WRAPUP 4-Protests rock Myanmar for fifth day, West condemns security response

(Updates with detail on injured police, protests)

* Woman shot in head in Tuesday protests likely to die -doctor

* U.N. condemns disproportionate use of force againstprotests

* U.S. says reviewing assistance to Myanmar

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Protesters took to the streets of Myanmarfor a fifth day on Wednesday, vowing to keep up demonstrationsagainst last week's military coup even after a woman was shotand critically wounded during clashes the previous day.

The United States and United Nations condemned Tuesday's useof force against the protesters who are demanding the reversalof the Feb. 1 coup and the release of deposed leader Aung SanSuu Kyi, and other leaders of her National League for Democracy(NLD).

"We cannot stay quiet," youth leader Esther Ze Naw toldReuters. "If there is blood shed during our peaceful protests,then there will be more if we let them take over the country."

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in the main cityof Yangon. In the capital, Naypyitaw, hundreds of governmentworkers marched in support of a growing civil disobediencecampaign.

A group of police in Kayah state in the east joined theprotesters and marched in uniform with a sign that said "Wedon't want dictatorship", according to pictures published inmedia.

There were no reports of violence on Wednesday but soldierstook over a clinic that had been treating wounded protesters inNaypyitaw on Tuesday, a doctor there said.

Another doctor said a woman protester was expected to diefrom a gunshot wound to the head sustained during a Tuesdayconfrontation with police in Naypyitaw.

She was wounded when police fired, mostly into the air, toclear the protesters. Three other people were being treated forwounds from suspected rubber bullets, doctors said.

Protesters were also hurt in Mandalay and other cities,where security forces used water cannon and arrested dozens.

Four policemen were injured on Tuesday as they tried todisperse protesters, some of whom threw stones and bricks, themilitary said.

The military has imposed restrictions on gatherings and anight curfew in the biggest cities.

'DISPROPORTIONATE'

The protests are the largest in Myanmar in more than adecade, reviving memories of almost half a century of directarmy rule and spasms of bloody uprisings until the militarybegan relinquishing some power in 2011.

The military justified its takeover on the grounds of fraudin a Nov. 8 election that Suu Kyi's NLD party won by alandslide, as expected. The electoral commission dismissed thearmy's complaints.

Western countries have condemned the coup but taken littleconcrete action to press for the restoration of democracy.

The U.S. State Department said it was reviewing assistanceto Myanmar to ensure those responsible for the coup faced"significant consequences".

"We repeat our calls for the military to relinquish power,restore democratically elected government, release thosedetained and lift all telecommunication restrictions and torefrain from violence," spokesman Ned Price said in Washington.

The United Nations called on Myanmar's security forces torespect people's right to protest peacefully.

"The use of disproportionate force against demonstrators isunacceptable," Ola Almgren, the U.N. representative in Myanmar,said.

Avinash Paliwal, a senior lecturer in internationalrelations at London University's School of Oriental and AfricanStudies, said Myanmar will not be as isolated now as it was inthe past, with China, India, Southeast Asian neighbours andJapan unlikely to cut ties.

"The country is too important geo-strategically for that tohappen. The U.S. and other Western countries will put sanctions- but this coup and its ramifications will be an Asian story,not a Western one," Paliwal said.

'BRUTAL ACTION'

A doctor in Naypyitaw said the woman who was shot in thehead was in a critical condition and not expected to survive.Social media video verified by Reuters showed her with otherprotesters some distance from a row of riot police as a watercannon sprayed and several shots could be heard.

The woman, wearing a motorcycle helmet, suddenly collapsed.Pictures of her helmet showed what appeared to be a bullet hole.

"Now we see the military takes brutal action against us,"said Htet Shar Ko, an interpreter. "But we young people willkeep fighting against the regime under our motto - militarydictatorship must fail."

Alongside the protests, a civil disobedience movement hasaffected hospitals, schools and government offices.

Veteran activist Min Ko Naing called in a Facebook post onall government workers to join the disobedience campaign and forpeople to take note of those who didn't.

Protesters are also seeking the abolition of a 2008constitution drawn up under military supervision that gave thegenerals a veto in parliament and control of several ministries,and for a federal system in ethnically diverse Myanmar.

Suu Kyi, 75, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 forcampaigning for democracy and spent nearly 15 years under housearrest. She faces charges of illegally importing sixwalkie-talkies and her lawyer said he has not been allowed tosee her.

Suu Kyi remains hugely popular at home despite damage to herinternational reputation over the plight of the Muslim Rohingyaminority.

(Reporting by Reuters staffWriting by Matthew Tostevin and Lincoln FeastEditing by Raju Gopalakrishnan, Robert Birsel)