Myanmar crackdown leaves at least 9 dead in violent weekend

People mourn at the site where a young man died during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. - AP

YANGON, Feb 28 (Bloomberg): At least nine people died as Myanmar’s military government cracked down on protests over the weekend, and escalated its intolerance for dissent with the ouster of the country’s representative to the United Nations along with the arrests of journalists and hundreds of demonstrators.

Four protesters were killed in the city of Dawei in southern Myanmar Sunday, military-run television station Myawady reported. An official at the Byamaso emergency clinic in Mandalay said two demonstrators died and at least eleven others were injured there. Three protesters also died in Yangon Sunday, a doctor with the CDM Doctors Network told Bloomberg News, declining to be identified for fear of retaliation.