Myanmar's highways were abuzz on Monday against the military rule. The protest is going on. At least five protesters have been killed in the country since the junta opened fire. Three of them were killed in Yangon, one of the main cities. The news agency Reuters quoted media reports and eyewitnesses as saying.Win, a witness told the South Dagon district of Yangon yesterday when police fired on the protesters to remove the barricade. At least two people have been killed. Another was shot dead by protesters and a group of Red Cross workers in another part of Yangon.Moe Mint Hein, a local student leader, told Reuters that two more people had been killed in junta police firing in Mingyan town today.
There was an army coup in Myanmar on February 1. Several leaders, including the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, have been detained. Since then, anti-junta protests have been going on in various cities including Yangon and Mandalay. Protests are also going on in the face of extreme repression of the junta.Last Saturday was the bloodiest day in almost two months of protests. Armed Forces Day is celebrated in the country on this day. The junta cracked down on protesters in the capital, Napido, shortly after the parade. Reuters quoted local media as saying that at least 114 people, including children, had been killed in the country that day by security forces.More than 460 people have been killed in protests in Myanmar over the past two months, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAP). More than three thousand people including journalists have been detained.The United Nations and Western nations have condemned the killings. The United Nations says the junta government on Saturday demonstrated its strength by killing. And yesterday, US President Joe Biden told reporters that countless people had been killed unnecessarily. This is terrible.