News Desk :
Seven protesters were shot and killed on Thursday in Myanmar, as Janta claimed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed to have accepted illegal payments, report agencies.
Since the seizure of power by the generals on 1 February, there has been diplomatic pressure to intensify daily protests across the country that they have struggled to contain.
The United Nations on Wednesday condemned the Junta’s increasingly violent crackdown, killing more than 60 and arresting 2,000, even calling China – a traditional Myanmar ally – for “de-escalation” and negotiations is.
Thursday saw more drastic action against the protesters, with six people killed in Myange Township in central Myanmar.
“Six people were shot and killed, while eight people were injured. One person was in critical condition,” a rescuer told AFP. A witness told AFP that five of them were shot in the head.
A fatal attack also took place in Yangon’s North Dagan, where 25-year-old Chit Min Thu died of a bullet in the head.
“I recently found out that his wife is two months pregnant,” his mother Hinin Malar Aang told AFP.
“Nobody will be at peace until this situation ends. They were so cruel with my son. I never thought that my son would be shot in the head … I am all about unarmed youth. I’m worried, they’ll be in trouble. “
Corruption charges
In the elections held in November, the army, which defended its takeover citing irregularities won by Suu Kyi’s party, accused Suu Ki of corruption at a rare news conference on Thursday.
In the capital Napidaw, Junta spokesman Jha Min Min said that the chief minister detained in Yangon had agreed to give Suu Kyi $ 600,000 in cash, more than 11 kilograms (valued at $ 680,000).
“Hum Aung San Suu Kyi himself learned that it took $ 600,000 and seven vice (11.2 kg) of gold. The Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating,” said Min Tun.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, who has been detained since 1 February, is already facing several criminal charges, including owning an unlicensed walkie-talkie and organizing a campaign program during last year’s election Violation of coronovirus restrictions is included.
“Many people”
On Thursday, the state-run newspaper Mirror made an announcement that the Arakan Army (AA) – which fights for greater autonomy for the ethnic Rakhine population in the northern Rakhine state – was no longer considered a terrorist organization.
The AA remained in conflict with the military for nearly two years, killing hundreds of people and forcing some 200,000 civilians to flee their homes.
Herw Lemahieu, a Myanmar specialist at the Lowy Institute in Australia, said the move was possible because the military – known as Tatmadaw – wanted to end the distraction of fighting AA so that it could focus on protests.
“Tatmadaw has many enemies, they do not want to operate on multiple fronts simultaneously and are currently against the ethnic Burman majority in major urban centers on the most prominent front,” he told AFP.
“Battlefield Weapons”
As long as this continues, there was another night at the Sanchang township in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial center, as security forces raided the apartments in search of lost police weapons.
“They used sound bombs on every street,” one resident said.
According to the Association for Assistance to the Political Inmates’ Monitoring Group, another part of Yangon, north Oklapa, resumed after 300 arrests on Wednesday.
A report by Amnesty International on Thursday accused the military of using “battlefield weapons” to unarmed protesters and to carry out premeditated killings by their commanding officers.
The rights group listed security forces’ use of firearms that are “completely unsuitable for use in policing protests”, including light machine guns, sniper rifles, and semi-automatic rifles.
With international condemnation so far Junata was not ignored, the United States implemented new pressure with sanctions against the two adult children of the coup-general, General Min Aung Hling.
And the Asian Development Bank announced that it has temporarily suspended government projects in Myanmar “as the international community assesses the evolving situation”.
