Anti-coup protest on streets of Myanmar

Myanmar's army seized power on Monday, overthrowing popular elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi

February 04, 2021 09:25 am | Updated 09:25 am IST

Local people bang pans the way they traditionally do it to drive away evil spirits, as they protest against military coup in Yangon, Myanmar.

Local people bang pans the way they traditionally do it to drive away evil spirits, as they protest against military coup in Yangon, Myanmar.

A group of protesters waved banners and chanted anti-coup slogans in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay on Thursday in the first such street protest against this week's A rmy takeover , images on social media showed.

Video on Facebook showed around 20 people outside Mandalay Medical University. One banner read "People protest againstmilitary coup".

"Our arrested leaders, release now, release now," the protesters chanted.

Myanmar's army seized power on Monday, overthrowing popular elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is detained and now faces possible charges for import infringements over the alleged possession of six unauthorised walkie-talkies.

Previous Myanmar juntas had a history of bloody suppression of street protests.

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