Junta troopers throughout a crackdown on anti-coup protests in Yangon. / The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy 16 February 2022
Myanmar’s junta is more and more confiscating the property of residents who help the revolutionary motion after beforehand primarily seizing the properties of Nationwide League for Democracy members.
In Yangon, the junta has sealed off the Thingangyun Township house of superstar couple Lynn Lynn and Chit Thu Wai on Tuesday, who went into hiding after final 12 months’s coup, turning into a few of the first celebrities to affix the anti-regime motion.
A supply near the household confirmed to The Irrawaddy in regards to the seizure, saying that the pair left after the coup as they had been being watched.
The singers face arrest warrants for alleged incitement over their anti-regime actions.

In hiding the couple discover methods to withstand the regime by composing and producing anti-regime songs, they participate in discuss exhibits and assist with fundraising and have helped enhance anti-junta spirit.

On Sunday morning, the junta confiscated the house of Ko Thalun Zaung Htet, editor-in-chief of Khit Thit Media, an impartial group masking junta atrocities and the revolutionary motion. He additionally faces a number of harsh expenses.
“The seizures of civilian properties highlighted that Min Aung Hlaing and his forces’ theft and lawless riots,” he mentioned in Khit Thit. In the course of the seizure, junta forces additionally seized his possessions, Khit Thit reported.
Final week in Mandalay, all property belonging to the Mahar Rescue group, which is offering free well being take care of COVID-19 victims within the metropolis, was sealed off for allegedly associating with folks’s protection forces. No less than eight members of the group had been detained throughout the raid.

Up to now this month the junta has detained greater than 100 folks, together with many store homeowners and enterprise folks, for supporting the anti-regime motion. A number of of their homes, outlets and different companies had been sealed off after the arrests.
For the reason that coup, the junta has killed no less than 1,553 civilians and detained greater than 12,000 folks.
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