a peaceful protest of teachers and
students soon gave way to chaos
security forces opened fire to break up
their sit-in demonstration in the city
of mandalay
sending the crowd scattering through the
streets
clouds of tear gas filling the air where
their protest
chants had earlier echoed
among the victims of the violence a 19
year old woman
who was shot in the head friends and
relatives gathered in grief around her
coffin just hours later
to mourn yet another life lost
reports accumulated throughout the day
on local and social media
of many more protesters killed and
wounded
most of them in yangon
but also in smaller cities like manuela
where video images showed security
forces carrying
limp bodies on a blood-soaked street
the un security council is due to
discuss the escalating crisis on friday
so far it has failed to condemn the
military coup that overthrew myanmar's
democratically elected government
on february 1st
and with the junta unbowed by the
sanctions put in place by national
governments
it looks like it will take much stronger
action
to end the brutal crackdown against
the demonstrators i'm phil gale welcome
to the program
reports from myanmar indicate that
several people have been shot dead at
pro-democracy demonstrations
the latest in a deadly crackdown by the
military who appeared to have killed at
least
21 people at demonstrations since
seizing power
at just over a month ago several people
were wounded as protesters
clashed with security forces in cities
around the country witnesses and local
media say police opened
fire and used tear gas to disperse
demonstrators
security forces have also arrested
hundreds
few few thor is an activist in yangon
welcome to
dw um i know you've been out on the
streets today uh what's it been like
okay uh today the situation is getting
worse day by day on the streets there
are crowded
but this is because and they are killing
people
more and more day by day and it is
clearly it is a mccarthy
and this is not neither um this is
neither one
or better ground anymore and they are
already killing defense like they we are
we are in wars and we are fighting
against
people who has the guns and we have we
have bare hands
because you go out there you're unarmed
uh and you're peaceful but you're you're
saying that the police or is it the
police or the army shooting
both both police and army army both
they are they are both now the they are
the terrorists of
organizations now they are killing
people it's all people there now
and now that it has turned deadly will
you continue
to protest in the streets
well of course we have to continue doing
protesting because this is
what one of the things we can do to get
our true democracy right now so we will
not stop it
uh if needed if required we
may need to fight back until the last
man last
yes and how does it work then
are people out on the streets all day
and all night or
or do you do you sort of does it
happening in groups at different times
different cities different uh parts of
the day
um yes we there are different
in most of the uh in some townships we
started the most people demonstrating in
the morning and
until around 5 p.m because they we have
they have
they have made this announcement that we
have coffee from 8 p.m to
uh morning 6 p.m so so anytime they can
come and
you know anytime they can come and grab
the people and send to the day
so so we start in the morning and we end
in the evenings
yes well thank you for joining us and
letting us know what's going on there a
few of you
thought in yangon
yeah thank you