Protests surge in Yangon as Myanmar security forces trap youth protesters

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Protests surge in Yangon as Myanmar security forces trap youth protesters

Thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city in defiance of a night curfew on Monday, chanting in anger after security forces besieged hundreds of young anti-coup protesters in one neighbourhood.Western embassies appealed to the ruling military junta to allow the protesters to leave Sanchaung, where they were cornered at the end of another day of bloodshed in Myanmar in which at least three protesters were killed elsewhere in the country.“Free the students in Sanchaung,”…
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