A 7-year-old girl was killed in protests against the military junta in Myanmar. She is the youngest victim to have fallen in the country’s bloody clashes that began in early February.
The girl was sitting on her father’s lap in their home in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, when a bullet flew through the house. Soldiers were after her father, says the girl’s sister against local media, but hit the wrong one.
More and more child victims
Increasingly, children fall victim to flying bullets. Yesterday, two teenagers were killed in the same city, 14-year-old Tun Tun Aung and 15-year-old Zaw Myo Htet.
Tun Tun Aung was going to get some drinking water for his mother when he was hit at the front door of his house. Zaw Myo Htet was working in a tea shop when a bullet hit him.
“I am heartbroken,” said Zaw Myo Htet’s mother emotionally at her son’s coffin. “This army brutally killed my son. I want to kill them like they killed my son.”
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