(TFPP Wire) March 28 (Reuters) – Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since last month’s military coup.
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Mourners fled the shooting at a service for 20-year-old student Thae Maung Maung in Bago near the commercial capital Yangon and there were no immediate reports of casualties, three people in the town told Reuters.
“While we are singing the revolution song for him, security forces just arrived and shot at us,” a woman called Aye who was at the service said. “People, including us, run away as they opened fire.”
Another 12 people were recorded dead in incidents elsewhere in Myanmar by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners advocacy group on Sunday, taking its total toll of civilians killed since the Feb. 1 coup to 459.
Thousands of villagers in a border area fled to Thailand after military air strikes on one of several ethnic militias that have stepped up attacks since the coup, witnesses and local media said.
There were no reports of large-scale protests in Yangon or Mandalay, which bore the brunt of the casualties on Saturday, Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day. But people in Mandalay surrounded a police station late in the evening, accusing the security forces of arson after five houses burned down, residents said.
Reuters could not reach police there for comment.
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The bloodshed drew renewed Western condemnation. The U.N. Special Rapporteur for Myanmar said the army was carrying out “mass murder” and called on the world to isolate the junta and halt its access to weapons.
Foreign criticism and sanctions imposed by some Western nations have failed so far to sway the military leaders, as have almost daily protests around the country since the junta took power and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
“We salute our heroes who sacrificed lives during this revolution and We Must Win This REVOLUTION,” one of the main protest groups, the General Strike Committee of Nationalities (GSCN), posted on Facebook.
Heavy fighting also erupted between the army and some of the two dozen ethnic armed groups that control swathes of the country.
About 3,000 people fled to neighboring Thailand after military jets bombed areas controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU) militia near the border, an activist group and local media said.
In an air attack by the military on Saturday, at least three civilians were killed in a village controlled by the KNU, a civil society group said. The militia earlier said it had overrun an army post near the border, killing 10 people.
Fighting also erupted on Sunday between another armed group, the Kachin Independence Army, and the military in the jade-mining area of Hpakant in the north. The Kachin forces attacked a police station and the military responded with an aerial assault, Kachinwaves media reported.
There were no reports of casualties.
A junta spokesman did not answer calls seeking comment on the killings or the fighting.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta leader, said during a parade to mark Armed Forces Day that the military would protect the people and strive for democracy.
Local #Myanmar reporting that a 1 & a half year old child just got shot in #Yangon. The child was apparently in the home then. Report says ambulance cannot get to the child to provide medical help as #military security forces are blocking the roads #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar pic.twitter.com/CNLKijmbjq
— May Wong (@MayWongCNA) March 28, 2021
"In the deadliest day in Myanmar since the Feb 1 military coup, dozens of people were killed on Saturday by security forces cracking down on nationwide protests…Among those fatally shot were a 5-year-old boy, two 13-year-old boys and a 14-year-old girl." https://t.co/BojobkiLCs
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 28, 2021
#Myanmar state media tonight said leaders of the Karen National Union’s Brigade 5, which was attacked with air strikes in apparent retaliation for capturing an army base, were not following orders from KNU HQ. Implied KNU HQ sanctioned the assault.#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
— Poppy McPherson (@poppymcp) March 28, 2021
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