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Myanmar activists remember dead with red paint protests

Myanmar activists remember dead with red paint protests

OPPONENTS of Myanmar's coup splashed red paint and dye on roads and signs outside government offices on yesterday to represent the blood of people killed protesting against the junta, on the second day of the traditional new year holiday. The display aimed at shaming the military took place in various towns and cities, according to pictures posted by media outlets, as people answered a call by activists to join what they termed a bloody paint strike. Some people marched with signs calling for the release of the leader of the ousted government, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She has…
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Myanmar protesters defiant as two more killed, pressure on junta grows

Myanmar protesters defiant as two more killed, pressure on junta grows

DEMONSTRATORS in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule yesterday despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist growing pressure to compromise. The country has been in turmoil since the military overthrew an elected government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, bringing an end to 10 years of tentative democratic reform. One man was shot dead and several were wounded when police opened fire on a group setting up a barricade in the central town of Monywa, a doctor there said as a…
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A Myanmar doctor’s journey from a remote village to leading a revolution

A Myanmar doctor’s journey from a remote village to leading a revolution

POPPY McPHERSON ON the night Myanmar's army seized power, Dr Sasa was in the capital, Naypyitaw, expecting to take a job in Aung San Suu Kyi's cabinet after running a successful election campaign for her party in his native Chin state. But as troops fanned out across the city in the early hours of February 1, detaining Suu Kyi along with most of her government and declaring a return to junta rule, the doctor turned politician fled disguised as a taxi driver, not wanting, in his words, "to be captured like a rat in a box". Since then, Sasa, who…
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