Myanmar: Yangon’s Dagon university protests as military widens coup dragnet AFP University teachers hold signs with red ribbons calling for civil disobedience during a protest against the military coup at Dagon University in Yangon on February 5, 2021. STR / AFP Some teachers, students from the Yangon’s Dagon University and employees from several government ministries in Naypyidaw wore red ribbons and flashed the democracy symbol in solidarity with the protesters. Several hundred teachers and students protested at a Myanmar university Friday as the military widened a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions.