in myanmar police have broken up
demonstrations in several places with
tear gas and gunfire but there's no
immediate word on casualties the french
president emmanuel macron has repeated
his call for an immediate end to
repression
and respect for the democratic choice of
the myanmar people
he tweeted that france is at your side
hundreds of mourners this morning have
attended a funeral for a 19 year old
protester whose face has gone viral
on social media angel known as gelsin
was among 38 protesters killed yesterday
she was shot in the head while on the
streets of mandalay our southeast asia
correspondent jonathan head is following
the story from bangkok
it's remarkable that people are out
occupying the streets
again after what was done to them
yesterday and i think the the level
scale of the violence yesterday
and the way in which people were gunned
down
were rounded up in mass arrests and were
savagely beaten
really laid open the strategy of the
military authorities which
is i i think to put it bluntly simply to
terrorize people back
off the streets to try to regain control
of a country that is now in
nationwide uprising whatever the cost
there was no attempt whatsoever to
minimize casualties
and indeed videos we've seen circulating
on social media show both police and
soldiers gloating
over the fact that they intend to go out
and kill people they're making it very
obvious
most of those killed yesterday had
either head or chest wounds this is a
a deliberate shoot to kill policy and
yet people are out again and when we
talk about them coming out
you need to understand how the
strategy's evolved they're not just
rallying and marching in now they're
actually barricading their neighborhoods
sometimes
quite impressively in a sense to deny
the military government
the control on the ground and that's
what the police and army have been going
in to try to stop but those barricades
are becoming bigger and harder to move
so it's this is actually
you know a real fight going on for
control of myanmar
between its people i mean huge numbers
of whom support this movement
and a military that is still struggling
to assert its authority
jonathan does it seem that the violence
from the military and the deaths are
making people even more likely to come
out on the streets
people were more angry or is there any
sense that it's acting as a deterrent
and that fear
is putting people off i suppose it
probably depends on on the individuals
look lots of people are still coming out
young people people who say that you
know they've got to do this now this is
remember
an incomplete coup it's not the military
has not established this authority
it's not yet recognized internationally
and
these these protesters going out there
feel that if they don't stop the
military now
their country is going to be cast back
into the ghastly years of
repression and military rule that they
experienced
back in the 1970s 80s and 90s and that's
what why they're willing to come out
and risk their lives and to some degree
you know they're accepting the fact that
some of them are going to be killed it
is astonishing bravery uh but on the
other side there is
quite amazingly ruthless brutality and
it's it's a battle between those two
attitudes