Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch ‘Easter egg strike’

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar, adept at discovering themes to tie collectively protests nationwide, took to the streets on Sunday holding painted eggs in a nod to Easter.

In the largest metropolis of Yangon, one group marched by means of the Insein district chanting and singing protest songs and cradling eggs bearing the slogan “Spring Revolution.” Many of the eggs additionally bore a drawing of the three-fingered salute, a logo of resistance to the Feb. 1 coup.

In Mandalay, the nation’s second largest metropolis, protesters gathered at daybreak on motorbikes to shout their defiance of the facility seize that overthrew the democratically elected authorities.

Myanmar’s army has violently cracked down on protesters and others in opposition, with the most recent civilian dying toll because the coup at 557, in response to the impartial Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. More than 2,750 have been detained or sentenced, the group mentioned.

Sunday’s so-called “Easter Egg Strike” follows different themed days. They included a “Flower Strike,” during which protesters laid flowers in public locations to honor these killed by safety forces, and a “Silent Strike,” during which folks throughout the nation left the streets abandoned.

Security forces continued to unfold worry amongst strange residents. Overnight, a resident of Yangon recorded video of a bunch of troopers and police utilizing sling pictures to fireside stones on the home windows of houses, breaking the evening’s silence. At different instances, troopers and police sustain their intimidation at evening with raids on neighborhoods, throughout which they shout abuse, shoot at random, make arrests and vandalize property.

On Saturday, police opened hearth killing a number of protesters in Monywa in central Myanmar and elsewhere.

With many of the web entry lower or severely restricted by the junta, it’s changing into more and more tough for folks in Myanmar to get pictures of their plight to the surface world.

After weeks of in a single day web cutoffs, the army on Friday shut all hyperlinks other than these utilizing fiberoptic cable, which was working at drastically diminished speeds. Access to cell networks and all wi-fi — the less expensive choices utilized by most individuals within the creating nation — remained blocked on Sunday.