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Myanmar s forgotten coup morphing into civil war
Thousands of civilians, including children, have fled to remote areas to escape the violence
Demonstrators on motorcycles gesture during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay
At first, the hotch-potch militia of Myanmar s forgotten youth scored unlikely success against Myanmar s powerful military junta, raiding convoys and killing several soldiers with rifles and homemade grenades.
But the self-declared Chinland Defence Force, one of a handful new guerilla forces to rise from the ashes of this year s coup, were soon forced to flee into the jungle.
Regime soldiers, high on methamphetamine and using civilians as human shields, deployed attack helicopters and ground forces to ransack the guerilla s northern town of Mindat, the latest frontline outpost in what is turning into an ugly civil war.
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Myanmar protesters are becoming increasingly creative
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Young women marching in bright ball gowns, shirtless bodybuilders flexing their biceps, sartorial posters, and grandmothers banging saucepans; Myanmar’s creative anti-coup protests appear to have a bit of everything.
But one thing they don’t have is a defined leadership.
Friday saw the Southeast Asian nation’s largest protests yet, as an estimated 100,000 risked state-sponsored violence to gather on the streets of the commercial city of Yangon to demand the military return power to the democratically-elected government of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The crowds that gathered on the streets for the 7th straight day in a row were not united under her name or that of her political party, but rather under a loose pro-democracy campaign inspired in part by other organic movements in neighbouring Thailand and Hong Kong.