February 12-The seventh day of nationwide protests against military rule are starting again all over Myanmar despite raids which had taken place throughout the country the night before which targeted protest organisers and election officials.
February 11-The fifth day of protests on Wednesday passed without any major incidents. The nationwide uprising against last week’s military takeover continued to gather steam, with more civil servants joining the civil disobedience movement and monks showing their support. The most notable development was the defection of a growing number of police, including 40 who joined protesters in Loikaw, the capital of Kayah state.
5:00 PM: More than 70 protesters who were arrested in Mandalay on Tuesday were released yesterday, the Patheingyi township court has told our reporter. At least 200 of protesters, including a couple dozen people of Chinese heritage, are gathered in front of the Chinese consular office around Nguwah street on 73rd street in Mandalay. They demanding that China ends its support for the military regime.
4:40 PM: Protest hotspots in Yangon such as Sule Pagoda, Myaynigone and Hledan are much less crowded than in previous days. These areas were busy in the morning but people dispersed more quickly than usual. There are still tens of thousands in the downtown area, our reporters estimate, but they are scattered around and walking in different directions.
Myanmar people with Chinese heritage, medical students and others are protesting in front of the Chinese Embassy on Ahlone road for a second day. Many are convinced China is helping the regime in its efforts to impose strict controls on the internet after reports emerged of Chinese IT technicians arriving in Myanmar. About a dozen police officers are standing guard in front of the embassy, with protesters on the other side of the road.
1:20: The Mandalay Poets’ Union joined protests against the military dictatorship in Mandalay, marching in a column around the city this morning.
1:38: Tens of thousands of government servants and other protesters are now gathering at Thabyay Gone roundabout in Naypyitaw, where a major police crackdown happened just a couple of days ago and a 20-year-old woman was shot in the head. She is now on life support.
1:44: Many thousands of people have been gathering today in Pathein, the capital of Ayeyarwady region. The protest there is made up of health workers and staff from the electricity, forestry, and other departments, as well as monks. Marches started at 8am and others are taking place in other townships in Ayeyarwady region.
2:38: Small groups of protesters are now gathering around the Manaw Yaman park in Mandalay. At the corner of 38th street and 78th street, police are blocking the way and standing by with a water cannon truck. Over a thousand people are protesting there by sitting on the road. Marches are moving here and there on 84th and 35th streets. In the streets around Mahar Myat Muni Buddhist Temple, police and some soldiers are holding guns and truncheons though there are no protesters around that area. Our reporter suggested that they are sending a signal for monks to avoid joining the protests, since there are some monasteries on those streets.
February 10
15:27-The area around Yangon’s City Hall and Sule Pagoda is less crowded than on previous days as columns of protesters go their separate ways around different areas of the city. However, our reporters estimate that there are still hundreds of thousands of protesters around the area. Just recently, a column of student unions from the Yangon University and Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University – along with other marchers – arrived in Sule after marching from Hledan.
There are also young dancers now in Sule, who came along with the students’ column and are dancing to revolutionary songs made famous during previous protests against the dictatorship. The students and young dancers said they are revolting against the “junta of Min Aung Hlaing”.
At the Thaketa roundabout in Thaketa township, a group of people are holding a vigil for the young woman from Naypyitaw who was shot in the head with a live bullet by the police yesterday, and is now in an intensive care unit (ICU). A column of over 60 trishaws from Thaketa has just arrived at Sule, while a column of Covid-19 volunteers arrived there a couple of hours ago from Thingangyun, Thuwanna, and Thaketa townships. There are also a few singers and artists around the pagoda, including Lynn Lynn, who has volunteered as a security guard for Aung San Suu Kyi.
15:00–Hundreds of thousands of protesters have already converged in the downtown areas of Yangon.
14::46: Police are blocking Mandalay’s 78th street, a main road, at the corner with 38th street, one of the main spots where protesters have been gathering in recent days. The junction is also where a major police crackdown happened yesterday. At the moment, there are about 3,000 demonstrators there sitting on the road, unable to continue marching. Hindu people are protesting on 35th street, while city municipal employees, students, and members of the Mandalay Car Brokers’ Association are protesting on Manawhari road. According to our reporter, there has been no further police crackdown yet in Mandalay. Some sources have said 70 protesters who were arrested yesterday were released today, though police and the court have yet to confirm that.
11:30-Tens of thousands protersters from all over Yangon are streaming into the city’s downtown areas.
11:20 Dozens of police men and women joined the anti-coup protests in Kayah State, holding posters that read “We don’t want the dictatorship” and “We stand with the people”.
11:00 “We don’t want the dictatorship,” the police shouted, holding up three fingers as a sign of civil disobedience movement.
10:20 Buddhist monks are joining anti-coup protests in major cities of Mandalay and Yangon this morning on Wednesday
10:20 Buddhist monks from the famous Mahagandayone monastery in Mandalay are joining the protests against last week’s military coup.
10:00- Protesters burn an effigy of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing at a protest site near Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon, as fury over last week’s overthrow of Myanmar’s newly elected government continues to grow.
9:40 A group of Burmese people of Chinese descent are protesting in front of the Chinese embassy in Yangon, calling on Beijing to respect the outcome of last year’s elections, which Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won in a landslide.
9:30- Soldiers have raided a clinic in the Thabyay Kone area of Naypyitaw, where a group of doctors have been organizing protests as part of the nationwide civil disobedience movement.
9:00 Despite the crackdowns yesterday, thousands of protesters converge again at Yangon’s Hledan Junction.
8:00-Uniformed civil servants in Naypyidaw chant “Don’t go to the office! Let’s liberate ourselves!” as they join the nationwide civil disobedience movement.
Februray 9
18:00- The protesters in Naypyidaw and Mandalay have dispersed. They vow to show up again tomorrow to protest against the military coup.
17:15-A motorcade carrying pro-army supporters passed by a crowd of anti-coup protesters chanting “Mother Suu”.
16:45 -Hundreds of protesters chanting for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other detainees have assembled near the Thabyaykone roundabout in Naypyidaw.
16:30-Plain-clothes thugs are reportedly coming from North Okkalapa township to Hledan Junction where anti-coup protests continues.
16:00-Anti-military coup protests continue in Naypyidaw, Yangon and Mandalay. The first use of rubber bullets in Mandalay. Two protesters on motorbikes were shot by the police. One of the two protester shot in the neck.
14:00–Around 100 arrested in Mandalay where the police used tear gas and water cannons to crackdown on protesters. A similar crackdown has just started at the corner of 86 & 35 streets in Mandalay.
13:00- Police fired around 50 rounds of rubber bullets and used water cannons to crackdown on protesters in Naypyidaw. At least five people sustained bullet wounds during the crackdown in Naypyidaw this afternoon. A 19-year old female medic sustained a critical head injury and a journalist reporting for local news outlet Mizzima was shot twice in back.
12:30-Police officers join the nationwide uprising against the military coup
12:00-Protests against the coup have spread far and wide all over Myanmar. Thousands of people out on the streets in Myeik, in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region.
11:45-Many more protesters are arriving at Thabyaykon roundabout which marks the center of administrative capital Naypyidaw.
11:37-Police has blockaded a major road near the University of Yangon. In response, the young protesters are staging a sit-in.
11:33-Protests against the military coup are taking place all over Myanmar. Here are the scenes in Myitkyina, the capital city of Kachin State in the north of the country.
11:00-Protesters collapsed on the road after police use water cannon on crowd demonstrating
10:40- The protesters are arriving at the downtown areas of Yangon in the backdrop of historic Sule Pagoda.
10:30- Protester injured after police use water cannon on crowd demonstrating in Naypyidaw.
10:00-Protests are taking place in the second largest city of Mandalay.
9:00- The police have blocked protesters marching near the headquarters of military-backed USDP in Naypyidaw.
8:00 am– Employees from the Railway Department in Insein Township have started taking to the streets.
