Washington DC., SAEDNEWS: Myanmar protesters have held overnight candle-lit vigils after an advocacy group said security forces had now killed at least 510 people since the February 1 coup.
On Tuesday, activists launched a new civil disobedience campaign to hurl garbage onto the streets.
Out of 14 civilians killed in Myanmar on Monday, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said at least eight were in the South Dagon district of Yangon.
Security forces in the area fired a much heavier-calibre weapon than usual on Monday to clear a barricade of sand bags, witnesses said.
It was not immediately clear what type of weapon was used.
In a new tactic, protesters sought to step up a civil disobedience campaign on Tuesday by asking residents to throw garbage onto streets on key road intersections.
"This garbage strike is a strike to oppose the junta," read a poster on social media.
The move comes in defiance of calls issued via loudspeakers in some neighbourhoods of Yangon on Monday urging residents to dispose of garbage properly.
Washington suspended a trade pact with Myanmar and UN chief Antonio Guterres called for a united global front to put pressure on the junta to end its atrocities after more than 100 protesters were killed in a bloody weekend of violence.
Guterres urged the Myanmar authorities to undertake a "serious democratic transition".
"It is absolutely unacceptable to see violence against people at such high levels, so many people killed," Guterres told a news conference.
"We need more unity... (and) more commitment from the international community to put pressure in order to make sure that the situation is reversed," he said.
US President Joe Biden's administration announced that the 2013 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, which laid out ways to boost business but was not a fully fledged deal, would remain suspended until democracy is restored (Source: TRT).
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