Myanmar police arrest scores in violent student rally crackdown

March 11, 2015 04:49

Myanmar arrested 127 protesters when baton-wielding police dispersed a student rally, as the second crackdown in days deepens fears that authorities are returning to the repressive reflexes of the junta era.

Two large truckloads of protesters were taken away after riot police violently broke up the rally in the central town of Letpadan, according to an AFP reporter on the scene, ending over a week of stalemate between the authorities and students calling for education reforms.

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