The country’s envoy to UN urges ‘strongest’ action to end military rule, gets ‘fired’. Myanmar police moved decisively on Saturday in a bid to prevent opponents of military rule gathering throughout the country after Myanmar’s UN envoy urged the United Nations to use “any means necessary” to stop a February 1 coup. The coup has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to Myanmar’s streets and drawn condemnation from Western countries,with some imposing limited sanctions. Myanmar police arrested hundreds of protesters on Saturday in their most extensive crackdown on demonstrations against the military coup, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) rights group said. “More than 10 prison buses went into Insein prison with about 40 to 50 people in a prison bus.

Source: The Hindu February 27, 2021 17:03 UTC