MYANMAR PROTESTERS VOW TO FIGHT MILITARY ‘TILL THE END’

Protesters played a game of cat-and-mouse with security forces across Myanmar on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, with demonstrators against last month's coup vowing not to stop until the military putsch is reversed, Athens Zee Zee reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

"We have no way to go back. We will fight them till the end. They have nothing, they have only relied on their guns," said Nyi Nyi Lin, 26, a protester from North Okkaplapa township. Tens of thousands gathered across the country to protest, scattering from one place and resuming their demonstrations in another as military forces worked to break them up.

"In the city, the protesters came out as scattered movements. But outside of the city, there are always a lot of people protesting. The number of protesters has not reduced yet despite the crackdown," one unnamed witness in the city of Monywa told dpa. Protesters have been shot dead in recent days, he added.

A precise death toll is nearly impossible to establish. But reports out of the country indicate that about 80 people have died in clashes with security forces in recent weeks. According to local news reports, protests also resumed on Tuesday in the cities of Mandalay, Monywa and Pathenin and in the regions and states of Kachin, Karen, Pyay, Shan, and Tanintharyi.

There were reports of more than 40 protesters arrested in the city of Myeik. In Sanchange township, a group of protesters who spent much of Monday trapped in neighborhood houses as they tried to evade security forces said most of them managed to get to freedom by early Tuesday.

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