Thousands of people massed in Yangon for a second day on Sunday to protest last week’s military coup, defying the junta’s attempt to choke off the spread of news and dissent by shutting down most of Myanmar’s internet.
Livestream footage filmed by protesters in the south-east Asian country’s biggest city, which they managed to transmit despite Saturday’s block of most mobile data communications, showed large crowds of people marching, chanting “Democracy — our cause”, “Down with the military government”, and other slogans.
This came a day after protesters gathered in Yangon, Mandalay, and the capital Naypyidaw to demand the newly installed junta, headed by General Min Aung Hlaing, end military rule and free the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other imprisoned officials.