Myanmar protesters return to streets as crackdown continues

Mourners attend the funeral service for Nyi Nyi Aung Htet Naing, who died from a gunshot wound while attending a demonstration against the military coup, in Yangon on March 2,2021. AFP

YANGON, March 2 (AP): Demonstrators in Myanmar took to the streets again on Tuesday to protest last month’s seizure of power by the military, as foreign ministers from South-East Asian countries prepared to meet to discuss the political crisis. Police in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, used tear gas against the protesters.

The planned special meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) comes in the wake of worsening violence in Myanmar.