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Myanmar protesters decry arrests, beatings as junta fights for control

Chaos erupted in Mandalay, a hotbed of anti-military sentiment, when plainclothes police emerged from vehicles minutes into a protest, firing guns and beating demonstrators who fell as hundreds fled, according to four witnesses. They said they saw about 30 people arrested. “There are no words to describe their cruelty,” Aung Pyae Sone Phyo, 21, a… Read More »