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Myanmar set for silent strike after violence claims youngest victim

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Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests on Wednesday, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, a day after a seven-year-old girl was killed in her home when security forces opened fire during a crackdown in Mandalay. Pro-democracy protesters also held more candle-lit vigils overnight including in a district of the commercial

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Times of India

Outrage at seven-year-old killed in Myanmar crackdown

The 75-year-old Nobel laureate has a court hearing scheduled Wednesday as she faces a series of criminal charges that could see her permanently barred from political office.

3 years ago·India

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Yahoo News

Myanmar set for silent strike after violence claims youngest victim

Pro-democracy protesters also held more candle-lit vigils overnight including in a district of the commercial capital Yangon and in Thahton in Mon State. The vigils came after staff at a funeral service in Mandalay told Reuters on Tuesday that a seven-year-old girl had died of bullet wounds in the city - the youngest victim so far in a bloody crackdown of opposition to the Feb. 1 coup. Soldiers shot at her father but hit the girl who was sitt…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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The Guardian

Myanmar military releases 600 coup protesters as 'silence strike' begins

Busloads of mostly young people seen leaving Insein Prison in Yangon, some making three-finger salutesHundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month’s coup have been released in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.Witnesses outside Insein Prison in Yangon saw busloads of mostly young people, looking happy with some flashing the three-finger gesture of defiance adopted by the protest movement…

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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CTV News

Myanmar protesters join 'silent strike' after soldiers kill 7-year-old girl in her father's arms

Myanmar's security forces shot dead a 7-year-old girl in the city of Mandalay on Tuesday, the youngest victim yet in the military's bloody crackdown on civilian opposition to the February 1 coup.

3 years ago·Canada

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Reuters

Myanmar set for silent strike after violence claims youngest victim

- Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests on Wednesday, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, a day after a seven-year-old girl was killed in her home when security forces opened fire during a crackdown in Mandalay. Pro-democracy protesters also held more candle-lit vigils overnight including in a district of the commercial

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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CBC News

Myanmar protesters hold 'silence strike,' funeral held for child killed by security forces

Hundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month's coup in Myanmar were released Wednesday in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.

3 years ago·Canada

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