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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2025
'This is for our future': Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup for second day

Politics

Reuters
07 February, 2021, 09:55 am
Last modified: 07 February, 2021, 01:49 pm

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'This is for our future': Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup for second day

Protesters in Yangon carried red balloons – the colour representing Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracracy Party (NLD)

Reuters
07 February, 2021, 09:55 am
Last modified: 07 February, 2021, 01:49 pm
Demonstrators show the three-finger salute to protest against the military coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Demonstrators show the three-finger salute to protest against the military coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday to protest against the military junta's coup and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.

Protesters in Yangon carried red balloons, the colour representing Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party (NLD), and chanted, "We don't want military dictatorship! We want democracy!"

They marched under bright sunshine in the middle of the road waving NLD flags making the three-figure salute that has become a symbol of protest against the coup. Drivers honked their horns and passengers held up photos of Suu Kyi.

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The scenes broadcast on Facebook were some of the few that have come out of the country since the junta shut down the internet and restricted phone lines on Saturday.

"We cannot accept the coup," said a 22-year-old who came with 10 friends, asking not to be named for fear of retribution. "This is for our future. We have to come out."

Riot police line up during a protest against the military coup demanding the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Riot police line up during a protest against the military coup demanding the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

A woman in her early thirties who brought her family said they had not joined protests a day earlier but refused to be afraid.

"We have to join the people, we want democracy," she said.

By mid-morning about 100 people had also gathered in the coastal town of Mawlamine in the southeast and students and doctors were gathering in the city of Mandalay.

Another crowd of hundreds spent the night outside a police station in the town of Payathonzu in Karen state in the southeast, where local NLD lawmakers were believed to have been arrested. They remained outside in the morning, singing pro-democracy songs.

With the internet cut off and official information scarce, rumours swirled about the fate of Suu Kyi and her cabinet. A story that she had been released, which drew huge crowds onto the streets to celebrate overnight on Saturday, was quickly quashed by her lawyer.

Demonstrators show the three-finger salute and hold a picture of Myanmar's army chief Min Aung Hlaing with his face crossed out during a protest against the military coup and to demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Demonstrators show the three-finger salute and hold a picture of Myanmar's army chief Min Aung Hlaing with his face crossed out during a protest against the military coup and to demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

More than 160 people have been arrested since the military seized power in the early hours of Monday, said Thomas Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar.

"The generals are now attempting to paralyse the citizen movement of resistance - and keep the outside world in the dark - by cutting virtually all internet access," Andrews said in a statement on Sunday.

"We must all stand with the people of Myanmar in their hour of danger and need. They deserve nothing less."

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