‘Stacks of corpses’ were seen in one city in Myanmar after another horrific attack by the country’s security forces on its own people.
Dozens of people were killed in the city of Bago on Friday, leaving ‘heaps of corpses in pagodas and on school grounds’ in the deadliest single incident in Myanmar since a coup overthrew the elected government on February 1, according to Radio Free Asia and other reports.
Security forces attacked protesters with rifles, heavy weapons and hand grenades. The nationwide death toll is now at the top of 700 people, including more than 80 in Bago, according to various reports, the Burmese group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said.
News from Myanmar has been difficult to track down over the past few days as the military junta has curtailed access to the internet and seized satellite dishes.
The ongoing violence comes amid huge domestic outrage and international condemnation, after the country’s government was overthrown in a coup led by senior general Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the army in Myanmar.
Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel laureate who was elected to office in 2011, is still being held by the junta.
“Every day, Burma’s security forces continue to kill people – including children who are too young to even know what a demonstration is,” United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas Greenfield told the United Nations on Friday. -Safety Security Council meeting said.
“And unfortunately this open conversation cannot be seen by those whose views are most important – the people of Burma itself. The military has blackmailed their internet. By shutting its people out of the outside world, the military is trying to hide its horrific actions and stifle protests and unleash even more atrocities. And we can not allow them to succeed. ”
