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SAMUT PRAKAN (Thailand), Feb 9 Organising protests, gathering supporters and distributing posters of their beloved leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar workers in Thailand are adding to a chorus of dissent against a coup that has upended their home country. Thailand’s economy is reliant on.
Coup Opposition Runs Skin Deep For Myanmar Youth
02/08/21 AT 5:24 AM
As Myanmar navigates its shaky future following a military coup that ended a decade long experiment with democracy, young men have turned to the steady hands of tattoo artists to etch their resistance in ink on skin.
Tens of thousands are taking to the streets marching against the return to junta rule, and tattoo parlours in the biggest city Yangon and the capital Naypyidaw have started their own protest campaign. Tattoo parlour customers want a permanent reminder of resistance to dictatorship Photo: AFP / STR
Naypyidaw tattoo artist Ko Sanay says customers want a permanent reminder of resistance to dictatorship.
2-MIN READ Driving Evil Out : Myanmar People Kick up Din to Protest Coup
Myanmar s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, in office since April 6, 2016. Image credits: Reuters.
Suu Kyi and other top civilian leaders were detained in dawn raids on Monday. The lightning coup brought a country on the path to democracy to a shuddering halt, returning the reins of power to the military who ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for nearly five decades.
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Clanging cymbals and banging pots, Yangon residents unhappy with a putsch that ousted Myanmar s leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun kicking up a nightly fracas to chase out evil spirits in this case, the military.