Military Juntas brutality continues in Myanmar
Yangon, Sep 28: Military Junta continues its brutality in Myanmar against the peaceful protest by Monks. Government security forces beat up and fired upon young students in front of a school during yesterday"s brutal crackdown on large-scale protests in Rangoon.
A group of students was marching from Pansodan bridge to the high school in Tamwe township, while many other students were inside the school compound. Soldiers and government guards fired automatic weapons into the air and at chest-level to prevent marching students from reaching the school.
“There were primary-grade students studying inside the school and some of them were hit as well," said one of the witnesses.
Parents waiting to collect their children from school were also among those hit by bullets.
“They also rammed a truck with its headlights on into a crowd of students before arresting them at gunpoint," said another witness, who stated that about 300 students were arrested in the crackdown.
“Teachers
at
the
school
had
to
take
all
the
children
and
their
parents
inside
the
school
building
and
give
them
shelter," the
witness
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