JUNTA LEADER'S IMAGES BURNT ON HIS BIRTHDAY BY MYANMAR PROTESTERS

  • 03/07/2021

The Protesters burned mock coffins and pictures of Myanmar's army ruler Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday while protesting against the military coup of the civilian administration of the country. 

'May you not rest in peace' and 'may your birthday and death day be the same', read the messages on funeral wreaths in The inzayet township in eastern Mon state. Similar protests took place in many parts of Myanmar

"We are burning this as a curse," said one protester in the second city of Mandalay, setting ablaze a small pile of picture of the general, 65.

A spokesman for the military authorities did not respond to requests for comment. Min Aung Hlaing took power on February 1, overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and cutting short a decade of democratic reforms that had brought Myanmar out of isolation under previous juntas.

Min Aung Hlaing had been due to retire after his 65th birthday, but the compulsory retirement age was scrapped after the coup.
The army says its assumption of powers was in line with the constitution. It alleged fraud in November elections swept by Suu Kyi's party, although the accusations were dismissed by the former electoral body.
Protests take place in many parts of Myanmar almost daily, strikes have hurt official and private business and fighting has flared in the borderlands, sending some 200,000 people fleeing from their homes.

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