Myanmar security forces shot dead protesters in Yangon City on Friday, killing more than 80 people, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and home affairs revealed.
Details of the death toll in the town of Bago, 90 kilometers (55 miles northeast of Yangon), were not immediately available because security forces collected the bodies from Zear Muni pagoda's company and closed the area, according to witnesses and local media.
AAPP and Myanmar Now reports on Saturday that 82 people had been killed during a military coup on February 1 in the country. The shooting started just before dawn on Friday and continued into the afternoon, Myanmar Now said.
"It's like genocide," the newspaper quoted the protest organizer as saying, "Ye Htut." "They shot all the shadows."
Many residents of the city have fled, according to social media accounts.
A spokesman for the Myanmar military juncture could not be reached on Saturday.
The AAPP, which keeps track of the number of protesters daily killed and detained by security forces, has previously said 618 people have died since the coup.
The figure was opposed by the military, who said it was the cause of the protests because the November election, which was won by Aung San Suu Kyi's party, was criminal. The Electoral Commission has revoked this guarantee.
Junta spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun told a news conference Friday in the capital, Naypyitaw, that soldiers had recorded 248 deaths and 16 police deaths, saying no automatic weapons had been used by security forces.
The Myanmar Allied forces opposed to the Junta attack attacked a police station in the east on Saturday and killed at least 10 police officers, local media reported.
The Naungmon police station in Shan province was attacked this morning by state forces including the Arakan Army, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, media reported.
Shan News reports that at least 10 police officers have been killed, with Shwe Phee Myay reports that the death toll has risen to 14.
Myanmar military officials on Friday said protests against the regime were slowing down because people wanted peace, and that there would be elections within two years.
Tired Myanmar legislatures called on the UN Security Council on Friday to take action against the military.
"Our people are willing to pay any price to restore their rights and freedoms," said Zin Mar Aung, who has been appointed acting foreign minister in the expelled law firm. He urged Councilors to apply direct and indirect pressure to the junta.
"Myanmar is on the brink of a government failure, a state collapse," Richard Horsey, a senior adviser to Myanmar and the International Crisis Group, told a U.N. informal meeting, Myanmar's first public debate on council members.
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