Yangon resident continues to flee as junta

Residents of the Flashpoint district of a protest in Myanmar’s largest city fled on small vehicles and motorcycles on Tuesday as security forces rejected global calls for restraint and maintained their use of deadly force against anti-coup rallies .

Since the expelled army leader Aung San Suu Kyi last month, much of the country has been in turmoil, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand a return to democracy.

Police and soldiers have used tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds to smash the daily crowd, along with blankets to stop nighttime internet, to prevent protesters from mobilizing.

Junta has made mobile data nationwide, delaying news of crackdowns against nationwide demonstrations.

On Tuesday, a security guard was killed in the central Sagang area before noon when security forces opened fire.

The deadliest day so far in the six weeks since the military ousted Ms. Suu Kyi’s government was on Sunday with violent Association suppression of anti-coup violence in Myanmar, with the Supporting Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) reporting.

Most of those killed on Sunday came from a poorly-produced Thalir township in Yangon, a textile-producing area in the commercial center with mostly Chinese-owned factories – many of which were razed the same day.

Tuesday morning saw its residents – many of whom are migrant workers – piled on flat-bed trucks and cars, which were slammed further down a traffic-laden road.

Massive exodus occurs when martial law is enforced by the junta on Hunting Thayar and five other townships, home to nearly two million people – more than a quarter of the city’s population.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday condemned Myanmar’s military for its deadly use of force against protesters, accusing them of “brutally repressing” them.