On Easter Sunday, anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar painted anti-regime slogans on eggs in the latest protest as the Myanmar military junta continues its brutal crackdown.
Despite relentless mass killings and nighttime raids by the military targeting opponents of the coup, people across Myanmar once again took to the streets on Sunday.
Pictures posted on social media showed slogans including “We must win”, “Spring Revolution” and “Get out MAH” were seen on eggs in photographs on social media.
One Facebook group promoting the egg protest urged people to be respectful of Christian traditions on Easter Sunday.
Myanmar’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal Charles Bo, tweeted an Easter message: “Jesus has risen: Hallelujah – Myanmar will rise again!”
Protesters hit the streets of Mandalay early on Sunday, some carrying flags and riding motorbikes. It comes after four protesters were killed on Saturday in the cities of Bago and Monywa.
There have now been almost daily nationwide protests for just under two months. Over 557 have been killed as of Saturday since the February 1 coup, including at least 43 children, according to the local monitoring group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
In Pyinmana, Naypyitaw, about 300 residents rallied on motorbikes and met with a violent crackdown by soldiers at around 2pm, Myanmar Now reported.
According to four sources – a medical worker, a rescue worker, and two protesters – at least one person was killed and another was critically injured, local media reported.
Twenty-year-old Thein Tan Oo was shot in the back with live ammunition and died at the scene, a source who was at the protest told Myanmar Now.
“His body has not been taken to his family. The soldiers took it to the 1000-bed military hospital in Naypyitaw on a funeral service vehicle,” he said to Myanmar Now.
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