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  Aung San Suu Kyi's party claims victory in Myanmar elections as ethnic tensions rise

  

  latimes.com

  Disgraced human rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi sweeps an election in which more than 1.5 million ethnic-minority residents were barred from voting.

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  Myanmar protesters counter military might with creative civil disobedience

  

  latimes.com

  Staged car breakdowns, blocked railway tracks and civil servant strikes are putting pressure on the junta...

  Staged car breakdowns, blocked railway tracks and civil servant strikes are putting pressure on the junta and raising fears of a harsh crackdown.

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  ‘We’re not brainwashed’: a week of turmoil in Myanmar

  

  theguardian.com

  Protests have spread across country since military coup, as citizens resist return to dictatorshipOn Friday evening,...

  Protests have spread across country since military coup, as citizens resist return to dictatorshipOn Friday evening, after darkness fell, the sound of car horns and the clanging of pots and pans and metal railings echoed around the compact grid of central Yangon. It was the fourth consecutive night that people had gathered on their balconies to loudly voice their fury at the military junta...

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  Myanmar’s Army Is Back in Charge. It Never Truly Left.

  

  nytimes.com

  With the coup, the generals are ripping apart their prized project: a democratic front for a...

  With the coup, the generals are ripping apart their prized project: a democratic front for a political system that still heavily favored them.

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