Myanmar: police and soldiers fired bullet into housing, and media worker reported being beaten
Event- Country
- Myanmar
- Initial Date
- Feb 17, 2021
- Event Description
Soldiers and police fired into a housing compound for railway staff in Mandalay at around 9:45pm on Wednesday, according to a resident of the compound.
“They fired approximately 15 rounds of bullets,” the resident told Myanmar Now.
“We found live bullets and they also used tear gas. I don’t know who got injured. I am still hiding to protect my family,” he said.
Before the start of the nightly curfew at 8pm, a crowd of about 300 protesters gathered near Mandalay train station was dispersed by police without incident.
“We had already returned to our homes because of the curfew. They are doing this on purpose,” the source added.
Myanmar Now has been unable to confirm how many people, if any, were injured in the incident. A reporter was beaten and briefly detained, but released when he explained that he was a journalist
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Intimidation and Threats
- Judicial Harassment
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Pro-democracy defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Armed forces/ Military
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 21.923275834503016
Longitude: 96.31846442340236
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On February 17 2021, pro-democracy protesters were intimidated by police and soldiers who fired bullets into housing compound of where the protest were held, while 1 media worker was reported to have been detained and beaten