Myanmar: UN calls for 'utmost restraint' from military as more deaths reported
by Guardian staff and agencies from on (#5F6ES)
British-drafted UN statement watered down by China, Russia and India while military accuses Aung San Suu Kyi of taking bribes
The United Nations has condemned the Myanmar military's violent crackdown against anti-coup demonstrators as eight more people were reported shot dead in protests and a military spokesman accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi of taking bribes.
The claims that she had illegally accepted payments worth $600,000 plus gold were strongly rejected by members of her National League for Democracy, one of whom, former MP Aye Ma Ma Myo, told Reuters: It is no longer uncommon to see slander against politicians and efforts to crush the party while innocent young people are killed in public."
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