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Myanmar: Protesters resume agitation, march for sixth consecutive day as US sanctions military generals
•Security forces used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets against protesters, with isolated reports emerging of live rounds also being fired
Myanmar Coup: Citizens grapple with fear, anger and uncertainty as military moves to quash unrest
•As officers from Special Branch, the fearsome intelligence service, knocked on doors, the muscle memory of living under nearly a half-century of direct military rule had people resorting to camouflage and cunning
New Zealand suspends political ties and military ties with Myanmar, calls for restoration of civilian rule
•Unveiling the punitive measures, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called for the international community to "strongly condemn what we're seeing happen in Myanmar"
Myanmar military blocks Facebook as calls for protests against coup grow
•Aung San Suu Kyi's party NLD, which was ousted in Monday's coup, and other political activists have called for a campaign of civil disobedience to oppose the takeover
Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with 'illegally importing' walkie-talkies, to be in custody till 15 Feb
•The charges against the deposed national leader appear to carry a maximum sentence of two years. The chargesheets indicate that the unregistered walkie-talkies were for her bodyguards
'This was inevitable': Myanmar Army chief General Min Aung Hlaing after military coup ousts Suu Kyi govt
•Hlaing has been given "legislative, judicial and executive powers", thus effectively returning Myanmar to military rule after a 10-year experiment with democracy
Myanmar Coup Explained: What led to military takeover of Suu Kyi's fragile democratic govt and what happens next
•The military, in recent days, had tried to argue in the Supreme Court that the country's 2020 election results were fraudulent and threatened to 'take action'
Senior Myanmar official dies in attack on rebels, says Arakan Army; he was kidnapped for protesting genocide accusations against country
•Rebels in Myanmar’s Rakhine region said a captured official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party has died, two weeks after being taken for organising protests against genocide accusations faced by Myanmar at the World Court
Myanmar bypolls: Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy wins 7 of 13 seats
•Myanmar's ruling party led by Aung San Suu Kyi won just over half the seats in by-elections to fill 13 of the 1,171 seats in national, regional and state parliaments, according to complete preliminary results.
Reuters scribes jailed: 'Advocate of freedom of expression is also necessarily a practitioner', world awaits Aung San Suu Kyi's response
Fp Staff •Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent the duration between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention as a result of her work to bring democracy in the then-military ruled Myanmar.