Myanmar Military Uses Bodies As Tools of Terror in Crackdown | Latest World News
"It has always been the military's strategy to hide the mass crackdown there, the mass killing of the protesters," said Van Tran
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Myanmar Military Uses Bodies As Tools of Terror in Crackdown | Latest World News NAYPYITAW : Two black pickups speed down an empty city street in Myanmar before coming to a sudden stop. Security forces standing in the back of the trucks begin firing at an oncoming motorbike carrying three young men. The bike swerves, crashing into a gate. More shots are fired as two of the passengers run away, while the third, Kyaw Min Latt, remains on the ground. Moans are heard as officers grab the wounded 17-year-old from the pavement, throwing his limp body into a truck bed before driving off. The incident lasted just over a minute and was captured on a CCTV camera. It is part of a growing trove of photos and videos shared on social media that's helping expose a brutal crackdown carried out by the junta since the military's Feb.1 takeover of the Southeast Asian nation. An analysis by The Associated Press and the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, looked at cases where bodies of those targeted indiscriminately by police and the mil…
