12 People Added, The Number Of Myanmar Military Anti-coup Protesters Died Has Reached 92

Myanmar police when confronting protesters. (Twitter/@yoonmay111)

JAKARTA - At least 12 protesters were killed again, including a monk, when the Myanmar military regime broke up a demonstration against the February 1 coup, along Saturday 12 March.

Five people were shot dead and several others injured when police opened fire at a sit-in protest in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, witnesses told Reuters.

Another person was killed in the center of Pyay City and two were killed in police fire in the commercial capital Yangon, where three people also died overnight, domestic media reported.

"They acted like they were in a war zone, with unarmed people. The dead included a 13-year-old child," said Mandalay-based activist Myat Thu.

Si Thu Tun, another protester, said he saw two people being shot, including a Buddhist monk.

"One of them was hit in the pubic bone, the other was shot dead," he said.

In Pyay, an eyewitness said security forces initially stopped the ambulance to arrest the injured protesters, leading to one death.

A truck driver in Chauk, a city in the center of Magwe County, also died after being shot in the chest by Myanmar police, said a family friend.

The spokesman for the Myanmar Military Regime did not answer a phone call from Reuters seeking comment. The Junta-run media MRTV evening news broadcast labeled the protesters as criminals but did not elaborate.

Meanwhile, Acting Vice President of Myanmar appointed by the Parliamentary Representative Committee of Myanmar (CRPH) Mahn Win Khaing Than said, times like this are the darkest times for the nation, but dawn is near.

CRPH is known to be in the middle of announcing plans to form a federal democratic government, as well as having met with representatives of ethnic armed influences in Myanmar.

"To establish a federal democracy, which all the ethnic brothers and sisters, who have suffered various kinds of oppression from the dictatorship for decades, are truly desirable, this revolution is an opportunity for us to unite our efforts," said Mahn Win Khaing Than.

He added that the CRPH will try to make the necessary laws so that Myanmar citizens have the right to defend themselves. And, public administration will be handled by a temporary people's administration team.

With the addition of 12 deaths throughout last Saturday, a total of 92 protesters died as a result of the brutality of the Myanmar military regime, in handling demonstrations against Myanmar's military coup which had been going on for 41 days, as reported by The Irrawaddy.

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