Name: Myanmar coup: On the frontlines with the protesters, doctors, and defectors - BBC Newsnight
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Students, young people and workers are on the street again.

Their only protection against trained soldiers is a makeshift arsenal of homemade shields, builders, hats and, on this street, an industrial pipe bearing the faces of fallen comrades.

At 9 a.m. In the district of North Bergen, a poor neighborhood, students and workers are blocking the road.

At the head of the protesters are the so called front liners standing in formation, brave and defiant.

This was his eighth time in the front line, all right.

Around 10:30 a.m. The sound of students chanting is pierced by a burst of bullets ripping through the street.

His comrades can't retrieve him while the shooting continues.

Yeah, and Mad Dash is made to take him to a nearby ambulance.

The moment that it's wife learns of his death goes viral on social media.

I'm nearly 20 years of I am attending of your wife, too.

You know you don't want your dollars young models.

So anyway, one of kids close friends told us what happened.

You are in a position sharing g o a t shirt, and then, yeah, I do it.

I'm putting in tomorrow, but they don't even know why I do that.

You're putting in the, uh uh, don't only know what are your Uh huh.

And religion, which is just in the uh huh, Yeah, for managers when you're driving through it through another two hours.

But the longer you anything, you don't like everyone else.

Protesters say that the painful loss of comrades like chit is hardening their resolve.

Okay, Yeah, we respect each of their courage.

And we try to take this incident as energy for for the for our fight to fight harder.

Of course, I cried for an hour or so, and then I wiped my tears because we have no option.

We have to just keep on going And how do you see the next days and weeks developing for me to take some time?

At this point in our conversation, she only became distressed and asked to pause.

When you are at home, you are so over one with all the news coming to you and all their fear imposing on you from different people.

Even our general, um, older generation, they might be worried about you and calling you to stop doing what you're doing.

But when you are out on the street, you are with other young people.

I'm with other young people, and I feel that empowerment.

Like other days, March the 11th was a day of arrests and beatings.

Protesters faced the indiscriminate use of lethal force, including military snipers.

Nightly raids sweep through neighborhoods to search for activists.

One of the many protesters in hiding tells us they're afraid, even at home.

We're trying to force the military to release them, but they still reject if we are arrested for the biggest and the slap and the terrorist group walk like for a girl I got to you like this.

So is having a lot, they said, Fire even in the street in our home, this one is like we are not safe anymore.

Mia, a veteran of the pro democracy movement, is one of those arrested at night.

Here is the moment captured on CCTV footage that has been widely shared by the pro democracy movement who continue to call for his release.

His family believe he's in prison, but the Army will not confirm there were five soldiers accompanying him and leading him to the van.

It I can't deal with that because, um, and also to see how they are treating peaceful activists like my dad.

I can't imagine how they are doing to people inside the prison as well.

They come out on the street every day, day after day before they leave home.

They write their blood type on their arm or on their phone, and they write in case they're injured and they write names of their parents or next to skin in in case there killed.

So it shows that they are prepared because all of you know, all of them, all of us we have one thing clear is that we don't want to live under another dictatorship.

But you can't say this is cracking down on protests anymore.

This is pure killing by the, you know, uh, security forces.

Faced with orders to attack their fellow citizens, security officials have begun to flee their posts.

We managed to reach one former police officer who is now in hiding with other defectors in the jungle with mobile data cut across Myanmar.

He called us using signal from neighboring Thailand.

You're not who are very happy about being lonely eyes.

Did you see the night raids that were taking place?

I called us to tell, you know, she didn't like for a life.

Er, uh, doctors to have been part of the nationwide strikes and have provided emergency medical support to those injured often at personal risk.

In this CCTV video, medical staff are seen being pulled from an ambulance and beaten by security forces.

With thousands of medics now refusing to serve under the military authorities, they too have become targets.

So you're you're living in hiding, basically, because you think that I am hiding in a place with low profile, Uh, we leave the hospital, costs hospital team and the military give Yeah, a lot of Russia as they published a sum that, uh, to ridden our work and to work another military government.

We opened a clinic at the protest area, is treating incurable.

Uh, most of the efficient, uh, injury due to, uh, smoke roll to 2% is by cancer world.

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