[1/3]Kaung Myat Hlaing (also known as Aung Kyaw), a journalist with the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) poses in unknown location in this picture obtained by Reuters on March 2, 2021. DVB TV/Handout via REUTERS
March 2 (Reuters) – A Myanmar journalist live-streamed police shooting close to his apartment as they detained him in a crackdown on protesters against military rule.
“Help, help. They’re shooting at me,” Kaung Myat Hlaing, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), can be heard shouting in the video taken in the southern coastal town of Myeik.
The video is shot from a first-floor balcony, where clothes are drying on a line, as police shine a light from the street below and shout at him to come down. There is the sound of someone apparently pulling at the front door and then a puff of smoke appears on the balcony, accompanied by what sounds like gunfire.
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