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Myanmar families hold funerals for crackdown victims as activists defy security crackdown

Myanmar families hold funerals for crackdown victims as activists defy security crackdown

THE families of dozens of people killed in demonstrations against military rule in Myanmar attended their funerals yesterday as more protesters defied the security forces and at least one man was shot dead. The political and economic crisis over the February 1 overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government could also force the poor into hunger as food and fuel prices rise, the United Nations food agency said. Security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday after 74 were killed a day earlier, including many in a suburb of Yangon where Chinese-financed factories were torched, according to…
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From homes and streets, Myanmar citizens record spiralling bloodshed

From homes and streets, Myanmar citizens record spiralling bloodshed

"I was lucky not to die," Min Thura Zaw posted on his Facebook page with a video that shows a soldier aiming in his direction in Myanmar's main city and the sound of a bullet's crack. He ducked from the window and tumbled to safety on the floor of his apartment - all captured in one of the growing number of videos shot by householders using their mobile phones to record violence on the streets outside. "I wanted to record the inhumanity of the military, shooting at houses and even stray dogs," Min Thura Zaw told Reuters. "The soldier ...…
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