Mar 13 – The protesters are back in Yangon streets to form frontlines with glass-mirroring hand made shields in the hope to reflect the sunlight towards soldiers and policemen.
Mar 13 – The protesters are back in Yangon to form frontlines with glass-mirroring hand made shields in the hope to reflect the sunlight towards soldiers and policemen.
Mar 13 – Protesters spray-paint the face of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing who took power in a coup on Feb 1st. For soldiers to step on it while breaking the crowd would be considered hugely disrespectful.
Mar 13 – Protesters spray-paint the face of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing who took power in a coup on Feb 1st, next to the word ‘Terrorist’. For soldiers to step on it while breaking the crowd would be considered hugely disrespectful in Southeast Asian Buddhist culture.
Mar 13 – Night protest at 8.30 pm at Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. The protest has been brutally repressed in the daytime.
Mar 16 – People gather for another day of protest in Kyauk Myaung, Yangon and prepare bags of water to splash in the event of the police launching tear gas in the crowd.
Mar 16 – People lay flowers on a memorial for Khant Nyar Hein, a 19 yo medical student whose family migrated from China. He was killed by soldiers in a street in Tamwe, Yangon on March 14th, one of the deadliest day since the coup.
Mar 16 – People gather for another day of protest in Kyauk Myaung, Yangon. Six people were arrested on this day and one young man had his jaw tore into pieces by a live bullet. For two weeks, protests have been very dangerous as soldiers and policemen shoot on sight in the city.
Mar 17 – Authorities forces put fire to the barricades built by residents to block the access to their neighbourhoods in Kyauk Myaung, Yangon.
Mar 7 – Fifty to sixty soldiers are on the look for protesters who had to hide for hours in flats before being able to come out. One young man was arrested in the neighbourhood on this day.
Mar 17 – Fifty to sixty soldiers roam the streets of Kyauk Myaung, Yangon, warning people that they will come back and shoot anyone in the neighbourhood if residents keep building barricades.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, protesters march in the branch roads because the main roads were closed by army and police.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – In Monywa, people blocked the branch roads with sandbags to prevent the army and police vehicles from entering the town, which was successful on this day.
Mar 15 – People blocked the branch roads with sandbags. On the morning of March 21st, a frontline protester named Min Min Zaw was killed by the junta’s armed forces in Monywa, Sagaing. He was shot in the head while he was preparing similar street barricades for a protest to start, a local doctor on strike said. Snipers have been seen shooting at passers-by in the town and at least three people were injured.
Mar 20 – Kyaung Myaung, Yangon, 11 am. Police open fire and launch tear gas as protesters armed with make shift safety gear and sticks tried to block the road.
Mar 20 – Kyaung Myaung, Yangon, 11 am. Police open fire and launch tear gas as protesters armed with make shift safety gear and sticks tried to block the road. People have been snatched from their homes from the soldiers, who forced them to remove barricades and scratch posters of Min Aung Hlaing, the general who seized pozer in a coup on Feb 1st, at gunpoint.
Mar 20 – Kyaung Myaung, Yangon, 11 am. Police open fire and launch tear gas as protesters armed with make shift safety gear and sticks tried to block the road. On this day, Ko Thet Paing Soe, 28, was killed by soldiers during crackdown on Thatipahtan Strike. Family members cremated him the day after as they feared his body would be taken away by authorities, as dozens of families have reported.