Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup after junta crackdown

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YANGON, March 28 — Across Myanmar, opponents of the ruling junta today mourned the killings of at least 114 people by security forces in the bloodiest day since the military coup on February 1, but vowed to keep protesting to end army rule.

Children were among those killed yesterday, Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day, according to news reports and witnesses, in a crackdown that drew renewed criticism from Western countries and was denounced by the US envoy as “horrifying”.

“We salute our heroes who sacrificed lives during this revolution and We Must Win This REVOLUTION,” one of the main protest groups, the General Strike Committee of Nationalities (GSCN), posted on Facebook.

Yesterday also brought some of the heaviest fighting since the coup between the army and the ethnic armed groups that control swathes of the country.


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