At least four people – (three anti-coup protesters and a member of a civilian neighborhood protection group) have been killed by security forces and more than 100 wounded in nearly two dozen crackdowns by Myanmar’s military regime on demonstrations across the country over a two-week period beginning on the 7th of February.
During the crackdowns, police and military personnel have used water cannon, tear gas, slingshots, rubber bullets, live ammunition and deadly air guns firing lead pellets.
Several journalists covering the anti-coup protests have been deliberately attacked by police with batons and slingshots.
On Saturday afternoon, during a raid against government personnel taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) at a dock in Mandalay, police fired live ammunition and rubber bullets against demonstrators who had appeared in the street to protect government staff from being forced to return to work.
Two were killed in the shooting and nearly 30 were injured, according to charity societies reaching the area. Dozens of people with injuries were arrested without being treated.
At least seven crackdowns aimed at anti-coup demonstrations and the civil disobedience movement of government staff have been conducted in Mandalay since Feb. 9. Mandalay is Myanmar’s biggest second-biggest city.
More than a hundred people, including a pregnant woman, have been injured in the anti – coup protestors.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said that the military regime has also been arresting anti-coup protesters daily.
As of Saturday, 569 people including officials, leaders and lawmakers from the National League for Democracy (NLD), political activists, artists, monks, writers, anti-coup protesters and government staffs involved in CDM had been arrested.