Brutal repression in Myanmar: 82 dead in a proto …

Despite a strong crackdown from the army which killed just two days ago more than 80 peoplePro-democracy protesters took to the streets again this Sunday against the military junta.

According to reports from local media and a local NGO, which has been following victims since the coup that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, at least 82 people they died Friday at the hands of the security forces.

Last Friday’s death toll in Bago, in the south of the country, was the highest one-day total for a single city since March 14. Just over 100 people have died in Yangon, the country’s largest city.

The figure was established by the Association of NGOs for Assistance to Political Prisoners (AAPP). They could increase the statistics as more cases are verified. The AAPP publishes daily the count of victims and arrests of the repression after the coup.

The attack on Bago was the third last week that involved a massive use of force in an attempt to crush persistent opposition to the ruling junta.

Different sources of protest in the country

The protests also took place in the central towns of Mandalay and Meiktila, where students and university professors took to the streets.

In addition, clashes erupted on Saturday in Tamu, in the northwest of the country, near the border with India. There the army used live ammunition to dismantle barricades erected by protesters to protect their neighborhoods.

There has been unrest in northern Shan State, where a rebel group, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), launched an attack on a police baseTNLA Brigadier General Tar Bhone Kyaw reported.

In this attack, a dozen police officers diedlocal media reported. The army responded with air strikes, killing at least one rebel.

In Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State in southeast Myanmar, two people were killed and one injured in a clash with security forces on Saturday, reported the state newspaper Myawaddy.

According to the AAPP, at least 701 demonstrators and passers-by have died at the hands of the security forces since the army took power.

Last Wednesday they launched attacks against opponents of the military government which had established strongholds in the towns of Kalay and Taze, in the north of the country. In both places it was reported that at least on Friday 11 people died.

The council also took other steps to discourage resistance. He recently published a wanted list of 140 people active in the arts and journalism tasked with disseminating information that undermines the stability of the country and the rule of law.

The penalty for the crime is up to three years in prison and the arrests of those on the list received high profile in state media.

State television channel MRTV reported on Friday evening that a military court sentenced 19 people to death for killing an officer of the army in Yangon on March 27.