Health workers protest in Mandalay

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Doctors and nurses in central Myanmar rallied in the streets at first light on Sunday, avoiding a confrontation with security forces after another deadly weekend crackdown on anti-coup protesters.

The violence failed to deter hundreds of doctors and nurses donning hard hats and brandishing posters of Suu Kyi as they marched through Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city and cultural capital.

Protester killed in central Myanmar and two Australians in custody

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Security forces in Myanmar shot dead an anti-coup protester Sunday, as the Australian government confirmed it is assisting two nationals who were detained after trying to leave Yangon. 

Myanmar has been in turmoil since soldiers ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi last month, triggering nationwide protests demanding a return to democracy.

Security forces have responded with lethal force, using live rounds along with tear gas and rubber bullets in an effort to bring the demonstrations to heel.

Fleeing Myanmar police officers ask India for Asylum

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Myanmar police officers who fled to India after they said they defied orders to shoot people protesting their country's military coup are urging India's government not to send them back and to grant them asylum on humanitarian grounds, AP reported.

One of the officers who has sought refuge in a village in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram along the border with Myanmar said they didn't want to return to their country until the problems there are solved.

France's EDF says Myanmar dam project halted over coup

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An international consortium has suspended a $1.5-billion hydropower dam project in Myanmar in response to last month's military coup, consortium member Electricite de France, a French utility, said Sunday.

Nearly 250 people are confirmed dead in protests since the February 1 military coup, according to tolls compiled by NGOs, and more than 2,300 others have been arrested.

International condemnation from Washington, Brussels and the United Nations has so far failed to halt the bloodshed.

‘Revolution blooms from a busted skull on the road’: From Myanmar, an appeal to all Indians

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A conversation with Soe Myint, a media entrepreneur now in hiding.

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Myanmar is once again under military rule even before it could emerge as proper democracy.

Once again, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest. She had emerged as a popular leader in the national uprising in 1988 and put under house arrest for 15 years from 1989 to 2010.

Situations of Anti-coup protest demonstrations on March 21, 2021

Army and Police kill one and three wounded in Monywa

Four people were shot by terrorist armed group on March 21 in Monywa, Sagaing Region, of which, one was shot dead in the head, the local people said. This shooting incident was reportedly happened in Nandawun Ward, Monywa. In a photo evidence, a sharp shooter from this terrorist group was found get ready for shooting at the corner of Bo Tayza and Arzarni Roads in Monywa.

Myanmar’s UN envoy raises holding people accountable for the post-coup violence

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Kyaw Moe Tun Myanmar’s U.N. envoy said the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), which is attempting to reestablish the civilian government and displace the military, is exploring ways people can be held accountable for violence following the coup, according to local media.

“The ICC is one of them,” Kyaw Moe Tun told an event with Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. “We are not a state party to the ICC, but we need to... explore the ways and means to bring the case to the ICC.”

EU set to sanction Myanmar junta officials over coup

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EU foreign ministers are on Monday set to approve sanctions on 11 Myanmar junta officials over the military coup there, European diplomats said.

 

The move comes after the 27-nation bloc last month agreed to target Myanmar's military and its economic interests over its seizure of power.

 

One diplomat said the 11 individuals to be placed on an EU assets freeze and visa ban blacklist by ministers meeting in Brussels are military and police officers.

 

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