A girl named Mya Thwe Thwe Haying, wounded in the head during protests in Myanmar, has died. Reported by The Straits Times.
It is noted that she became the first victim of the suppression of the wave of protests that began after the coup. The girl was wounded on February 9 when the police broke up demonstrations in the capital, Naypyidaw. According to doctors, the wound to the head was a gunshot.
At Mya Thwe Thwe Haying Hospital, she was on a life-support apparatus. One of the doctors said the autopsy results would be sent to the authorities to “get justice”.
The incident was condemned by representatives of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch. “The hands of the Naypyidaw police are covered in blood. They must be held responsible for the death of Mya Thwe Thwe Haying (…). We have all seen footage of her, unarmed, turning away from the police to look at her sister, and then a shot rang out. and it fell, “- said in a statement by the Deputy Director for Asia HRW Phil Robertson, which came to the disposal of” Lenta.ru “.
On February 1, a coup d’etat took place in Myanmar. The military disagreed with the outcome of the fall elections, in which the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party won a decisive victory. The military announced the dissolution of the government and detained the President of Myanmar, Vin Myin, and the leader of the party, Aung San Suu Kyi, who holds the post of state adviser and foreign minister.
A state of emergency was introduced in the country for a period of one year. Upon its completion, the army promised to organize new elections, after which power will be transferred to the new government. In addition, the military promised to deal with falsifications in the last parliamentary elections. In the meantime, all power has passed into the hands of the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, Min Aung Hlain.