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Myanmar security forces shot dead at least 20 people participating in anti-coup demonstrations in Yangon on Sunday, local media reported.
Video footage showed gunshots ringing out in Bago, with citizens fleeing into narrow alleys and others carrying away the injured.
Since the February 1 coup, more than 70 people have been shot dead by the security forces, including 11 on Saturday.
At least two people were killed elsewhere in the Southeast Asian nation.
A young man was shot and killed in the town of Bago, near Yangon, witnesses and domestic media said. The Kachin Wave media outlet said another protester was killed in the town of Hpakant, in the jade mining area in the northeast.

More than 70 people had been killed as of Saturday in widespread protests against the military’s seizure of power last month, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners advocacy group said. Over 2,100 people have been arrested, it said.
On Saturday, the civilian leader of Myanmar’s government in hiding vowed to continue to support the “uprising” to oust the military that seized power in the February 1 coup.
“This is the darkest moment of the nation and the light before the dawn is close,” said Mahn Win Khaing Than in a recorded video posted the shadow government’s Facebook page Saturday night.
“This is also a moment testing our citizens to see how far we can resist these darkest times,” said Mahn Win Khaing Than, who served as speaker of the house during Aung San Suu Kyi’s previous administration.
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Along with other top Suu Kyi allies, he had been placed under house arrest during the February 1 power grab.
His address Saturday would be his first appearance in his capacity as the shadow government’s acting vice-president, and he echoed the anti-coup movement’s calls for a “federal democracy” – which would allow ethnic minority groups to have a role in Myanmar’s governance.
“This uprising is also the chance for all of us to struggle together hand in hand to establish a federal democracy union which we – all ethnic brothers and sisters who have been suffering various kinds of oppression from military dictatorship – have long desired,” he said.
“The federal democracy union … is waiting for us in the near future if we move forward unitedly with invincibility,” Mahn Win Khaing Than said.
“We must win the uprising.”


Monywa township in central Myanmar declared it had formed its own local government and police force.
In Yangon, hundreds of people demonstrated in different parts of the city after putting up barricades of barbed wire and sandbags to block security forces.
In one area, people staged a sit-in protest under sheets of tarpaulin rigged up to protect them from the harsh midday sun. “We need justice,” they chanted.
At least 13 people were killed on Saturday, one of the bloodiest days since the Feb. 1 coup, witnesses and domestic media said.
But the killings did not faze demonstrators in Yangon, who crowded a downtown commercial area past the official 8pm curfew to hold a mass candlelight vigil and sing about their cause. The mostly young protesters rallied at an intersection where they usually gather for daytime protests.
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After-dark rallies were also held in Mandalay and elsewhere.
The nighttime protests may reflect a more aggressive approach to self-defence that has been advocated by some protesters. Police have been aggressively patrolling residential neighbourhoods at night, firing into the air and setting off stun grenades as part of intimidation.
They have also been carrying out targeted raids, taking people from their homes with minimal resistance. In at least two known cases, the detainees died in custody within hours of being hauled away.
A spokesm.an for the junta did not answer phone calls seeking comment. Junta-run media MRTV’s evening news broadcast on Saturday labelled the protesters “criminals” but did not elaborate.
Additional reporting by Associated Press and Agence France-Presse


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