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Members of the Shan ethnic minority hold an anti-coup demonstration
Three weeks after Myanmar s military coup, protests in cities around the country are growing larger than ever before and have spread to the capital cities of provinces with significant ethnic minority populations.
Thousands of flag-waving demonstrators took to the streets of Lashio in the eastern Shan state, Myitkyina in Kachin state to the north, or Hpa-An in the southeastern Kayin state. 
Leaders of Myanmar s different ethnic groups that are supporting resistance against the military leadership also support the civil disobedience movement, under which public servants, health care and transportation workers are striking around the country. ....

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Setting aside divisions, Myanmar's ethnic groups unite against coup


People wearing costumes march with placards in a protest against the military coup and to demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
(Reuters) - Among the hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets of Myanmar in recent days have been members of the Southeast Asian nation s many faiths – majority Buddhists as well as Christians, Muslims and Hindus, and dozens of distinct ethnic groups.
Major ethnic armed organizations – whose rebel armies control vast swathes of the country – have also thrown their weight behind a growing civil disobedience movement and indicated they will not tolerate crackdowns on protesters by the military leaders who seized power in a Feb. 1 coup. ....

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