Myanmar police crack down on Milk Tea Alliance protesters: several shot in Yangon, many arrested News
Myanmar police crack down on Milk Tea Alliance protesters: several shot in Yangon, many arrested

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Myanmar police and soldiers cracked down Sunday against protesters opposing the Myanmar military coup, dispersing peaceful marchers with smoke grenades and bullets in Yangon, and making multiple arrests there and in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city. In Yangon’s Yankin District, a march of doctors and medical students undertaken as part of the Sunday pan-ASEAN Milk Tea Alliance protests planned for several days was broken up by police, putting many white-coated doctors and med students to flight. Local reports say that between 50 and 100 medics were arrested. In the Hledan district of Yangon, police opened fire on demonstrators, gunning down at least one who could be seen lying in the street as other protesters fled.

In Mandalay, law students reporting for JURIST from the local protest march there said two lecturers from the local university were arrested by police and soldiers at one point used stun grenades against student protesters near the city’s dental university.  

UPDATE 11:34 PM EST – Two death are now reported to have occurred in Yangon in connection with police actions.

UPDATE 12:14 AM EST – A law professor at Mandalay University says that 10 university teachers and students have been arrested there. One of our law student correspondents says “the professor has called Mandalay Justice Center for the release of [the] teachers and students but we don’t where they’re taken.”