UN as condemns Myanmar junta after three anti-coup protesters killed in Myanmar

UN as condemns Myanmar junta after three anti-coup  protesters killed in Myanmar. 

The death of two anti-coup protesters in Myanmar triggered The United Nations condemnation of the new military regime in Myanmar on Sunday as mourners prepared for the funeral of a young woman.

The authorities gradually accelerated their strategy against a large-scale and largely peaceful civil disobedience movement, demanding the return of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted civilian leader.

Saturday was the deadliest day in more than two weeks of street demonstrations in the country, when security forces opened fire on the rally in Mandalay, causing the crowd to flee in fear.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the use of "lethal violence" in close combat, and emergency personnel said that melee personnel killed a teenager and injured dozens of others.

Guterres wrote: "The use of lethal force, intimidation and harassment against peaceful demonstrators is unacceptable."

Security forces in Mandalay, the country's second largest city and cultural capital, tried to raid shipyards and detained port staff during a strike in protest against the military takeover.

Medical ambulance personnel said that in order to stop the arrest, the army used live ammunition and rubber bullets against a group of people who began to throw stones.

Huang Minwu, head of the volunteer emergency rescue team headquartered in Mandalay, said: "The two people died."

He added that another 30 people were injured, half of whom were live ammunition injuries.

A graphical video circulating on Facebook showed a teenage victim playing on the ground. When the onlooker put his hand on his chest and felt his heart beat, his head bleed.

The official newspaper Myanmar's New Global Lantern did not mention the death, but blamed the demonstrators for the conflict and said that protest leaders had been detained.

The report acknowledges that "some" protesters were injured by security forces, as well as three soldiers and eight police officers.

In the early morning, a large crowd returned to the streets of Mandalay. The violence the day before did not frighten them, and Yangon held a rally further south.

A young protester was holding a funeral in the capital Naypyidaw. He was shot in the head in a rally last week on Friday.

Mya Thwate Khaing, 20, who was 20 years old last week because she was unconscious in the hospital bed, has become a powerful symbol of the anti-military rule movement.

Nightkeeping activities were held in Yangon, where protesters laid flowers on monuments for grocers workers and recited Buddhist prayers, The Doomsday, to urge protection from harm.

Ye Lintun gathered with friends in the business center on Sunday to commemorate her death. "We can't attend her funeral, so we are praying for her."

Most of Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army detained Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, with large-scale street demonstrations in major cities and remote villages across the country.

The seventh consecutive night power outage in the country on Sunday was a measure implemented by the regime after community mobilization of observation groups to prevent night arrests.

Earlier that morning, Facebook announced that it had launched the military's "true news information team" page from the platform to incite violence.

The army used this service to defend its takeover, claiming that voter fraud tarnished Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide election victory last November.

The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada responded with sanctions against Burma's top generals.

EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss their own measures against the regime.

According to the monitoring team of the Political Prisoners Assistance Association, nearly 570 people have been detained since the military took over.

Targets include railway workers, civil servants and bank workers who left their jobs as part of the anti-coup campaign.

Popular actor Lu Min became the latest high-profile celebrity by condemning the regime.

His wife, Chin Sabel U, said in a video: "Many police cars came to arrest her. Her husband was taken away overnight. She broadcast it live on Facebook.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has not appeared since she was detained in the dawn raid, but she was hit by the military junta on two charges, one of whom was hit by an unregistered walkie-talkit.