Nay Pyi Taw, Feb 14(UNI) There is widespread fear and defiance among the people in Myanmar as authorities are carrying out night-time raids to arrest opponents of the military coup, reports said here on Saturday.

Video footage released to the media showed people banging pots and pans to warn their neighbours as security forces approach to arrest people.

Mass protests have taken place since the military seized control of the South East Asian country on February 1.

On Saturday the army announced that they had issued arrest warrants for seven prominent opposition campaigners, the BBC reported.

These people are wanted under the rarely used charge of "disturbing tranquillity". One of them, Min Ko Naing, was one of the student leaders involved in the failed 1988 uprising against the then-military dictator. He has appeared in a social media video denouncing the use of night-time raids to make arrests.

The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that more than 350 people had been arrested since the coup.

The country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi along with several other political leaders are under house arrest.

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