Demonstrations against the coup d'état continued in Burma, despite harsh repression by security forces, which has resulted in more than 700 civilian deaths since the coup d'état of 1 February, including only 82 in Bagu, northeast of Rangoon. However, demonstrations against him continued.

For its part, the ruling military group is talking of 248 deaths, as its spokesman said, while the United Nations Office in Burma has confirmed that it is closely following the situation in Bagu. "We call on the security forces to allow medical teams to treat the wounded," he wrote in a tweet.

The repression of the demonstrations has resulted in the deaths of 701 people since the army expelled from power Nobel Peace Prize-winning civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, still held in a secret location, according to a census conducted by the Association for the Support of Political Prisoners.

The Association for the Support of Political Prisoners revealed Saturday that 82 opponents of the coup had been killed the previous day by security forces in the town of Bagu (65 km towards the north-east of Rangoon).

Demonstrations continue despite everything, especially in Mandalay and Mytila (Central), where university students and their teachers demonstrated on the streets according to local media. Some of them symbolically carried carnival flowers that are a symbol of "triumph."

Meanwhile, official media reported that 19 persons, 17 of them in absentia, had been sentenced to death by a military court on charges of theft or murder. They were arrested in the poor Okalaba North neighbourhood of Rangoon, one of the six martial law districts of this city. These provisions require that anyone arrested be tried by a military court.