Junta officials did not respond to requests for information about the arrests.
Social media users have claimed that at least some of the detained women have since been released, but Myanmar Now was unable to confirm these reports. Vendors at the market and local residents reported a heavy security presence in the area on Friday, although most of the soldiers and police they saw were not in uniform, they said. One of the women may have been injured after her leg was caught in the door as it was slammed shut, the witness said, adding that the car left the scene immediately. “They pointed their pistols at everyone-at passersby and at people in the store,” a witness said of the two men who pushed the two women into a vehicle that was waiting nearby. Two women who worked at a shop in the market were also taken away by force after they took photographs of the foreign reporter, whose visit was carefully choreographed by the junta that seized power on February 1.
The men, who also appeared to be plainclothes officers, threatened and insulted the woman as they took her into custody, the witness added.
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