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New demonstrations are taking place this Thursday in Burma, despite the fear in all minds in the aftermath of the most deadly day of repression since the coup.
At least 38 protesters were killed Wednesday, according to the UN.
Security forces fired live ammunition in several towns to break up pro-democracy rallies.
Images, posted on social media, showed protesters covered in blood and gunshot wounds to the head.
In Rangoon, the economic capital, small gatherings were formed on Thursday.
"We are united," chant the protesters, protected behind makeshift barricades built with old tires, bricks, sandbags, bamboo and barbed wire.
Not far from there, traders hurry to sell some of their merchandise.
“It's dangerous to stay here.
The police and the army are also shooting in the streets.
It is better to go home and come back in the evening, ”said one of them.
Victims sometimes very young
The army seems more determined than ever to quell the sling wind that has blown the country since the February 1 coup against the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
More than 50 civilians have been killed and dozens injured since the putsch.
Among the victims, four minors, including a 14-year-old teenager, according to the NGO Save the Children.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party has announced that it is putting flags at half mast in its offices to commemorate the dead.
The army for its part reported a police officer who died while dispersing a demonstration.
Asked, she did not respond to multiple requests from AFP.
Tens of thousands of people are protesting against the military coup in the town of Myingyan in central Myanmar despite the fact that one of the protesters in this town was shot dead during the crackdown yesterday.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar pic.twitter.com/ttb8ULIt3D
- Myanmar Now (@Myanmar_Now_Eng) March 4, 2021
The repression also continues in the judicial field.
Aung San Suu Kyi, still held incommunicado by the army, is now targeted by four charges, including "incitement to public disturbance".
Former President Win Myint is accused, among other things, of having violated the Constitution.
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Six Burmese journalists, including Thein Zaw, a photographer for the American agency Associated Press (AP), are being prosecuted for "causing fear among the population, spreading false information (...) or inciting government employees to disobedience ”.
They face three years in prison.
Nearly 1,500 people have been arrested, charged or sentenced since February 1, according to an NGO assisting political prisoners, a number that is undoubtedly largely underestimated.
New international protests
Wednesday's violence sparked yet another round of international protests.
President Emmanuel Macron has urged "an immediate end to the crackdown" and the US State Department said it was "horrified and repelled", calling on China to "use its influence" with the generals.
Beijing and Moscow, traditional allies of the Burmese army at the United Nations, have not formally condemned the coup, considering the crisis as "an internal affair" in the country.
The UN Security Council had to content itself, in a joint declaration issued in early February, with expressing its concern.
The UK has requested that it meet again on Friday.
France calls for an immediate end to the repression in Burma, to release those detained and to respect the democratic choice of the Burmese people expressed in the last elections.
We are by your side.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) March 3, 2021
The UN envoy for Burma, Christine Schraner Burgener spoke with the junta, warning that the United Nations "could take important measures" to try to put an end to the violence.
She also offered to go to Burma, the army telling her that she was welcome, but "not now".
In the country, the last popular uprisings of 1988 and 2007 were also bloodily suppressed by the military.
The army, which is contesting the result of the November elections won overwhelmingly by Aung San Suu Kyi's party, has promised a new ballot, without giving any timetable.