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Myanmar people s uprising grows as police and civil servants join protest against military rule
AKIPRESS.COM - Tens of thousands of protesters gathered across Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, for the sixth consecutive day on February 11 as mass demonstrations against the military junta gained momentum across the country, Arab News reported.
Civil servants and police officers have been seen joining the anti-junta rallies triggered by a coup that toppled the country’s civilian leadership earlier this month. The number of civil servants participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement continues to rise as employees from the General Administration Department in Yangon’s Shwe Pyi Thar township joined the movement on Wednesday.
Students, teachers join growing civil resistance to coup
Thousands of university and school teachers, students, doctors and nurses across Myanmar have taken part in civil disobedience actions against Myanmar’s military government after this week’s military coup in the country.
President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and newly elected members of parliament were unlawfully detained by the Myanmar military government this week.
Hundreds of doctors and medical staff joined the civil disobedience movement, refusing to go to hospitals. They said they hoped civilians would understand their actions.
Reports said some 200 teachers and students from Dagon University staged a rally on Friday, where they displayed the three-finger ‘Hunger Games’ salute used by Thailand’s protesters in the past year.
Widespread Protests Rage Against Coup In Myanmar Even As Military Hints At Perpetual Rule
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Feb 4, 2021 12:43 PM
Myanmar military chief General Min Aung Hlaing with Suu Kyi.
Snapshot
With anger building up against the Tatmadaw, it is only a matter of time before protests spill over to the streets.
For the last three evenings since Monday morningâs coup by the Myanmarese military (called the âTatmadawâ), a cacophony of sounds has reverberated throughout the country as a mark of protest against this renewed spell of military rule.
In response to a call by jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, lakhs of people across Myanmar banged on pots and pans, clapped and whistled while motorists honked car horns and cyclists rang their bells to create a raucous din that echoed throughout the country.
Reversal of fortune
New leader; old problems
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YAWADDY, A TELEVISION station owned by the Burmese army, is normally so bad as to be unwatchable. But when the residents of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, and Yangon, its largest city, woke on February 1st to find soldiers in the streets and martial music blaring from their radios Myawaddy became “must-see
TV”. It was a Myawaddy newsreader who announced that the country was in a state of emergency and under the control of Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the army.
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Soldiers were stationed in government offices. Airports were closed and, in the cities, the internet shut down. Hundreds of politicians from the National League for Democracy (