“Piles of bodies” were seen in a city in Myanmar after another gruesome attack by the country’s security forces on its own population.
According to Radio Free Asia and other reports, dozens of people were murdered in the city of Bago on Friday in the city of Bago, leaving “piles of bodies in pagodas and school grounds” in the deadliest incident in Myanmar since a coup overthrew the elected government on February 1. . .
Security forces attacked protesters with guns, heavy weapons and hand grenades. The nationwide death toll has now risen above 700 people, including more than 80 in Bago, according to several reports, the Burmese Assistance Association for Political Prisoners group said.
News from Myanmar has been difficult to follow in recent days as the military junta has cracked down on Internet access and seized satellite dishes.
The ongoing violence comes amid widespread domestic outrage and international condemnation after the country’s government was overthrown in a coup led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander in chief of Myanmar’s armed forces.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991 who was elected in 2011, is still held by the junta.
“Every day Burma’s security forces keep killing people – including children far too young to even know what a protest is,” said US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, at a meeting of the UN. Security Council on Friday.
And unfortunately, this open conversation cannot be seen by those whose opinion is most important – the people of Burma themselves. The military has darkened their internet. By cutting its people off from the outside world, the military is trying to hide its terrible actions and suppress protests, and unleash more horrors with impunity. And we cannot make them succeed. “
