Myanmar military junta warns protesters risk being shot in the head or back

Myanmar’s ruling military junta has warned pro-democracy protesters they risk being shot in the head or back as activists called for a huge show of defiance against the generals on Saturday — the country’s Armed Forces Day.

A broadcast on the state MRTV news channel said: “You should learn from the tragedy of earlier ugly deaths that you can be in danger of getting shot to the head and back”.

The warning did not specifically say that security forces had been given shoot-to-kill orders, and the junta has previously…