soldiers in myanmar have raided the
party headquarters of the detained
leader aung san tsuchi as myanmar's
military tightens its grip on power
the headquarters of the national league
for democracy political party
were broken into and ransacked by
security forces on tuesday but as the
military steps up its campaign of
intimidation against the ousted civilian
leadership
protesters took to the streets for a
fifth consecutive day
of nationwide demonstrations that's
despite facing water cannon tear gas and
rubber bullets in recent days
a night curfew is also in place
the united nations condemns the use of
force against the protesters
it's calling for the release of aung san
tsuchi and other elected leaders
and the european parliament is debating
sanctions on myanmar but eu foreign
policy chief
joseph burrell is urging a cautious
approach
we should avoid rushing into measures
that would adversely
affect the most vulnerable part of the
population
this often happens when you take
restrictive measures
at the end of the poor's among the
poorest who pay the consequences
we have engaged with asean india
the us australia and also
discussed the situation yesterday with
the chinese
foreign minister we all agree on the
need to quick responses
to avoid allowing a feta complete
that can last quite a long time joseph
burrell speaking there now for more
let's
bring an aim in ton she's a freelance
journalist based in yangon
how likely is it the military will
listen to this international pressure
um well i think it depends on how the
how consistently the pressure is applied
and whether or not there are they they
have supporters uh
in countries who in the past have
supported them right so
in the case of the rohingya crisis we
saw that um
especially in the u.n security council
as well as in the international efforts
to hold them accountable for the
atrocities that were committed against
the rohingya
they had allies with china and russia as
well as a couple of other countries
and if those if any efforts by the
international community are not
consistently
applied then there there's always ways
for them to continue to make money
and continue to avoid accountability
well the military have now raided the
main opposition party headquarters and
the protests on the other hand are
continuing
are there any signs of a peaceful
solution
i mean i think the the civil
disobedience movement
is a really good place to look in terms
of
uh non-violence non-violent resistance
and a way in which you know even without
street protests necessarily
people would be able to resist uh the
rule the
governance of the military regime
um but at the same time you know the
military's response
to protesters is clearly escalating and
in the intro you said earlier that
there were rubber bullets used um
yesterday there was a protest
a protester who was shot and was taken
to the hospital and
her doctor confirmed that it was a live
bullet that went through her head
does the military you think still have
the backing of other authorities in the
country
like the police and local governments
um so we have seen a number of people
essentially defecting
from the leadership of the military and
so there were quite a few videos
of police officers who either
broke the police line in order to join
the i mean yes there were videos of
police officers who essentially broke
the police line in order to join
protesters
and there's also reports of police
officers simply quitting the force
and yesterday as well the mayor of
mandalay
resigned from his post well you've been
covering the situation in myanmar for
many many years
how do these protests compare to the
previous
so i started covering myanmar in 2018
and so largely the protests here have
been uh there's been sort of rallies in
support of aung san tsuji
and against international condemnation
regarding the rohingya issue
as well as labor movements as well as
free speech and
internet access of pro internet access
movements
um and nothing has ever compared to
anything like this
uh the amount the sheer amount of people
who are involved
the level of solidarity that we're
seeing between
different ethnic and religious groups uh
as well as the fact that
um it's just the entire country right as
opposed to
very small segments or very specific
locations
thank you very much aim intent there
from yangon
thank you for having me