The UN’s “special rapporteur” in Myanmar says that the 33rd Light Infantry Division was involved in the latest killings. Protesters are now inciting the people, especially emotional teenagers and youths, to a confrontation path where they will suffer the loss of life.” “It is found that the protesters have raised their incitement towards riot and anarchy mob on the day of 22 February. The regime’s attitude is surely summed up by its public statement on the renewed, vast wave of demonstrations on 22 February: Half of Myanmar’s population are under 25 (three quarters under 40) and the protests seem dominated by young people. The two latest dead are a young man and a teenage boy. The army’s claims that it is only using rubber bullets have been categorically disproved. There is now a steady flow of confirmed killings, as well as unconfirmed reports of significantly larger numbers of deaths.
At least two people were killed by Myanmar’s military over the weekend of 20 February, as it was confronted by fresh mass protests to overturn the coup it launched on 1 February.
