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March 8, 2021

Burmese Workers Launch Strike as Protests, and Violent Crackdown, Intensify
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In Burma, witnesses say two protesters were killed by live fire today
during ongoing anti-coup protests. Burma's main labor unions have
launched a general strike as mass protests - and the violent crackdown
on peaceful demonstrators - intensify five weeks after the February 1
military coup. An official from the party of overthrown civilian leader
Aung San Suu Kyi died over the weekend while in police custody. At least
50 people have been killed since the start of protests. Soldiers have
begun camping out in Rangoon hospitals and university campuses in what a
local group says is an effort to "terrorize" residents.


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