One the protesters gunned down in a crackdown in Yangon on Sunday morning is carried away.
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- BREAKING: At least two people were killed and six were injured as police and soldiers used live ammunition while attacking peaceful protesters near a shipyard in Mandalay on Saturday afternoon. Stay tuned for the full story. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #militarycoup #2021uprising
- People in Myanmar launched what is being called “Easter Egg Strike” on Sunday, painting and writing anti-military slogans on eggs as a symbol of defiance. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- UPDATE: At least six injured and 10 people arrested so far in an ongoing crackdown by the police and soldiers using rubber bullets to disperse a protesting crowd near a shipyard in Mandalay. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- Hundreds of pro-military supporters are holding a big rally in downtown Yangon. The police has removed barricades to allow for the rally. Some residents of the town responded to the rally by banging on pots & pans. One of the bystanders were beaten up by pro-military supporters.
00:00 - Ko Wai Moe Naing, leader of the main protest movement in #Monywa, was arrested by coup regime’s forces this afternoon (Apr 15) while riding a motorcycle. Plainsclothes gunmen in a normal car hit him and also arrested a woman who was with him. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- The riot police fire rubber bullets into a protesting crowd in Mandalay. A few sustained injuries. A tense confrontation is going on between anti-coup protesters and security forces. #WhatisHappeningInMaynmar #2021uprising
- The junta’s armed forces have been attacking a key protest stronghold in Bago’s Ma Ga Dit Road since 5am on Friday. Sources told Myanmar Now the gunfire is ongoing. “They have been shooting with heavy weapons. I can still hear sound of gunfire now,” a Bago resident said. Photo-CJ
- Myanmar Now's multi-media reporter, Ms.Kay Zon Nwe, was taken away by the police while she was live-streaming a protest crackdown around noon at Myaynigone Junction in Yangon. We are still trying to find out her whereabouts. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- Video: Soldiers gunned down a few protesters in Yangon crackdown on Sunday
00:00 - A protester was believed to be shot with live ammunition by security forces at Hledan in Yangon on Sunday morning. Photos here show the protester lying on the ground covered in blood and was later carried away by other protesters. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
- BREAKING: Two people shot dead after security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in Mandalay on Wednesday. The two victims are 37-year-old Myo Naing who was shot in the chest and 19-year-old Kyel Sin who was shot in her head. #whatshappeninginMyanmar
- Aung San Suu Kyi taken from her Naypyitaw home to undisclosed location “We don’t know where she’s being kept anymore,” a senior NLD source said. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmarcoup myanmar-now.org/en/news/nld-so…
- The first anti-coup protest took place in Mandalay and is being met with severe state repression. The protesters are now fleeing into all the directions, chased by riot police.
