police in myanmar's capital napador have
fired
rubber bullets at protesters
demonstrating against the military coup
live ammunition has also been used and a
woman is in a critical condition
after being hit in the head these are
pictures from today's protest in yangon
where water cannon has been used against
protesters
the authorities have also extended areas
where gatherings are restricted
it comes as new zealand is suspending
all high-level contact with the military
authorities in myanmar
well our reporter nain nan a has filed
this report from the city of yangon
why special protests continue here in
lima for a fourth straight day
even though the military regime has been
gathering for more than five people
here i am with a group of protesters
gathering
in front of uyanyama headquarters in
django
i have seen people from all different
backgrounds
including the government stuff when i
spoke to them
they are all fully aware of all race
but they said the world must know what
is happening
in jungle anti-coup protesters defying
all the money from the gender bid
rallies
also continue in other major cities
across the country
this is denying a bbc news jungle
well earlier i spoke to our southeast
asia correspondent jonathan head in
bangkok
he told me the protesters remain defiant
yes they know that about the risks
they've been told of course by their
parents what happened in
previous episodes of unrest where the
army used extreme
levels of lethal force at great casting
casualties
they know that's a possibility i think
there's such a sense of outrage and also
a sense that
if they allow the military to get away
with this to end the 10-year experiment
in democracy which has transformed the
lives in particular of younger people
and you see so many young people of
these protests
that you know they they will lose their
chance for the better life they hoped
they would get
there's a very huge amount of passion
behind these protests and it's not just
in yangon it's remarkable how many
places
are having protests every day i mean
really small towns i've never even heard
of before
we're suddenly finding popping up with
rallies going on
so this has the hallmarks at the moment
of a nationwide uprising even though
there's no central organization
uh aung san tsuchi and her party are
playing very little role as far as we
know so far she's still in detention
but for all that is it is quite a
serious threat
to the new military hunter because they
don't appear to have much
uh control certainly over the protests
in most of the country not even in their
own capital nepad that capital was built
by the military to be a fortress where
it would be very hard
to hold protests for a long time there
were only civil servants living there
yet we've seen really passionate
demonstrations there today and the most
violent confrontations
with the police you were talking about
rubber bullets we do believe that live
rounds were fired
uh because uh the one woman who's in
critical condition appears
to have been hit by a live round in the
head so it has escalated there
and it tells you how how serious this
situation is now
for the men who led the coup last week
jonathan we're currently seeing this
in the hands of the police and and uh it
is getting uh
out of hand and they are trying to uh
control it
but the real worry will be when the army
comes out onto the streets
yeah i like the way you use the word
when you know knowing myanmar's history
that does seem an inevitability
i do get the sense that the government
the new regime
doesn't want to do that yet they've let
these protests run for four days
but the police are not proving very
effective in crowd control and this is
just happening over such a wide area
and we're seeing very different
approaches from the police quite
a lot of force used in epidural with
casualties but in other places the
police either
standing by and yangon they did nothing
to try and stop the protest today
or even in some cases the police have
gone over to the side of the protesters
or at least
let them pass now if that carries on if
the police lose morale
and decide that these protesters have
got right on their side
it's a very strong argument when you
think of how many people voted for
unsensu just last november
then the military will have to step in
and they don't have
water cannon or crowd control techniques
all they have is
is live rounds you know nobody wants to
go back there there have been such
terrible periods in the past of
bloodshed on the streets in myanmar
but it's very hard to see that being
avoided when you have a movement that
has so much momentum behind it so much
popular sentiment
and an army that genuinely believes it's
done the right thing and that it must
now
exert its control over the country