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Authorities exhume body of Myanmar protest icon, deny link to death
With the woman who died wearing a T-shirt that read "Everything will be OK" becoming an icon of the protest movement, the country's military-led government appears eager to dissociate itself from her death as much as possible.
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People hold up the three finger salute during the funeral procession for protester Kyal Sin, in Mandalay on March 4, 2021, a day after she was shot in the head while taking part in a demonstration against the military coup. (Agence France Presse/STR)
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yanmar authorities exhumed the body of a 19-year-old woman who was shot dead during an anti-coup protest last week, and claimed that her death had nothing to do with police firing, a state-run newspaper reported Sunday.
With the woman who died wearing a T-shirt that read "Everything will be OK" becoming an icon of the protest movement, the country's military-led government appears eager to dissociate itself from her death as much as possible.
Local reports say Kyal Sin was shot in the head during a demonstration in the second-largest city Mandalay on Wednesday. She was known as "Angel" and well-liked by others, according to the reports.
Her funeral and burial took place on Thursday, but the authorities removed her body and took it away on Friday.
The English-language Global New Light of Myanmar reported that an autopsy on her body found that the injury was to the left of her head right behind her ear, and that a piece of metal found in her head was different from the bullets used by the police.
The report also said security guards on duty at the time were facing the crowd. It concluded that "those who do not want stability in the country are attempting to escalate the conflict."
More than 50 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power in the Feb. 1 coup. The military has repeated that it is using minimal force against protesters to keep order.
