The crowds were forced to flee as security forces chased after them, using slingshots, rubber bullets and water cannon.

安全部隊使用彈弓、橡皮子彈和水炮追趕，民眾被迫逃離。

The protesters were repeating their call for an end to a military coup that took place more than two weeks ago.

抗議者再次呼籲結束兩個多星期前發生的軍事政變。

Similar demonstrations took place in the economic center Yangon, where people paid tribute to a woman who police shot dead last week during another protest.

在經濟中心仰光也發生了類似的示威活動，人們向上周在另一場抗議活動中被警察槍殺的一名婦女致敬。

For more, I'm joined by an activist in Mandalay.

更多內容，我在曼德勒和一位活動家一起。

We're calling him Sam to protect his identity, but it isn't his real name.

我們叫他山姆是為了保護他的身份，但這不是他的真名。

Sam, you've been speaking to people who were out on the streets today.

薩姆，你一直在和今天在街上的人說話。

Give us a sense of what the situation was like out there.

讓我們瞭解一下當時外面的情況。

Eso today the police, actually, you know, came into the shipping docks a mentally and they wanted to, uh, pressure the workers who are participating in civil disobedience movement.

今天，警察，實際上，你知道，來到航運碼頭，他們想，呃，給參加非暴力反抗運動的工人施加壓力。

So the, uh, people surrounding in the neighborhood came out and they protest to, you know, stop The police and the police started shooting people and one was shot through the head and the other was shot through the ribs and many other was severely injured.

所以，呃，周圍的人 在附近走了出來，他們抗議， 你知道，停止警察 和警察開始拍攝的人 和一個被射穿的頭 和其他被射穿肋骨 和許多其他是嚴重受傷。

So this is getting very violent?

所以這變得非常暴力？

Yes, indeed.

是的，確實如此。

How worried are you and the other protesters about this escalating military crackdown?

你和其他抗議者對這種不斷升級的軍事鎮壓有多擔心？

Yes.

是的，我知道

So we all know this, uh, soon earlier, they were they there was gonna be bloodshed that we're not We're not, uh, scared, because this'll is.

所以，我們都知道，呃，不久前，他們是 他們會有流血，我們不 我們不，呃，害怕，因為這將是。

We have to, you know, pretend to this military junta.

我們必須，你知道，假裝這個軍政府。

So this is, uh we're gonna fight till the end.

所以，這是，呃，我們要戰鬥到最後。

And, um, I don't know how many people are going to be killed in the coming days that well, we're not going to back down.

而且，嗯，我不知道未來幾天會有多少人被殺，嗯，我們不會退縮。

Where do you see this going From your perspective?

從你的角度來看，你覺得這事會怎樣？

Is there still hope that a peaceful solution can be found?

是否還有希望找到和平的解決辦法？

Yeah.

是啊。

So ast faras I I concerned, uh, there won't be any, uh, compromise between us and the news.

所以就我而言，我們和新聞界之間不會有任何妥協。

Rwanda, Because in the past, we all seen the things and the violence they have brought upon the people, and we all know we all know this, and we are going to have to, you know, put an end to this.

盧旺達，因為在過去，我們都看到了他們給人民帶來的事情和暴力，我們都知道我們都知道這一點，我們將不得不，你知道，結束這一切。

So, uh, this is either they fall or we do.

所以，呃，這不是他們倒下就是我們倒下。

Sam.

薩姆

Thank you.

謝謝你了

thank you for giving us that perspective.

謝謝你給我們這個觀點。

Sam and activist in the city of Mandalay, whose name we have changed to protect his identity.

薩姆和曼德勒市的活動家，我們為保護他的身份而改名。