Status: 29.03.2021 07:34 a.m.
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At least 114 people were killed in Myanmar on Saturday alone. Soldiers also shot at children. After the coup, the military evidently put down their last scruples. US President Biden announced sanctions.
From Holger Senzel,
ARD-Studio Singapur
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A mother stands by her child’s coffin: “How am I supposed to live without you, my son?” She says, sobbing. The photo on the altar shows a happy boy: Say Wai Yan, 13 years old – shot by police officers.
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Holger Senzel
ARD-Studio Singapur
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A father buries his daughter, Khin Myo Chit, seven years old: “The soldiers broke down the door and stormed in,” he says with tears. “Although we had blocked the entrances with our bicycles. I grabbed my daughter to escape with her. But the soldiers stepped in our way and asked: ‘Is there anyone else in the house?’ They shot and said: ‘Don’t lie to us, old man!’ My girl was hit while she was leaning against my chest. ”
But the security forces did not even respect people’s grief, as Myanmar BBC employee Kyi Whi Tan reports: At a funeral around 60 kilometers northwest of Yangon, security forces suddenly appeared and shot the mourners. “I can’t say whether there were dead or injured, but they shot and then 40 mourners were taken away from there.”
People protest
So many tears and tons of blood: demonstrators panicked drag the injured from the street, while security forces open fire, bloody dragging marks on the asphalt everywhere. A completely uninhibited Soldateska in a blood frenzy – that was the impression of this weekend. Aimed shots in the head and chest. Shots at children, random shots in homes. Meanwhile, General Minh Aung Hlaing in white dress uniform said at the banquet in honor of the army: “The military is reaching out to the whole nation to protect democracy.”
114 people were killed in one day. Myanmar fighter planes even dropped bombs in Karen State in the south-west of the country, which is controlled by the armed ethnic Karen National Union. The junta has apparently put aside its last scruples and seems determined to crush the protest by all means, however bloody it may be. The military had promised new elections and a return to democracy, now all they want is apparently to force a quiet cemetery in the country.
Nevertheless, people continue to take to the streets with songs against guns. “If it is for our country, we are ready to sacrifice our lives while the blood flows from us like peacock wings,” says the revolutionary song from 1988. “We fight this struggle to the end for peace and freedom. ”
Murderers in Uniform – Military in Myanmar “Beyond All Reason”
Holger Senzel, ARD Singapore, 29.3.2021 · 06:34
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