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MYANMAR TROOPS KILL 3, HUNT DOWN HUNDREDS IN OVERNIGHT RAIDS
- By The Financial District
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min read
Myanmar security forces cornered hundreds of young protesters overnight in a district of Yangon and threatened to hunt for them door to door as the United States and United Nations (UN) appealed for them to be allowed to leave, Reuters reported.
Thousands of people defied a nighttime curfew to take to the streets of Myanmar’s main city in support of the youths in the Sanchaung district, where they had been holding the latest daily protest against the Feb. 1 coup.
The army takeover and arrest of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi has plunged Myanmar into chaos. Security forces have killed more than 60 protesters and detained more than 1,800 since then, an advocacy group said.
In Sanchaung, police firing guns and using stun grenades announced they would check houses for anyone from outside the district and would punish anyone caught hiding them.
Three protesters were killed in demonstrations in northern Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Delta on Monday, according to witnesses and local media. In the Lanmadaw district of Yangon, residents said security forces broke down doors in overnight arrest raids after youths there said they had caught some suspected soldiers transporting weapons in a private car.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “calls for maximum restraint and urges for the safe release of all without violence or arrests,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The UN office in Myanmar as well as the U.S. and British embassies appealed to security forces to allow protesters to leave without violence or arrest.
In a diplomatic blow to the junta, Myanmar’s ambassador in Britain followed its UN representative in calling on Monday for the release of Suu Kyi - drawing praise from British foreign minister Dominic Raab. Britain, the United States and some other Western countries have imposed limited sanctions on the junta.
The European Union (EU) is preparing to widen its sanctions to target army-run businesses, according to diplomats and two internal documents seen by Reuters. Thailand’s state broadcaster PBS said areas had been set aside along the border with Myanmar to house any refugees fleeing the unrest.
