Doctors protest in Myanmar as crackdown claims more lives

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Health care workers have marched through Myanmar’s second-biggest city, kicking off another day of countrywide protests against last month’s coup. Elsewhere police have used violence against protesters and security forces have shot dead at least one person. About 100 doctors, nurses, medical students and pharmacists, wearing the long white coats, lined up Sunday morning on a main road in Mandalay to chant slogans and voice their opposition to the Feb. 1 coup that toppled the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The protests are part of a broader civil disobedience movement, including boycotts and strikes, that aims to restore the civilian government and return Myanmar to its slow march towards democracy.