The UN Security Council should consider imposing punitive sanctions, arms embargo, and travel bans on Myanmar in response to the Myanmar coup, UN Myanmar Human Rights Investigator Thomas Andrews urged today.
Investigator Andrews says there is growing evidence of Myanmar military police firing live ammunition at protesters.
The United Nations says more than 350 people have been arrested in Myanmar so far.
In the midst of this, protesters supporting national adviser Aung San Suu Kyi, who were ousted in a military coup, clashed with the police today (12th).
On that day, hundreds of thousands of people across Myanmar participated in protests against the coup despite the military’s ban on assembly. This protest was the largest since the Myanmar military overthrew the civilian government in a coup on the 1st.
An official from the International Red Cross told Reuters that three people were injured by rubber bullets shot by police during a protest in Molamin in southeastern Myanmar.
On that day, in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, hundreds of doctors marched in white gowns or scrubs, and football fans marched with banners criticizing the military.
Protests took place in the capital Naepido and the coastal city of Dawei, and in Michina, the capital of the northern Kachin state.
Meanwhile, the Internet Social Network Service (SNS) Facebook said it would delete content posted by the Myanmar military. Facebook said the Myanmar military was disseminating fake information after the coup.
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