This handout from Chin World shows mourners in Dedin in western Myanmar's Chin state following the hearse carrying the coffin of Felix Thang Muan Lian, a night security guard at a gas station who was shot by security forces on his way to work on April 27. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar's junta has declared martial law in a town in Chin State after blaming "armed terrorists" for attacks on a police station and a bank, state media reported on Friday (May 14), amid an upsurge in fighting between the military and ethnic rebels in border areas.
In the face of widespread opposition, the junta has struggled to retain order amid daily protests in cities and fighting in border states since overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end tentative steps towards democracy.
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