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  • The United Nations says 38 people have been killed during protests in Myanmar in the worst day of violence since the military coup last month, security forces opened fire on large crowds in several cities across the country.

  • Despite the growing international condemnation, viewers may be upset by parts of this report by our Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head.

  • The conflict in Myanmar is now a battle for control of individual neighborhoods.

  • Yeah, residents and protesters barricaded themselves in police and soldiers sweeping through to get people off the streets and sometimes shooting at those brave enough to film from their apartments.

  • Oh, here The protest organizers used fire extinguishers to obscure the view to try to avoid being shot, because that is what the military government is prepared to do to re assert its control.

  • This was 19 year old Jensen Today in Mandalay.

  • Her T shirt reads, Everything will be OK, but she also carried a label with her blood group in case she was hurt.

  • She was killed when a bullet struck her head here in the city of Manila.

  • The police were filmed as they dragged away another victim.

  • The security forces are also arresting large numbers of people in this neighborhood, it seemed, arresting every resident they caught, and they exercise a little restraint.

  • This security camera video shows three medical volunteers being savagely beaten.

  • If there is a strategy in these shocking scenes, it is perhaps to crush what's now a nationwide rebellion with brute force in the hope that the rest of the world will in time except the reality of military rule once more in Myanmar.

The United Nations says 38 people have been killed during protests in Myanmar in the worst day of violence since the military coup last month, security forces opened fire on large crowds in several cities across the country.

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