Up in flames: A copy of the 2008 constitution is burnt during a protest against the military coup in Yangon’s Kyimyintdine township. — AFP
ACTIVISTS burned copies of a military-framed Constitution as a United Nations special envoy warned of the risk of a bloodbath because of an intensified crackdown on anti-coup protesters.
The envoy’s warning follows a flare-up in fighting between the army and ethnic minority insurgents in frontier regions.
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