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Yangon, Mar 5 (EFE/EPA).- At least one person was shot dead and hundreds flashed the three-finger salute at funerals held in Myanmar on Friday as defiant anti-coup demonstrations continued across the country.Anti-coup protesters took to the streets in several cities despite deadly repression by security forces that has already killed more than 50 people. (Camera: NYEIN CHAN NAING).SHOT LIST: AN ANTI-COUP PROTEST ON 5 MARCH 2021, IN YANGON, AND FUNERAL OF PEOPLE KILLED DURING A PROTEST AGAINST MILITARY COUP, IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
Yangon, Feb 17 (EFE/EPA).- Mass protests were taking place across Myanmar on Wednesday, a day after elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was slapped with another charge and amid fears of a crackdown by security forces.While overnight internet blackouts and a military presence in Yangon reduced protester numbers earlier this week, activists involved in the 1998 uprising urged youth, especially, to take part in mass demonstrations on Wednesday against the Feb. 1 military coup and the detention of elected leaders.On Tuesday afternoon, police slapped Suu Kyi with a second charge, and she appeared in court via video conference ahead of schedule and without the knowledge or representation of a lawyer. She had been remanded until Wednesday. (Camera: LYNN BO BO).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO PROTEST AGAINST THE MILITARY COUP IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
Bangkok (Thailand), 14 Aug (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Narong Sangnak/Diego Azubel).- Thai police on Friday arrested the third organizer of the student movement which has held protests since July to demand democratic reform and reduction in the power enjoyed by the military and monarchy in the country. Activist Parit Chaiwarak faces charges of violating the state of emergency decree imposed by the government to combat the Covid-19 pandemic as well as sedition, which carry sentences of up to seven years in prison. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE THAI GOVERNMENT IN THAILAND.
Burmese queue to enter Thailand at an immigration checkpoint in the border town of Mae Sot, many fleeing the newest round of fighting to test the junta's hold on power. The number of people passing Thai immigration from Myanmar had increased to around 4,000 per day in recent days, an immigration official told AFP, up from the usual number of around 1,900. IMAGES
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen recommends the bloc drop a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. SOUNDBITE
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