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Acting vice-president MahnWinKhaingThan (@CrphMyanmar) addresses the public for 1st time. Some points 👇🏼
- Condolences to families for the losses of sons and daughters
- Unity is crucial despite having differences in the past
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Thread: A person was forced by #Myanmar security forces to remove barricades in Yankin this afternoon. 3 police asked the man to move 15 sandbags alone from protesters' barricades said "You have to clean up your people’s mess“
(File Photo)
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Hundreds of ppl have gathered inside&outside of the premises. Strongly rejecting the camping saying “We’re not gonna live until they leave”. Time is approaching 8:00 PM which is curfew time. Main concern of the public is night dragging. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Sudden strong wind in Yangon. I’m seeing light objects floating in the air and some broken doors. People may need to look out for sharp objects flying around. I opened my windows to let the air flow and prevent glasses from creaking. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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Frontliners in protests have started their self-trainings in case of being dispersed with teargas, flashbangs and rubber-bullets. A frontliner says “We’ll run too but we can buy some time for ppl in the back to run first”. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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About 6 months into military coup and despite facing arrests due to anti-coup drumming, a voice of young lady in a township still leading the indoor protest after 8 pm drum time. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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HappeningNow: reportedly 1 man shot dead in North Dagon tsp. Witnesses say the dead protester was shot into his head. Cannot verify what sort of bullet had been used. Another one is said to get hit the lower body & otw to medic.#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Myanmar army spox. - no plan to enable the mobile internet so far bcos riots are brewed on social media and will need to cut the internet indefinitely.
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HappeningNow: Thaketa Tsp, Yangon, got casualties while security police dispersed protest crowd. One person got it in the head (Critical) and one on leg.
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Just found out #Myanmar military propaganda channel #MRTV has a @Twitter account (@mrtvwebportal) Earliest post of the account is on Feb4. Cannot verify if it’s setup by its respective ministry. @facebook took down army related pages on Feb21.
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Military spox. says “Myanmar is not committing a crime to meet R2P criteria. I am not worried about it.”
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8:45 AM - at SawBwarGyiGone (စော်ဘွားကြီးကုန်း) Insein Tsp - I saw 2 YBS buses filled with people. <They were waving three-finger salute from inside> Two #police vehicles in the front and back escorted them, heading towards #Yangon downtown. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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HappeningNow: Local media reported a factory on fire in Hlaing Tharyar, a township under martial law on top of 8PM-4AM curfew. No one aside from security forces is allowed to be outside.
Chinese embassy blamed protesters for factories fire on Monday.
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Briefly spoke to a person with the dead body.
I quote him 👇
"We cannot send the body to morgue rn. A police vehicle is following us. They might take away the body."
"Mother and wife is with the body. We are on move."
Vid sent and allowed to use.
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Massive price gap between @Telenor_mm @ooredoo_mm, MPT and #Myanmar army’s @mytelmyanmar as it’s offering extremely cheap prices (2 times lower than private ones) with more data.
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Security forces stopping cars to turn around at drive-over bridge near Myanmar Plaza now for unknown reason. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Footages on social media, at least 6 #Myanmar police pressing down a person in Tarmwe tsp this morning. Anti-#coup are violently cracked down all morning in multiple places today. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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SanChaung Thread:
I'm in SanChaung. In Vid: you can hear the possible gun shots or stun grenades. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Pro-#democracy protesters have evolved over time and ways of demonstration are changed. Tension between security forces and ppl hasn’t been calmed down since Feb9 but ppl gathered in nearer neighbourhoods for sit-in protests for each township. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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People draw anti-#coup messages on eggs on #Easter2021 . Tons of internet #Myanmar users post 3fingers salute together with painted eggs and hand-drawings on social media.
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Brief and small scale protests are happening here and there in Yangon; burning 2008 constitution books. @CrphMyanmar announced the abolishment of the constitution on March 31st.
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Yangon protesters comeback with strong & very uniform voice after taking in the death of protesters in Mandalay. InVid: "We don't accept what you did in 1988. Its 2021 now" #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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House of a #journalist in Hakha, Chin State was attacked by security forces with slingshot last night - local ethnic media reported. “They shot only into that house, nowhere else” it says.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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JustIn: A friend of the deceased confirms "Su Su Kyi has passed away". SuSuKyi was shot on March 31 while she was in her company's ferry bus around 4-5 PM in the evening. She worked for South Korean Shinhan Bank, which came into Myanmar in 2016.
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I'll be updating as much as I can. But I understand 40-50 of doctors arrested and asked to take off their dutycoat before they're pushed into the prison vans. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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