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Anti-coup protesters gather at an intersection near the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021
MYANMAR’S military junta warned that more people could be killed as a general strike paralysed the country today in support of the opposition civil-disobedience movement.
In a message broadcast in both Burmese and broken English on Sunday night, it had warned the public against supporting today’s strike, accusing protesters of encouraging people “towards [a] riot and anarchy mob.”
“Protesters are now inciting the people, especially emotional teenagers and youths, to a confrontation path where they will suffer the loss of life,” according to the junta.
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
