The junta in Burma on Saturday dismissed its ambassador to the United Nations, the day after its spectacular break with military power which has intensified the repression of demonstrators in the country.
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The country has been rocked by a wave of pro-democracy protests since the military coup that toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1.
The authorities gradually increased the use of force to disperse them, with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and sometimes live ammunition.
In Yangon on Saturday, police used rubber bullets to disperse a protest at the Myaynigone crossroads, the scene of a long clash the day before.
The Burmese junta invokes to justify the coup electoral fraud during the general elections in November, the second since the dissolution of the junta in 2011 and which had been won hands down by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi.
"
Return the power of the state to the people
"
But on Friday, Burma's ambassador to the UN, Kyaw Moe Tun, broke ranks and called, with emotion, to "
end the military coup
".
"
We need the strongest action of the international community to immediately end the military coup, end the oppression of the innocent people and restore state power to the people,
" Kyaw said. Moe Tun at a special General Assembly session on Burma.
In a few sentences in Burmese, he asked his "
brothers and sisters
" to continue the fight against the junta.
"
This revolution must win,
" he said, finishing his speech of twelve minutes to applause with three raised fingers, the rallying gesture of the demonstrators.
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On Saturday evening, state television MRTV announced that Kyaw Moe Tun was no longer Burma's ambassador to the UN.
He "
did not follow the orders and the direction of the state, and betrayed the country,
" she announced.
"
This is why he is dismissed from his post as of today
".
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