MORE than 400 people from Myanmar, many of them policemen, have crossed into neighbouring India since late February, an Indian police officer said, as Myanmar security forces seek to crush pro-democracy demonstrators after last month’s coup. “About 116 crossed on Friday, ” the police officer in the Indian state of Mizoram told Reuters, declining to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. They included policemen and firemen, some of whom carried only clothes stuffed into white plastic sacks as they crossed the border. “I didn’t want to be under the control of the military, ” he said, speaking through an interpreter, adding that 16 other Myanmar firemen had also sought shelter in the Indian village. On March 3, Myanmar security forces discovered their hideout, forcing him to flee the country, leaving behind his wife and four children.

Source: The Star March 17, 2021 00:33 UTC