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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Young guards equipped with makeshift and cheap protective gear volunteer to protect on the frontline the protesters taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Police and army violently broke every demonstration since the end of February in the main city but people keep on taking the streets every day throughout the country. More than 70 people have been killed in Myanmar and more than 2000 arrested since the coup. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. On the bins gathered to form a barricade against police assault, messages in Burmese: “Dog Police” and “Fuck MAL”.


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Police launch tear gas on protesters to break the daily gathering.
Kyal Sin “Angel”, a 19 yo frontline volunteer guard, was killed by police during a similar protest in Mandalay on March 3th, wearing a black T-shirt with the message: “Everything will be OK”. Thousands of people came to her funeral as she became a symbol of state violence against young pro-democracy protestors. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Police launch tear gas on protesters to break the daily gathering. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Protesters retreat in a side street after a police assault. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Protesters gesture and film the police following them in a side street after a tear gas and rubber bullet assault. 


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Mar 09 – Downtown Yangon. Protesters clean a bus after a CDM Protest. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards form a new frontline against police charge with wood panels. They threw some gas canisters back and at 2.30 pm, no one was arrested. “We will defend as much as we can from the front line so that the people behind can run”.


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards form a new frontline against police charge. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards form a new frontline against police charge with mirrored panels, as a way to reflect the sunlight towards policemen. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards organise to protect the crowd of protesters against police assault. 


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards block a side street to protect the crowd of protesters against police assault.


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Mar 09 – Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Volunteer guards block a side street to protect the crowd of protesters against police assault, hiding behind straw mattresses. 


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Mar 12 – Downtown Yangon. Despite daily arrests and killings in Yangon since end of February, protesters take the streets like every morning. They prepare new barricades with metal fences, bricks and bamboo poles. 


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Mar 12 – Downtown Yangon. Despite daily arrests and killings in Yangon since end of February, protesters take the streets like every morning. They prepare new barricades with metal fences, bricks and bamboo poles.


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Mar 12- Downtown Yangon. Despite daily arrests and killings in Yangon since end of February, protesters take the streets like every morning. They prepare new barricades with metal fences, bricks and bamboo poles. 


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Mar 10 – Budalin township, near Monywa. After nine people were killed in Monywa on March 4th, people gather for a prayer “for the fallen martyrs who were killed by the coup army and police during the Myanmar Spring Revolution.”


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Mar 10 – Budalin township, near Monywam. People marked one minute of silence before playing music.


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Mar 10 – Budalin township, near Monywa. People gathered in front of the Maha Bandula statue, commander-in-chief of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces in the First Anglo-Burmese War (မဟာဗန္ဓုလ 1782 –1825) with a candle in their hand.


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Mar 10 – An evening of commemoration in Budalin township, near Monywam for the victims of police and army repression. 


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Mar 10 – Budalin township, near Monywa. People sang songs called “There is no pardon for you till the end of the world” and “Blood Loyalty”.



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