The UN special envoy for Myanmar warned of possible civil war in the country, saying people were arming themselves against the military junta and protesters had started shifting from defensive to offensive actions, using homemade weapons and training from some ethnic armed groups.
Christine Schraner Burgener (pic) told a virtual UN news conference on Monday that people were starting self-defence actions because they were frustrated and feared attacks by the military, which carried out a coup on Feb 1 against Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government, and was using “a huge scale of violence”.