PROTESTS SWELL IN MYANMAR :POLICE USES WATER CANNON ON PROTESTORS

  • 08/02/2021

Myanmar's generals faced their biggest opposition yet to last week's coup, with huge crowds across the country  demanding the release of  leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The junta has so far refrained from using deadly force to quell nationwide demonstrations, but with pressure building, riot police fired water cannon in an attempt to disperse thousands on the streets of Naypyidaw .

The military last week detained Suu Kyi and dozens of other members of her National League for Democracy party, ending a decade of civilian rule and triggering widespread international condemnation.Tens of thousands of people rallied over the weekend in the first major outpourings of opposition, and the movement built on Monday with bigger protests in key locations across the country plus the start of a nationwide strike.

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