At least nine people have been brutally killed after policing authorities opened fire on a group of protestors in Myanmar on Wednesday.
The sickening shootings come after a group of protestors marched on a Government building to protest the recent ban on a cultural event in the town of Mrauk-U.
According to reports the shooting occurred after police were distributed throughout the town to halt a protest march that seen a number of altercations breakout.
The town which is home to thousands of Rohingya Muslims was due to hold a celebration event to mark the 233rd anniversary of the end of the Arakan dynasty.
The latest incident is not the first to happen in the state of Myanmar (formally Burma) as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been brutally killed in recent yaears by the country’s military forces.
Many human rights activist groups across the globe have since labelled the ongoing killings as ethnic cleansing and mass genocide.