NAYPIYDAW, KOMPAS.com – Myanmar perform the ceremony mass funeral at least 149 people have been killed security forces in Myanmar ever since military coup February 1, including 5 people in detention.
The death toll was in the hundreds after the bloodiest day occurred in a country that is again in grip military junta.
Mass burial held across the city of Yangon on Tuesday (16/3/2021), with hundreds of mourners gathered in various cities to say goodbye to those who were killed.
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A crematorium in Yangon reported 31 funerals, a mourner said at one of the ceremonies The Guardian on Tuesday (16/3/2021).
One scene that was seen was hundreds of people taking to the streets in grief when releasing Khant Nyar Hein, a medical student who was killed in Yangon on Sunday (14 // 3/2021).
“Let them kill me now, kill me now instead of my son, because I can’t take it anymore,” said Khant Nyar Hein’s mother who was seen in the video posted on Facebook.
During the funeral, mourners chanted, “Our revolution must win!”
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Several families told local media that security forces confiscated a number of the bodies of their loved ones, but the bereaved families held funeral services anyway.
The number of deaths in the anti-coup protests that broke out on Sunday was the majority in the small town of Hlaing Tharyar in Yangon.
The area is a garment producer with most of the factories owned by the Chinese.
Media Burma, Irrawaddy, released photos of residents who fled the city on Tuesday (16/3/2021).
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Some carry their pets on the back of motorbikes, while others carry their belongings in tuk-tuks.
“We can see people on the street as far as the eye can see,” the Democratic Voice of Burma reported.
A resident told Agence France Presse (AFP) about the exodus, saying that people wanted to leave at dawn and protesters had removed the makeshift barricades to slow down security forces until the fugitives were able to get out.
“After 9 am, residents again blocked the road with a barrier. They allow people to leave only in the morning, “he said, adding that security forces have been deployed on the main streets of small towns.
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“We do not dare to go down the street,” he said.
Estimates of the death toll rose again on Tuesday (16/3/2021), when a protester was shot dead in downtown Kawlin, said a resident there.
People hold up images of the military’s ousted civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi and call for an end to the persecution during small protests in the southern city of Dawei on Tuesday (16/3/2021), media Dawei Watch report.
So far, there have been no reports of victims of violence by the authorities to the demonstrators.
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