A Corpse Left on the Road... Indiscriminate Shooting at Paramedics "Myanmar is a Killing Field"

Myanmar soldiers carrying what appears to be an RPG in the Kalei area of Sagaing [Photo by Twitter]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Soyoung] It has been reported that it took more than an hour just to collect the bodies on the road due to indiscriminate shootings by Myanmar military police, even targeting paramedics.

Given the situation, some have pointed out that the current situation in Myanmar is essentially a 'Killing Field.' The Killing Fields refer to the mass killings of opposition forces after Cambodia was communized between 1975 and 1979.

According to local media on the 6th, on the night of the 4th, 19-year-old Tet Tet Win, who was sitting on the back seat of a motorcycle driven by her husband in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, was shot dead by military police.

The couple, returning home after work at 9 p.m., had passed the military-imposed curfew time of 8 p.m., and soldiers ordered those passing through the intersection to stop.

However, the husband continued to drive the motorcycle, and at that moment, a bullet fired by a soldier passed through the husband's abdomen and struck Tet Tet Win, who was sitting behind him.

A Myanmar soldier aiming a gun at protesters

The husband, who was shot, went to a nearby hospital, but the wife fell onto the road during the process. Paramedics stated that it is still unclear whether Tet Tet Win's cause of death was due to the gunshot wound or severe head injury from falling off the motorcycle.

Regarding this, local media 'Myanmar Now' reported that the husband returned to the scene with paramedics, but it took more than an hour to collect his wife's body. This is believed to be because the military police are indiscriminately shooting, even at hospital staff collecting bodies on humanitarian grounds. Paramedics had to take cover nearby to avoid the flying bullets, and collecting patients and bodies inevitably took several hours, including more than an hour in this case.

One paramedic told the media, "It was like a Killing Field (massacre site). We couldn't save her, and even collecting the body was too dangerous. The military police don't care that we are paramedics; they shoot at anyone."

Another local media outlet, 'The Irrawaddy,' also reported that when paramedics arrived at the scene, the military police were still there, forcing them to hide in the darkness until they could collect the body.