At least 18 people are believed to have been killed, and 30 injured, according to the UN human rights office, which strongly condemned the escalating violence against peaceful protesters. In Yangon, a woman died after police used stun grenades to break up a teachers’ protest, though the cause of her death was not yet known, Reuters reported. “Myanmar is like a battlefield,” the Buddhist-majority country’s first Catholic cardinal, Charles Maung Bo, said on Twitter. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSeveral countries condemned the use of force against protesters, including Britain which called the violence abhorrent. Across Asia - in Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong – activists held rallies to support Myanmar’s protesters.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2021 03:13 UTC