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Anti-Coup Protests in Myanmar Continue Wednesday Despite Increasing Use of
Force

VOA News

   Nationwide demonstrations against last week's military overthrow of
   Myanmar's civilian government entered its fifth consecutive day
   Wednesday, despite the military's increasing use of force against the
   protesters.

   Security forces fired warning shots, rubber bullets and water cannons
   at protesters in an effort to disperse the crowds, leading to reports
   of injuries among the protesters.

   An unnamed physician who treated protesters at aNaypyitawhospital told
   VOA's Burmese Service that at least two demonstrators sustained what he
   believes were live gunshot wounds, one to the head, the other to the
   chest.

   Twenty-year-old MyatThweKhine'¯was placed on a ventilator as she
   slipped into a coma after receiving a gunshot wound to the head,
   according to the physician, who said X-rays show the bullet is still
   lodged in her head.

   The doctor said Soe Wai, 23, sustained a gunshot wound to the chest.

   The doctor could not say how many protesters were injured by bullets or
   water cannons, but he said most of the 20 people treated at the
   hospital were not injured by rubber bullets.

   More than a week after the military detained de facto leader Aung San
   Suu Kyi and other senior members of the civilian government, the
   military increased its pressure on Suu Kyi's National League for
   Democracy with a raid on the party's headquarters in Yangon late
   Tuesday night.

   WATCH: Myanmar protests

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