Banks reopened in Yangon on February 2 after closing the day before. Credit: IPS / Yangon stringer
YANGON, Myanmar, Feb 3 2021 (IPS) - As night fell on Tuesday, the second day of the military coup in Myanmar, two familiar scenes were being played out on opposite sides of the world.
In New York the international community, in the form of the UN Security Council meeting through video link-up, was failing yet again to agree on a meaningful and united response to events dictated by the Myanmar military. And in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, Aung San Suu Kyi was once more under house arrest along with President Win Myint and other prominent figures, doubtless under pressure from her uniformed captors to yield to their demands.