‘Willing to die’: Myanmar protesters rally after overnight raids
Al Jazeera
Protesters back on the streets following overnight raids in parts of Yangon that targeted NLD figures.
Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters have taken to the streets across Myanmar despite an escalating crackdown, including overnight raids in the main city of Yangon in which an official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), reportedly died and several others were detained. A local campaign manager for the NLD died in custody after being arrested in Yangon on Saturday night, a legislator from the now dissolved parliament said in a Facebook post and the Irrawaddy news website reported. The cause of Khin Maung Latt’s death was not known, but Reuters news agency saw a photograph of his body with a bloodstained cloth around the head. The protests on Sunday come as state-run media warned legislators involved in the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a group claiming to be the legitimately elected government of Myanmar, that they were committing “high treason” and could be sentenced to death or 22 years jail.
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