Correspondent in Asia,
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They are killing us!
The cry of alarm launched by many young opponents of the military coup in Burma, took shape in blood this weekend.
The security forces opened fire, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens of people, in the big cities of the “
kingdom of a thousand pagodas
”, according to the UN.
A major escalation of the repression against the pro-democracy movement.
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Throughout this Sunday, in several parts of the country, the police and the military used lethal and non-lethal weapons against these non-violent protesters.
These deaths are due to the use of live ammunition to shoot at crowds in Yangon, Dawei, Mandalay, Myeik, Bago and Pokokku ”,
Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
This is the heaviest toll since the civil disobedience movement was launched a month ago to respond to the February 1 coup, carried out
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