Myanmar nationals including those who said they are police and firemen and recently fled to India flash the three-finger salute at an undisclosed location in India's northeastern state of Mizoram, near the India?Myanmar border, March 15, 2021. - Reuters
YANGON, March 16 (Reuters/Daily Star-ANN): More than 400 people from Myanmar, many of them policemen, have crossed into neighbouring India since late February, an Indian police officer has said, as Myanmar security forces seek to crush pro-democracy demonstrators after last month's coup.
The policemen said they had fled because they feared persecution after refusing to obey the military's orders to shoot protesters.
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