close,” said Mahn Win Khaing Than, who is on the run along with most senior officials from the ruling National League for Democracy party, while addressing the public via Facebook on Saturday (Source: AlJazeera).
“In order to form a federal democracy, which all ethnic brothers, who have been suffering various kinds of oppressions from the dictatorship for decades, really desired, this revolution is the chance for us to put our efforts together,” Mahn Win Khaing Than said.
His address was greeted with thousands of approving comments from many who followed it on Facebook.
“Keep it up Mr President! You are our hope. We are all with you,” wrote one user, Ko Shan.
The military government has declared CRPH illegal and said anyone involved with it could be charged with treason, which carries the death penalty.
The CRPH has declared the military government a “terrorist organisation” (Source: AlJazeera).
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