NAY PYI TAW – Myanmar anti-junta protesters held more rallies on Friday after the military reportedly shot dead nine people a day earlier.
Candle-lit protests took place across the country overnight including in the Mandalay and Sagaing regions, as well as in Karen and Chin states.
A group of about 100 people beating drums held a protest in the downtown Sule area of Yangon before being chased away by security forces.
“This war has not ended until we win,” one of the protesters told Reuters. “I will fight them as much as we can.”
In Myanmar’s second city of Mandalay, protesters marched on Friday morning in front of a “civil disobedience movement” banner, Mizzima news reported.
Myanmar has been rocked by almost daily protests since the army overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government and installed the junta.(Reuters)
