The regime arrested people who put flowers in their hair and the vendors who sold them on 19 June, the same day of the ‘Flower Strike’, a nationwide protest to mark the 78th birthday of detained leader Daw Aung San Sui Kyi.
Plainclothes soldiers took over 20 people arrested in Nyaung Pin Tha Ward to the police station in Kalay town.
A local, who requested anonymity, said security was tightened in the town in Sagaing Region with roaming soldiers stopping people at intersections and Myoma Market from morning to night.
“Our town was full of soldiers (starting) in the morning.”
Vehicles were stopped at intersections and motorcyclists who didn’t have a licence had to pay $24.