Flashbacks: Three Months of Protest Against Myanmar's Military Regime An anti-regime protester in Batman attire flashes a three-finger salute of defiance in Yangon on Feb. 15. / The Irrawaddy 1.1k By The Irrawaddy 30 April 2021 Myanmar’s ongoing “Spring Revolution” against the country’s military regime will be three months old next week. Since a predawn military coup in the capital Naypyitaw on Feb. 1, the country of 54 million people has been plunged into uncertainty, despair, oppression, bloodshed and chaos. Soldiers and armored personnel carriers are deployed in Naypyitaw on Feb. 2, one day after the coup. / The Irrawaddy The uniformed coup makers claimed they staged the takeover in response to mass electoral fraud in last year’s general election, in which the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory. Furious about the military’s worthless claim, millions of people—the majority of whom voted for the NLD—took to the streets across the country to demand the regime “respect our votes.” The protesters have unanimously rejected military rule in the country and called for the restoration of their stolen democracy. They baptized their movement the “Spring Revolution” as it took place in February, when the weather is beginning to warm up in Myanmar.”