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Myanmar army sends tanks to the streets, US calls on its citizens to hide
The junta deployed armored vehicles at several of the main demonstration centers, in a further attempt to suppress the mass protest against the coup.
At a factory in the north of the country, soldiers opened fire on protesters.
The US embassy warns of disruption to communications lines. "The military uses every tool possible to create fear and instability"
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Aung San Suu Chi
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Sunday, 14 February 2021, 18:44 Updated: 19:44
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In video: Myanmar army sends tanks to the streets, US calls on its citizens to hide (Reuters)
Myanmar Army today (Sunday) awarded armored vehicles in major cities in the country in an attempt to quell the protest against the military coup that entered its ninth day.
In Kachin in the north of the country, soldiers were deployed at power stations, and in one of them they opened fire at protesters, although it is not clear if these were rubber bullets or live fire.
Protesters fear the military intends to cut off electricity.
The appearance of the armored vehicles in several cities in the country, including in the commercial capital Yangon, was the first since the coup on February 1, when the army ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and declared a state of emergency for a year alleging election fraud.
The new administration and the military have yet to respond to recent events, which have led the U.S. embassy in the country to call on its citizens to "hide" and warn of the possibility of media disruptions between 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of protesters who continued to take to the streets, the junta is facing a strike by government workers, who have joined the civil rebel movement that arose in response to the coup.
In some areas, railway workers refused to operate them, and hundreds of them joined protesters in Yangon today, even after police arrived at their residential complexes on the outskirts of the city and ordered them to return to work.
The officers were forced to leave after the local responses gathered against them.
The junta ordered public servants to return to work, and threatened to take action against them.
Yesterday the military took on extensive powers to arrest people and conduct searches, following the wave of nightly arrests of opponents of the military regime.
"The military can replace engineers and doctors, but not power plant controllers and bankers," said Richard Horsey of the Myanmar International Crisis Group, who said many government offices had actually stopped working.
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Buddhist monk protests against coup near Yangon tank today (Photo: Reuters)
Many of the protesters across the country are carrying pictures of Su Chi, which has not been seen since the coup.
Her arrest is scheduled to end tomorrow, but it is unclear what will happen to her.
She has been charged with illegal importation of walkie-talkies, and is on trial for what could send her to jail.
According to the Organization for Political Prisoners, more than 384 people have been arrested since the coup, many of them during night raids.
Residents in some areas have set up neighborhood shifts to thwart arrests.
"While the international community condemns the coup, Min Ong Haling uses every possible tool to create fear and instability," tweeted Wai Hanin Pivtun of the UK-based Burma UK Campaign, referring to the coup leader and de facto ruler.
The United States last week imposed sanctions on him and other senior military officials, but he still enjoys close ties with China and Russia.
Her arrest is due to end tomorrow.
Protesters with Su Chi Chi posters today (Photo: Reuters)
Opponents of the coup fear a wave of crime after the junta officially released 23,000 prisoners on Friday, "officially to establish a new democratic state through peace, development and discipline."
Tin Mint, a Yangon resident who is a member of the Night Crime Prevention Guard, was one of those who caught four suspects in an attack in the neighborhood.
"We think the military is planning to cause them violence with these criminals by infiltrating them into peaceful demonstrations," he said.
He mentioned the anti-military demonstrations in 1988, when the generals were accused of releasing criminals into the population for staged violence, thus justifying the riots to extend their rule.
On Saturday night, the military reactivated a law requiring people to report nightly visits to their homes, allow security forces to arrest suspects and conduct unannounced court searches and ordered arrests of prominent organizers among protesters.
Suu Chi's National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the November elections, but the military claimed they were fake and promised to hold new elections, without specifying any date.
The Election Commission denied his allegations, but its heads were arrested.
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