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Myanmar Protesters in Running Battle with Security Forces

Myanmar Protesters in Running Battle with Security Forces
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By Staff, Agencies

Myanmar security forces cracked down on protesters in a bid to prevent opponents of the military government from gathering, and media reported one woman was shot and killed, after the country’s own United Nations envoy urged the world body to use “any means necessary” to stop the leaders of the February 1 coup.

The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the army seized power and arrested elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and much of her party leadership, alleging fraud in a November election her party had won by a landslide.

Uncertainty has grown over Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts, as the independent Myanmar Now website on Friday quoted officials of her National League for Democracy [NLD] party as saying she had been moved this week from house arrest to an undisclosed location.

The coup has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to Myanmar’s streets and drawn condemnation from Western countries, with some imposing limited sanctions.

Three domestic media outlets said a woman was shot and killed in the central town of Monwya on Saturday. Police there were not immediately available for comment.

Other protests were reported on Saturday in several districts of the country’s largest city of Yangon and elsewhere, but security forces were out in force early, deployed in numbers at usual demonstration sites and detaining people as they began to congregate, according to witnesses and social media posts.

At least two media workers were among those arrested in Yangon, witnesses told the Reuters news agency.

Other social media posts also showed protesters in Yangon’s Myaynigone district on Saturday morning carrying makeshift shields and wearing gas masks and hard hats.

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