Myanmar coup 1 year later 

The World

On Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military staged a brutal coup d’etat. Soldiers locked up elected officials including Aung San Suu Kyi, the nation’s leading politician. And when people protested, troops gunned them down in the streets, killing 1,500 unarmed civilians. But one year later, many people in Myanmar are fed up with nonviolent resistance. This is a civil war. People are taking on the army with whatever they’ve got — from homemade rifles to dynamite. The World’s Patrick Winn and co-reporter Maung Moe bring us an inside look at this uprising through the eyes of two people: one a revolutionary bomb maker, the other a soldier from Myanmar’s notorious infantry.

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